Author Topic: What are you doing right now?  (Read 2464556 times)

Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21675 on: 03 September, 2017, 03:51:59 pm »
Sitting outside a Dutch cafe pondering a 2nd Gulpener...
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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21676 on: 03 September, 2017, 03:56:24 pm »
I'm the Makers Fair in Eindhoven.  Lots of steam punks with a space rocket. Real miniature steam trains too.

Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21677 on: 04 September, 2017, 12:33:57 pm »
Sitting outside a Dutch bar with 0.5L Heineken. They've no food "we had a big party at the weekend "
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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21678 on: 04 September, 2017, 12:41:40 pm »
Liquid lunch, well, that is a big part of the food pyramid.
Current mood: AARRRGGGGHHHHH !!! #bollockstobrexit

Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21679 on: 04 September, 2017, 12:52:29 pm »
I've got some bread, cheese (with caraway seed) & yogurt in the panniers. Just need to find a quiet, scenic bench.
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T42

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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21680 on: 04 September, 2017, 01:16:46 pm »
Wondering where TF I put all my homologation stuff from PBP 2015 and when TF I last saw it. Buggery hell.

Oh, and drinking a cup of tea.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21681 on: 04 September, 2017, 02:13:54 pm »
Settling down for a lovely nap.
Milk please, no sugar.

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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21682 on: 04 September, 2017, 05:06:54 pm »
Listening to that Pingu makes noises from the loft that sound like he's twatting the dead PC with a stick. Got home from holiday last night to find the thing (used as our Squeezebox server) was off. When he turned it back on it went 'bang'.
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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21683 on: 04 September, 2017, 10:01:55 pm »
Listening to that Pingu makes noises from the loft that sound like he's twatting the dead PC with a stick. Got home from holiday last night to find the thing (used as our Squeezebox server) was off. When he turned it back on it went 'bang'.

True story:  I once brought a school-friend's family computer back to life[1] in similar circumstances by delivering a firm thump in the direction of the power supply.  It worked flawlessly for a couple more years, at which point it fell foul of Gates's Law.

I think it's a bit like Welsh sunburn.  You only get to experience karma like that once per lifetime.


[1] We'd performed a hard drive swap, culminating in "It's worse than that, it's dead, Kim."

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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21684 on: 04 September, 2017, 10:05:15 pm »
My family used to have a (2nd hand) telly that started going on the fritz. It could be brought back to life with a good hard smack on the top of the case. For a few months. Then it died and no amount of my Dad's electrical ministrations could resurrect it.
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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21685 on: 04 September, 2017, 10:27:22 pm »
A good thump is a standard diagnostic technique for dry solder joints.  Of course, now we live in The Future and all the solder joints are dry.  Humbug.

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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21686 on: 04 September, 2017, 10:49:02 pm »
Listening to that Pingu makes noises from the loft that sound like he's twatting the dead PC with a stick. Got home from holiday last night to find the thing (used as our Squeezebox server) was off. When he turned it back on it went 'bang'.

It went flash, bang and there was a smell of burning. On inspection the burny smell seems to be coming from the psu. I can't see anything obviously frazzled.

Sigh  :(

Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21687 on: 08 September, 2017, 09:19:46 pm »
I am relaxing. Utterly.

As of early hours Thurday morning I've handed in the final (hopefully) assignment of the final (hopefully) module of an OU BEng degree. It's been six years study alongside fulltime work and the last couple years have been tough tough tough.

I'll fully admit some of the struggle has been too much time relaxing leading to some tough deadline dashing but that relaxation has been with the awareness that I ought not to be. Now I can legitimately relax and it feel sooooo good.

Of course I've been putting a load of other stuff off cos of studying so I need to crack on soon but this weekend I'm doing nothing at all  :thumbsup:

The teetering piles of crap can wait a few more days.
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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21688 on: 08 September, 2017, 11:28:35 pm »
Stuck in a bar in fucking Royton with too loud music and too expensive drinks. Wanting to be anywhere fucking else.

Friday nights. I never got them in my 20s...
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21689 on: 09 September, 2017, 03:49:35 am »
Wondering if it's a short break in Arran we're having or going on a polar expedition

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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21690 on: 09 September, 2017, 05:07:00 pm »
Wondering if it's a short break in Arran we're having or going on a polar expedition

Probably need less kit for a polar expedition.

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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21691 on: 10 September, 2017, 02:50:01 am »
Contemplating dinner.  I'll wager it'll be the Mexican, coz it's always the Mexican on the first Saturday.
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ian

Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21692 on: 10 September, 2017, 10:06:07 pm »
Waiting for a cauliflower to roast. They take a while. I should have started it sooner because I'm hungry like a hippo that's not had its tea. Drinking a gin and tonic to take the edge off (Nautilus, apparently, made with algae by those wacky Portuguese it says on the label, and not half bad). Bad Cat is waiting by the kitchen cupboard because she knows the smell of curry means poppadoms. I have a feeling that there's no lime pickle left. One of us will be disappointed. You are all possibly wondering how I manage to sustain this high level of drama. It's tough, but I manage.

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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21693 on: 10 September, 2017, 10:27:21 pm »
I'm just wondering why you're still waiting for dinner at 10pm?
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

woollypigs

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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21694 on: 10 September, 2017, 10:58:55 pm »
He is waiting becasue cauliflowers take a while to roast :)
Current mood: AARRRGGGGHHHHH !!! #bollockstobrexit

ElyDave

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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21695 on: 10 September, 2017, 11:17:44 pm »
By now, I'd be having roast cauliflower tomorrow and cheese and biscuits tonight.
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21696 on: 11 September, 2017, 09:28:54 am »
Having lectures about pregnancy and nutrition.

ian

Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21697 on: 11 September, 2017, 09:42:00 am »
I'm just wondering why you're still waiting for dinner at 10pm?

For reasons, I rarely eat my tea before 10pm. The other night I was out for a meal-and-theatre thing and it was weird to have food at 6pm. I'm not hungry at that time. I'm not sure how people eat before 9pm, it doesn't feel right. Breakfast at about 11am, some fruit in the afternoon, and a big nosh about 10.30pm is my daily routine.

There was, and those of you who follow my exciting thrill-packed life will be reassured to know, lime pickle in the cupboard after all. Disaster was averted.

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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21698 on: 11 September, 2017, 06:07:07 pm »
Just starting a free online course from the Met Office / Future Learn, "Learn About Weather" ! (£39.99 one off fee if you want a paper certificate at the end, and permanent access to the course materials)

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/learn-about-weather/

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Re: What are you doing right now?
« Reply #21699 on: 12 September, 2017, 04:14:05 pm »
Fuming.   Trying to avoid the rant thread right now as I'd probably go into rant hyperdrive, so I'll just summarise it as "fucking stupid people in Wales who can't tell the truth about selling me their house".
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