What have you done today thread?

[Taipan]

Sold my wifes electric bike. Shame as i liked going cycling to the town and market with her but I think her Dad is going ti give her one of his ones. So we can stick that in the shed and use it twice a year.

[DefTrap]

My mate is a kerbside mechanic who does this almost daily. Just up the same street is a guy who was under a Landrover doing the same thing and the jack went. He how lives in a wheelchair.

Ugh nasty, hate that sort of thing.
A neighbour was fannying about with a seized brake caliper on his car - off the ground and wheel off, on the crappy scissor jack only, which itself was listing at 25°. I ran back and pulled out my half decent lift and axle stands so at least we could fanny about without killing anyone.

[Sadlonelygit]

Played with an outboard motor today.
Never laid spanners on one before!
Mental note, don't engage gear when the prop is in a bucket of water.
Just off to the shops for a new bucket.

[Yorick]

Played with an outboard motor today.
Never laid spanners on one before!
Mental note, don't engage gear when the prop is in a bucket of water.
Just off to the shops for a new bucket.

[KungFooBob]

Adopted another cat.

https://www.rspca.org.uk/findapet/searc ... vFnFM8jz4w

Collect him on Friday

[ZRX61]

Fixed the coolant leak on the F350. Pics in the F350 thread.

[Sadlonelygit]

Adopted another cat.

https://www.rspca.org.uk/findapet/searc ... vFnFM8jz4w

Collect him on Friday

Not a face I'd want staring at me from the top of the duvet at 4am

[KungFooBob]

Adopted another cat.

https://www.rspca.org.uk/findapet/searc ... vFnFM8jz4w

Collect him on Friday

Not a face I'd want staring at me from the top of the duvet at 4am

It's a terrible photo, he's much more normal irl.

[Mr Moofo]

Booked some bucket-shop flights with the most bucket-shop of bucket-shop airlines: VietJet!
Check out their awful website: https://www.vietjetair.com/en

That said, £38 from Phu Quoc to Saigon is too good a price to turn down. What do you mean 'tight bastard'? I paid the extra £6.61 for a checked bag plus the £1.05 to pick where we sit.

Saigon / Ho Cho Mhin City is a great place. I loved Vietnam and its people

[Skub]

Adopted another cat.

https://www.rspca.org.uk/findapet/searc ... vFnFM8jz4w

Collect him on Friday

I thought cats adopted hoomans.

[KungFooBob]

Adopted another cat.

https://www.rspca.org.uk/findapet/searc ... vFnFM8jz4w

Collect him on Friday

I thought cats adopted hoomans.

We're owned by two who just turned up and decided to stay.

[ZRX61]

Took the truck for a bimble to make sure all was good after the leak fix...



Pic is at the local airfield which looks like Vietnam right now with all the fire fighting helicopters out there. 2 Chinooks, 2 CH54 Skycranes, at least 4 Hueys, 1 S61 (civvy version of a SeaKing). Also 4 BAe 146's & 2 CL 415 Super Scoopers.

[MingtheMerciless]

Turned bits of railway off for engineering work, refused to turn other bits off due to poor equipment reliability and left bits switched off after they tripped (staff have attended and looks like a big repair as a pin has broken and dropped into the bowels of the circuit breaker (it’s a circuit breaker the size of a V8 engine block) so major surgery to get at and then replace).

[David]

Played with an outboard motor today.
Never laid spanners on one before!
Mental note, don't engage gear when the prop is in a bucket of water.
Just off to the shops for a new bucket.

Mental note 2:
Put in bucket AFTER removing prop.

[Noggin]

Not as much as I'd planned having battled most of the day with old tech that is tired, not maintained and won't do what I want it to do!! Have to call a friend tomorrow to see if I can stop by and get an 'update' done, but it's basically it's probably too late for what I wanted. Never mind


But, I do now know that my accent when speaking French is not nearly as good as I'd hoped (although mostly on words I don't use day to day, so maybe it's not that bad )

And I've remembered more of the stuff I need to remember than I expected.

BUT, yesterday I did my first pass on a mock test of the highway code - today I failed badly FFS


No bacon or sausages to hand so I had lardons, black pud, egg and avocado on homemade bread for brunch.


Totally fed up with tech. and annoyed that I can't pass the bloody highway code

[Taipan]

Set up my new Ultra Hd 4k tv. I'm now watching the 1946 black and white Hitchcock film, Notorious!

[wheelnut]

Been in my first proper earthquake. I’ve experienced tremors before, but nothing like this. Sat on the hotel terrace having breakfast and a loud noise which we thought at first was a plane. The whole terrace started moving from side to side.

It took us a few seconds to work out what was happening, then the staff started screaming and running for the hotel lobby (prob wise as the hotel is perched on the side of a hill).

The shaking probably lasted about 30 seconds. Finished breakfast. Once the staff had settled they all seemed fairly nonplussed.

A 4,7 apparently with the epicentre about 3km away from us.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Been in my first proper earthquake. I’ve experienced tremors before, but nothing like this. Sat on the hotel terrace having breakfast and a loud noise which we thought at first was a plane. The whole terrace started moving from side to side.

It took us a few seconds to work out what was happening, then the staff started screaming and running for the hotel lobby (prob wise as the hotel is perched on the side of a hill).

The shaking probably lasted about 30 seconds. Finished breakfast. Once the staff had settled they all seemed fairly nonplussed.

A 4,7 apparently with the epicentre about 3km away from us.

I was nearby for (and woken up by!) the Market Rasen earthquake in 2008. It was the sound more than anything which struck me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mark ... prov=sfla1

*waits for ZX81 to turn up*

[ZRX61]

A 4,7 apparently with the epicentre about 3km away from us.

Meh

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes ... ,181.05469

[636mick]

Played with an outboard motor today.
Never laid spanners on one before!
Mental note, don't engage gear when the prop is in a bucket of water.
Just off to the shops for a new bucket.

Wheelie bins are great for outboard motor stuff, hang it on the side and fill with water.
Mick