What have you done today thread?

[Count Steer]

Was going to visit the wife this morning as they were going to do a biopsy on something they weren’t happy about.

Just got messaged to say not to bother as they’ve reviewed it and decided it’s non cancerous which is a relief. I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night.

She’ll still be in till tomorrow at least so it’s a microwave Christmas dinner for me. Unless one of my kids invites me over.

But you know….I don’t care.

Hope all goes well and you get your, slightly late, Christmas together, at home.

Having been in a similar situation a couple of times the lack of sleep is no surprise.

(One of the times the missus had had root canal work done and a temporary filling fitted. It was infected underneath and, of course, by the time she was going doolally...it was the weekend of course....'I'm all right, it's stopped hurting' with a faraway look in her eye.

I know enough about sepsis symptoms to go "GET IN THE CAR!" So off we went to A&E for a horse tranquilizer sized shot of antibiotics etc etc etc).

[asmethurst99]

just got to work - will be light on my feet this afternoon...

Ended up staying late in the end but all for good cause
Happy Xmas all

[Pirahna]

I always forget that France closes Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and reopens for Boxing Day!!

Here it's close Christmas day then January 6th for Three Kings, that's when the Spanish do Christmas presents.

Re bus driving, does that mean you passed the course you were on?

Congrats on the boyfriend.

[ZRX61]

Bought a couple of tickets for tonight's $1Billion lottery jackpot (paid over 30 years).

Which works out to $448M if you take the cash option... and $282,785,812 after taxes.

I think I could scrape by...

If one were to take the cash option & invest $250M at a modest 5% ROI you'd end up at$1.35Billion over the 30 years. Which would beat the lottery investment pay outs:
$631,254,370 spread over 30 years (after taxes), Vs $852,919,396 (after taxes)

[Mr Moofo]

Today I left home just after midnight to drive to the depot to go to work. It was snowing all day yesterday and still when I left and I wanted to make sure the baby Fiat roller skate would get me there on time!! I got there in longer than usual, but with time for a coffee before getting the Sprinter out! As the job was two staff transfers from Courchevel down to Brides les Bain with a couple of weird stops on the way, I was a bit nervous but, whilst I got the wheels spinning a couple of times and had a little slide (whilst empty) the relief at not having to put chains on was immense (I really must learn how to do that on the Sprinters!!)

Finished at about 7am, then had a chat with, well, with my 'boyfriend' !!! Sadly, not a good Christmas for him. He doesn't really like Christmas much and the weekend hasn't helped. A friend of his died over the weekend, not the first time he's had bad news at Christmas. And it's put the kybosh on us meeting up for a night out at the end of the week. So I'm heading to Chambéry on Thursday morning to have a coffee and proper chat with him. Not exactly to cheer him up, but hopefully it'll help a bit. And we can plan another evening out! It's all a bit of a challenge as he basically works 7 days a week and we both drive at weekends (different companies) so having Friday off we were both quite keen to meet up. It's not really long distance, but sometimes it feels like it!!


So, then I thought - right, I can go to the Skoda dealer and finally get to chat with them about the car I want. Checked their opening hours and all's good, but got there and, yup - closed for Christmas Eve!! I always forget that France closes Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and reopens for Boxing Day!!

Came home and slept to catch up - I don't sleep well before a stupid o'clock start Just made some gingerbread mix ready to bake, going to do a couple of things after I catch up here and then get some more sleep before doing the same work shift as last night!! If I can get enough sleep today, I should have the oomf to go skiing tomorrow morning

Snow's awesome and the sun is out for the week

Looks like it will a little avalanchy!

[ZRX61]

Good news & bad news on the lottery front.

The bad news is I didn't win. The good news is neither did any other fucker.
$1.150Billion for Friday...

[Pirahna]

$1.150Billion for Friday...

We have the biggest lottery in the world, this years prize find was €2.7 billion. It's a bit different to winner takes it all though

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wi ... -117028637

[Noggin]

I always forget that France closes Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and reopens for Boxing Day!!

Here it's close Christmas day then January 6th for Three Kings, that's when the Spanish do Christmas presents.

Re bus driving, does that mean you passed the course you were on?

Congrats on the boyfriend.

Thank you. He's French/Spanish so I will be getting more messages 6th Jan I guess!! Interesting one today, he's a bit religious - although not in a "you have to be religious as well" way! But the Christmas message was very baby Jesus - I've resisted the temptation to send a meme of the Baby Cheeses to him - not sure his English will get a play on words!!

Looks like it will a little avalanchy!

Lots of canons going off over the last couple of days. But, with the horrible work shifts I've had, I'm not risking skiing - only half a brain at best and very tired!! Friday for me

[ZRX61]

We have the biggest lottery in the world, this years prize find was €2.7 billion. It's a bit different to winner takes it all though

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wi ... -117028637

Ours aren't winner take all, there are thousands of other prize amounts. 640,448 just in California:

Matching Numbers Winning Tickets Prize Amounts
5 + Mega 0 $1,000,000,000
5 1 $1,774,447
4 + Mega 12 $13,770
4 388 $479
3 + Mega 1,016 $208
3 25,180 $10
2 + Mega 22,143 $10
1 + Mega 171,169 $4
Mega 420,539 $2
Total Winning Tickets 640,448

Across the entire US there were about 3 million winners:
https://www.megamillions.com/Winning-Numbers.aspx

[weeksy]

Got in the sea.

We were at Whitesands near St David's, the boy says "I bet you wouldn't get in" to which my reply of course was "yeah right, I will if you do"

Neither of us backed down, so it was down to underpants on the beach and then in the sea. It was, shall we say, just a bit bloody cold..

[Buckaroo]

Got in the sea.

We were at Whitesands near St David's, the boy says "I bet you wouldn't get in" to which my reply of course was "yeah right, I will if you do"

Neither of us backed down, so it was down to underpants on the beach and then in the sea. It was, shall we say, just a bit bloody cold..

I assume the assets shrunk accordingly

[weeksy]

Got in the sea.

We were at Whitesands near St David's, the boy says "I bet you wouldn't get in" to which my reply of course was "yeah right, I will if you do"

Neither of us backed down, so it was down to underpants on the beach and then in the sea. It was, shall we say, just a bit bloody cold..

I assume the assets shrunk accordingly

Hard to tell in truth

[Buckaroo]

Got in the sea.

We were at Whitesands near St David's, the boy says "I bet you wouldn't get in" to which my reply of course was "yeah right, I will if you do"

Neither of us backed down, so it was down to underpants on the beach and then in the sea. It was, shall we say, just a bit bloody cold..

I assume the assets shrunk accordingly

Hard to tell in truth

Pepper in your pants and grab it when it sneezes

[gremlin]

Today I have delivered some dinners, taken a Christmas tree down, run the Shark vacuum around and then, as a final and unprompted act of sheer Devil-may-care, I cleaned the vacuum filters.

Just no stopping my antics.

[Cousin Jack]

Just said goodbye to daughter and s-i-l. Bugger me, but daughter, who is ace at travelling all over the world with just hand baggage, really makes up for it when travelling by car. She drives a hatchback, a pantechnicon would be more suitable.
All now very quiet on the CJ front

[Silly Car]

Just finishing cooking a piece of ham using the new Meater SE I received yesterday as a gift from the daughters. It is an improved wirefree meat probe from the previous Inkbird, the app is a bit more intuitive as it includes resting time which the inkbird app doesn’t.

It did seen a touch alien taking the ham out of the oven 10°C below finishing temperature but the internal temp has steadily risen to just over target temp

Next step will be smoking a chicken in the Ninja Woodfire to see how that turns out.

[v8-powered]

Just finishing cooking a piece of ham using the new Meater SE I received yesterday as a gift from the daughters. It is an improved wirefree meat probe from the previous Inkbird, the app is a bit more intuitive as it includes resting time which the inkbird app doesn’t.

It did seen a touch alien taking the ham out of the oven 10°C below finishing temperature but the internal temp has steadily risen to just over target temp

Next step will be smoking a chicken in the Ninja Woodfire to see how that turns out.

We've had a Meater for about a year - it's taken about 10 months for my wife to believe what it says and not do it her way!

[weeksy]

Left South Wales, now in mid Wales.

IMG_20241226_135208 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

12deg and no wind, weird.

[weeksy]

Sunset

IMG_20241226_160637 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

[Noggin]

I drove to Chambèry for coffee and he bought me lunch as well AND he got me a christmas pressie -

Some really warm slipper sox with the sticky non slip blobs on the bottom!!!




He's worked me out already Well, he did visit before the heating in the building was turned on, so he knows how cold feet get in my place!! And he knows I fall over a bit