What have you done today thread?
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Been to London and back. Had a resuscitating cup of Monsoon Malabar in the garden. Too many people around!!
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One who forgives an affront fosters friendship, but one who dwells on disputes will alienate a friend.
One who forgives an affront fosters friendship, but one who dwells on disputes will alienate a friend.
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On the subject of London, I caught up with a friend who has been a black cab driver for years. He told me two stories which made me chuckle:
As things were opening up last week he was a bit more optimistic about work, but he said it was still a bit shit. Sat on the rank at Charing Cross for an hour, he's now second in line and out come six young ladies who try to get in the first cab. Being an older cab, he points them to my mate who's got a new LEVC with six seats in the back. In they clamber and he says within 30 seconds he's regretting it as they're well tanked up and very loud, but a jobs a job. Two minutes later and there's a commotion and true to form, one's vomited all over the floor of the cab. He's got them to where they wanted to go and, as he said, he's within his rights to charged them £50 quid, but in his words, 'By that time, I just wanted to fucking go home and mop up the vomit'.
A couple of days later, trade is still pants, he's taken about £20 all day. So he's on a rank and along comes a lady with a baby in a carrier, asks him to take to the Nigerian embassy. He explains it's just around the corner, but she says it's fine, jumps in. They get there, she gets her card out and lo and behold, his card machine has packed up. She's got no cash. She very kindly offers to take his number and pay later, but he said he just laughed and told her this one was on him and to have a good day. He then had to take the machine to be sorted, and again, suffered a huge failure of enthusiasm and came home.
Not a good time to be a black cab driver at them moment.
As things were opening up last week he was a bit more optimistic about work, but he said it was still a bit shit. Sat on the rank at Charing Cross for an hour, he's now second in line and out come six young ladies who try to get in the first cab. Being an older cab, he points them to my mate who's got a new LEVC with six seats in the back. In they clamber and he says within 30 seconds he's regretting it as they're well tanked up and very loud, but a jobs a job. Two minutes later and there's a commotion and true to form, one's vomited all over the floor of the cab. He's got them to where they wanted to go and, as he said, he's within his rights to charged them £50 quid, but in his words, 'By that time, I just wanted to fucking go home and mop up the vomit'.
A couple of days later, trade is still pants, he's taken about £20 all day. So he's on a rank and along comes a lady with a baby in a carrier, asks him to take to the Nigerian embassy. He explains it's just around the corner, but she says it's fine, jumps in. They get there, she gets her card out and lo and behold, his card machine has packed up. She's got no cash. She very kindly offers to take his number and pay later, but he said he just laughed and told her this one was on him and to have a good day. He then had to take the machine to be sorted, and again, suffered a huge failure of enthusiasm and came home.
Not a good time to be a black cab driver at them moment.
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Does it matter if he's black?gremlin wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 12:14 pm On the subject of London, I caught up with a friend who has been a black cab driver for years. He told me two stories which made me chuckle:
As things were opening up last week he was a bit more optimistic about work, but he said it was still a bit shit. Sat on the rank at Charing Cross for an hour, he's now second in line and out come six young ladies who try to get in the first cab. Being an older cab, he points them to my mate who's got a new LEVC with six seats in the back. In they clamber and he says within 30 seconds he's regretting it as they're well tanked up and very loud, but a jobs a job. Two minutes later and there's a commotion and true to form, one's vomited all over the floor of the cab. He's got them to where they wanted to go and, as he said, he's within his rights to charged them £50 quid, but in his words, 'By that time, I just wanted to fucking go home and mop up the vomit'.
A couple of days later, trade is still pants, he's taken about £20 all day. So he's on a rank and along comes a lady with a baby in a carrier, asks him to take to the Nigerian embassy. He explains it's just around the corner, but she says it's fine, jumps in. They get there, she gets her card out and lo and behold, his card machine has packed up. She's got no cash. She very kindly offers to take his number and pay later, but he said he just laughed and told her this one was on him and to have a good day. He then had to take the machine to be sorted, and again, suffered a huge failure of enthusiasm and came home.
Not a good time to be a black cab driver at them moment.
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Went to Thônes this morning so a friend could get his second jab. I walked his dog whilst he was getting the superpowers. Thônes is seriously pretty! (Well, as with all places, not all of it is but most!)
Came back to Bourg (via a stop at a sandwich shack for lunch) so I could get my second jab
Then he dropped me at physio for 30 mins and went and walked the dog by the river
Home, picked up car from his place (did have the obligatory mug of tea before setting out for the 10 minute drive home!!!)
Came back to mine to find that I am officially an Irish citizen
They've done the certificate in my old name but I'm pretty sure that I can apply in the legal name anyway
Ooooh - and in the middle of that, a friend that is about 7 hours from me replied to a query and I'm taking the Ducati to him next weekend (can't risk booking stuff for this weekend as the first vaccine wiped me out for 24 hours!).
So there's a few happies today to help with the general mood!!!
Came back to Bourg (via a stop at a sandwich shack for lunch) so I could get my second jab
Then he dropped me at physio for 30 mins and went and walked the dog by the river
Home, picked up car from his place (did have the obligatory mug of tea before setting out for the 10 minute drive home!!!)
Came back to mine to find that I am officially an Irish citizen
They've done the certificate in my old name but I'm pretty sure that I can apply in the legal name anyway
Ooooh - and in the middle of that, a friend that is about 7 hours from me replied to a query and I'm taking the Ducati to him next weekend (can't risk booking stuff for this weekend as the first vaccine wiped me out for 24 hours!).
So there's a few happies today to help with the general mood!!!
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Roomie comes home today, dog will be happy. AHRMA races at Willow this weekend along with classic bike show & swapmeet tomorrow. A former AMA Superbike Z1 I once had a part-ownership in should be racing.. so that's my Saturday sorted. May give the bike an up-spiff later today.
It's only 19 miles (13min 32secs) away & hoping I don't end up at the ER again like I did when I rode it last Sunday.
It's only 19 miles (13min 32secs) away & hoping I don't end up at the ER again like I did when I rode it last Sunday.
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Not today exactly, but an update: rotablation involves a tiny angle grinder being used to split the calcified obstruction to my R coronary artery lengthwise 5 times so that they can then use the balloons to dilate it, then pop in the stent. It's 2.75 x 48mm i.e. nearly 2" long, on the surface of my heart, which I find a bit distracting when I think about it. Apparently that was the only narrowed vessel and the heart muscle itself is undamaged so yay! The engineering used is amazing, but another 1.5 hrs work up my radial artery has left me with a very painful, purple, black and blue arm and I'm still knackered a week later. Onwards, upwards...Wossname wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 4:39 pm Quiet day today, recovering gently from yesterday, which involved: lying absolutely still, unsedated,.
for 2 hours, while a team of 7 or 8 very skilled and focused people fiddled around inside my chest. I'm quite a chilled sort usually, but I had to really concentrate to maintain that, watching the wires making their way around my heart.
Upshot: I have only 1 blockage (good) which they weren't able to stent as it was calcified and the narrowing was so small they could only get the guide wire through, not the stenting balloon (hence 2 hrs instead of 30 min). So... rotablation. Basically Black and Decker, Kango, angle grinder, JCB for the big bits. Not sure when. Ho hum. Missing the bike....
Just thought you'd like to know. X
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A rebore and oversize pistons.Wossname wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 8:01 pmNot today exactly, but an update: rotablation involves a tiny angle grinder being used to split the calcified obstruction to my R coronary artery lengthwise 5 times so that they can then use the balloons to dilate it, then pop in the stent. It's 2.75 x 48mm i.e. nearly 2" long, on the surface of my heart, which I find a bit distracting when I think about it. Apparently that was the only narrowed vessel and the heart muscle itself is undamaged so yay! The engineering used is amazing, but another 1.5 hrs work up my radial artery has left me with a very painful, purple, black and blue arm and I'm still knackered a week later. Onwards, upwards...Wossname wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 4:39 pm Quiet day today, recovering gently from yesterday, which involved: lying absolutely still, unsedated,.
for 2 hours, while a team of 7 or 8 very skilled and focused people fiddled around inside my chest. I'm quite a chilled sort usually, but I had to really concentrate to maintain that, watching the wires making their way around my heart.
Upshot: I have only 1 blockage (good) which they weren't able to stent as it was calcified and the narrowing was so small they could only get the guide wire through, not the stenting balloon (hence 2 hrs instead of 30 min). So... rotablation. Basically Black and Decker, Kango, angle grinder, JCB for the big bits. Not sure when. Ho hum. Missing the bike....
Just thought you'd like to know. X
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Went for a hugely enjoyable blat around the Peak District on the Duke 690, along with a mate on a Tracer 900 GT. Lovely weather, excellent roads, warm sticky tyres and a nice stop for cheesy garlic pizza bread and a cuppa rosie.
Lovely.
Lovely.
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Motorcykel = alltid den långa vägen hem! Still loving biking here in Sweden. Only problem with April here is just when you think it will be a good biking weekend, it snows again! lol
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It does that where I am (French Alps!). I don't have a bike at the mo but hopefully in summer it'll stop snowing!! LOL LOL
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After doing an oil change on the bike,I was running it around the block just to make sure all was ok,when I thought I felt something hit me on my right thigh,then felt something hit the footrest. I looked in the mirror and didn't see anything bouncing about the road and nothing appeared to be missing from the bike. It was only when I got home and took my gear off I realised I'd left my right pocket open and my phone had gone.
I hurriedly geared up and rode back to where I'd felt something and sure enough there was my phone lying on the main road. To say the road was busy today would be an understatement,yet somehow the phone was unharmed and fully operational.
The thing has a charmed life. A few years ago I left it sitting on the ground in the middle of Valletta when we were in Malta and one of the street traders spotted it and kept it for me when I returned half and hour later!
I'll maybe do one of the bike comps tonight.
I hurriedly geared up and rode back to where I'd felt something and sure enough there was my phone lying on the main road. To say the road was busy today would be an understatement,yet somehow the phone was unharmed and fully operational.
The thing has a charmed life. A few years ago I left it sitting on the ground in the middle of Valletta when we were in Malta and one of the street traders spotted it and kept it for me when I returned half and hour later!
I'll maybe do one of the bike comps tonight.
"Be kind to past versions of yourself that didn't know what you know now."
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Them old 90s Nokias were built toughSkub wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 4:28 pm After doing an oil change on the bike,I was running it around the block just to make sure all was ok,when I thought I felt something hit me on my right thigh,then felt something hit the footrest. I looked in the mirror and didn't see anything bouncing about the road and nothing appeared to be missing from the bike. It was only when I got home and took my gear off I realised I'd left my right pocket open and my phone had gone.
I hurriedly geared up and rode back to where I'd felt something and sure enough there was my phone lying on the main road. To say the road was busy today would be an understatement,yet somehow the phone was unharmed and fully operational.
The thing has a charmed life. A few years ago I left it sitting on the ground in the middle of Valletta when we were in Malta and one of the street traders spotted it and kept it for me when I returned half and hour later!
I'll maybe do one of the bike comps tonight.
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I can only dream of modern,new fangled 90s stuff.
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Archaeologists are even finding them fossilised.
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Another twat left that lying on the road too,by the looks of it.
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Fucked up putting the new driveway gates in. Will get it sorted tomorrow. I'm a might pleased with myself though as I've moved some spoil from one end of the the garden to another and generally laboured like a teenager, which considering I can't normally walk more than quarter of a mile without my back stopping play, is good news.
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There'll be a payback tomorrow.Taipan wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:25 pm Fucked up putting the new driveway gates in. Will get it sorted tomorrow. I'm a might pleased with myself though as I've moved some spoil from one end of the the garden to another and generally laboured like a teenager, which considering I can't normally walk more than quarter of a mile without my back stopping play, is good news.
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What, slower than a snail and whinging all the way?Taipan wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:25 pm Fucked up putting the new driveway gates in. Will get it sorted tomorrow. I'm a might pleased with myself though as I've moved some spoil from one end of the the garden to another and generally laboured like a teenager, which considering I can't normally walk more than quarter of a mile without my back stopping play, is good news.
Today I've made some ramps for the sacred chickens, laid a bit of concrete, stripped down an old welder, trommeled some of last year's compost heap, tidied the shed and creosoted the last bits of the fence.
All in lovely sunshine. 'Twas brillig.
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