What have you done today thread?

[KungFooBob]

Another course at QA Tower Bridge - i am now a master at Power BI

Yay, I know where to go when I get stuck with my Dax.

[Mussels]

I popped into Brewdog at Canary Wharf, £23 for three pints FFS!

[KungFooBob]

I popped into Brewdog at Canary Wharf, £23 for three pints FFS!

Elvis Juice?

Its the only Brewdog product worth drinking, although her in doors is mostly drinking Hazy Jane atm.

[Noggin]

Drove a bus on some ridiculously small, steep and twisty roads

Cue lots of giggles and laughter from me. Well, everyone else thinks it was giggles and laughter - I'm reasonably sure it was verging on hysteria!!

But the bus and my fellow students and the instructor all survived, so that's a WIN!


We made a stop in a very low (1400m) ski resort and took some pics -



Love this sea of cloud in between the mountains -




Then I watched the full moon a lot on the way back to the school and took a couple of pics when we got there. I do love a full moon up in the sky

[gremlin]

Stopped at Watford Gap services. What a depressing, joyless place.

I almost felt I needed to apologise to my piss for leaving it there.

[Sunny]

Another course at QA Tower Bridge - i am now a master at Power BI

Yay, I know where to go when I get stuck with my Dax.

SUMX FTW.

Today (technically yesterday now) I flew to Aberdeen.

[636mick]

Stopped at Watford Gap services. What a depressing, joyless place.

I almost felt I needed to apologise to my piss for leaving it there.

Ha, nice aint it
Should of said you were coming, I would have given you the guided tour of the rat infestation out the back, near the kitchens, shown you the “special place” that the foreign truckers like to use instead of the toilets, the massive potholes that the services can’t be bothered to fix, and finally explained that using the white lines to park is so yesterday as they’ve all faded!!
It has a good bit, the slip road back onto the motorway
J1 M6 services is newer, cleaner, nicer with just as many rats, your piss would have thanked you.
Mick.

[Rockburner]

(yesterday...) More Ed80 fettling, oh and cleared the pillar drains on the hair-dresser-mobile.

[Count Steer]

Also yesterday. Early morning Le Mans style start in order to win the race to get a parking space at the area hospital. Won.

Spent over 4 hours of the day for a 30 minute consultation that should have happened a year ago. (Not my appointment I hasten to add).

While there had a stroll round the (very nice) adjacent Science Park and saw the contrast between the hospital and where the NHS consultants all pop over to to do their private work. Lots of pharma companies in sparkly, expensive offices too. Plenty of parking (if you have a permit). Contemplated renting a hot desk in one of the tech hubs in order to get a parking permit if I ever need to be at the hospital regularly.

Spent the rest of the day/night being Nurse Gladys.

[gremlin]

Spent the rest of the day/night being Nurse Gladys.

I was asked by a colleague yesterday if I would change the dressing on his little finger, which currently has 14 stiches in it*. The hospital gave him an iodine-infused mesh dressing and a large adhesive dressing and told him to contact his GP to change the dressing they did after a week. The GP told him to piss off. Obviously first aid training leaves me fully qualified to carry out this task.

Anyhow, old dressing off, clean it up, cut and apply the iodine mesh, trim adhesive dressing to fit finger, apply finger stocking and Barbara Winsor is your auntie nurse. We both commented that it was a lovely bit of work.


*He fell down the stairs at home. Not that that itself ripped the finger open, it was one of the nails he leaves hanging out of the bannister rail to hang Christmas decorations on.
This is a guy who is super intelligent, but once came to work in odd shoes. On the spectrum? I'd say so.

[mangocrazy]

Drove to Beziers airport to pick up Mrs Mango. In the van. Very gingerly. Still don't know if the snake oil I tipped into the cooling system a few days ago has actually done anything or not. But I need to give the van some running so I at least have a vague idea of how far we will make it on the way back in a week's time...

[Noggin]

These are the type of roads we’ve been driving yesterday and today!! The straight bits are rare!!

[ZRX61]

Waxed the ZRX11

Suffered from a bit more Ozempic Unpredictability... so got a bit of reading done in the throne room

[ZRX61]

Got the ZRX11 all pre-flighted for Sundays ride. Spiffed up the SBH a bit. Almost gassed myself in the bathroom cleaning mineral deposits on the shower glass with 30% vinegar.
This evening (at 10.13pm) I was outside watching the SpaceX launch with my Celestrons. Neighbor was out there & mentioned a VERY BRIGHT star in the other direction.

Neighbor: "Oh, that's Jupiter, I can see several of the moons"
Me: You can?
Neighbor: Yup, try these, they're 18x & stabilized, push the button on top when you see the planet"

Me: (counts 5 moons)Holy shit! How much were these?
Neighbor: "About $800"

Bugger...

[Count Steer]

$800? That's actually not too bad from my last look at quality optical devices.

Today I have been Covid boosted. Amazing difference in the operation at the area jabbin' centre cf previous years. It was a bit like the Marie Celeste.

I know they're only doing the old and vulnerable but even so. Easy parking, only 3 jabbers, no waiting. Got the impression that even the eligible aren't bothering.

[weeksy]

First pedal in 2 weeks. Only indoors and very low power effort

[Sunny]

Flown back from Aberdeen - bit breezy

[Taipan]

Took my Step Da for his covid jab. Didn't realise just how frail he is, I was more less holding him up a we walked the short distance into the clinic! Fortunately most of the other old people at the clinic did see his frailty and let him jump the queue. Faith in human nature restored!

[Dodgy69]

Took my mil and wife for jabs, covid and flu both arms. Roads very wet so it's pub on the pedals and a drop of Butty Bach

[ogri]

First pedal in 2 weeks. Only indoors and very low power effort

Little steps first