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Dodgy69 wrote: Wed Apr 15, 2026 3:53 pm On to New Brighton. First impressions were a bit iffy, but we found the Mersey side walk (coastal path) and Vale Park was quite nice, few pubs and a few food establishments.

erm... WHICH State beach in California? There's a bunch of them.

Have to be up at 4am for an LAX run.
Roomie's sister in Arkansas is apparently on her last legs so she's headed back there for 10 days to take charge of her medical choices in the ICU as she's not compos mentis, altho may have bucked up a bit today. Not looking good for the sister, raging alky, smokes, ignores health issues, neighbor found her on the floor at her home a few days ago, been there for at least 10 hours.

Today is Holy Eucharist. Spent last night putting in LED cables into the candelabra in the Church, looks good and no dripping oil! Have collected some stuff from the other church for tomorrow's wedding. Was just handed church keys by a good neighbour, one of my team dropped them at the church in the grounds. Was chatting to him yesterday about something else entirely and here he is helping out! The person who was threatening to me a couple of weeks ago is wishing to apologise for their behaviour, so I'll take that as a win.

Have a meeting later this afternoon and evening PCC meeting where I need to let them know of significant news. (Mostly good news).

Working on getting Air Source Heat Pump quotes. Emailed three places, one responded. Need to find two more quotes asap. Just more paperwork!

Shiny!

Hope they find you not guilty.

gremlin wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2026 1:05 pm Hope they find you not guilty.

Black Oxfords for court appearances, shirley?

derek badger wrote: Wed Apr 15, 2026 6:32 pm It's my birthday today. Got up, fed the dogs, took the kids to school, walked the dogs, worked from home until 6:00pm. Did pop out at lunchtime and spend some money in the HiFi shop though.

Card's behind the bar, have a pint in me peeps.

Happy 65th.

Requested a 25kV isolation so I could climb on to the top of a train and cut off a damaged part!

Great fun, and not even my job!

v8-powered wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2026 1:28 pm Requested a 25kV isolation so I could climb on to the top of a train and cut off a damaged part!

Great fun, and not even my job!

Is it Ming who turns it off?

KungFooBob wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2026 1:45 pm

v8-powered wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2026 1:28 pm Requested a 25kV isolation so I could climb on to the top of a train and cut off a damaged part!

Great fun, and not even my job!

Is it Ming who turns it off?

Nah, he does that 'South of the river' low voltage stuff

v8-powered wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2026 2:17 pm

KungFooBob wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2026 1:45 pm

v8-powered wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2026 1:28 pm Requested a 25kV isolation so I could climb on to the top of a train and cut off a damaged part!

Great fun, and not even my job!

Is it Ming who turns it off?

Nah, he does that 'South of the river' low voltage stuff

I do actually have two bits of that "piano wire strung up in the sky" stuff to deal with (test tracks at Selhurst Depot & Williams Way at Three Bridges). It's always a good question for interviewee's or trainees.

Discovered that a recent windows security update has forced re-entry of bitlocker keys on some devices... Devices I don't have bitlocker keys for.

I've a gpo that makes all the laptops escrow the keys in AD, cos none of the desktops have bitlocker enabled... Except whoever built a batch of HP Deskpros did turn it on and it's those that are fucking up. Ho hum. I've updated the gpo to link to the OU with the desktops in now, but it's closing the gate after the horses have bolted.

Edit:

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-c ... -recovery/

Did the LAX run, traffic was bollocks, got home about 7.30.
Discovered that leaving the house at 4.30am instead of 4am adds at least 30 minutes to the driving time.
Got to the airport at 6am, roomie wanted to be there at 5.30 so she was a bag of nerves about missing her flight....

... which wasn't due to leave until 8.05am.

Now she's on the 2nd flight from Vegas to Littlerock, due to land there about 1.30pm (PDT) 3.30pm (CDT).

Her parting words were "There better not be any more motorcycles here when I get back in ten days...."

ZRX61 wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2026 7:41 pm Her parting words were "There better not be any more motorcycles here when I get back in ten days...."

Funny you should say that. There's a local chap with a bike for sale that I'd like to own, and she's away next week.

I'm tasked with dog feeding for the next 10 days, The female not only ate her dinner tonight, she ate most of her brothers too & decided a snail was a great appetizer..

Pirahna wrote: Fri Apr 17, 2026 12:06 am Funny you should say that. There's a local chap with a bike for sale that I'd like to own, and she's away next week.

It's better to ask forgiveness than permission.

It's more what I didn't do as I was hungover. I was supposed to go and buy a new phone. Then I was supposed to go the coast with the dogs and have lunch, but I didn't do any of these things. To try and save a wasted day by doing something, we were going to go for a midweek carvery, which is apparently only £7, but can't get booked in at a reasonable time. Who knows what other non events the evening will bring!

Woke up looking forward to heading out to Willow Springs, then realized that it's not Saturday. Bugger.

Male pup escaped his crate again last night & was waiting for my outside my bedroom door when I got up. He's learned how zippers work.

I've been MIA for a few days, so

Weds I got ambushed/tricked into having dinner with the other patients on my floor! I'm avoiding the big lunchtime dinning room where everyone goes, but had planned to be brave and join the other on this floor one evening. Well, a guy I did the adaptive sports with the other day knocked on my door a bit before dinner and said that he was going home in the morning would I like to come and join them all for his last evening. Not looking at the clock or anything I figured it was a little chat and then I could sneak away and hide again !!

Nope - it was just as the ladies brought up the dinner trays, and so I ended up having dinner with them all LOL There is a threat (offer?) to add me to the whatsapp group too I have said I'll give one of them my number to add me but haven't seen her since!!

Apparently Eric (the guy that left) has been checking in and reminding them to knock at my door sometimes to go join them

Anyway - I did go join for lunch today - less people so easier!! LOL


Thursday I had pool therapy again and the physio this time spent a bit of time working on my arm and a bit of neck like my physio at home does - right now my arm/neck and deltoid points are much more hurty than my knee


Excellent news for next week in that one of my seasonaire colleagues is going to see me on his way home on Monday and with luck I can grab a quick coffee with my ex neighbour on Thursday morning as he's coming here to see a doctor, so we are hoping to meet up before I have physio, as long as his taxi is a bit early!!!

And the cross stitch is coming on - slowly but surely. Will post a pic tomorrow (I do the most on it at weekends )

Replaced the worn out rollers on the up and over garage door. It was slightly less of a faff than I was expecting,which is always good.

A local door expert charges £120...