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Post by The Doctor on May 5, 2024 23:00:05 GMT
Ape shall not kill ape!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 5, 2024 23:01:41 GMT
Get your paws off me
You dirty ape
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 5, 2024 23:16:22 GMT
Shouldn't week 19 be entitled 84 this year?
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 6, 2024 6:23:55 GMT
Morning All!
It's Bank Holiday Monday - 2024 Week 19
Yesterday: Day started well after a good night's sleep with little pain in bright sunshine. Then the rain rolled in mid service and it wasn't so great after that. Discovered I'd got whichtrain company is striking which day confused which alters my plans for the week a bit.
Today: Leading 8am. Sorting rail tickets and packing ahead of trvelling what looks like tomorrow now.
Pray Day goes OK, Sinuses, CMT, tummy and Head cope OK. Pray I sleep well tonight, getting off to sleep promptly. Pray we stay protected from the virus.
Have a good day, stay safe & well.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on May 6, 2024 7:58:32 GMT
Shouldn't week 19 be entitled 84 this year? It shall be titled by whomever starts it off at the correct time. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 6, 2024 8:12:55 GMT
This is very true, but nonetheless, 40th anniversary and all....
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on May 6, 2024 9:35:38 GMT
40th anniversary and all.... Is it? I hadn't realised. Why have we got as far as May with nobody mentioning this? Martin |
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Post by Pinwig on May 6, 2024 9:55:31 GMT
Every day is the fortieth anniversary of something.
I still read old comics on their 40th birthdays. This week Dave the orangutan was voted in as mayor in Mega City One, the amazing Maze Dumoir made her debut, Rogue kicked Gunnar in the nuts to stop him killing him, and over in Eagle, Servitor Vek was stripped of his title by the Dread Council of Nox and exiled to Earth for failing in his role as the Doomlord.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 7, 2024 8:12:07 GMT
Morning All!
It's Tuesday
Yesterday: Not a good day. Head folded early on under pressure of too much to think about. Spent most of the day struggling to think straight, with a headache and sinus pain :-( Managed to pack, book tickets and assistance and I think I'm ready for London
Today: To The Trains! Now I thought GWR were on strike Weds, with SWR out today but it's the other way round. So UP is Swindon -> Reading -> Slough -> Ealing Broadway according to my booking. Since it's a 6 min interchange at RDG that's a no go, unless it's a same/cross platform job, so I expect to be put on an Elizabeth Line direct RDG to EAL. From Ealing Broadway a 65 down to Kingston, shopping and off to Mum's house.
Pray Day goes OK, Sinuses, CMT, tummy and Head cope OK. Pray I sleep well tonight, getting off to sleep promptly. Pray we stay protected from the virus.
Have a good day, stay safe & well.
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Post by that_bluestreak on May 7, 2024 17:51:16 GMT
Back from the inlaws. Exhausted. Just learned that most car rental places won't rent you a car if you don't have a credit card, which might prove problematic. Was a rubbish bank holiday for ebay sales but at least that means I don't have a lot to post out tomorrow.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 8, 2024 8:30:21 GMT
Morning All!
It's Wednesday
Yesterday: as predicted, did not go to plan, thanks to the tight connection at RDG - some form of "I have a disability" button on train booking websites to increase connection time would be useful! So yes, missed connection at RDG, loaded onto later albeit direct train to EAL.... where the assistance failed to show up and I sat blocking at an open train door for 5 mins while staff could be found to unload me. 30 mins after that I was in Kew eating Dim Sum :-) Slight difficulty when I got here and it turned out I'd cracked the laptop screen en route so I'm on one of Mum's old computers for my stay with no Excel.
Today: Kingston Day 1: This is an extra day to what I'd planned due to navigating round the strike so nothing scheduled. Trip to town for food then Homegroup tonight.
Pray Day goes OK, Sinuses, CMT, tummy and Head cope OK. Pray I sleep well tonight, getting off to sleep promptly. Pray we stay protected from the virus.
Have a good day, stay safe & well.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 9, 2024 7:29:47 GMT
Morning All!
It's Thursday
Yesterday: Trip to Kingston and back, via river, in chair. Quiet day. Homegroup on Zoom in the evening when I discovered why I'd not been getting messages from one of the group: I'd accidentally blocked them on my phone. How I have no idea, not sure how to do that deliberately and unblocking took a while.
Today: Maybe a trip in chair this morning. Dinner out tonight and, because of where I'm going, I can't take the chair. This might be challenging....
Pray Day goes OK, Sinuses, CMT, tummy and Head cope OK. Pray I sleep well tonight, getting off to sleep promptly. Pray we stay protected from the virus.
Have a good day, stay safe & well.
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Post by that_bluestreak on May 9, 2024 18:00:09 GMT
Good luck with the chair wrangling!
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Post by Shockprowl on May 9, 2024 18:10:26 GMT
Eldest's last day of school today.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on May 9, 2024 18:41:32 GMT
What's next? Mines or mills?
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Post by legios on May 9, 2024 20:02:46 GMT
So, looks like my mobile 'phone may be on its last legs - it appears from last Saturday that it will no longer send text messages reliably. It is also receiving them only in fits and starts. I got a pile of texts from yesterday all in one go yesterday evening, then having deleted them to make space I got nothing today until 6 o'clock, when a large batch of texts from yesterday and today arrived... This is...slightly sub-optimal. Going to need to give myself a ring at some point and find out if it can still even make phone calls.
The battery also seems to be degrading - it wants to be charged a couple of times a week now, instead of going five or six days between charges.
I might have to go looking for a new mobile in the next few weeks. I hope I can still get something like the £5 Mobiwire thing that is reaching the end of its life.
Also been looking at portable hard-drives this evening. I remember when the 500gb one I'm currently using as my E:\ was nearly a ton. Now you can get 4TB portable drives for less than £90.00! The inexorable march of technology!
Karl
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Post by Pinwig on May 9, 2024 20:24:09 GMT
Seems like only yesterday I spent £120 of a student loan on a 4mb ram expansion for my Amiga 1200.
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Post by The Doctor on May 9, 2024 20:28:20 GMT
Mankind should never have evolved past 128K technology!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 10, 2024 7:59:08 GMT
Morning All!
It's FRIDAY!!!!
Yesterday: Nice trip into Kingston first thing involving back streets and the river. Going out in the evening was a chore, I can't do the journey from Mum's to the bus stop on foot anymore :-( But lovely to see the people I'd arranged to meet and the other friend who was in the Thai when I got there.
Today: I think today will be a quiet down day. Dinner with another friend tonight, but I can get the chair in the restaurant this time :-)
Pray Day goes OK, Sinuses, CMT, tummy and Head cope OK. Pray I sleep well tonight, getting off to sleep promptly. Pray we stay protected from the virus.
Have a good day, stay safe & well.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 11, 2024 7:43:39 GMT
Morning All!
It's SATURDAY!!!!!
Yesterday: Quiet day in recovering from Thursday night before I went out to dinner. Left my phone in restaurant, had to go back for it.
Today: Plan is to watch DW early doors off iPlayer. Chinese hopefully for tea. TMUK Zoom tonight.
Pray Day goes OK, Sinuses, CMT, tummy and Head cope OK. Pray I sleep well tonight, getting off to sleep promptly. Pray we stay protected from the virus.
Have a good day, stay safe & well.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 12, 2024 8:14:57 GMT
Morning All!
It's Sunday!!!
Yesterday: Quiet day, brief trip out to get dinner and that was it.
Today: Aiming to do church. My old church in London now meets on two sites and the closest site to me meets late afternoon. Let's see if I can get there....
Pray Day goes OK, Sinuses, CMT, tummy and Head cope OK. Pray I sleep well tonight, getting off to sleep promptly. Pray we stay protected from the virus.
Have a good day, stay safe & well.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 12, 2024 8:36:02 GMT
TFNation revisions for a thing to do, and hopefully the 2nd draft of my article for Matt.
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