thursday the ducks are plotting something
sungod
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nippybright
ride, cafe, lab dabble, bail, laze
nippybright
ride, cafe, lab dabble, bail, laze
my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
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sungod
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sungod
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Really should go for a ride but body's saying please not again.
Damp Dark and Nippy
Rode in.
WFW
Night ride with mates later starting in the light for a change. Beer 🍺 o'clock afterwards.
WFW then a run and potentially the pub
Junior hound has gut rot and Mrs. 666 had to take him out to throw up a couple of times in the night. Hopefully it's just something iffy that he ate and it'll pass.
nippy bright.
mega day planned then chilled evening with mucho snoring.
need to make a couple of delicate 'phone calls but gotta be done.
Moody, moody, moody Shorty to put right (somehow).
Find ways of putting a cap in Pootin's censored .
Slowly picking up but not enough for a pedal so all this talk of rides and pubs is frustrating.
Was getting used prices iro £450 + the dodgy flea bitten sons of motherless goat shagging camels with halitosis and flatulence.
£150 incl. of VAT and delivery. There might be a god.
Nice but a little nippy this morning, unfortunately I had to drive as dropping the EPO off at her work. Busy day in the orifice for me, just had a 2 hour meeting going over the same problems with the MD we have been going over numerous times in the last year or so. Could have done without that, I'm not particularly optimistic that it will help.
Glad you're on the mend Piña, I've just got my traditional Thursday mild hangover. Although my guts are a little like junior 666 hound, but I know the cause.
I should probably do some work, onwards and upwards...
Marin Nail Trail
Cotic Solaris
What's this? That looks like a cable, wtf is a cable doing there, 6" or less under surface? Xxxx it is a cable, it's multistrand exposed, outer casing missing. I must have hit it. Double xxxx, it's a phone line.
Now, client family has 2 teenage kids, he's London office based but been home working past 2 years. Uh oh. He's in London today, she's gone out. Village got fibre cabled few years back, these guys subscribed, the fibre access is other side of house, so... They're still online, surely. Or do I just GMC and FRO?
She arrives back, tests landline, still working. Turns out BT engineers were in few weeks back, addressing some connectivity issues with the landline which family use once in a blue moon. A little further careful digging exposes a connector unit in the soil with the exposed multistrand thin copper wires running into it. Turns out I missed the cable, just.
So why tf does an 'engineer' leave an old school copper phone line less than a spade depth down in a garden, no conduiting, not 450mm + down, not even the outer sheath protecting the thin copper strands?
Ducks is what they are.
[/end of tale]
Sad Vlad.
Office for a bit tomorrow, then oysters and champagne for lunch with an old friend.
I asked her how much she used it, versus how many free minutes she got with her mobile contract. She is ripping herself off each month.
She still calls us on an old landline number and then texts to ask why we don't answer. We haven't had a landline for maybe 12 years.
Like the local water board - it costs money to demolish those redundant tanks/screens/filters so it's cheaper to just leave them to rot and collapse by themselves one day.
[Geek mode ON]
Press any throttle and it opens a flap you know dat.
Traditionally, the flap allows more suck (of air) through a venturi (narrowing of a tube). The flap sits in the middle of this venturi.
This suck is variable i'e the more the flap opens, the more air goes in.
Traditionally, at a mid point or (thereabouts) was a tube. The other end of this tube is in a reservoir full of bangy stuff. The tube, the reservoir, the flap and the venturi is collectively known as a carburettor.
The more the flap opens, the more suck and the more bang.
Technically; more air and bigger squeeze plus bangy stuff = more bang. You always want more bang for your bucks.
Along comes der Boschen engspruch bangy system. (Although, there were others but we'll ignore them. And in true (Mr B, Fawlty) style, 'never mention ze Lucas').
Zis Boschen bangy system uses fuel injection. No tube sucking in bangy stuff here, oh no, zer Boschen bangy system is a series of syringes with springs and an electrical solenoid.
To provide more fuel, one has to apply an electrick currant for longer. In other words, a short pulse of electrickery = small amount of fuel, long pulse = you can fill in the rest.
The physical position of the flap has to be linked to some sort of device that tells the injector how much bangy stuff to deliver.
The W202 Merceledes Bends system deploys a variable resistor (in an arc of about 120 degrees). High resistance = low volume pulse, low resistance = higher volume pulse (on a scale).
The tracks (for the prongs of the variable resistor) become worn over time. Plus there are internal gubbins like capacitors (to dissipate electrical arching) and wires in and out of the throttle body to the ecu/injectors.
[Geek mode: OFF].
Marin Nail Trail
Cotic Solaris
anti personnel ordnance, but I don't think she has actual landmines.
I pay £48 per month to EE. This includes unlimited mobile and landline calls from the LL, unlimited calls on both sims (me and Mrs P) and my fibre broadband. LL includes answerphone. Pretty good VFM IMHO.
cool.
No squeazy bang - turbo/Kompressor, just air und engspruch.
I don't know.
It's fast enough and rarely looses connection. Which is something up here*.
*Up the M6, turn left.