friday has escaped
sungod
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ride, cafes, smidge of wfh, early early bail for bubbly outing
ride, cafes, smidge of wfh, early early bail for bubbly outing
my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
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May pedal anyway.
Last day of term for toots.
No sign of a bonfire at Fort Loon yet. He's a big chap - good job too 'cos he'll need to fight off the locals. They're funny that way. They say 2 funny. It's 'twae' 6 miles from here, here it's 'twa' and in Loon land, it's 'too'.
Run runned
WFW
Job hunting
Maybe gym later for more torture
cafe stroll soon
He's probably recruiting a volunteer, Wicker Man style.
Just for info, this took place on the day after I took ownership of The Fort. Just saying.
Bit of admin, Crapita requesting a paper 😳 form be completed and posted back to reclaim the council tax credit I am owed. Paper! Plonkers. And other move related stuff.
Then try to navigate the odd booking system for the mini gym I've signed up to, select from options on this pulldown but we won't supply any... might just rock up anyway. When I went to check it out, both the fitness suite and the pool had zero attendees. Mayhap they're all lazy barstewards round here.
One more school week for mini, then she's off to Florida with Mrs B3 a week on Monday.
Also a long time friend has become a HGV driver a few years ago and he's now a right miserable git.
Ordered a gravel bike.
Bikes: Donhou DSS4 Custom | Condor Italia RC | Gios Megalite | Dolan Preffisio | Giant Bowery '76
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I can share a photo of the invoice and the Cycle to Work certificate… but it’s this and I’ve made a couple of build changes:
https://www.dolan-bikes.com/dolan-gxa--aluminium-disc-gravel-bike-shimano-grx-rx600-2x11-hdr/
Bikes: Donhou DSS4 Custom | Condor Italia RC | Gios Megalite | Dolan Preffisio | Giant Bowery '76
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When's it due to arrive?
In about a month. Kid in a sweet shop!
Bikes: Donhou DSS4 Custom | Condor Italia RC | Gios Megalite | Dolan Preffisio | Giant Bowery '76
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He's home. Happy dance.
Email today from the technician in Sydney that my uber-whizzo disc player (Krell DVD and CD) is officially unrepairable. Parts simply no longer exist to do it. OK, it's now 15 years old, and the technology is somewhat dated, BUT I used it for music, not movies, for which it was still absolutely awesome. Original RRP was a shade under $8k back in the day. Current value: - $250, which is what it cost me to ship it up and get checked over.
Rats.
Are you trying to tell us that Thistle is really Jeremy Clarkson?
The portable radio transmitter that I have is a 20+ year old design, there have been 2 "replacement models" which have basically been tweaks of the internal circuits because the original parts were no longer available.
It's clearly a good design if they're still making them and there's plenty of demand, but also bad that in 20 years nobody has come up with anything better.
The video output board is dead, and the main controller board for the disc drive is also apparently misbehaving, plus the actual disc transport itself is discontinued. AFAIK the power supply and audio DAC section is ok, so I may try a sneaky mod to retro-fit a different disc transport and see if it still works, but the odds are slim.