Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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Using the new gravel bike to go the long way round into town to buy some milk.
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Despite being old and fat being significantly above average according to this
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That’s made my day as well as my one and only marathon was done in 3 hrs 40 something minutes. It was also preceded by a bit of a swim and a potter on the bike.😉
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That's made me less cheered up!
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Wrong thread
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Smoothly completing my first handbrake hold hill start this century. On a 10% too.
Can't deny that I was nervous. 😂
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.1 -
My wife bought me an Oodie for my post chemo chills. Never heard of them before but my wife heard of them through her running group. It's a very large and soft and warm wearable blanket. I'm ashamed to say I Love it!! Really nice on cold afternoons when heating is off and chilly nights watching TV. Chemo makes my body feel very cold at times. Love my wife for getting me one.
Not me in pic.
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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My daughters love them. Have to say I’m tempted to get one sitting all day in my office in the former garage in this weather!
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That is a fine gift. I have something similar from last year when I had some mobility issues due to my health, it was a godsend as it comes down to my knees and keeps me very cosy, put the hood up and I could take a nap whenever needed.
It is now standard WFH wear 😄
I hope you are making good progress @photonic69.
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Glad it's doing the job, and hoping all's going the way it should for you.
Must admit, that could be the answer to my leaving the heating off for even longer in the winter. Gotta be cheaper than the energy bills.
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"I have nothing to say"😉
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Watching the live Garmin trace of a friend doing a 200km audax today, on about 30 minutes of training. Not exactly a racing snake, but dit it in under 11 hours solo. Strangely satisfying tuning into his steady progress during the day and the last 30 minutes at the end.
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Ha - I'm over the minimum payment level now (at $30) for my Facebook efforts. Looks to work out about $5 a day for my French postings, for doing nothing different. Hoping to be there for over 100 days this year. All of these things cheer me up.
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Stevo is available if you need tax advice.
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What cheered me up today? Garmin's much maligned customer service.
I burnt out my Neo 2T last week. Don't know how, but willing to accept awesomeness. 😉 Anyway, one week later and I have a certified refurbished replacement (that looks brand new) completely free of charge including delivery in both directions. Not bad considering this was a very heavily used five year old unit. Yes, 5 years old!
Icing on the cake, I was told to keep all accessories and the unit came with a complete set of unopened accessories which I can put on the Bay and gain around £100. And I had a rest week. 😂
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Having a massive pile of chocolates, chocolate biscuits, decent red wine and posh fizz waiting for me here, all kind presents on my retirement from school work. Actually so much it's a bit of a quandary where to start.
But make a start I must... one
stepbiscuit at a time. Actually, several biscuits at a time. I just need to invite myself to enough dinners with wine -loving friends so I can share the booze.It's a tough life sometimes.
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I would help but I'm doing dry January.
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You gotta fight... for your right... to paaartay...
So. When? We can all help ease your burdens.
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The annoying thing is I'm doing dry January-December as things stand (even small amounts of alcohol appear to be winding up my mTBI brain), and those bottles are laughing at me now. Maybe taking bookings for 2026...
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What happens? if you don't mind the personal question.
I also know you've told us but I can't recall how you got it.
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Reason - broken chain when I was giving it some beans, and I somersaulted over the handlebars, breaking my fall with the back of my (helmeted) head.
Best they can come up with is that it's the autonomic system having a giggle at my expense, so digestion and heart play tricks, both of which can be more than a little unsettling. As both caffeine and alcohol meddle with brain chemistry and messaging, and I'd struggle without at least some coffee, the easy one to avoid is alcohol, and things do seem to be more stable when I do.
But, as ever, I might be just convincing myself it's making a difference, like those people who swear that vitamin C can make a cold go away, or that avoiding all dairy products makes phlegmy infections pack their bags.
It does, however, feel very bad manners when I'm in France and not drinking decent Côtes-du-Rhône at under 5€ a bottle. It's easier in the UK, I'll admit.
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Not to be trifled with I suppose.
The "m" part of the TBI being a bit redundant when it comes to ones marbles.
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You haven't seen my prices...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Quite so. It soon dawned on me that all of what I think of as being 'me' is being 'curated' by fragile electrical signals in the squidgy stuff between my ears, and that a broken link in a bike chain could irreversibly change 'me'. I'm lucky that most of 'me' is still there, if a little less reliable than it was pre splat. The first three months were very dark, and it's sobering reading FB memories five years later of how quickly I thought my brain would recover. Glad I didn't know then the journey ahead.
OTOH, I've never spent a night in hospital for any reason yet. Well, other than when I was born. I know several forum members have had much more significant health events, and I am full of admiration of how they just deal with it in their own ways.
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"But, as ever, I might be just convincing myself it's making a difference, like those people who swear that vitamin C can make a cold go away, or that avoiding all dairy products makes phlegmy infections pack their bags."I've decided to try this dry January* nonsense for the first, and probably last time. Can't say I feel the slightest benefit so I'm looking forward to normal service resuming on Feb 1st but I'll give it the full term before deciding. Small sample of one, anecdotal but I can't see the point. Especially so in the dreariest month of the year.
*Not the full month as that would include New Year, and be extremely silly. A 4 week tester started on the 4th.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Yes 10 days or so in total was pretty taxing for me.
Regardless of the injury, if serious there is before and after. I still do the main things I used to before inhad my ankle glued back together, but the "me" who would do them as much asy lungs would allow and pain free ended that day.
Mostly I am the same and outwardly what you might expect in my early 50s if you'd met me aged 35, so you count your blessings dont you?
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Yes, indeedy. I'm glad I'm not dead yet, and having some fun.
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