Submitted a project bid in time via a portal that appears to have accepted it.
Am feeling a bit empty now, although not as empty as Tuesday when I lost about half a stone in weight...

just been bought easter buns by a customer.

god is good......... 8)

my office has no windows

one of my chickens died this morning

my lunchtime sandwich is making me feel bloated and sleepy, I think I need to lay off the white bread.

The rest of my team are all in meetings so I'm here on my own getting paid to surf STW and make plans for the pending bank holiday weekend.
today is chock full of win!

Struggling through the day waiting for my new bike to arrive. Parcel status says "out for delivery"

Finishing up a few things at work for a big project milestone today.
I only work Tues-Thu anyway. Been very busy recently with work/life/cycling/volunteering so took the car to work yesterday instead of my 30 mile bike commute.
Came home to pick up my new bike frame from the drop off point across the street, make a lovely dinner of marinaded lamb skewers with tomatoes, chillis, green olives and garlic cloves and made my own hummus and coriander seed pitta bread and did all my laundry while they were cooking.
Then I munched it while watching the last episode of a tv series and had a glass of my homebrew 10%abv chocolate beers out of a keg. I then lay on the couch and hugged my cat for an hour or two before getting a nice night's sleep in fresh bed linens.
Cycled in this morning, slightly faster than usual as there was someone on my wheel for about 8 miles. Now just putting the final touches to my project documents after a nice lunch and a walk.
I will keg some home made cider when I get home tonight after a dinner of last night's leftovers then off to meet my girlfriend to watch a Belgian horror movie about student lassies eating each other.

I am feeling relaxed/content which is nicer than stressed/harassed

Just back from 45mins of yoga in the next office building....

Currently scoffing a tuna sweetcorn granary baguette.....

Got a company arranged Easter quiz at 1:30 and it looks like everyone gets a big easter egg....!

Woooo! Pretty good day so far.....

yourguitarhero - Member

.... to watch a Belgian horror movie about student lassies eating each other.

You sure it's a horror movie?

[quote=stumpy01 ]yourguitarhero - Member
.... to watch a Belgian horror movie about student lassies eating each other.
You sure it's a horror movie?

That's for afters

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/apr/09/raw-julia-ducournau-cannibal-fantasy-review-kermode

Slowly......Not got up yet. 😕

yourguitarhero - Member

Finishing up a..yadda yadda smuggyness

Full of chocolate and shame.
Been given Easter eggs by a client to pass onto my children. I failed the honesty test, consumed the lot and no feel a bit sick.

yourguitarhero - sounds like yours has been great and will only get better when you watch your lettuce-licking film later 😛

Mirror fell out of car door mirror onto road and chipped - weird as been absolutely fine for 4 years - made 70 mile drive interesting! Can I just glue it back on? (Mk7 Golf).

Depends on what's come off. The glass is glued onto a plastic backing thing with clips that hold it into the housing - the heating element if present is sandwiched between the plastic clippy bit and the glass. Often (judging by what I see on the roadside when cycling) the clips just let go, but on mine the glue came undone so the mirror separated from the plastic clippy bit.

On one side I used high temperature glue, on the other I used silicone sealant. Both have been fine for years.

Re my day - I am now very excited since I have decided to buy Juanghia's frame 🙂

I had a shit day yesterday. My new phone was potentiually not arriving for another week, my new laptop was revoked and now I'm not sure, all my customers appear to have gone on holiday, my momentum and enthusiasm is waning...

Today is betterer, but still no customers!

Term time contract means I'm off this week and next. MrsMC is off today, so I've got out for a 43 mile ride including a recce for a social ride I'm planning. Met a lovely lady out for a first ride on the Canyon Ultimate she had got in preparation for L'Etape. Had a lovely café stop and got home in time for lunch.

Spending the afternoon getting organised for a weekend at the outlaws which includes taking my bike....

Got woken up early by one of my dogs for no good reason, but that did mean that I could have an extra long lie-in with them and a coffee before I got up for work, so not all bad.

Despite issues with billing I've managed to sort them out, submit our DD run and generate our dealer commission statements.
I've got 2 hours of work left and Im about to wander home for lunch before finishing for an extended easter break, not returning until the 24th.
That'll do me.

Today has been much like the rest of the week - slow!

One of our products has stopped working in the Netherlands - it was supposed to be getting picked up from them last Thursday so I had it in my hands early this week to investigate.
When it still hadn't arrived yesterday, started getting a bit frustrating, but boss was out of the office. Finally got hold of him today and discovered the person in charge of organising the collection didn't, and its not happening until today.
End result - most of week spent on STW with the odd interruption for 30min trivial tasks.

I passed the second module in my part time masters course.

Donated a bunch of stuff to the salvation army.

Now waiting on jnr waking up so we can have lunch.

I've just finished 3 hot cross buns.

Behind on this weeks project, so some quick drawing needed now. Been to look at a potential new house. Getting over some kind of gut-rot cold too. Don't know what tyres to run for the xc on sunday (assuming gut-rot has buggered off by then).

So, a bit meh, apart from the house that I quite liked.

Full of chocolate and shame.
Been given Easter eggs by a client to pass onto my children. I failed the honesty test, consumed the lot and no feel a bit sick.

Shakes head at sandwich.

My son is lactose intolerant, but some relatives forget and buy him eggs. Ha Ha I get to eat them and feel no shame!

Long, just logged into the train wifi on my last train leg of a 22hr journey back to Devon from working near Seattle. So far, one taxi, three coaches, one long flt, three films, one bad sci-fi book and now this train, another two hours to go, then a short car ride.
Did you know a coffee in Seattle is quite a bit more than here

Pretty good so far, working at home and actually getting stuff done, had a two hour lunch break out on dusty trails and finally nailed a really tricky steep switchback in front of an intimidating tree. And no this thread has reminded me we have hot cross buns so I know what I'm having in an hour or so 🙂

@funkmasterp

Hmmmm, ponders convincing my children they are lactose intolerant thus gifting all future chocolate to me.

Rushing like chuff so i can have a holiday at some bullpish caravan on the east coast with family when id rather just stay at work & get stuff done.
Bloody bank holiday, its like the capitalists handicap.
Holidays - waaaa
time off - waaaa
family time - waaaa
Just get some work done ya bunch of workshy gloits.

Popped into work to see the boss man as i'm halfway through a six week sabbatical, he did ask if i needed any more time off, i was tempted to ask for another month or two. 😀

Packing boxes to go with the Van Man to Orgiva on Saturday.

Collected some bespoke cabling I've had made up from the HiFi shop.

Chicken soup for lunch.

Made the two old ladies at Oxfam happy with my CD collection donated. Plus an Altura waterproof jacket. And an 18 tog sleeping bag.

That's enough for one day. Last two boxes tomorrow and then wave au reservoir to my earthly possessions and wait to fly out on the 22nd... 😀

Painted a wall in the kitchen this morning then swam 1500 in a open-air pool with snow-capped mountains in view. Now I've had something to eat I'll head off to the park with a Strat and Battery-powered amp, and jam with a mate. It's sunny and 25° outside.

2 pints

Sausage roll

Meat pie

Small egg custard

back to work until 5pm.

[quote=rascal ]yourguitarhero - sounds like yours has been great and will only get better when you watch your lettuce-licking film later

Ha, lettuce licking! Very Easter appropriate

Just got in and washed the bike after a great ride round Grizedale. Good day so far!!

well could be better...wifes in majorca swimming in the sea.

im working in angola.

How ever the last of my tools for the next 2 operations are tested and ready to go in baskets.....what do do for the remaining 25 days of my hitch 😀

30 degrees outside, Ainsa is full of visitors for Easter, the trails are dry and fast and I just ate a Bounty Bar. Life is good.

Went to feed the hamster this morning and found he'd done a bunk... Youngest hadn't put the door down properly when feeding him. Poor lad a bit disconsolate. Spent most of the morning looking for it, nothing so far but if he's around he's probably asleep.

Had a bit of an odd week.

On Monday I found out that I'm a named beneficiary in a significant discretionary trust set up by an ancient and long passed away relative. Kind of changes the landscape for my family. Which is great obviously but it's kept me awake for most of the nights since. I feel very odd about the whole thing.

Have done the sum total of **** all at work which includes working on a personal project that could go very large if I could just be motivated enough to finish the thing.

Have splurged on some new bike stuff which is nice. I tend to go 3 or so years between splurges so lots of packages from chain reaction etc have been arriving.

Looking forward to 4 x BMX rides at the local track with number 2 son and 4 x MTB rides with mates over the bank holiday.

Pretty much spot on, thanks. Just got back from a 3 hour loop from Streatley with Mrs and boy. Bikes dusty so straight into the bike cave, no washing required. Demolished an outrageously large piece of chocolate tiffin, washed down by a mug of coffee from the stove-top.
After dinner I've got a little Lego project on he go, and still got the 4 day weekend to come!

I found a fiver on my walk home. Felt bad about keeping it so put it in an Air Ambulance charity box and now feel great.

Mine was going pretty well until I had a call, from the agency we were letting a place via, that the landlord has decided to take the place of the rental market and sell it instead - after we've already coughed up the cash for references etc. Only planning to let because the place we were planning to buy was taken off the market because the seller had decided to rent it out instead! Apparently no way to recover the cash we've spent either as there is no contract in place yet.

Given our place is due to go to exchange in a week and complete a week after that I've got a job on looking for a rental place quickly so I'm left without a London home! Might even have to consider pulling the plug on the sale of our own property. Not ideal...

Other than today has been fine. WFH so went for a 5K run at lunchtime (quicker than I'd expected given I've put on half a stone over the winter) and several good work related conference calls.

A long day at work, though with nice colleagues, then a quick diversion on the way home and now I own this:

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So, fairly excellent.

I was doing well until I sheared a fork damper rod bolt putting my fork back together after solving a clunking problem. I think it might have been fatigued because I didn't put that much force into it. There has been much swearing, although I did manage to rescue the sheared section.

Hopefully the shop can source a spare by saturday or thats two days of biking over the bank holiday missed. 🙁

Sacked off work early to spend a bit of time with the family, who are all grumpy and horrible and fighting. I need a rest but i get to go to my other job for the next 4 days as my wife has decided to give up work. I'm tired, grumpy, and well and truly in need of a holiday, but I get to use all my annual leave going to work at my other job. Do I win?

Work has been ridiculously busy week, but I'm home now and not back in work until 25th, so I'm very happy.

Plus I've just scoffed a handful of mini eggs and a sticky toffee hot cross bun, which was awesome!

Whoa, Cranberry. Wasn't this dicontinued some time ago?

Looking up after the postman came. MTB Stems slammed, out front mounts installed, colour coded bottle cages x 2 on the road bike added, New iphone magically set up very quickly from a newly appreciated iCloud, 23mm Schwalbe One added to the front of the TT bike which is packed and tucked in the car/garage ready for an early off tomorrow.

Kids to bed soon and relax....

Good - Took my nephew on the trails around Swinsty today, he loved it.

Bad - Lost my phone somewhere between leaving the house and 15 minutes in at swinsty..... possibly even left it on the car roof whilst I was putting the bikes on. Not insured either!!!!

Wasn't this dicontinued some time ago?

Lego stopped making them, and then they went from £150 to £250 on Ebay, I've just picked that up for 125 Euros, so I'm happy.

Last day of a few away in Northumberland with family. Wandered around Cragside house today and we all had a ball. Sore legs after big sunny walks every day. Cannot complain 😀

Quite a decent day here in Kirkcudbright, woke up at 5.30 for some reason, thought bugger it i may as well get up so switched on espresso machine and scratched my balls for 5 mins whilst i worked out what i was going to do and in what order, had a double espresso then made a 10litre pot of Arribiatta sauce for stocking the freezer, had a shower then scrambled egg breakfast, followed by a cappuccino then cycled to work along the river, watched the kingfishers at Cumston bridge for 10 mins and just sat and took in the sunny morning whilst dangling my legs over the edge, made it in to work at 10am and made 1200 mint/clove essential oil infused milk choc bars for an order, tidyied my mess up up and set machine for making rose oil/rose petal dark choc bars t'morn, left work at 1.30pm and cycled back home along the river. Got home, had cappuccino and a slice of sponge cake my mum made, then took toby (dog) out on bike up the woods then across golf course where toby spooked two deer and back home along the river, thought i saw an otter sliding the mud banks on river but not 100% sure. Popped across town with dog to see mum, got fresh scones and toby got a cheese scone for himself - back home at 5pm, made big pot of veg chilli for tea, ate tea and now about to have a brewdog elvis juice as i service my Fox 34's - listening to 6music and i expect i'll be in bed before 10pm.

Very pleasant day, hope t'morn is just as productive.

Absolute bobbins of a day, without going into it too much detail I saved someone's life.
That would have been a truly epic day, apart from the fact that it was someone I know who was to blame for the need to save someone's life.

Got to play ambulances as I drove a stretchered patient who was in the back of the Gator to the awaiting air ambulance.
Offered the Trauma Dr use of our first aid kit (A few bandages) and a can of wd40 (Sadly no zip ties or ducktape in it)

Due to stupid knee pain tomorrow I will not be using my non refundable train tickets to Blair Atholl for a week in the Cairngorms and then using my non refundable train tickets home

Someone at work said "waving our collaberative footprint" on a conference call at work yesterday.... I still don't know what it means... today has been a day of trying to forget that someone actually got paid a lot of money to come up with that bullshit 🙁

Home after a weeks work in Suffolk via a rather rubbish drive including an hour to get round the roundabout from the A12 to the M25. Wife and daughter in Australia so freezer special and Aspalls for tea and Netflix on the box. Currently rebuilding the Enigma roadie with more Aspalls ready for tomorrow. Could be worse.

Today said farewell to my two sons-they've stayed with me two nights- won't see them for a fortnight now. Had a lovely couple of days and a nice pedal around FOD with then today.

Bit dusty as I waved them goodbye from the Cheltenham station platform. Had a lump in my throat as I walked back to the car.

Had a few days of reflection which have made me conclude I need to resign from my current job. Maybe go back to part-time as I was before or do something different.
I've just reviewed some of my behaviour over the past year and it's clear I'm suffering from job stress and associated depression. The new yearly targets are even harder so I don't want to end up in a coffin, I have to go.
This means telling my dad to f-off with his advice about the importance of money, and his asking "well what else are you gonna do?" questions. I need to tell him where to go, in order to save myself.
All melodramatic, I know, but I've not felt this bad for ten years when I was stuck in a very dark place.
Resigning on Tuesday.

Not a bad day today, had to deliver a bike to a customer first thing this morning, that his wife to be had bought for him without his knowledge, the morning of his wedding! Big smiles on his face and I'm sure the wedding went well too...

Got back to work, which kept me busy all day too which was good...

Yesterday wasn't bad either, work was again busy, went down to FoD for a ride with mates later on, and got home and an old friend popped round to check I was ok.

Tuesday sucked mind... And i guess I'm about to start feeling the effects of it (the GF cleared all her stuff out whilst I was at work and left me, this time I suspect for good!) over the forthcoming bank holiday weekend... Still, could be worse, nobody to argue with now at least! 🙄

Long day today. Early on had a poorly lamb with an abscess under the skull which then burst. She is still with us but may need to be euthanized tomorrow if no improvement (showing signs of brain damage). Then drove dad to Newport for cataract op and used the time he was in there to drive to Swansea to collect some Wheels for my Land Rover off a mate. While there I looked at a couple of VW vans and test drove one. Not sure?? Back to to Newport and then home in time to grab a bite and then back out to a planning meeting for the upcoming OMM Lite at the end of the month. Finally home by 10.30 tonight. Just back in from delivering an awkward pair of twins on a first time ewe. Perhaps the toughest birth this year so far (and there are only 5 left to lamb!). But mum and lambs are both doing fine. So a quick catch up on STW and off to bed.