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  • trailertrash
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    Really appreciate the quick help, thanks!

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    DJ Python’s Dulce Compania on the train back from that there London

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    Thanks

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    Well, today I achieved the goal of the whole exercise, which was to climb my first French 7a route outdoors without ripping any tendon pulleys (or incurring any other injuries). My previous best was 6c, in 2008.

    The chosen route was Raw Deal in Wave sector at Cheddar Gorge. Worked the route yesterday, pretty successfully, and fell off the top move. Got back on it today and did it third try.

    It’s been a long time coming and a lot of holistic effort, not just in losing weight loss.

    To say I am psyched would be a massive understatement!!! Read more here:

    https://wordpress.com/post/ketogenicdiary.wordpress.com/212

    For those wanting a quick summary: I’ve lost 10kg in the last 4 months. Today I weigh 70kg. I’m 5’11”.

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    Under £3750

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    I’m now 71.5kg and very lean. Feel great. Cholesterol entirely normal.

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    @ratherbeintobago

    Does it not make your breath stink?

    The diet can make you a bit dehydrated. This reduces mouth saliva which creates an advantageous environment for plaque growth. This can make your breath smell. I am brushing three times a day, sometimes, and flossing and using mouthwash more often. No complaints received so far, but I’ve noticed it myself.

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    @timb34

    Heartrate seems to ramp up quickly unless I’m properly warmed up though. That’s a bit weird.

    Yes, I got that as well. It’s settled down now.

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    @cletus

    I was interested that you mentioned you swim for exercise and specifically fat loss. Is that a personal preference or do you find it more effective than jogging/cycling/gym etc.

    I like swimming because it’s low impact. Avoiding injury is a major priority for me. Also all my running and gym stuff has been in store as we’ve been having our attic converted. Now that’s done I expect I will diversify. Swimming is quite dull.

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    bump

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    For the smaller room, Silverdale 5 SE under £400 delivered to Scotland. Good for a 30s house as matched styling. Very pleased with ours.

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    A bad tie at half mast is worse than no tie worn with confidence. A shit tie is off-putting. A bad suit is a bad sign. The shakes is bad. It’s best to wear what makes you feel confident if it looks good. If it doesn’t look good and you still feel confident you’re probably a bit weird.

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    Blind bolts from Orbital Fasteners.

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    Enjoy yourself carefully

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    Pink Floyd’s Animals

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    BMC is good

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    It strikes me that your job is probably fully computerised in larger shops and errors reduced to less than 0.1% say, caused by people putting the wrong things in parts bins, so yeah, that’s your competition – a machine! Also an error on a bag of spoke nipples is one thing but an error on a frame might be more serious.
    From an employers perspective, the cost of the error is not just the difference in the cost of the parts; the cost of sorting it out will dwarf that error, especially in small items.
    However, it may be that you are annoying your boss in other, less quantifiable ways but this is all he can actually pin on you. Doing much unpaid overtime? Are those around you? That’s the classic one: just not working hard enough.

    As for the invoicing: what, to whom, how much, unique ID, group them into sets of similar items if you can, or do in batches of 5 or 10. Swap batches with a colleague for mutual checking.

    Your boss probably can do them a lot faster and better. That’s why he’s the boss. And it’s his money you are spunking.

    trailertrash
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    I thought it was quite an interesting post actually. On top of that incidentally, having met him a few year’s ago, Mr Lupton’s a pleasant and intelligent chap who is generally worth listening to if you have the time.

    trailertrash
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    Property Services Agency

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    No-one got one in orange?

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    Do you have security on your laptop?

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    Ultimately I suspect soul2soul isn’t doing what he wants to do with his life. That could change in all sorts of ways. But you have to own your choices to get anywhere.

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    hels – :O) I knew someone was going to say that, but I’m not a tit man…

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    adjustablew(r)ench – it’s cookeaa’s wife that appears to be a narcissist, not him, due to apparent self-centred and unthinking behaviour

    I have to say that if my partner was a scatty and ineffectual as cookeaa says his is she would need to have some pretty amazing redeeming features to have kept my attention long-term. Either that, or my own flaws would be suitably sized and sufficiently obvious that I saw it as a fair bargain!

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    When I get like that I find one of the things that helps is, surprisingly, to make myself accept my share of responsibility for the situation I am in. Then, I feel better and behave better. I guess on some level it’s about feeling more in control, although the situation one is in may not be ideal. Subconsciously you may be blaming her for things that are not her fault. People are basically quite nice and quite logical most of the time. There is usually a reason why things are as they are. You were part of the decisions made, whether you realise it or not.

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    Actually if the problem is cable routing and the proposed solution would fix it then it’s a perfectly logical request. But hey, you’re welcome to your opinion and thanks for the technical roundup.

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    Yeah there is and they were like that when I bought the bike second hand but they are rubbing the frame and each other, like you say. They rub through helitape! Actually the frame is scored, but I didn’t notice when I bought it.

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    I honestly don’t know if they’re made, but I thought I’d ask.

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    Seriously? No, I’m a complete retard and utter novice mountain biker with no idea how to set up a bike and very odd ideas about what constitutes a good idea or not. Thank you.

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    The cable routing is actually better on my Whyte T120 with them this way round. Doesn’t bother me. It’s not dangerous, like swapping the brakes would be.

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    Reverb. No competition imo

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    Thanks all

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    danny yes microsoft – it’s well priced but there will be no uk telephone support no?

    edit – uk support, good

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    cody are you using Rackspace? They look good but…

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    Really quite keen to maintain the Outlook thing for my staff. Also we need the drag and drop. I hear bad things about the Outlook sync.

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    Sorry to hear about your situation.

    I think a lot of people have the wrong idea about self employment/running your own business. People often still say to me “it must be great, you can take time off whenever you want”. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is very hard. Then you take on staff and it gets harder. Then if you are really lucky it’s a successful business, so you take on partners, and it gets even harder.

    Let someone else take the strain. Be an employee. Be glad.

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    On my second V40 now. Good bikers car. Very comfy, not too slow, big enough but not too big. But thirsty by modern standards, I get 33mpg average. But the clincher is you can pick up a totally nice on with low mikes for under £1800. I have put 30k on the current one, up to 135k, 1.8 petrol, paid £1100, it never misses a beat except for wheel bearibgs, pads and cv joints sometimes. Usual stuff on an old car.

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    I recently went through the same process and actually ended up with a d90 with the 18-105 dx kit lens. I couldn’t be happier. I particularly like the handling of the camera and the image quality is outstanding. The canons felt a bit cheap and flimsy by comparison. I challenge any non pro user to see a real world quality difference in the sensors. Downsides on the d90? I think the control layout and options on the d7000 are better but really I can’t fault it.

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    tell her to keep off the grumble!!!

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