Yeah that's a bad day.
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not good steve..Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Well that was a shit day.
Driving to Preston this morning, the van packed up on the M6 exit slip road, which turned out to be a split fuel line pissing diesel onto the road, all of the engine bay, everywhere but where it was supposed to go. Time was 9.30am.
Called AA, who said the van was in a hazardous location on chevrons which to my eyes looked like a reasonable quasi-hard shoulder, and so they were going to call the police out to arrange moving the van to a safer place.
An hour later a Highways Agency SUV arrived, and they informed me that because of its dangerous location, and the fact that it was still on the M6 (just), it should be recovered and taken somewhere safer before the AA will touch it. At a cost of about £300But... they offered to shove my van a further 40 metres to get it past the 'End of motorway' sign, which they did... Very nice people
So then I had to get it recovered onto an AA-appointed low loader and moved somewhere more AA-friendly. He arrived at 1.30pm. Then I had to wait another 90 minutes for the AA, who to be fair fixed it in 20 minutes.
So apart from a couple of treks across two busy carriageways for a brew at Subway I spent much of 9.30 till 3.30pm out in the pissing rain, and wondering how much I'd get if I sold this crappy van that clearly hates me.
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Could have been worse though - all it cost me was a few miles of diesel, 2 cappuccinos and 2 hot chocolates. And it cost me nothing work-wise, it just moved my job back a day, I'll finish it Friday instead of Thursday. I was going to do bog all Fri anyway
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Maybe it is Nature's way of telling you to retire.
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Nature has been telling me this for some time, through aching joints and muscles, falling off ladders and a general reluctance to get up in the morning. Looks like Nature has given up dropping hints and is now shoutingMaybe it is Nature's way of telling you to retire.
I've gone to an average of 2 days a week, I'd assumed Nature would be happy with that.
I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in
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Retiring may not help.Nature has been telling me this for some time, through aching joints and muscles, falling off ladders and a general reluctance to get up in the morning. Looks like Nature has given up dropping hints and is now shouting
Giving up work tends to coincide with age related ailments and aches and pains setting in
(I still seem to injure myself regularly without having a job, but I am a bit like a bull in a china shop)
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its a double edged sword sadly. the more you do at this age the more you will have accidents and further damage arthritis, but to just stop can cause serious issues too.
i'd say give it up for a couple of months and you'll either love it or be desparate to get back in saddle (and away from wife lol).
im betting on the latter
Regards,
Grant
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Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
***SMILE, BE HAPPY***
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I don't know... me and Mrs. P in the same room all day every day, I think she'll crack first.
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But inactivity might lead you to be more like china in a bull shop - we're told keeping active helps with muscular strength and bone densityRetiring may not help.
Giving up work tends to coincide with age related ailments and aches and pains setting in
(I still seem to injure myself regularly without having a job, but I am a bit like a bull in a china shop)Maybe I'll join a gym - what could go wrong there?
I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in
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T'other system:
Echo Dot, Amptastic Mini One,Arcam A75 integrated, Celestion 5's, BK XLS-200 DF
A/V:
LG 55" OLED, Panasonic Blu Ray, Sony a/v amp, MA Radius speakers, REL Storm sub
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