So... What oiled your gears today?

[hellkat]

Unusually (for me) I had enough energy to consider taking the dog to a different piece of land for her to run about on.
Still not that much of a big walk from home and pretty scummy actually ... but not one of our usual haunts.

So lots of new sniffs for her to discover.

She had a good old run around, bouncing across tussocks, and on the way home I found some new and interesting "other people's front gardens" to investigate.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[CrypticCrud]

Stood on the scales today (Monday is weigh day) & I've lost 6.6 lbs.

Which is a relief because after dog sitting away from home last week.. I'd stuck on 8lbs!
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CBT - Aug24, Theory - Jun25, Mod 1 - Jul25, Mod 2 - Sep25
Kawasaki Z125 > Honda Z125

[hellkat]

My rule is not to stand on the scales until I can feel clothes are considerably looser, or become aware of actual physical changes in my body.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[CrypticCrud]

[hellkat]

Makes sense.
I usually know *exactly* when I have fallen foul of my own lack of self-control.

Plus, regular scales-weighing just feels like a form of socially-approved self-bullying to me. I'm so good at the art of self-deception (a skill finely honed by decades of practice ) - that I have developed less definitive ways of avoiding reality.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[CrypticCrud]

[CrypticCrud]

Today I rode the bike up the (very windy) M1 to Sheffield, left it at Meadowhell & took the tram into town & visited the Cowboy store.

Couple of lovely assistants in there, Neve & Sophie pointed me in the right direction of what I was after but then there were another 2 ladies in there who were shopping. We all got chatting & they were giving me pointers on what I should & shouldn't buy. (I hate shopping & can't pick clothes that fit for shit, so this was very welcome!)

Gave the gal behind the counter a tip for her exemplary customer service, & the 2 ladies gave me a lift back to Meadowhall, so I bought them dinner for their time & trouble, over which we sat people watching & putting the world to rights! Diet well & truly ruined by visiting German Doner Shop (was v nice tho)

I spent far too much money on things I can ill afford but you know what, it's a day that will stand out for years to come.
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CBT - Aug24, Theory - Jun25, Mod 1 - Jul25, Mod 2 - Sep25
Kawasaki Z125 > Honda Z125

[to v or not to v]

[CrypticCrud]

[CrypticCrud]

Took a ride up to Revs n Relics, had a brew & flirted with the staff.

Not a bad place!
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CBT - Aug24, Theory - Jun25, Mod 1 - Jul25, Mod 2 - Sep25
Kawasaki Z125 > Honda Z125

[CrypticCrud]

& then took a ride to The Copper Beech for biker night.

Twas good!
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CBT - Aug24, Theory - Jun25, Mod 1 - Jul25, Mod 2 - Sep25
Kawasaki Z125 > Honda Z125

[Skudd]

Seeing my daughter and grandchildren move into their new house and start afresh after all the shite they have had to put up with over the last two years. A lovely new build for them. It's costing me a fortune helping them out with new furniture and the like, but I wouldn't swap it for the world.
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Famous last words of Humpty Dumpty. " Stop pushing me "
Petty Anarchists look at "1984".............. The Visionary looks at "Animal Farm".

[Easy-X]

Fixed my mum's car! "The windscreen wipers stopped working..." oh really? "Yes, and they made this horrible grinding sound." Ah.

Got a motor and linkages from a salvage place, the problem lay in the removal and instalment. The clever bods at VW designed the engine bay such that they fit the wiper motor then the firewall then put the engine in If you like those puzzles that come in Christmas crackers - the ones with the two pieces of wire you have to slide past each other at odd angles - it was something like that.

And then there was the "workshop error" on the dash computer. How long's it being doing that, mum? "Oh ages..." A cursory glance suggests it's a brake fault so no biggie I suppose A deeper dive revealed actually it was a fault brake vacuum sensor, a much easier job to fix than the wiper motor.
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[panrider_uk]

New bike delivered. Shame about the crap weather though!
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Current bikes: Honda ST1100 Pan European. Moto Guzzi V85 TT Travel

[hellkat]

Found quite a tall tree stump in the park during walkies that kinda sorta looks like the figure of a woman in a long gown, so I am now contemplating how I could plant-bomb it to make it look like a piece of fancy "community" art.

It's pretty hollow and chewed by insects, so I might have to reinforce it with a bit of stealth chickenwire, though ...
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[hellkat]

Been stressing out about a particular venue concerned with work, where I can never get the IT or audiovisual to work properly - quite literally every time I go there for the last (nearly) three years - I can never seem to connect the shite up properly and the meetings always have some new and irritating half-assed glitch that all my execs tolerate with very well-suppressed frustration.

I've been building up a head of anxiety for today's meeting due to having to also share a "patient story" video (which also never works at this and other venues when I try to do it) My boss asked me last week about my level of confidence that it would work properly and acquired a little frown between his eyes when I admitted "Maybe 75%"

But some wizard of audiovisual showed up today and connected it all up properly. I could literally feel the anxiety sloughing off my shoulders.

When my boss walked into the meeting, I mentioned in a side-mutter that my confidence had risen to 98.5% he did a little Spock-eyebrow thing.

Worked perfectly all the way through the video sound and everything

But then I blotted my copybook by leaving the laptop unsupervised during a 10 minute break so that it went into sleep mode and froze, and I had to bust out of Teams to unfreeze it which reset the whole meeting
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Easy-X]

Working on a vintage car this evening: dead electrics. New battery, nope. Fiddled with the ignition, nothing No choice, have to start unbolting things. Turns out it was the ignition switch being sticky and needed a bit more umph when turning it and then it fired right up.

https://www.picclickimg.com/NIQAAeSwGfZof9uY/Vintage-Baby-Born-Pink-Cabriolet-Convertible-Car-Plus.webp

Rare to fine one in good condition these days, my granddaughter was overjoyed when we dropped it off
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[BanditsHigh]

Getting out of hospital after a week and going to bed last night (I was on the respiratory ward), no coughing, spluttering, wheezing, buzzers going off and it was dark instead of being like Blackpool illuminations ... absolute heaven.

[Ste]

Entry lists for the kayak race I'm doing on Sunday have been released and damn, it's going to be chaos.

There will be 186 boats in total on the water when I'm racing. We've got 36 boat on my start line and in normal races there would be less than 10 on that start line. As luck would have it, we're the first race to start in that block of races so we have the least amount of choppy water to deal with.

Two minutes after my start there's another 28 boats, another 2 minute gap then 46 boats, 2 minute gap then 19 boats, 2 minute gap then 33 boats and a last 2 minute gap before 24 boats start.

All doing two laps around a 4 mile loop, should be fun I hope.

[recman]

Yesterday on my birthday my daughter turned up with this.
A couple of weeks ago my son-in-law and I were rummaging around in a vast second hand shop when I spotted it, picked it up and commented on how I thought it looked in good condition and what a shame it was just sitting there, missing the bits, not being used.
I fancy fitting nylon strings.
https://i.postimg.cc/MTDTgcdS/20251005-084115.jpg

[Easy-X]

Any idea where it was made? China = matchwood but anywhere else and it's definitely worth restoring.
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[CrypticCrud]