I would just like to say

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DanClarke said:
Morning All :D
Another lovely day, cool & bright. :)
Roadworks closing my street (again). :(
Chiro's at 13:30 today instead of tomorrow, because...
Beers in the city tomorrow with old IBM colleagues from 40+ years ago. :)
Have a lovely day. :D
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You are good. I barely keep up with ex-colleagues I haven't worked with when I retired only 6 years ago!
And the only other one I worked with 40 years ago, with whom I was regularly in touch, died at 58, poor sod.:(:(:(
 
Stanleysteamer said:
You are good. I barely keep up with ex-colleagues I haven't worked with when I retired only 6 years ago!
And the only other one I worked with 40 years ago, with whom I was regularly in touch, died at 58, poor sod.:(:(:(
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Like my Dad, he died at 56, 3rd wife/family and no rest and retirement. Progressive heart disease and a fear of being cut open.
I used to meet 4 of them 3rd Wednesday of the month every quarter. But Covid stopped all that. So I shall be mostly sozzled sometime tomorrow. :-D
 
Afternoon folks:).

Been quite last few days as have been busy and not really anything to report, but still popped in to see what's you all been up to:).

Yesterday got the last trailer of the 2yr wood up to the house and need to put it in the rear porch. We actually wimpped out and lit the fire yesterday and have just lit it again today, shouldn't really complain it is November after all;). So I guess this is now the time to move to working inside.
Still lots to keep me busy so wont get bored:eek:.

I got a couple packs of the rapid test things when I was in the UK and brought them home with me, Yesterday M was feeling a bit uggy for no real reason, Anyway she did use 1 to check, all good negative.
Had to laugh at her trying to shove it in her mouth:p keep telling her she needs more practice:rolleyes:.
Also had a giggle the kits are made in China:eek::D.

Anyway stay safe and warm folks:).

J
 
Well, forgot to tell you that part of yessdi's momentous events was the arrival of the replacement Sim card from 3.
Which worked straight away!
Figure THAT one out!
I don't trust them an inch!:mad::mad::mad:
Anyway, Wifey off to sewing so me will be working yet further on the Radio Cassette head unit, as progress has been made. :eek::eek::eek:.
I have to stay in to sign for deliveries of Wifey's "stuff" (repaired jewellery) so cannot go out to Scroofix to get stuff to help me do the blessed plumbing in the utility room.
RESULT!!!
Have a nice day folks!:):):):):)
 
DanClarke said:
..that I was feeling like a bit of a tw@ and suffering post-purchase dissonance as I thought that perhaps my new MIG machine was a very poor choice because the online hands-on review on YouTube showed it only used as a flux-cored wire MIG and with a second-rate TIG capability.
But, after digging deeper I find that it is in fact a gas-MIG (enabled to use shielding gas and plain wire) and my fears were unfounded. Phew! :D
So, it can do Gas-Mig, flux-cored-wired MIG and also Aluminium, lift start TIG ( :( ) and Stick welding. So not the cr@p purchase I was fearing.
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My Old Landy said:
My Blackline 200 does gas/gasless/stick. No TIG but will burn 3.2 rods and weld 10mm plate very well. I will get a dedicated TIG machine one day lol
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My MIG is Gas/Gasless need to change over polarity of the torch ( if I remember) not run gas with it.
My other is a comb which is TIG/Stick/Plasma cutter, Its a great bit of kit and I haven't used it to it full capabilities yet. It has AC/DC and HF start just got to work out which knobs do what/when;) Plasma cutting and making sparks fly is fun:D.

The combo is actually lighter than the MIG being newer tech and all that good IGBT inverter stuff:confused:.

Anyway you look at it any man (or woman) with a garage should have 1 to play with:D.

J
 
DanClarke said:
Like my Dad, he died at 56, 3rd wife/family and no rest and retirement. Progressive heart disease and a fear of being cut open.
I used to meet 4 of them 3rd Wednesday of the month every quarter. But Covid stopped all that. So I shall be mostly sozzled sometime tomorrow. :-D
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You sound very organ ised re the social life! I never make regular dates with mates like that. It used to be every night down the pub, to the point we all knew whose round was next no matter how p!ssed we were, or it was the occasional phone call and a dinner or something. Wifey tells me I'm terrible at keeping up with peeps. For instance I never kept up with mates from uni either in Lunnen or in Exeter. Or even with the guys in my Kit car club, especially once it folded 10 years after I stopped running it. Christmas cards is what it has boiled down to.
But then I say to Wifey, "OK, but they are no better than me, they don't ring me either!" Which prolly says more about me than anything else! I do have one mate who rings me from time to time, we are godparents to his kids. But we don't meet often as he lives in Telford. :eek::eek::eek:
Recently I tracked down a bunch of mates I used to drink with and party with and even share a house with some of, back in the early 70s. They still live in the Bath area, have all done very well and one of them suggested organising a reunion. Maybe I'll get back in touch. ;)
But what happens with me is that when a big event in my life happens, like when I got engaged to a French woman, or when I move away from an area, like when I moved from Bath to Lunnen, then to Exeter then to here, each time it was as if the clock had stopped and restarted again. And it was hard making friends when married to my ex!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
There is obviously a secret to all this, Wifey has it and I don't!

Sorry about your Dad. 56 is no age. :(:(:(
(My Ma went at 59 but we'd not been talking for years before that.)
 
Stanleysteamer said:
You sound very organ ised re the social life! I never make regular dates with mates like that. It used to be every night down the pub, to the point we all knew whose round was next no matter how p!ssed we were, or it was the occasional phone call and a dinner or something. Wifey tells me I'm terrible at keeping up with peeps. For instance I never kept up with mates from uni either in Lunnen or in Exeter. Or even with the guys in my Kit car club, especially once it folded 10 years after I stopped running it. Christmas cars is what it has boiled down to.
But then I say to Wifey, "OK, but they are no better than me, they don't ring me either!" Which prolly says more about me than anything else! I do have one mate who rings me from time to time, we are godparents to his kids. But we don't meet often as he lives in Telford. :eek::eek::eek:
Recently I tracked down a bunch of mates I used to drink with and party with and even share a house with some of, back in the early 70s. They still live in the Bath area, have all done very well and one of them suggested organising a reunion. Maybe I'll get back in touch. ;)
But what happens with me is that when a big event in my life happens, like when I got engaged to a French woman, or when I move away from an area, like when I moved from Bath to Lunnen, then to Exeter then to here, each time it was as if the clock had stopped and restarted again. And it was hard making friends when married to my ex!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
There is obviously a secret to all this, Wifey has it and I don't!

Sorry about your Dad. 56 is no age. :(:(:(
(My Ma went at 59 but we'd not been talking for years before that.)
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Ahhh... but you have hit the nail on the head there. I moved away from all my "friends", I married early (at 20) and centred my life around MY little family. This has meant that I have no "friends" in the traditionally accepted sense, just these ex work colleagues and so I do welcome the opportunities to connect with blokes of my age and of a shared (IBM) background as at least we can talk about common experiences. I can't stand sport (especially Foo-baw) and going to a local pub where that's all they seem to talk about is not my idea of a good time with company.
 
Christ!!!!!
Chris Chope has actually done something decent for once by stopping the stuff to do with sleaze being reversed.

Ooops,
Wrong.
No, he just did the same as he did about legislation to ban "upskirting" and female genital mutilation. Then he stopped parliament waving it through as it was fucking obvious that it didn't need debate.
He's just done much the same. Just accidentally the right thing.
He should have been a Catholic Cardinal with his love of "procedure".
 
Slates on tho....:)
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Stanleysteamer said:
It is seriously a very good looking motor, even the engine bay isn't too shabby. But the wheels are now rusty, the paintwork needs attention, partly from where some prick-bitch ran into the back of it and it is still wrong despite two peeps trying to sort it, and a few bubbles in the top coat. and the clutch on the auto-shift don't work, and it screams at low revs, and it needs me to tune it again as the so -called pro tuner, who we never even asked to get involved, did so when it was at Andy's place supposedly having the clutch changed!
But Andy knows all this and isn't put off by it. If his girlfriend buys it he'll put an ornery box in it and it'll be much better in the long run.
Lovely cream leather interior and maroon mohair hood too.
Wifey fell in love with them and eventually took out a bank loan to buy it off Chesil, they had built it, not the owner, so it was put together propa.
But when it broke down on her in Frogland she fell right out of love with it!!:(:(:(
Goes well too, tuned 1800 engine.:(
I quite like driving it, when it is going right. Will do 80 all day on Frog autoroutes.
She wants to sell it and buy a Jaaaaaaag!:rolleyes: and she says she doesn't like big cars?:rolleyes:
FFS!:rolleyes:
We'll see!
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A Jag eh :eek: Oh come on get her telt (in a scottish voice lol) what jag does she like
an it better not be a mondeo jag either. There was a stunning black xjs for sale locally
probably gone by now as it was sitting in town outside the fuel station with a for sale
on the back windy.
 
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