What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Message from my boss five minutes before close of play today.

'I need you'.

Give her a call.  Turns out they're sending me on an all-expenses multi-day business trip to Berlin on Saturday where I will be hosted by a large vendor and given VIP treatment in a decent hotel right near the Reichstag to come back on Wednesday.  Apparently our MD couldn't make it (he was on a panel at the last one in Dublin) so the MD suggested I should go instead.  I'm rather looking forward to it...

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Message from my boss five minutes before close of play today.

'I need you'.

Give her a call.  Turns out they're sending me on an all-expenses multi-day business trip to Berlin on Saturday where I will be hosted by a large vendor and given VIP treatment in a decent hotel right near the Reichstag to come back on Wednesday.  Apparently our MD couldn't make it (he was on a panel at the last one in Dublin) so the MD suggested I should go instead.  I'm rather looking forward to it...

Mebbe a tad less gumpy now?😀

[GrumpiusMaximus]

11 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Mebbe a tad less gumpy now?😀

Never.

[ProgRocker]

Just been sent home from work. No, I haven't been a very naughty boy.

The ground floor bogs in my office block have been closed off today and some serious sewage related problem has occurred. If there's a flood it could bugger up the servers. Too much pooping maybe.

Being an altruist and that I am still effectively on the clock, I gave 3 of my non car owning colleagues a lift home.

[MikeR]

That 4 out of the 6 taps now fitted with ceramic quarter turn inserts ... 

Just got the 2 old supa taps to tackle .. 

[vulgalour]

For the first time in about 5 weeks I chopped an onion!

I've been signed off sick with "stress", waiting a more formal diagnosis/therapy and there's been so many really simple tasks that I've been totally incapable of doing, chopping an onion was one of them.  I could get the knife and the chopping board and the onion out but then I literally wouldn't know what to do with them, the information just wasn't in my brain.  I did end up with half an hour of hand tremors and a headache after chopping said onion, which I don't really understand as a response, but I'm dead chuffed I managed to do it.

Hopefully this means I'm on the path to getting better.  Enforced idleness is my personal hell really, so I'm very annoyed that apparently that's the treatment that's going to get me well again.

[Chas4545]

G.C.C.C.

Me and wifey were visiting Elen Valley last weekend, and happened upon a big car club meet. I was instantly drawn to a spectacular Citroen DS 21, and while looking at it and other classics  I decided that this could be just what I needed after a recent diagnosis of a long term illness. 

A plan formulated in my mind involving buying a volvo 544 I had been obsessing over online , a lot of tinkering and some fun trips away in great company. There was a group of chaps chatting and laughing nearby, and I was struck at how happy they all seemed to be.

There was no spinning of wheels or reckless driving, just calm quiet and polite drivers, enjoying their interesting vehicles.  Seeing no sign of what the club was, I approached a very nice chap and asked what the contact details were. Well, now I know that the Gay Classic Car Club is a thing, and very popular it is too, judging by the turnout.

Wifey and I found ourselves in a long line of carefully driven classics touring Elan. A Beautiful Bentley drop top that looked  like a long wheel base in front of us,  and a lovely MG  behind. I have seldom been happier recently. 

It is such a shame I would need a major lifestyle change to join.   A very happy day though.

 

Correction. Wifey has just told me that their  site indicates I would not need a lifestyle change to join. .........

[Remspoor]

3 hours ago, Chas4545 said:

It is such a shame I would need a major lifestyle change to join. 

But that is not inclusion is it?😉

[myglaren]

Could be the Classic Cars that are gay.

[wuvvum]

7 hours ago, ProgRocker said:

Just been sent home from work. No, I haven't been a very naughty boy.

The ground floor bogs in my office block have been closed off today and some serious sewage related problem has occurred. If there's a flood it could bugger up the servers. Too much pooping maybe.

Being an altruist and that I am still effectively on the clock, I gave 3 of my non car owning colleagues a lift home.

I've been waiting for something like that to happen, the plumbing in that building has always been shit.

[ProgRocker]

15 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I've been waiting for something like that to happen, the plumbing in that building has always been shit.

The building is over 20 years old now. We had to move our paraphernalia off the floor of our ground floor office and onto the desks just in case of a flood, Going back in tomorrow. Bit of a "Code Brown" alert you could say.

[Saabnut]

7 hours ago, Chas4545 said:

G.C.C.C.

Correction. Wifey has just told me that their  site indicates I would not need a lifestyle change to join. .........

This club always have a stand at the NEC in March, usually with a Saab on it. Over the years we have got to know them and can confirm they are a friendly group whom anyone is welcome to join.

[myglaren]

[iainrcz]

Ordered myself 2 new Claudio Lugli shirts 😁

[richardmorris]

[Dyslexic Viking]

I'm reading a book about a Norwegian main road through time and the roads here have been very bad but that the fixed detour when the bridge was broken was through the second floor of a barn above the sawmill below which was again over the same stream as the bridge and to do everything even better, motorists had to make a 90 degree turn inside barns before coming out the other side.  

This is just amazing.

[108]

10 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

I'm reading a book about a Norwegian main road through time and the roads here have been very bad but that the fixed detour when the bridge was broken was through the second floor of a barn above the sawmill below which was again over the same stream as the bridge and to do everything even better, motorists had to make a 90 degree turn inside barns before coming out the other side.  

This is just amazing.

That sounds like a fun diversion compared to our usual half-arsed setups, often missing signs on critical turns. 

[Volksy]

I kind of like the thinking, however some tent pegs and ratchet straps isn't really gonna cut it I think!

[Metal Guru]

16 minutes ago, Volksy said:

I kind of like the thinking, however some tent pegs and ratchet straps isn't really gonna cut it I think!

TBF it looks like they have concrete plugs in the ground but there’s no telling how deep they might be. However the metal hook up parts look very thin to deal with 150mph winds.

Can’t see what the roof covering is, but it’s just going to peel from the edges. At best they will be left with strips of roof where the straps are.

[comfortablynumb]

Fucking strong winds around here today.

Florida? Pah

[Westbay]

18 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Fucking strong winds around here today.

Florida? Pah

No wonder the pollution count is low ...🤣

[wuvvum]

Not quite as bad in Norwich - only 15,011mph.

[myglaren]

[maxxo]

It’s the little things

new tyres on the XM

it has completely transformed the car, to the point where it drives completely differently and indescribably better!

quieter, tons more grip, much nicer steering etc

My personal favourite is what I fitted, the Goodyear efficintgrip performance 2, all 4 for £260 brand new fitted which I’m happy with

[richardmorris]

22 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Have just purchased the kindle version.  

[Mally]

8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

TBF it looks like they have concrete plugs in the ground but there’s no telling how deep they might be. However the metal hook up parts look very thin to deal with 150mph winds.

Can’t see what the roof covering is, but it’s just going to peel from the edges. At best they will be left with strips of roof where the straps are.

I'll wager a tenner it's still there in one piece.

Unless something is thrown on the top of it.

[Popsicle]

6 hours ago, maxxo said:

It’s the little things

new tyres on the XM

it has completely transformed the car, to the point where it drives completely differently and indescribably better!

quieter, tons more grip, much nicer steering etc

My personal favourite is what I fitted, the Goodyear efficintgrip performance 2, all 4 for £260 brand new fitted which I’m happy with

I reckon these are the best value tyres on the market at the moment, not much more expensive than some unheard of brands, top wet/dry grip, low rolling resistance, tend to be near the top of tyre review tests and they last a lot longer than anything else I've tried, over 100k miles on the back axle of my van.

[hairnet]

7 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Not quite as bad in Norwich - only 15,011mph.

some curry that

[richardmorris]

Pah, I had 14000mph winds! Nottingham got a bit hot overnight too.

 

[vulgalour]

On 08/10/2024 at 13:44, vulgalour said:

I've been signed off sick with "stress", waiting a more formal diagnosis/therapy...

Further to this, I've now been discharged from the therapy team because my symptoms don't align with anything they can help with.  They couldn't give me a diagnosis but suggested while it could be Complicated Stress, it's more likely that it's something physical.  Back to the GP to investigate that, and the therapy team are happy to back me up and send their assessment to the GP to help progress things.

Not entirely sure how I feel about it.  On the one hand it's good to know that this feeling different to my usual health problems is confirmed, and on the other it means I have literally no idea what's wrong now.  All I know is something has broken and we need to figure out what so it can be fixed.  Even though I spent almost all of yesterday asleep, today has been much better, felt much clearer of mind and even did some chores without getting exhausted.  However, I still got hand tremors while on the phone, a bit of dizziness, and my speech still isn't spot on so there's a way to go yet.  I'm also still unable to do digital artwork, or really much of anything digital work related so something is still amiss.

It'll probably sort itself out before I get an answer and then because the symptoms aren't there I won't be able to get an answer until I'm ill again, because that's what Sod's Law dictates.  All I really care about is getting back to my version of normal.