What does your day look like?

pink poodle said:
Off for a ride this afternoon. Perfect weather. Feeling the need for it.




Shit start to the day though. One of my mates' fathers is a few days from death. Mate is taking it pretty hard and asked if I could go with him to visit his dad in palliative care. Of course I will. I've known the dad for something like 33 years. While not a particularly stressful thing for me; I knew my mate, his siblings, wife, and kids are all having a really hard time with it. The dad is in his 90s and in real bad shape but has always been incredibly strong and healthy, living independently (and still driving) until about 2 weeks ago. It was nice to have a chance to say thank you and farewell.









After the siblings, wife, and kids leave I get the whisky and crystal out...the dad just wants a little so I throw a spoonful in his glass and a serve each for the rest of us. He was content with fumes rather than drinking it whispering "this smells good" (it definitely did!). We sit around for a bit talking whisky. He is more of a bourbon drinker, but it turns out we don't like the same bourbons.
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Fuck me! I am on the train to the ride...guess who forgot their riding shorts? Fuck me! I hate riding in long pants and it is a warm day here.
 
pink poodle said:
Off for a ride this afternoon. Perfect weather. Feeling the need for it.




Shit start to the day though. One of my mates' fathers is a few days from death. Mate is taking it pretty hard and asked if I could go with him to visit his dad in palliative care. Of course I will. I've known the dad for something like 33 years. While not a particularly stressful thing for me; I knew my mate, his siblings, wife, and kids are all having a really hard time with it. The dad is in his 90s and in real bad shape but has always been incredibly strong and healthy, living independently (and still driving) until about 2 weeks ago. It was nice to have a chance to say thank you and farewell.









After the siblings, wife, and kids leave I get the whisky and crystal out...the dad just wants a little so I throw a spoonful in his glass and a serve each for the rest of us. He was content with fumes rather than drinking it whispering "this smells good" (it definitely did!). We sit around for a bit talking whisky. He is more of a bourbon drinker, but it turns out we don't like the same bourbons.
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It was much the same for my grandfather. I loved him as much as anyone else, but he was 96 and the battery had to go flat eventually. My brother took it like he'd lost his first born.
 
Sigh. Dad killed the i30 id just bought them…
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This will write it off for sure. But pondering retaining the wreck if I can keep it off the written off register and seeing if I can have the front of the rail repaired and the rest is bolt on stuff…

Airbags didn’t deploy and it still drives perfectly straight so rails and sub frame are fine I think.

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Heavy traffic ride along the highway to the local ride paradise...get to recently repaired (not so) big jump line for some phat whips...older guy complaining about the repairs because the jumps exceed his skills...the pussy jumps are just through there (points to the smaller 5 dirt lumps)...old guy continues to ride the harder line.
 
I work in a shared office space situated in a shopping centre. I was waiting at the light to turn into the car park at 9:15 when I saw 3 young men with hoodies pulled up and blue covid masks on running at full speed, looking all around with arms full of clothes on hangers. At that point I felt shit for the shop assistant who's day had gone to crap in the first 15 minutes. Seems like school holidays are going to be a circus here again.
 
slowmick said:
I work in a shared office space situated in a shopping centre. I was waiting at the light to turn into the car park at 9:15 when I saw 3 young men with hoodies pulled up and blue covid masks on running at full speed, looking all around with arms full of clothes on hangers. At that point I felt shit for the shop assistant who's day had gone to crap in the first 15 minutes. Seems like school holidays are going to be a circus here again.
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Poor sods were clearly feeling the effects of a horrible fever and desperately needed a few extra layers to keep warm on these cold mornings we've been having. Good on them for staying COVID-safe during their shopping expedition and for leaving the store quickly to minimise the chance of passing on a transmissible disease to other shoppers!

PS: Did you use them as an impromptu speed hump? ;)
 
What a draining day!


Bit of a family gathering to celebrate one of my great uncles achieving 80 years of life. Naturally I am the family favourite so I am sitting with the 95 year old grandmother and a couple of 80 something year old aunties. This always leads to a pretty draining experience. These oldies are all my favourite people and they have been very good to me over the years but they are all loosing their hearing and my voice switches between being fairly deep and hard to hear or fairly hoarse and hard to hear. So I have to say everything 3 or 4 times. One or two of them love a good conspiracy so I got to roll out my new favourite (i birthed this last night to try and wind down another conspiracy nut - see below) which i think has blown a few minds! Needless to say at least one of them is now going to be investigating the Serbian pyramid. I did also manage a few attempts to converse with cousins who I dont see often that result in a bunch of 5 sentence almost conversations. A few of us being snow lovers i have a faint hope that one day we may board together again. Except the part where they all have kids and jobs and like Australian ski fields.



Now the new conspiracy theory! Last night I caught up with 2 friends and a friend of theirs I have met once before a long time ago briefly. The 2 friends are mostly normal people. This friend of theirs...was a wierd mix of Alex Jones / Joe Rogan / Bob Katter / Pauline Hanson bull shit and some leftish people need to stick together aspects. The kind of shit id normally end up in an argument with or avoid because who wants to be yelling at the whisky bar? So he was on about kids in schools being indoctrinated by Islam and lefty teachers blah blah blah...so I threw in a "do you remember much about the last crusade and the very real impact it has had on the modern world?"


...and kind of rolled with the last crusade was world war 2, the pope was the true orchestrator, look back at the historical relationship between Rome and the German states, Serbian pyramid, global pyramids, Amazon is a terraformed man-made structure, land route from Rome to Jerusalem...fuck me it was surprisingly easy to get a roll on once I started! After getting it all loaded up I had to go, leaving it to the imagination to fuel up. Now I kind of want a follow up to see if any of my rambling seeds have taken root!
 
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