Bonus

We're watching "The Marvelous Mrs Maisel" and we're enjoying it. Last week we re-watched the two seasons of "The Kominsky Method" which we also liked.

Wow!

Some serious heat in there. I was driving behind a snow-plough truck one night a few weeks ago and there was a shower of sparks coming from underneath it. I don't know how long it takes to wear through the replaceable metal strip at the bottom of the blade - but I bet it's not long.

HAHAHA

Can you post it to an oil rig for my cousin please . . . . ?

A guy working in a whiskey distillery in Ireland died of drowning when he fell into a whiskey vat. It took a while, he got out 3 times to go for a pee.

I used to get up at 2am in the morning, three hours before I went to bed . . . .

My palms were sweaty at the end of that!

"Many a true word is spoken in Jest"

Use the company internet?

Some pics from yesterdays Road Ride. Jose (the Priest from Boltaña church) and I started together in Boltaña, rode through to Ainsa, where we were joined by his friend Rafael (the Priest from Ainsa church!), carried on out to the "Collado de Foradada" which sits at 1020m, then back again. 55km in all. Climbed around 700m, almost all of it during the "there" part of the ride, making the "and back" part easy! It was a great ride. Sunny, but we still needed to wrap up. It is January after all.... I've never been on a ride before where I was out-numbered by Priests!

Sometimes it's funny how you meet fellow riders and make new friends . . . . After last weeks snowfall, followed by 36 odd hrs of steady rain, the middle of the normally grassy public carpark behind our rented flat had turned into a bit of a quagmire. From our lounge window we could look down and see a little white Peugot 306 halfway across the carpark - spinning its wheels in the mud. After a couple of minutes the driver got out, gave the mud "a good looking at" and then got back in a tried again, to no avail. I put on my wellies and went down to help him. Between him driving and me pushing we managed to get the car onto firmer ground and then over to the entrance of the carpark, which is tarred. He got out and thanked me and wanted to buy me a coffee - there's a coffee shop next door to us - but my dinner was on the table so I declined. Then I noticed a bike roof-rack on his car and said in Spanish "you ride?". His face lit up and we chatted for 10 minutes about cycling. He rides road & MTB, same as me. We friended each other on FB, swapped phone numbers and "promised to ride together soon". Then he thanked me again, looked up at the sky and said "You're an Angel". I laughed then he said "I should know, I'm the Priest of Boltaña church!" Tomorrow we're doing a road ride together....

There would be a special secret code you could punch in if you had to drive fast for an emergency. Two days after the system was released there'd be a black-market for false codes for sale from guys at the robots in town...... :-)

I have a friend who works for a private company that visits and maintains private and municipal golf courses around the world, including in SA actually. He has been asked more than once over the years by the local workers to please slow down as he's setting a bad example that the council management will expect their workers to continue after he leaves. Private workers on the other hand are generally keen to learn the best/ most efficient way to do things. Obviously not all workers in each sector are the same, so this is a generalisation.

After the latest snowfall last week some of our local "property developers" (kids) went into business. A lovely little property to live in during the winter and turns itself into a swimming pool come summer!

Man, this sounds a bit like a "National Geographic" tv program.... "this week we'll be looking at the endangered species "urbancyclista-energetica" and the problems they face as their area of natural habitat steadily becomes smaller and smaller due to the expansion and settlement of humans. As the human population expands, the generally timid urbancyclista-energeticas find themselves looking for alternative roads, trails and jeep tracks to satisfy their desire to ride. Often, when they cross paths with each other, the result can be violent and dangerous. Sometimes even fatal....

Looking at the route they rode, they're on the same roads/tracks I often used to ride with the FIL. We rode behind the running club (I think there was also a RC club nearby) and I remember an informal squatter camp we used to avoid going near that wasn't far away. I think realistically the days of riding anywhere near informal camps etc were over long ago?

:-)

Damn. :-(

That oven they used at the end looked like one we had in a lab I used to work in years ago. We used it for environmental testing of small scale oscillator circuits. Can't remember what the range of our was - but it was something like -50C to 500C. We'd put circuits in it and leave them running while it ran through a pre-programmed range of temps.

Left in their bibs and socks . . . . ffs.

I may have learned today that Spanish TV can not be trusted! :-)

When you've actually got water, right?

Yep. We lived on an Eskom town back in the day and the big sprinklers were def not clean water!

I've mentioned this on here before. We used to ride NF a lot - loved it there. I rarely had issues at all, but on one occasion a girlie came straight at us at us on the wrong side of a jeep track, riding beside her mates. We only just managed to squeeze past each other. I said something as she passed and got a rude responce. An hour later we came across her again, this time sitting in the grass surrounded by her buddies. She'd done the same to someone else and after a head-on with them had won herself a painful broken wrist. Not quite the same thing, but at Heia Safari I would occasionally start crossing one of the two floating water bridges before noticing that there was someone standing/walking on it! They we're just enjoying themselves walking around though, not being assholes - and they always got off before I got to them.