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Just made up a word for line two cos I was baffled. A word I read and relate to frequently but was the only option. Several minutes!

Sister thought she had been caught in a speed trap. When her friend drove past the spot later she noticed that it was in fact a cardboard cutout policewoman.

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Didn't think it was happening today. Fifteen minutes.

Quote from: Slim on April 23, 2024, 01:57:25 PM

Quote from: Fishy on April 23, 2024, 01:43:50 PMVoyager-1 sends readable data again from deep space https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68881369

"the issue was resolved by shifting the affected code to different locations in the memory of the probe's computers"

Amazing to think of people moving code around in the RAM of a computer system that's 15 billion miles away and hasn't been physically touched for 46 years, by using a very slow and weak radio link.

I started to try to imagine one billion miles as an understandable concept. I fully understand the number and what it signifies, but one thousand million miles is staggeringly difficult to absorb. Times that by fifteen and it becomes a pointless exercise of brain energy, and to think that in cosmological terms it's not even that far away.

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Four minutes.

Quote from: Slim on April 22, 2024, 11:05:51 PMWife suggests that, in the long run, I probably wouldn't save any money by leaving the company pensions alone until state pension age.

Tempting as it is to walk away from all the various work commitment nonsense, turning off the money tap is an uncomfortable thought, especially at the very moment when I get to keep more of it. Funnily enough I just got a pay rise as well today, not a big one though. Below inflation actually.

Yes, the one thing I miss is that stream of cash hitting the account on that same day every month. If you are in good health and not overwhelmed by work I would definitely recommend that tap being left completely open for as long as it's available.

Sorry, James. Now edited. Where did Jim come from?

Reading my grim chapter back makes me think that if only my bass playing skills had been picked up by pals called Neil and Alex, things could have been significantly brighter. Or perhaps the cyst currently residing in my throat would be a greater issue if I'd managed to perfect the caterwauling of my perceived idea of the perfect male singing register.

Work had me by the throat for too many years of my life. I was in an unrewarding job, well beneath what I feel I should have achieved in life but circumstances in my early twenties dictated that I just had to bring home a wage despite what the unwashed general public contrived to throw at me. I met some very interesting people along the way. Stories that I wouldn't dare to write here, but it could never soak up the regrets of, you guessed it, what might have been.

However, about 2018, I was surprised to discover that one of my workplace pensions, my first one in fact, had grown to an extent I had never thought possible. Not quails eggs in Mayfair for lunch money, but a sum which opened up a world of possibility that I never imagined would happen. Folk at work actually started to notice that my A4 day book was constantly full of unintelligible figures. All I did between work commitments was scribble fanatically, calculating possible retirement dates and income. I was probably 58 and suddenly rejuvenated into a world of excitement and adventure.

Then the company I worked for was sold, voluntary redundancy was offered and to my bosses disbelief, I strolled into the boardroom and asked to be considered. I got it. I'd been there twenty years and felt nothing as I left, only disappointment that M&S wasn't open yet so I had to park up for a while so that I could buy a nice lunch for me and my sister. Had a couple of part time jobs afterwards but struggled to find the correct spec's prescription for the screens. Got sore eyes, then double vision, thyroid eye disease (get checked folks) and so, so lucky it all happened after the redundancy situation which set me up quite nicely.

I hated work and love every day I'm not there, but weirdly as Nick mentioned earlier, I still dream about it in the most tormenting ways. Can't shake off the people or paperwork dramas which were of no significance then or now. But still they surface. Retire, James, I've a feeling you'll love it.

Quote from: Slim on April 21, 2024, 09:48:46 PMStrong stuff from Forest. I applaud them for speaking out.

Good for Forest for calling this insidious back room operation out. VAR is ruining football. Fans can't even celebrate a goal being scored properly until some faceless expert runs a rule over things. Some of the Scottish stats on decisions are beyond belief. The whole set up stinks.

Rush - Clockwork Angels

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Quote from: Thenop on April 21, 2024, 07:25:55 PM

Quote from: Thenop on April 21, 2024, 03:34:16 PM90 minutes till kick off:
Cup final Feyenoord vs NEC.

Let's go Feyenoord!

It wasn't pretty, it was a real game, but we won! 1-0, not much but just enough.

Well done! 🍾👍

Elton, Mick and Ozzy sitting round a table enjoying a nice cup of tea.

ELTON: "Since getting older, all I really need is a Specsavers, a Boots and a Greggs".

OZZY: "Yep, life's all specs and drugs and sausage rolls".

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