Be Excellent To Each Other

"Me writing my resignation if the conclusion of this awayday isn't in line with my own personal strategy" is where I am genuinely sat.

you need to signalize your strategic interactions to better align the paradigms of the business in line with the customer's requirements.

You need to leverage out none-excellence...paradigms don't shift themselves.

What looks to be an air ambulance has just landed in the street outside the restaurant we are in.

And testament to German efficiency, it's gone before I typed this.

Had to be Stringfellow Hawk.

I always preferred Blue Thunder to Airwolf.

Airwolf ended up as a German air ambulance which crashed and killed everyone on board.

Happy Christmas!

Think we're going to give that a go unless anyone has any better suggestions? I'm determined to try lobster!

He'll need a new one!

Anyone heard from trooper recently?

I'm still alive, just got loads of real life shit going on at the moment.

*hugs* hope things work themselves out. Xxx

Glad you're still alive Hope things aren't too serious and are sorted soonest.

This is ridiculous. How can a baby make this kind of decision? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-33200775

Anyone interested in a Hori fighting stick for the Xbox 360? (it's USB so feasibly could work on a PC or other USB consoles?)

How much would you want for it?

I dunno - no idea what they're worth really.

//edit: £35 apparently, or thereabouts. I dunno anyway, what would you pay for one?

I should work on a Windows 8 PC with no faff, on Windows 7 you may have to install some Xbox 360 driver (not sure), but there's a good chance it won't work on anything else, since Xbox 360 controllers need special support from drivers.

I did weekend tractoring!


I've driven through uglier places, to be fair.



Here it is with other, less cool tractors.



Here's the little one that we built for the kids.



And this is what happens 67 years later when you never throw things away

Here's a video of it driving along the road:


And here it is leaving the ring at the rally:

I ebayed mine (May 2013) and it sold for £26 - I actually got just over £18. If that's a guide.

I've got an exciting new house phone - the BTouch. Exciting because it transfers call direct to your mobile no matter where in the house you are via the blueteggies. Fucking amazing. Technology aye? It's all kinds of special.










I can't get it to work.

Excellent tractor-y stuff. Love the exhaust fabrication, and especially the little 'un.... my eldest grandson would sell his soul for that!

http://www.toylander.com/

Awesome... if I built it, it would look like a scale replica pile of scrap though...

Is your new phone called the BT ouch?

Should be the "Out of Touch" AHAHAHAHAH.

No, yours was better....

Me and cleats are not getting on. Only fell over twice.

Just failed to get a GP appointment because I didn't know what a 'routine appointment' was as opposed to an 'emergency appointment'. Why didn't they just offer me the option of 'probably not going to die or be seriously damaged today, but these symptoms are concerning and I'd like to discuss them now, rather than in two weeks when they'll probably just have disappeared as mysteriously as they arose'.

Will give it a day or so to see if it goes, then either see a pharmacist or just use the drop-in-and-wait service.

See, the last sentence sounds more like 'we are beginning to get on'. 10 years after I started cycling to work, I still haven't gone for cleats.

I wouldn't clip in when cycling to work through traffic - too much potential for disaster - but I'm fine when out for a gentle ride at weekends.

Went to the theatre yesterday to see 'Peter Pan Goes Wrong', in which an amateur theatre company tries to put on a panto traditional Christmas vignette. You could see most of the stuff (sets collapsing, poor control of flying wires, artistic differences between the cast, missed cues, general slapstick) coming from a mile off, but that didn't matter: I laughed very hard and very loudly throughout.

I started cleating last week and I can't say I like it. Went for a pedal with cleats on one side, flat on the other, because I cycle my daughter to nursery and don't want to cleat in for that. Which means I spend a lot of time trying to work out if I'm on the right side of the pedal to get the cleat in or not.

I just find it makes me constantly anxious, especially when cycling down the hellmouth of the Old Kent Road. Think I might give the chap in the bike shop another packet of biscuits to swap back to my old pedals.

it is mainly when coming to a stop, and forgetting to uncleat...

Current view.

Not so bad.

Get practicing your track stands, young man, then you're sorted.

There are all sorts of creatures about. The Child has been very excited. And MrsA

Wow

Bah.

I used to spend ages practicing track stands, back in the 70s. Pity I wasn't actually that good a racing competitor as well. Went straight from two hands to none, IIRC, but never tried one footed. Bloody show_offs.

Baa.

Black sheep.

Fell asleep in a churchyard today. Must have been more tired than I thought.

Too much Bishops Finger.

I am entering May the 4th half marathon to get this medal.

I hope you don't TIE with someone else!

I hope you complete your run in under 12 parsecs.

Sartorial disaster of a short sleeved shirt today due to temperature. Very embarrassing, but practical choice.

I might brew some beer tonight, as I missed the window for the BeexBQ, I might as well try to have some laagered for the cottage.