Bike & weekend
Dec. 22nd, 2003 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julietSome bastard has nicked my bike *again*. Out of the back garden - looks like they came in over next door's fence. Could have been worse - they only took mine, not Pete's as well, & the house wasn't broken into. And I'm definitely insured this time. Insurance-bike-person is phoning me later; I should be able to sort out a cash claim, so that I can go down to Evans today & get a new bike (rather than going through the Halifax's slow & tortuous replacement procedure). 50 quid excess, of course, but that's better than 300quid which is what bike+lights+lock comes to.
Pete & I now have New & Exciting bike-security plans, involving large blocks of concrete & really heavy-duty iron chains. Dad's agreed to drive me back from their's on Saturday via Homebase, so I can get concrete-mix & the chains, & Pete's going to ask Threshers for a couple of wine boxes (to put the concrete-mix in). We're also going to investigate rearranging the shed to fit the bikes into it, but I suspect there's just not enough room - it's a pretty tiny shed. For the moment, Pete's bike is in the living-room, but this is not a useful long-term solution, & certainly not for *2* bikes.
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mouseboks's for a bit afterwards, before passing out cold splat.
After 3 hrs sleep or thereabouts, home & then off to Oxford. At least there was more sleep on the Ox Tube. Met up with Cathy & Ian, & then a rather hungover Richard, in the Wheatsheaf (& also got the battery on my watch replaced, yay). This was Good as I haven't seen any of them in ages. Talked to Rich about recent stuff, & got a v useful different perspective on some things. Which has caused me to think some more. Was late to dinner due to the talking, but not by *too* much, so... Dinner was good - Gino's is a nice restaurant, & by this time I'd been drinking Red Bull for several hours, so was awake again & ranty :-)
Yesterday I was mostly Useful Person. Dealt with bike-thievery, cleaned the rats out, tidied the living-room, made Christmas presents for Mum & Wendy, ate pizza (OK, that's not so much useful as just enjoyable), went over to dye yarn withmarnameow. It was supposed to be black but appears to have come out a rather greenish grey. I think I'll try overdying it with indigo, but possibly will make it up first & then dye the finished thing. Not sure.
This morning the office is largely empty, & I am bored & irritable & wish to go *home*. Bah.
Pete & I now have New & Exciting bike-security plans, involving large blocks of concrete & really heavy-duty iron chains. Dad's agreed to drive me back from their's on Saturday via Homebase, so I can get concrete-mix & the chains, & Pete's going to ask Threshers for a couple of wine boxes (to put the concrete-mix in). We're also going to investigate rearranging the shed to fit the bikes into it, but I suspect there's just not enough room - it's a pretty tiny shed. For the moment, Pete's bike is in the living-room, but this is not a useful long-term solution, & certainly not for *2* bikes.
mouseboks's for a bit afterwards, before passing out cold splat. After 3 hrs sleep or thereabouts, home & then off to Oxford. At least there was more sleep on the Ox Tube. Met up with Cathy & Ian, & then a rather hungover Richard, in the Wheatsheaf (& also got the battery on my watch replaced, yay). This was Good as I haven't seen any of them in ages. Talked to Rich about recent stuff, & got a v useful different perspective on some things. Which has caused me to think some more. Was late to dinner due to the talking, but not by *too* much, so... Dinner was good - Gino's is a nice restaurant, & by this time I'd been drinking Red Bull for several hours, so was awake again & ranty :-)
Yesterday I was mostly Useful Person. Dealt with bike-thievery, cleaned the rats out, tidied the living-room, made Christmas presents for Mum & Wendy, ate pizza (OK, that's not so much useful as just enjoyable), went over to dye yarn with
marnameow. It was supposed to be black but appears to have come out a rather greenish grey. I think I'll try overdying it with indigo, but possibly will make it up first & then dye the finished thing. Not sure.This morning the office is largely empty, & I am bored & irritable & wish to go *home*. Bah.
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Date: 2003-12-22 04:55 am (UTC)The daily use (though due to Badness over the last fortnight I haven't been cycling much - due to restart this week, though) is why I want to get a cash claim, so I can go straight down to Evans *today* & sort it out.
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Date: 2003-12-22 04:57 am (UTC)Dude! It's the 22nd of December! I shall count myself ahead of the game if I know what I'm doing by 11pm on the 31st.
Mm, buying a new bike with cash. I mean, obviously the whole thing sucks, but that IS (relatively speaking) fun...
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Date: 2003-12-22 06:00 am (UTC)And What Marna Said about the party.
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Date: 2003-12-22 06:55 am (UTC)Yeah, and you manage your egg card online, pay the bills via direct debit - so nice and easy that way.
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