dinner old Sherwood blokes

Every now and then the old Sherwood men get together.   

Last night it was dinner at a Mexican place in Caxton St.   After dinner the rest went to a movie at the palace barracks.   I had rowing the next morning and was not up for a movie starting at 8:30 and then getting up the next morning at 3:45.

One thing that was really nice was my son Chris joining.  We chatted about machining and drilling steel. 

Kings Gravyard Birthday

"We" met 3pm Monday afternoon in Toowong Cemetery for a high tea. 

Everyone brought something....

Phoebe made delicious scones and a Sao & custard vanilla slice. 

Jenny made cucumber sandwiches. 

Dave has an electric car with a power point and brought a kettle that we boiled to make tea. 

Chris brought a table. 

We sang "God save the King".  Managed to avoid any deep discussion about the pros and cons of our relationship with the monarchy although in writing this I'm reminded that the Australian constitution is actually an act of the British parliament. 

Chris and I walked back down the road and located mum and dads gave. 

park run

Alarm set for 5:50 and I awoke just before and switched it off. Phoebe advised she was a bit tired so Mags and I attacked it on our own. 

results for event #585. Your time was 00:37:10.

Congratulations on completing your 53rd parkrun and your 38th at Rocks Riverside parkrun. You finished in 346th place out of a field of 485 parkrunners. Your PB at Rocks Riverside parkrun remains 00:36:07. Congratulations on your fastest time this year.

Breakfast club

Centenary 8 Speakers

Saturday, I rowed with Centenary but there was no sound from the two speakers in bow and 4 seat. 

Sunday, I spent half an hour and worked out there was a problem with the cable.  

Into work and it seemed that the issue was with the male connector. Very unusual. 

Cut it off. 

Observed the wire was corroded. This makes it very hard to solder. 

Used red crimp joiners and covered the whole join with glue lined heatshrink.   Note the joiners were offset. This was so the diameter of the join was not too different to the cable. 

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SATURDAY 

Rowing 8 @ Centenary.

Drove to Dicky Beach

CHOPPIN N CHANGING

Starting from Phoebe stating she'd like a swim in the ocean. 

Earlier in the week the plan for Saturday was to get up early and drive to the Gold Coast, do main Beach park run then drive up the spit and give mags an off lead run on the beach and Phoebe to swim. 

Then I Established that Peter and Robyn were camping at Dicky Beach so the first change was to switch to a North focused plan.  

Toward the end of the week, I received a text from Tanya asking if I could row with Centenary in an eight on Saturday. I checked in with Phoebe and confirmed. 

Saturday, 

I got up early and went to Centenary. Despite problems with the PA we had a nice row.  Wide variety of skills. Very flat water. Friendly crew 

I drove straight from Centenary to Phoebe's where I showered and changed. We bought coffee's and breaky Wraps at the village and ate them as we drove North.

A impromptue detoure via the big kart track. A requirement for closed shoes meant this switched to a fact finding mission. $60 for 15 minutes plus $5 for a balaclava. 

Onto Caloundra. Luckily found a park in a very congested parking area. Modern com tech led us to meeting Peter in a nearby coffee shop. 

Some awkwardness because Peter and Robyn were based on the beach but dogs not allowed. They Decamped to a shelter beside the surf club where we relaxed with coffee. Morning tea followed and wrapped up with a tour of the caravan. 

Phoebe and I walked back to the car.  Put on sunscreen and when I went to slap on a hat, I realised it was lost.  Yet another phone call established it was back at the caravan. We walked along the road and managed to work out a place where Peter could throw it over the fence. 

Onto the beach. 

A nice walk. 

Phoebe was in the water pretty quick.  Took me much longer to acclimatise to the temperature. 

During the course of swimming, Mags lost her collar.  This was sad because Chris had made it himself including forging a brass ring. 

A pretty quick and uneventful drive home down the Bruce. The auto follow feature makes this pretty easy. 

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SATURDAY 

Last weekend I went to Maryborough and on my return, we saw how with space she activated her creative gene and printed some photos. This lead to a discussion about how we exist together in a way that enhances each of us. The result was Saturday where Phoebe asked me to just hang out at her place while she pottered.  

I did feel a bit guilty lying around and writing some software but checked in with her and this was what she wanted. 

park Run

and a trip to the dump 

SUNDAY 

Coaching Arnie and Son

frustrated

One of those days. 

Good row that was the exception. 

At work

Customer called and explained we'd supplied some product that behaved differently from earlier supplied units. 

Another potential Customer called chasing a response. 

Forgot to take a shirt to rowing. 

Car charged at 5A rather than 32A.

Forgot to put the oven shelf over the plastic in the dishwasher.