Erg #1

Well it's erg time again. The grammarians are trying a different process for selecting crews this year that is only partially influenced by erg times.  Other things like age are part of it. It's unlikely that my erg time will make any difference to whatever crew I end up in but I am still using it as motivation for exercise. 

This afternoon was my first erg in ages so my main objective was to just do 5km and not stop and not worry about the time.  Not stopping is a very important thing.  Can not let the brain ever get the idea that one can stop while rowing just because one's body is crying "stop".

0.5% Pasito

One of the side effects of this dieting thing is to look at the back of the label. As I read it, Pasito has 0.5% passionfruit and therefore 99.5% not passionfruit.  

One may ask how did I come so close to a bottle of Pasito and to clear my name, its on the lunch table at work.

Did not drink any!

Interesting to note that sugar is turf 2nd ingredient which i believe it is the second most common. Then we've got the 0.5% passionfruit followed by the various artificial additives. Presumably all in very small quantities and yet even with such small percentage they have an effect. 

Dinner

SATURDAY 11 APRIL 

DINNER

We'd felt tired during the day.  Possibly early rise, park run and some St Lucia moving. 

Snooze on the couches. 

We'd discussed a BBQ for dinner with sausages Phoebe had bought earlier. 

I went shopping for:

-Halumi 

-Tomatoes 

-Cucumber 

-Tin beetroot 

-Iceberg 

-Red wine

Mostly no carb but the wine included as a trade off between mental and physical health. 

She carried it down to the table in the front yard. It was very relaxing. 

GC Park Run

This week Phoebe Antonieff Mitchell and I headed down to the Gold Coast to do park run and give mags an off lead run on the beach and of course a swim in the ocean. 

As we lined up and started, mags seemed more animated and enthusiastic to gallop off. I was in for the long haul. My current objective is to get back to being able to run the whole 5k's. So we began dodging and weaving and me hauling mags back. 

Main Beach park run has a lovely course through shaded area with gravel path a few mild hills which give wonderful recovery on the down hill. 

By the half way, mags had stopped pulling which was a welcome relief. At about 3.5k's, I was done. I was hoping mags would need a toilet stop. Unfortunately not too be. Eventually with no way to assign blame, I had change to walk-run mode. 

As I entered the final straight, an over enthusiastic young lady began cheering. She needs an award. Mags and I lifted. Then crashed on the grass. 

After regaining life we cheered Phoebe over the line. 

Main Beach parkrun results for event #728. Your time was 00:38:48.

Congratulations on completing your 71st parkrun and your 8th at Main Beach parkrun today. You finished in 232nd place out of a field of 294 parkrunners.

Family Dinner

Kids coming for dinner - Shepherds pie. Potato for the traditionalists and pumpkin with egg plant between the pumpkin and mince for those being watched by foxy eyes.

Frank Phoebe Fletch

Max Jemma Chris 

A small bag of potatoes 2kg?

Half a pumpkin

2kg mince although we made about 6 Chinese takeaway containers for later. 

The glass dish was good for 6

We had peas and corn. 

Red wine. 

Beer.

Water and sparkling water. 

ThinkPad X1 Yoga Battery Replacement

Lenovo video 

https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-x-series-laptops/thinkpad-x1-yoga-3rd-gen-type-20ld-20le-20lf-20lg/videos/vid500042-video-thinkpad-x1-yoga-3rd-generation-coin-cell-battery-replacement

KEY POINTS
Boot to Bios F1 Config and click "Disable Internal Battery" 
losen 8 captive Philips screws.
Losen clips on edge of cover with non metalic pry tool.
Battery on adhesive.  Need long nose pliers 

They use cr2016 batteries 

 

 

Easter

FRIDAY

Work - Wrote letters to staff. 

Labelled Phoebe's radio. 

Picked up Ro and visited Tim.

Rissoles with Mushrooms and cream.  Yum.

SATURDAY 

Park Run

Breakfast @ St Lucia

Cleaned St Lucia and reassembled roll down blinds. 

Took stuff to 2nd hand shop at West end. 

Flat battery. 

Rescued by Amy and Zac

Got battery charger. 

Bunnings - 2m hose for washing machine. Hook for St Lucia.  Phoebe bought some plants. 

Sausages, pumpkin, tomatoes and onion thing. Greens. 

SUNDAY 

5:30 rise and shine. 

6:00 Frank and Mags went for a run down to the river and then to Syndetic where the car was on charge. 

Called Phoebe's phone - Nothing. No ring.  No diversion to voice mail. 

Worried it had been found,  stolen and somehow disabled. 

Decided to go to Oxley woolies to have a look. 

Drove. 

Looked around. Called phone and this time I got a ring tone in my phone. Went upstairs and put my ear to the woolies door and called again but could not hear anything. 

Back to the car.  Called one last time and heard it ring. Looked around inside my car but could not find it. Got out and opened the passenger door.  Called again and located it in the passenger foot well. 

Home

Shower.

8:00 Frank, Phoebe & Fletch depart. 

Pick up Amy. 

Drove to Lota to Phoebe's dad. Found him in his workshop. 

We sat on the front deck. 

Phoebe had brought 

Salka- Russian smoked Cod with Olive oil and onion on white bread.

And

ROLMOPS Dutch Pickeled Herring.

Amy made coffee. 

Hot Cross buns warmed in oven with butter.

10:00 Depart Lota

11:00 Ro and Parveen had driven b to Byrnes St. I took them to see Tim at the PA.

Fixed whipper snipper.

Collected Ro and Parveen. 

Trimmed grass.

Cut branches per Phoebe's direction.  Filled green bin and red bin. 

Wrote blog.

Rested.