Gold Coast ParkRun 15-Aug

Main Beach parkrun results for event #744. Your time was 00:36:53.

Congratulations on completing your 81st parkrun and your 9th at Main Beach parkrun today. You finished in 174th place out of a field of 254 parkrunners. You were the 83rd male and came 9th in your age category VM60-64. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Congratulations on setting a new Personal Best at this event! Congratulations on your fastest time this year.

Your all time PB from Rocks Riverside parkrun remains 00:36:07. 

Ekka Wednesday Row

It's interesting how a small change creates ripples.

Monday I received a text asking if the crew would like a later start time. Dutifully replied in the affirmative. Later received a text confirming the later start time of 5:45.

First ripple, as I got in my car at 5:15, I see a text from Sarah our cox asking if rowing is on. The most valuable person in the crew had been forgotten. 

Next ripple, a usually reliable person was late. 

Third ripple and the Brisbane rowing club who live next door decided to move their row later to the same time and got in the queue in front of us. 

Fourth ripple: City cats had awoken and were in full force. 

On the other hand it was a pretty good row. After various technique bits we did a number of 5 minute work pieces. 

ReImage Lenovo X1 Yoga

 I have a Lenovo X1 Yoga that I bought off ebay.

I want to re-image it from the Lenovo web site.

1. ACTIVATION
I want to make sure that windows is activated so that when I do the reinstall, that I dont get stuck having to buy a new license.

 

 

My understanding is that this means that after I reinstall windows, that I log into my Microsoft account and that activates windows on this machine. 

2. Download Lenovo Service Bridge
https://support.lenovo.com/au/en/solutions/ht104055-lenovo-service-bridge-automatically-detects-your-system-type-and-serial-number-for-an-improved-lenovo-support-experience

3.
Recovery is to Win10.  This is awkward

Can  

 

I cant find a recovery option

Kids come to dinner

Going back a week the plan for this week had been to have a birthday celebration for Chris and Jemma complete with cakes:

Chris: chocolate + Berries.

Jemma: Red velvet. 

Alas Jemma got sick.  I didn't want her to feel obligated to attend and after some thought and traded messages,  decided to cancel the Birthday celebrations.  

Flowing on from that,  I decided on a simpler meal of sausages, mashed potatoes, peas and corn. 

Before cooking dinner I made sticky date pudding.

I cooked the sausages on Graham's BBQ.

Phoebe took a wheelbarrow load of wood to the front yard and I lit a fire.  We sat around the fire and ate our meal. 

I pulled out my laptop and showed some of Tim's photos of me when I was much younger.  Dan has some photos of a younger me too.

Sunday Night Joy

"We" being Phoebe, Jai, Fletch and myself went to the Power House on Sunday evening.  The event was called the Night Feast. The particular draw card was Phoebe's daughter Amy was the DJ at one of the venues. 

next to Amy's venue was the vibrating mirror 

Behind the mirror was a big bass speaker.  A sign indicated a 14 minute loop. The mirror seemed to be made of a thick aluminium foil stretched taughtly across a frame.  I assume the thing has two fundamental modes of resonance. One based on the width and one on the length. 

Finally the main draw card was Amy's DJ space.  Zac was there. We went twice before and after the walk and eat.

CBR->BNE

4:00 pack car

4:15 Dep Kellaway st

4:45 Arr Airport

5:45 F & P Depart CBR

7:30 Arr BNE

7:10 M & J Depart

8:50 M & J Arr BNE

SUN CBR Lunch

On the way home from the NGA, we (Phoebe and Frank) dropped into the pie shop at Anslie shops and bought pies:

Henry: Steak & Mushroom.

Max: Chicken

Jemma: plain beef.

Phoebe: Steak & Kidney.

Frank: Steak, bacon and cheese. 

P also bought sweets that were cut into pieces - vanilla slice,  caramel slice,  lemon meringue pie, Crème Brûlée .

Tea was made and special note was made acknowledging the tea cosy knitted by Claire.