Parkrun 22 AUG

Rocks Riverside parkrun results for event #633. Your time was 00:36:24.

Last week at Main Beach 36:53

PB 00:33:09

Congratulations on completing your 82nd parkrun and your 58th at Rocks Riverside parkrun today. You finished in 342nd place out of a field of 498 parkrunners. You were the 210th male and came 16th in your age category VM60-64. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Rocks Riverside parkrun remains 00:33:09. Your best time this year remains 00:33:09.

Monday men

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. 

The Odyssey Movie

Phoebe and I went and saw the movie called "The Odyssey".

$24 each at Event cinema at Indooroopilly shopping Town.

Hmm good and bad. 

A key "Good" is that is a movie that stimulates discussion.

At times I felt I was in a episode of Dr Who.

Ulysses leaves the scene to do the Trojan horse thing and leaves the wife and the Kingdom alone and of course the leaches move in. Proporting to be suiters to marry the Queen.

CYCLOPS

A giant one eyed monster with a tame flock of sheep. The sailors followed the sheep into a cave.  The Cyclops arrived and blocked the entrance with a large stone trapping the sailors & sheep with the Cyclops. The Cyclops ate a few sailors and fell asleep. Presented the sailors with a dilemma. If they kill him,  they will be trapped forever because they would not be able to move the rock. 

THE SIRENS

I didn't think this was done very well. The sirens represent temptation but the movie didn't let us hear or see the anything. I'm not sure how I'd script it but I would think a temptation is a very topical topic.

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.