The A/R Off Topic Thread

xebec

Only 2.5 hours of working time and then it's a week of relaxing and running The countdown has begun, although it seems to be going really slowly at the moment!

rainbow kirby

This whole "No running this weekend" thing is confusing me greatly.

Ah well, Geeknic on Sunday and I'm planning to bake stuff tomorrow to bring to it. I saw a recipe for Jagerbomb cupcakes that I'd like to try and bake, but I'll be doing my usual cookies too.

BeepBeep67

Pay day after a 5 week month - Woo Hoo!

figs

:mad::mad::mad: Bike stolen. Not a good start to the weekend. :mad::mad::mad:

jeffontour

figs wrote: »

:mad::mad::mad: Bike stolen. Not a good start to the weekend. :mad::mad::mad:

Ah ffs!! If it's any consolation I had the same happen me late last year and it was an excuse to make use of the bike to work scheme.

RacoonQueen

figs wrote: »

:mad::mad::mad: Bike stolen. Not a good start to the weekend. :mad::mad::mad:

Harsh.

Long weekend and hopefully the first of 7 training sessions to be done tonight. Thats 3 runs and 4 gym sessions of some sort. Watch that get cut in half when I find excuses not to do some of them.

figs

jeffontour wrote: »

Ah ffs!! If it's any consolation I had the same happen me late last year and it was an excuse to make use of the bike to work scheme.

Wouldn't mind a new one. Unfortunately my workplace isn't part-taking in the B2W scheme...yet! I might be leading a campaign for the next few weeks!

Bally8

Boo to swine flu! My sister had a baby girl in Cork last night but I cant go visit her cos maternity is closed to visitors. A good idea to protect those mommies and moms to be but I have no patience. I cant wait to see them!!!

BeepBeep67

figs wrote: »

:mad::mad::mad: Bike stolen. Not a good start to the weekend. :mad::mad::mad:

Tough luck, hopefully they get what they deserve.

Woddle

Bally8 wrote: »

Boo to swine flu! My sister had a baby girl in Cork last night but I cant go visit her cos maternity is closed to visitors. A good idea to protect those mommies and moms to be but I have no patience. I cant wait to see them!!!

My wife is pregnant and with all the swine flu hype is refusing to go to Berlin with me in September.

ultraman1

on the subject of swine flu, load up on uniflu,lemsip ,calpol and all the other drugs as theyll be scarce come sept/oct.....u heard here first

JKF

ultraman1 wrote: »

on the subject of swine flu, load up on uniflu,lemsip ,calpol and all the other drugs as theyll be scarce come sept/oct.....u heard here first

Swine flu: Eeek!
My sis, her husband and my 2 nephews are currently holed up in their house in London with it. Youngest fella is on that Tamiflu stuff- nasty business!

BeepBeep67

Bally8 wrote: »

Boo to swine flu! My sister had a baby girl in Cork last night but I cant go visit her cos maternity is closed to visitors. A good idea to protect those mommies and moms to be but I have no patience. I cant wait to see them!!!

My little sis just had a baby boy in the last hour, will need to check if I can get in to see her.

littlebug

ultraman1 wrote: »

on the subject of swine flu, load up on uniflu,lemsip ,calpol and all the other drugs as theyll be scarce come sept/oct.....u heard here first

ooh good thinking Batman.

shels4ever

Something a bit more fun the the Flu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0

rainbow kirby

Saw that the other day... there's something that seems a bit weird about beginning a wedding to a song that's by someone who beat his girlfriend unconscious.

RacoonQueen

ultraman1 wrote: »

on the subject of swine flu, load up on uniflu,lemsip ,calpol and all the other drugs as theyll be scarce come sept/oct.....u heard here first

Soooo...which drugs company do you work for? :P

robinph

DId a 23 minute "run" today near Queenstown. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/10264282

Don't think I can get away with adding those miles to the 1000 mile thread though, but it was three miles up followed by three more straight back down again.

gerard65

Altitude training?

Rineanna

JKF wrote: »

Swine flu: Eeek!
My sis, her husband and my 2 nephews are currently holed up in their house in London with it. Youngest fella is on that Tamiflu stuff- nasty business!

Not nice.

Exciuse my ignorance, what's the story so with it? Is it a case of having a week long, fully blown flu with very high temps?

JKF

Rineanna wrote: »

Not nice.

Exciuse my ignorance, what's the story so with it? Is it a case of having a week long, fully blown flu with very high temps?

More or less!

They all have a mixture of the following symptoms: chesty cough, high temperature, vomiting, migraine, aching muscles, etc, etc The usual except a bit more extreme.
My sis has described it as 'imagine the worse flu, chest infection and vomiting bug you've ever had in your life, add them together and them multiply by ten!'
Youngest fella isn't 3 til September and he has pretty much everything on the list and some more! He has bad asthma too so he falls into 2 of the 'high risk'(under 5, over 60s, pregnant woman, those with respiratory problems) categories which is why hes been given the Tamiflu and the rest haven't.


Sorry bit of a ramble there

Rineanna

JKF wrote: »

More or less!

They all have a mixture of the following symptoms: chesty cough, high temperature, vomiting, migraine, aching muscles, etc, etc The usual except a bit more extreme.
My sis has described it as 'imagine the worse flu, chest infection and vomiting bug you've ever had in your life, add them together and them multiply by ten!'
Youngest fella isn't 3 til September and he has pretty much everything on the list and some more! He has bad asthma too so he falls into 2 of the 'high risk'(under 5, over 60s, pregnant woman, those with respiratory problems) categories which is why hes been given the Tamiflu and the rest haven't.


Sorry bit of a ramble there

Thanks for that. With all the grim reapers around the place ballooning up the swine flu, it's hard to figure out what the actual story is. Hope it clears up soon for them all.

JKF

Well they're starting to improve now... Should be 'released' on Monday

I'm back for the evening now: My mother and sister(other sister not the oink oink infected one!) brought me wedding dress shopping there. Two words:

Never. Again :mad:

I'm going on my own in future

gerard65

I want to sleep but bloody fat boy slim is keeping me awake. I'm about 2 miles from marley but the noise is like its next door.:mad:

rainbow kirby

Down with that sort of thing... the thought of being kept up late by Fatboy Slim is just headwrecking.

JKF

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Down with that sort of thing... the thought of being kept up late by Fatboy Slim is just headwrecking.

Agreed.. Although I am listening to the strains of my significant other singing the songs from Nob Nation

Voice of an angel




(not really- its doing in my proverbial nut)

gerard65

And I was looking forward to Metallica last night but heard nothing. Wind in the wrong direction:( Last year was great, heard the whole set clearly:D

Woddle

gerard65 wrote: »

I want to sleep but bloody fat boy slim is keeping me awake. I'm about 2 miles from marley but the noise is like its next door.:mad:

Driving me and herself nuts, its just bad noise :mad:

gerard65

It must be very bad for you, considering its very clear here, and your half way closer. Do us a favour and ask them to turn it down:p

Lemon

Could be worse,we were treated to the horror of overhearing the Enrique Iglesias gig one night a year or two ago (playing in the Phoenix Park)...and am not looking forward to having to listen to Coldplay in September :rolleyes:

But on the plus side could clearly hear Pixies when they supported the Chili Peppers and also Arcade Fire...