Things dat Trivyully Annoy You (part whatever) *MOD WARNING IN OP* NEW

Cherry blossoms.

Beautiful, but never last long.

Not having the energy to look for a better job ! And all the usual fears preventing me from looking + some juicy new ones since the last time I switched jobs.

in terms of brands, I have my favourites, stick with the winning formula..

so Sony, Samsung, Apple are generally my technology go to’s…

purchased a brand, a smart watch by another well known Chinese manufacturer, the dumbest move ever, its dreadful….

firstly it’s noticeable the build quality is poor, the strap, flimsy rubber, you’d think is off a child’s watch that you’d get in a lucky dip….. the screen is tiny… it’s not for me which is the annoying thing… might keep it and buy them something else.

One of those days. Had an ole biddy seem to appear in front of me everywhere I went in a store today. Instead of walking to the side so people could pass by she walked down the middle of the aisle at snails pace. Reminded me of the Mr Bean episode of the old wan on the stairs blocking his way.

Then went to the supermarket and they were all out in force. Family out with 2 young kids blocked a whole isle, parents looking at every bloody bottle of of pop, the girl of about 3 running up and down the isle while the boy of about 4 or 5 sat in the middle of floor with his legs sprawled out. Couple at the booze also had to check every bottle of whiskey or whatever so blocked me getting what I wanted. It was also the time when the shelves were being restocked.

Ahhhhhh.

What's annoying also is the Tesco workers with their big trolleys taking stuff from shelves. I just realise they are probably getting online shopping for people. But there's so many of them in the way. And then they start shouting at eachother having conversations. It drives me bananas.

Out-of-pattern traffic. I'm on the bus heading into town and have been stopped dead in Terenure for about 15 minutes. You'd expect any heavy traffic to be outbound at this time.

France, it could be one of four but definitely could not be Austria or Spain !!

I liked his earlier stuff like Purple Rain and 1999 but not really a fan anymore so I won't be tuning in today to watch the coronation of the fella formally known as Prince.

Brian Dowling and Artur flaunting their baby on every paper or social media every blessed day .

As its "Darkness into light" time of year, the usual suspects are in local media doing the publicity.

One of them is a person I went to school with, they got a degree(a real one not a "bought degree" like I got for being dyslexic and passing classes) travelled the world teaching, heavily involved in tourism with their family when they returned, had grownup kids and is still married.

Ta is two fold, every year ppl say the person involved looks like they don't "do much" as they are overweight and have an interesting choice of "look" and that its always the same ppl who make these remarks showing that as they get older they are not learning much about the real world.

Trivially annoyed that my years-old Garmin Edge 200 (a bike sat-nav which can also record average speed, distance etc) always reports a speed that is more flattering than what Strava reports (post ride when synced over USB). It does this reliably.

Have recently bought an Apple Watch that can collect the same kind of stats (but I never use it for navigation). The snag is that it seems to take a lifetime to sync the ride to Strava when I get home (if at all). The Apple Watch and Strava tend to agree on speed etc. Some consolation.

I now need to bring both with me on training rides (even if I know the routes) just to be sure I have ride data to record! 🚴‍♂️😟

Today's TA - wifi signal. perfect on ipad, 3 iphones in the house. Laptop, comes and goes whenever it likes. Had a company transfer all data from old laptop to new laptop but they added a whole load of techie stuff which did my head in like Kapinsky security, One Drive automatic syncing and now wifi drop outs upstairs. WTF is happening - any ideas?