Shuff's General Chat Thread ... #73 - Talk about anything and everything...  

Shuffs

Could it just be the heat,we've had a couple of hot ones,when you were saying how hot it was for you yesterday, I had just finished the lawns,and you would swear someone hit me with the hose,and that's with a self propelled. One thing I'm glad about my new desktop, is that it's well ventilated.

alpharx7

i don't think so, the air con's been on the last two days, and although the computer room is still the warmest room in the house it isn't boiling hot. air con is good enough to take the edge off, without being brilliant.

the Corsair h50 radiator cooling fan was the fan that failed. no idea how long it wasn't working for. wouldn't have been ideal. what was happening was when the windows was opening / starting the second monitor on boot up, the screen was going black as it switches both monitors on, and not coming back from that - even though your mouse pointer was visible. funny problem to track down. you could boot the computer up in safe mode with one monitor, it would sometimes work in normal mode with both monitors but would then fail upon reboot with all peripherals plugged in. i don't think it was a conflict with the peripherals, it failed with and without them being plugged in.

anyway i've changed graphics card from 2 x gtx570's / sli to a single gtx670 and now re-installed the operating system and it all seems to be working again fine. it's been a couple of years since the operating system was installed and i'm pretty lax about de-fraging drives and updating drivers (yes drivers were checked / updated in the troubleshooting process - didn't make any difference).

vk134

Dont worry Shuffs, the Australian sun will have bling plastic fkd in 2 seasons

blv

Even though it was shaping up to be a stinker of a day, a mate and I still smashed out 18.5km in Daisy Hill this morning. I PB'd on all tracks bar one and didn't have chain pop off once (single sprocket up front with no derailuer or guide, so it normally comes off once every ride). Pretty happy with our efforts and I'm glad I've been riding road when I can't make it bush to keeps fitness up!

Shuffs

As much as I hate to say it,I think you're going to be right,both my kids,(the youngest is over 30,now) used to fold it down,and use it as a billy cart down the back access lane.Both axles were bent to the shit house,but there was no way I could get the wheels off when it was dispatched to the garbage bin.



So it looks like you're over your Festive Season nose dive.

blv

Indeed I am. I am even thinking of signing up to a gym to do core and arms seeing as my legs are getting a good workout.

alpharx7

nows the time to join up, a lot of gyms have deals on to entice people in / this being the time of year that people make their new years resolutions and all.

anytime fitness are offering no joining fee / $13.95 a week/direct debit on a twelve month contract + $64.95 card fee,

Slav

First time trying protein other than 'protein synergy 5' by recommendation of the person in store
Lets see how this goes

On the topic of gym memberships, i joined anytime fitness for $600 12 months plus a fee for the little tag to get in. I paid lump sum so I am not sure what the per day figure is

Doc

Just renewed mine last week. $11.99 per week. I use to pay up front but they don't do that anymore. plus works out cheaper for weekly debit. plus they gave me a 24hr swipe card which they usually sell for $40.

alpharx7

gym's are rife with 'joining fee's' and 'access card' charges. they're all much of a muchness. i'd have changed to anytime fitness except that i didn't want to have to 'lock in' on a twelve month contract. a 3 or 6 month change of scenery would do me good but i didn't want to change things up that much.

blv

Yeah I would like to find something that I won't be locked into. At this stage I have time in the afternoons but it workload changes I may have to cut back and then it wouldn't be worth it for me to use the gym.

Shuffs

So if you lock in 12 months but direct debit weekly,it costs you $14 a week but if you pay upfront for 12 months like Slav it works out to $11.50,so it seems to me Doc has the best deal paying weekly but only 40 cents a week more than Slav.You know $600 will buy me 20 cartons of good German Lager,I know what I'm spending my money on.

alpharx7

i know it's late, but boobs.

Doc

my gym has had a price increase of late.. only because of big changes/upgrades to equipment and now 24hr..

and its now the largest 24hr gym in Qld..
pool down the back and alot more equipment behind the camera.

Doc

alpharx7

damn doc, does look good.

Doc

yer i like it now how they have arranged all the equipment.. free weight section has alot more room now

alpharx7

there's nothing up on the northside that i'm aware of that matches that. maybe Goodlife at Aspley, but the facilities are a bit ho hum. Actually the building looks like it must have been a resort or function centre at one stage, it definitely wasn't its first purpose, that of being a gym.

alpharx7

finally getting some rain here.

Doc

cant remember what it use to be.. they have been in that spot for about 18 years.. they were up the road *kessels Rd* across from garden city cinema.. big
what building there.. was alot smaller.

and yer been pissing down quite good here.

alpharx7

alpharx7

The Riot Club, out and available through your normal sources.

alpharx7

This is going to get you in the good books with your missus - when it comes out.

release date April 16th

Doc

lambo huracan crash at 200mph. http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/lamborg...ideo-2015-01-19

alpharx7

don't know how they survived that........

Doc

very lucky. you would go out and buy a lotto ticket. Not that he needs it if he has a Huracan.....had lol

Doc

it's something you probably expect to see down the road after the car flys past you at that speed.

Shuffs

Reading the comments below the video, apparently it's the 'Tub' design of it that saved them,which was lucky, because there was hardly enough of it left,to even tell what colour it was

Shuffs

Whilst on the subject of motorway prangs,did anyone see the footage of that 170 vehicle pile up in America in the snow that happened a couple of weeks ago?My son showed it to me on one of his Facebook sites,I can only find news type links for it on YouTube, but it was just like watching lemmings jumping off a cliff,just went on and on.

Doc

Was that the one where a guy was filming it from behind the fence?
some of those cars and trucks were coming in pretty fast. why drive that fast in a bloody snow storm

alpharx7

pretty much


i think i may have seen it on the news / or different footage. frankly, there's any number of the same type of accident each and every winter over in the USA.

Doc

Happy Birthday Sic

Shuffs

That's the one,I was wondering when it was all going to stop.



Agree,what reminded me,was this picture of a bloke (that was in a 26 vehicle pileup) in what's left of his Silverado.Apparently,all he needed was two Bandaids,and some ice



http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-na...ieve-hes-alive/

alpharx7

yeah saw that ^^^^ shuffs, not the picture itself, but the news story. that's one lucky sob.

alpharx7

all this talk of gyms of late.......i'll just leave this here then........