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My clients don't do the "away from office" thing. It's an old school industry for them and they're very much in it 6,5 days a week while managing an anual 8 to 11 million Euros business. On my part, Covid brought in a lot of good practices and a LOT of the ground work I used to have to do is no longer needed. I used to have to drive to places to collect an order that someone had written down on a piece of paper a couple of days before, just because that was their practice from 20 years ago. I would show up, and chat about football for 5 minutes, have a walk around their warehouse and then transcribe that order to a notepad, to then send it in as soon as I got a moment in the car with my laptop. With Covid suddenly clients didn't want meetings anymore so they got used to sending emails, and on the first year of Covid I lazyly rode around Portugal twice All that is failing now, though; the economy is failing, industrial consumption of my boards is dropping in a major way as our main industry is furniture (renovations too), costs are also rising so prices can't be dropped to help sales, it's a shit show made worse by peruvians being in charge of my main source of income. They're being eaten alive by slyer competitors in spite of advice given by me or other experienced iberian sales agents. What I get now, working alone with nobody else as my backup (unlike 3 or 4 years ago), is that I am never 100% on work when most people are (that is really cool when it goes well) but I'm never 100% off work (that is not cool and is never with any warning either). Going to Morocco, instead of leaving my mobile with my brother and checking in ever 4 days I'll be carrying it with me and working a little everyday, ideally that means less strain on coming back quick but who knows?

I did think of that, yes. I could go and easily get a prescription for stuff like that, even my mother (who is a doctor) has advised to it, but honestly I think a few glasses of good wine are more my thing. I do suffer from hay fever so in Spring I have to take regular anti hystaminics and that makes me sleepy during the first week, take them after dinner and I'll fall asleep better, the side effects of feeling sleepy go away after 3 to 5 days usually. What I did enjoy was a few pills I got for pain management when I got kidney stones a few years ago, got taken to the ER in ABSOLUTE pain to then be given a direct drip of pain killers, that stuff made me cozy and comfy in 2 minutes flat. After that I was handed a few pills, "take one if in serious SOS type pain" they said, I took two after dinner and never slept better.

Actually, just went to look at it and he surely closes for lunch, as he should. Here people do work long hours though, most of my clients are at their office at 8 or 08:30, spend the day either there or hustling visiting clients, an hour long lunch break, and will still call me at 19:00. I know a couple of them, business owners and quite successful that will plan on going in on saturday morning hoping for a quiet moment to themselves in the office, to see that turning into a full day, then going back sunday morning for that quiet time to think about stuff, and only end up taking sunday afternoon off. I don’t envy that, although I do value it.

That’s northern Portugal! Except me, apparently

Don’t bottle up your feelings it’s bad for you

O Sapateiro https://maps.app.goo.gl/RFXPHRudwfJJQvqb9?g_st=ic

No, they are chukkas with a softy rubber sole, not the proper ones. My shoe guy did it for 8€ though, and 15€to fit Vibram soles on my biking boots that Dainese soled with cheap shit.

There’s page 1, with the announcement

Those look ver nice, but this is the to get if you’re a Belieber

I wear a pair of resoled urban style chukkas from Timberland, for walking Costa when it’s not summer. I’m not hiking to base camp

I don’t like smoking, though. But on the other side am curious about having alucinations

They deleted everything that crap, and ended up with one page

When I lay awake at night I’m either thinking about some uncomfortable work calls I’ll have to make on the next day, or a client’s order that will get delayed and ruin a project, or think about everything I care about dying and how I’m going to have to deal with the pain and troubles of it all. _If life is at all worth it, etc, Good stuff! Or I drink, fall asleep easily but wake at 3 or 4am to then spend an hour or two wide awake with no thoughts bothering me, to then fall asleep at dawn and wake up exhausted. The times I fall asleep when I want and get to 7 or 8 with nothing bothering me are treasured.

That is one clean bike

Looked at one with the petronas color wheels the other day. It's all kind of ugly but I like it.

I've got no idea what the name was.

Quite the effort!

I used to play Civilization and Stunts. Stunts was a very basic car game in which you built your own tracks. Also F15 Strike Eagle, this was around 1994 I think, on a PC and loading them with floppy disks. Later Need for Speed on the PC as well. Later a Sega with Shinobi and Sonic, and Sega Rally. Then a lot later, Playstation with Grand Turismo. I then drove the Nurburgring for real and lost interest in games. What I really liked was before all that, an old Atari with a game where you’d protect a ship from falling bombs or lightning. My dad would set it up on rainy weekend afternoons and two of my neighbours would come by as it was quite an event! A controler broke and it was actually fixed by an electrician shop that fixes TVs, no chance of that today.

Why not give it a good wash and then put one of those protector sleeves around it?

Well, as a cup it does work better

In case you haven’t noticed @boboneleg, @Sir Fallsalotis asking for that tire you’re throwing out

Raining heavily since dawn, have been a little busy with work from home, and my dog decided to declare it a winter zero fucks given day: I'm hoping it continues to rain at least another day or two, and that by the weekend we get all rained out. Sunday or Monday I'm riding to my home, staying there a couple of nights and then if the weather forecast remains acceptable spend a few days on the bike.

As far as calls you never want to get about your kids, that was pretty nice. They could have let him phone you instead, though, and save the "my son´s dead" thought going through your head.

Of course it is, the one thing people won't make fun of you over is loving animals. Except sheep, but some members apparently take that too far with them anyway.

She might be missing her time in the UK, those half northern men with big arms and broad shoulders, I'll just leave this here to help your case: Have you had your right hand pinky looked at by a doctor?