MooN

eeeeet bollox! we're locked down again. they are refusing to use that phrase but that's what it is. for 4 weeks. From Saturday night midnight: - allowed out with a 10km radius of your home address. Any further requires written justification of a valid reason ( work basically) -Schools shut, distance learning for a week and then 2 weeks easter holidays, then distance learning for a week and then, in theory, reopen. - no groups of more than 6 people I will find out tomorrow what happens re work as we were supposed to have our first clients 24th april and our base in the south had first clients this coming weekend., that is now not going to happen. having spent some time on google earth, I have figured out that there is a 100metre stretch of towpath along the river north of Auxerre where my 10km circle intersects with the circles of 5 other members of the bike club... looks like easter holidays is going to be picnicing canalside...?

oh I think that was a given already...

actually, fuck it, she's studying english I sent her your message lets see if she can translate it and figure it out ?

Thanks @Bruce I now have to try and translate all that into french . seriously though, thanks guys, I know little and understand even less about this sort of stuff so your help is invaluable. It's the age old problem of being an expert Bruce, friends will insist on asking your advice in your domain of expertise. You should do what I did and become an expert in sod all. I believe "Jack of all trades, master of none" is the saying that might apply, but at least I dont get hassled by people asking for advice.

That's the year I was born...

I have had this happen to one of our boats, numerous times... I just run up the canal and ask the upstream lock keeper to open a sluice... simples innit. ?

Hello techno wizards, a word in your shell likes if I may... Now you all know I'm a complete arse when it comes to all things pooterish and N0 1 daughter rang me thismorning throwing a wobbler cos her computer doesn't work and she needs a new one... Now I only bought her that one a year ago and nearly had to sell one of her siblings to pay for that so she ain't getting another one, which means I have to find the means to do something about the one she has. The place I bought it from will are willing to have a look and repair it but they obviously don't do that on site so have to send it away and it usually takes about 3 weeks, add in some covid complications and plan on a month... as they don't propose a loan to replace it during that time and N0 1 is a uni student working 95% from "home" via microsoft "teams" that brings us back to having to buy another one as a temporary replacement... I thought I'd ask you geeks, nerds, whatever you use as a collective noun, what you think the problem might be. i do understand that it's unlikely anyone is able to solution a bugging pootah without access to the bloody thing but you never know, it might be a known problem and fixable with a judicious tap from a sledgehammer in just the right place. ( one lives in hope) as I don't have the machine in front of me either ( it's in Dijon) I have tried to prise out of N0 1 exactly what happens. ( turns out that it's not actually totally fucked, and that she was maybe overreacting just a little bit (!) on the phone earlier. However. it's annoying , so: the machine is A Lenovo Idea Pad S340. 1year old, with an intel i-core 8th gen processor 500GO ( I presume that's the RAM?) and it says she's got 413GO free of the 475 available. it's running windows 10 with a microsoft office package supplied by the university. What happens is; on a fairly regular basis, on start up it doesnt connect to the internet and when she opens the "properties" it says "no intel card detected" ( I'm translating thid from the french by the way) and she has to restart it which usually works and the restart is normal. That's got to be a problem with the computor itself right? 2nd bug: if she closes the screen, rather than physically shutting down, it regularly freezes and refuses to re awaken when she re opens the screen, it thinks about it, she gets a "not responding message, then a blue screen and it goes into auto restart and restarts normally. ( I told here that I think this is just part of living with laptops, deal with it) 3rd bug: for the uni lessons and lectures they use microsoft "teams". it regularly freezes the keyboard and has to be closed and restarted which is lesson time lost and complicated to catch up with. ( I assume this is a problem with the app rather than the machine itself and told her to uninstall and reinstall the app) Q. Is it possible to uninstall a single app when it's supplied as part of a package? uninstalling and re installing the whole package is a multi hour job over her crappy internet connection. Any help, ideas, pointers, thoughts ( constructive) most welcome. but please dont tell eme to use apple, change OS, don't use microsoft.. etc etc cos all that is fine if you have the means, financial or intellectual... of which I have neither. @Bruce @XTreme @Buckster... anybody else who knows what their doing with this stuff ? ( I know you wont agree on any of it anyway so the more the merier... ta muchly

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Hello, welcome in.

Glad you're not hurt Michelle. One of the drawbacks of youtubing must be that when you do drop it, you can't play the " Nobody saw it so it doesn't count" card. Also good to see that your "significant other" or " partner" or whatever did the right thing and took pics befrore helping to pick the bike up?

I have never felt the need to drag my knees ( though I've been dragging knuckles for years) and can see no point in doing so (other than on a race track). given that I imagine only about 1 or 2 % of riders will ever ride on a circuit, and probably only about half of those competitively, I struggle to see how any of the above information could possibly be considered something " Every rider should know" or am I just being pedantic?

yeah, cos it's not made in england... actually it IS the best one to have because it is statistically the most effective and generates the least reactions and side effects. Wifey gets it cos she works in the health industry and I get it cos im under 55 and "at risk" due to various health factors.

Mrs MooN got her jab ( pfizer) this morning. I'm due mine ( also pfizer) 1st April... obviously ?

to be fair, I think we all are...

never yet seen a pretty topbox, not my fault. Even the old red and white ne I used for years on the tralp was not pretty... practical for sure, but never pretty. ( and yours is better now its all black)

135€. per person. so potentially 270€ + 40 odd € autoroute + 50€ petrol + 6 hrs driving for nothing if we get refused on arrival in Lyon.

had planned a lightning trip to Lyon to see bro in Law before we get locked down again but I've had the rug pulled out from under me by shutting down Lyon before us! As per usual, my case doesen't fit in any of the boxes that need to be ticked, there's plenty info on being allowed to visit old people in nursing homes for their mental health, that's fine but he's only 37 and its not a retirement or nursing home. There's provision made for visiting handicapped people who are vulnerable or isolated. he's not isolated or vulnerable cos he's in a home.... there is no mention made of being allowed, or not, to visit a handicapped adult in a medicalised care centre. If I can't do that I'll go riding again before they take that away too.

not tourism itself but the mighty dollar, for the vast majority of people today, money and profit are clearly and openly more important than anything else you'd care to mention. Making more money is paramount, almost any means is acceptable so long as you make more money, it is no longer a means to an end but has become an end in itself,

yeah cos our departement still isn't on the "lockdown that isn't a lockdown" list. I reckon it's only a matter of time though and then we'll be restricted to 10km from home. ( unless justifiably work related)

top boxes nearly always look shit on a bike, mine's fucking huge and looks horrendous, but it ain't halfp practical - - - yeah but it looks shit - - -yeah but it's practical - - and so on...

they've just shut down the Rhone, Nievre, and Aube departements, so we, the "Yonne" are now closed in on 3 sides ( plus a narrow corridoor into the saone et Loire. Travel between regions is banned except for professional purposes or family imperatives, which you must beable to justify. this for 4 weeks, so that's fucked the easter hols then.

well he recycled tham as curry!