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Formula One

I thought briefly about getting up to watch the F1 but decided that I would record it and watch it a more humane hour.  So at 9.30 I got up, made a strong cup of coffee and sat down to watch the F1. Then, thanks to a delayed start the beeb decided to switch channels late in the race.  My Sky+ box isn’t intelligent enough to detect this so I missed the end of the race.  Never fear – that’s what the BBC iPlayer is for – making the unmissable unmissable.  So at the end of the recording I fire up my PC, head over to the iPlayer site and guess what.  They have Part1 available and the Forum – the extra hour that analyses the race and gets interviews with the drivers around the paddock – but not Part2.  And they didn’t tack it to the end of Part 1 because I checked.

They’ve had 4 hours so far to get part 2 online and even less to get the forum uploaded – yet they managed that.  Where is part 2?

Update 15:14: Part 2 is now online but not available to download – and my Sky broadband is appalling at streaming video.

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Update

Updates are supposed to bring about improvements but the latest Android updates have been a definite step backwards.

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Christmas come early?

Bizarrely, Christmas Mince Pies are for sale in Sainsbury’s.  Best before end 11 Nov.

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Birthday

Would of been Gizmos birthday if she was still with us.

Still miss the little one.

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Crowd source pavements

Just looking at where Google would have me walk to get to a local dry cleaners. It’s literally across the bridge an turn right and that isn’t taking into account turning off early and heading across the park. Surely some enterprising Googler could add a feature where pavements and cycle paths could be manually added and voted on for reliability?

Employ me and I would do it for you!

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24 Heures du Teesside

This weekend was the running of the British 24hrs at Teesside Autodrome.  For those of you who followed the first 6 hours on Twitter (until my charge ran out) then you know we were way down the rankings at the start of the race. Our break came in the early hours of the morning when I did a couple of 1.5 hr stints and managed to push us above the surrounding competition and to the next level.  The final results still haven’t been published on the Teesside Karting website but by my calculations we ended up 50th overall and I managed to set my best lap time of 1.21.508 during my 6am stint. It’s a pity that the overall laps of everyone isn’t recorded.

The past few days have been agony for me. First I was hit by a wave of tiredness (I had very little sleep – mainly a few minutes dozing) then the following day the aches and pains kicked in followed by another wave of  tiredness (spent most of the Monday asleep). Yesterday started off painfully but by the end of the day (and several Ibuprofen/Paracetamol later) I wasn’t feeling too bad.  Today just my floating ribs hurt.

I would really like to take part in the full championship and have a competitive kart, but the hire karts aren’t too shoddy since some of the teams were putting in sub 1.20 lap times. I guess to get below the 1.21 mark I need to lose a few kilos around my middle and improve my overall fitness.

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And that’s that.

A six week contract comes to an end after seven months.

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Suit update #2

As you may have guessed from my previous post I have sent my race suit back: I wouldn’t be truly happy until I had something that fitted correctly, even if it cost me (and them) extra in the long run.

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Post offices

Old people should be banned from post offices at lunch time. It’s not as if they don’t have all day to do whatever they are doing at the front of the queue.

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Suit update

I’ve received today my replacement race suit. I just tried it on and it is still tight (especially around the crotch (cue jokes)) despite being an L.  However I was able to sit down this time.
 
One thing I did notice about the suit was that it had a diagram on the flap that goes across the zip around the area where the belt goes across the waist. This diagram says the suit is an L and is suitable for people of 179-185 in height and chest of 106/114.  Which I fall in the middle of – maybe I am just long of leg.
 
This also doesn’t match the sizing info on the demon-tweek website.  Also the sizing diagram on the website gives 2 L sizes and a single XL size. However the order form is gives L, XL and XXL options. If I was to order the larger of the two large what would I order?
 
This whole experience has been very depressing.  I doubt I will send it back as that will mean I have spent an extra £20 sending it back and they will have lost any profit margin that they would of made on it.

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