My post-lockdown commute back to work

[Stumpy]

^^You do four and a half hours worth of 'jobs in the garden' every weekday?

Good job you've got a gardener.

The gardener apparently watches Mendy....

[Stumpy]

That is the key, you have to want to do it

And I do AO...Man I love a good whiskey....

[Mendip]

^^ Can you imagine how busy I'd be without the gardener.

He has very varied duties and covers a lot of my roles when I'm away.

But no... not that one obviously (before the inevitable comment gets made...)

[Headworx]

I'm gonna do it... because one more joke about my chins and I'll start getting pissed off... but it has to be double.

Good on 'ya Mendip, the TD support group will have your back on this with words of encouragement.

[Mendip]

^ Very subtle indeed HW.

FFS...

[Edmond]

the TD support group

To be honest I'd be a bit worried about future work possibilities due to Covid, Brexit etc.




Though, he could always pick up some cards and become a four-chin teller.

[ootai]

^^^ Thanks Ootai, I'm on to it.

My routine... up at six, leave the house at 6:40am with my coffee to drink in the car. I usually get back around 8am (depending on traffic... and I guess it is quieter now because the government schools are shut) to five howling dogs desperate for their walk, and then when I get back I clean out the chickens. I try and do all this before it gets unbearably hot.

Maybe about 9:30am is the first time I can sit down and think of all the jobs in the garden I need to get done while i have a bite to eat... before finishing up around 2pm to grab some lunch and a shower in order to do battle with Korat traffic again to pick up the daughter around 4pm. We feed a bunch of street dogs on the way home and I finally sit down about 5:30pm... when as you know there isn't a lot of daylight left. This was when I USED to think about a bottle of Leo.

I know I need to make time. gridlocked traffic.

I'm gonna do it... because one more joke about my chins and I'll start getting pissed off... but it has to be doable. I may even have to resort to a treadmill/swim routine.

OK first thing you need to do is be brutally honest about where you use your time during the day. I would suggest you get someone like JPPR2 to do a time and motion study as that would be right up his alley.

My suggestions are:
1. Get up at 5am and walk for an hour on a treadmill at a pace that makes you get all hot and sweaty.
2. Rearrange your chicken coop so that it doesn't need to be cleaned EVERY day.
3. Still walk your dogs but move faster cover more ground and sweat a lot.
4. Don't sit down and think about what you are going to do in the garden when you get home do it while you are "stuck" in the traffic.
5. Don't think about having a Leo think about getting in the pool at 5:30 and swim for half an hour.

Finally when you are "working" in your garden you should be hard at it not dithering about. When I'm out there the folks here reckon I am creating my own little rain storm there's that much water dripping off me. So you need to toughen up a bit re the heat and get on with "Just doing it".

Sorry but sometimes people need a little bit of hard love to get them moving.

[Shutree]

Disclaimer- Theres about a 50 year stint in jail in Tingtongland for distilling your own booze

Yet I chanced to see an electric still for sale on Lazada. Which seemed like fun, not including time in chokey.

[Shutree]

A glass of vermouth on the balcony.



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Vermouth without gin in it. I didn't even know such a thing was possible.

Anyway, for Mendip, I had my own gin-free night last night, in sympathy. I am even considering a second night of abstinence tonight. I am always full of good intentions up until about 5 pm. We shall see.

[Shutree]

Do let us know how it goes

Ordered the bike trainer, they say it will arrive after 5 or 6 days.

[Joe 90]

That is the key, you have to want to do it. The only way I was able to change. Sadly I knew Joe/Chitty would not be able to stop drinking. Did not really want to.

I had a night of abstinence in solidarity with Mendip last night.
Slept like shit though.

Gonna do the same tonight!

We'll give up the booze together Mendip

[Saint Willy]

Vermouth without gin in it. I didn't even know such a thing was possible.

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[Neverna]

Forget the time spent stuck in Korat traffic to get there... and even just from my daughter's school to Save One Nev will take at least 20 minutes in morning rush hour...

20 minutes out of 6 or 7 free hours is doable, Mendip. But if you need an excuse not to do something, then spending an extra 20 minutes out of your day to get somewhere seems like a mighty fine excuse. Stay in the obese club if you want. You have plenty of company on TD. All for now, chubby.

[ootai]

20 minutes out of 6 or 7 free hours is doable, Mendip. But if you need an excuse not to do something, then spending an extra 20 minutes out of your day to get somewhere seems like a mighty fine excuse. Stay in the obese club if you want. You have plenty of company on TD. All for now, chubby.

Here I was thinking I was being harsh, I'm a bloody amateur compared to this cutting shot.

[Mendip]

^^ You can call it an excuse, and of course it's doable but I have a huge reluctance to spend yet another 20 minutes after the first 45, stuck in traffic to go to a gym (which I despise) when I have a lot to do in the mornings! As I mentioned, I have a lot to do in the mornings before it gets too hot. Getting back at 9:30 instead of 8:00 isn't an option.

And here was me thinking that a good start to lose weight would be replace my evening Leo time with a half hour on my cross-trainer, a half kilometre swim and some gym work in the evenings. And actually enjoy doing it with me daughter and make it fun for her. This is as much for her as me.

I didn't realise I had to live the rest of my life as though in a boot camp... what fun this will be after returning home from six months of continuous 11 to 12 hour shifts. But maybe I should get up at 4am to sort out any emails before I do an hour on the treadmill at 5am. I'll get me daughter to blow a whistle once she's sitting in the back of the car ready for school so as not to waste any time talking to her beforehand. I can drive a lot faster as well to be honest, may have a few accidents but it'll shave a few minutes off the journey, and instead of sitting down when I get home I can eat breakfast while I'm driving as well... that'll be more efficient.

I can do power dogs walks once I get home... not easy with five on leads and none of us will enjoy it but I'll get a good sweat up, especially with Dan balanced on me shoulders because at 14 she's too old to walk fast in the heat.

My first job when I get home is to sort out the guttering around our two story house, but instead of dithering I'll run up that ladder and slide down just using my hands to save time.

Or I could try and enjoy my life, not spend every day running around the garden like a blue-arsed fly and working like a b@stard, but enjoy my time and my projects and cut out the evening drinking to do an hour and a half's exercise in the evenings instead?

I'll have a think about it!

[Mendip]

I just had a message from a good mate of mine in Norway who is returning to Thailand in the next few days from Stavanger, via Oslo and Copenhagen, with SAS I guess.

He has had it all well planned... Covid test tomorrow within 72 hours of his first flight departure, the SVG-OSL leg. I think he has the tests booked two days before departure as most places guarantee no better than a 48 hour turnaround of the PCR test.

He has just had a message that Denmark now demand a negative PCR test certificate taken within 24 hours of departure, for the transit through CPH. I think it may even be 24 hours from the last port of call, ie Oslo, not the departure of the first flight. This has thrown his entire trip into jeopardy... few test centres guarantee a 24 hour turnaround for a PCR test, and depending what time your flight is this will be virtually impossible to achieve.

And this after he's gone through the CoE process, booked his ASQ etc etc...

I'm glad I flew when I did... I think things are going to get a whole lot harder for travel in Europe.

[Edmond]

Here I was thinking I was being harsh

Mendip and Dillinger stood gut to gut and were still social distancing.


Mendip and Dillinger sat on the same side of a 747 and it ended up back where it started.




Okay, I'll be good. Sorry Mendy

[ootai]

^^^
Can we please have the old Mendy back the one with a sense of humour?
Mate you should get out a bit more often and stop hibernating its turning you into a grumpy old bear (see I didn't say a fat bear).
Maybe a beer or 2 might help as well?

Let us know what happens with your friend. As I said a while ago I couldn't travel these days too much stress caused by having to reply on others being on time within an extremely tight schedule. Will he be able to get a refund on any of it if he can't travel?

[Edmond]

Can we please have the old Mendy back the one with a sense of humour?

To be fair, he hasn't had his leg over in eight and a half cyrilles.

[nidhogg]

Nah, fair play to mendip. After being away for months, it must be as frustrating as fuck to be so near to home, but still so far. Plus two weeks dry niw. I would be exceedingly grumpy. More hoops to jump through.

[nidhogg]

To be fair, he hasn't had his leg over in eight and a half cyrilles.

I am just hoping he has a decent VPN on his computer. Man. There will be some porn streaming through that laptop.

[Mendip]

^^ Only two days dry so far Nid...

I'm ok again now.

But I'm not fat... just a little bit 'obese'...

For now.

[cyrille]

Blimey, there I was thinking you now had sfa to do for the rest of the year, Mendy.

How wrong I was.

To be fair, he hasn't had his leg over in eight and a half cyrilles.

Gosh, yet another thigh slapper from TD's simply never dull poster.



eight and a half cyrilles

a ha ha ha ha ha.

ha.

[Saint Willy]

Mate you should get out a bit more often and stop hibernating its turning you into a grumpy old bear (see I didn't say a fat bear).
Maybe a beer or 2 might help as well?

harsh, so very harsh! You do know he’s stuck in quarantine?

[cyrille]

He can't even have an...edmond!



Have an edmond!



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