Yeah. The day i legit thought id seen someone get murdered on TV
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Came home from ship last night to find that all of the neighboursā bins and Christmas trees were out on the road.
I couldnāt find any hints on when Xmas tree collection was this year, and if I hadnāt seen that, it would have been another tip run.
This morning, treeās gone!
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Sold my solo canoe after getting it repaired, and immediately got a replacement with the proceeds!
No more wooden gunwales to watch slowly rot in the garden!
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Look and feel lovelyā¦ Maintenance PITA!
I took it out last season for the first time in ages. (Thanks to the arrival of the baby) I was able to pull chunks out of the gunwales and at one point a woodlouse literally crawled out.
When it was in the shop I realised that even if it came back lovely, (which it did) it would just rot again living in the garden, so it was time to move it on.
Now I have a Pocket Canyon!
Two days of WW SUP leader training coming up. Much fun to be had 
Also quite enjoying the process of reviewing my leadership kit - definitely in the habit of just picking up my leaders bag whereas quite a bit of it is different for SUP only stuff.
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Cleared out my shed, found the pot of paint the previous owner left to touch up the hallway. 10 minutes spent painting over two years of scratches and now the hall looks lovely again!
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Nice.
Thats the diy equivalent of finding a Ā£20 note in an old coat pocket.
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In a former life, i was groundcrew (Airframe/Propulsion) on Tornado.
Missing it greatly. (Both the job and the jet)
Took the cadets to Hendon recently, and they have a GR1B Tornado. Was chatting with my CFAV friend, and one of the museum staff overheard. We got chatting, and before long, we had access panels open, engine doors, looking down intakes, and discussing how we did maintenance on various parts of the jet.
Exchanging stories of days gone byā¦ my sandbag was very firmly pulled up and sat onā¦ 
For that brief momentā¦ I was a young techie once again.
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Working out that I can find and replace ā;ā with ā< b r>ā and it functionally give the same result as the ā< p >ā¦< /p >ā the web database wanted.
4500 replacements in less than a second.
In other news: I still hate CSV.
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Shudders in fairy.
Never got round to Uckersā¦ was too busy workingā¦
Itās monopoly deal now.
Mentally, Iām adrift and struggling in my new role. Away from engineering, missing the tools and feeling like Iām actually making a difference.
My mate took a pic of me, head first in the undercarriage bay, and when i see it, it reminds me of the work i did, the difference i made. (Or at least i think i did.)
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āHonest guv, I didnāt touch the cross-drive clutch!ā 
I feel that.
Iāve just taken a role in support flight, now sorting out workforce allocation and detachment pers.
Really miss the tools. How are you dealing with it? Iāve been having a real crisis of faith over it (āIām not a techie any more, just a adminerā), donāt know if thatās what youāre feeling?
Fortunately itās helped me see the kids more, but the brain is fried at the end of the day so the hope of engaging at the unit have been dashed a bit more.
Definitely. Iām a paper pusher, trying to get through in a world of meetings and spreadsheets.
But miss the jets, miss spannering.
Yes, i get more time with my kids, and far more flexible working hoursā¦ but i dont feel at the end of the day, like Iāve achieved anything.
I understand the achievement thing.
I had literally nothing on all of last week until Friday morning when I coordinated the return from th for a few of our lads.
Itās real swings and roundabouts, but absolutely not the āf- yeah, I just busted that snag and the cab will make the flyproā any more.
Yeah, that ones flown twice, fixed the engine snag on that one, and those two will make the deploymentā¦
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