Getting ready to start on the Christmas present from my GF, the ‘medium sized’ Millenium Falcon and my present to myself arrived! This is a good day!
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I really enjoyed that Midi falcon build. There are also designs for a Dark Falcon Version floating around on Brick link… And I’m sorely tempted!!!
The pinnacle of my childhood is now on netflix.
1998 WWF King of the Ring.
The GF is getting educated this evening.
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Is that when Undertaker threw Mankind 16 feet off the hell in a cell into the announcers table?
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 neighbours’ bins and Christmas trees were out on the road.
I couldn’t find any hints on when Xmas tree collection was this year, and if I hadn’t seen that, it would have been another tip run.
This morning, tree’s 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 lovely… 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 £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 by… my sandbag was very firmly pulled up and sat on… 
For that brief moment… I was a young techie once again.
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Working out that I can find and replace “;” with “< b r>” and it functionally give the same result as the “< p >…< /p >” 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 Uckers… was too busy working…
It’s monopoly deal now.
Mentally, I’m adrift and struggling in my new role. Away from engineering, missing the tools and feeling like I’m 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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“Honest guv, I didn’t touch the cross-drive clutch!” 
I feel that.
I’ve 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? I’ve been having a real crisis of faith over it (“I’m not a techie any more, just a adminer”), don’t know if that’s what you’re feeling?