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  #3104283 15-Jul-2023 10:32
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Handle9: Having 15 minutes to transfer international flights and making it. It really helps we didn’t get rescreened but I came out on the pier and my connection was 10 stands away and it was still open. A very contrasting experience at Istanbul Grand to Munich. I’m sure in Munich the computer would have said no.

Edit: let’s see if my bag makes it as well 🤞

It didn’t make it. No big deal, it’ll get dropped off tomorrow.

 

I recall after 11 hours to Singapore, 6 hour layover, 13 hours to Frankfurt which was very turbulent for 6 of those hours, landed in Frankfurt 45 minutes late, and my connecting flight to Berlin was 10 minutes from leaving, but it was super efficient and despite it being in another terminal just made it. One of my worst travel experiences, but that was about the only good thing about it.




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  #3104383 15-Jul-2023 14:14
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networkn:

I recall after 11 hours to Singapore, 6 hour layover, 13 hours to Frankfurt which was very turbulent for 6 of those hours, landed in Frankfurt 45 minutes late, and my connecting flight to Berlin was 10 minutes from leaving, but it was super efficient and despite it being in another terminal just made it.

 

 

Wait, "Frankfurt" and "super efficient"? This is Frankfurt am Main and not Frankfurt an der Oder we're talking about? I avoid that like the plague because, at least before I started avoiding it, the airport was logically run like an hourglass, they'd funnel the entire airport through one narrow chokepoint for some sort of baggage screening, with the "hour" in "hourglass" being the operative word, that was the basic unit for how long it'd take you to get through the chokepoint.

 

 

May have changed since Covid, but I've avoided the place since before then.

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  #3104852 16-Jul-2023 20:03
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The 2023 World Triathlon Sprint & Relay Championships are taking place right on my doorstep. And that's with these outside temperatures.

 

(Downside:) Yesterday, an emergency doctor was roped down by helicopter because the rescue vehicles couldn't get through.

 

 





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  #3104853 16-Jul-2023 20:10
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You must have quite a large doorstep or they are running serious number of laps!

  #3104855 16-Jul-2023 20:14
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Just did some mental maths. It costs me ~$18 return a day to commute to work by car or ~59c per day by electric Vespa. I might be scooting more frequently when the weather improves. 


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  #3104878 16-Jul-2023 22:53
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networkn: You must have quite a large doorstep or they are running serious number of laps!

 

No, no, you got that right ... they almost run over my feet! 😇 I'd better take the rubbish to the bin tonight.

 

 

 

 

 

 





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  #3104879 16-Jul-2023 22:56
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Senecio:

 

Just did some mental maths. It costs me ~$18 return a day to commute to work by car or ~59c per day by electric Vespa. I might be scooting more frequently when the weather improves. 

 

 

The calculation is similar to the one I made decades ago with my bicycle on the 6km (one direction) way to school, as Ma gave me the money for the bus even then. 😉

 

 





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  #3105292 18-Jul-2023 07:35
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I wouldn’t normally say this, but. The Starbucks in Dunedin on George St actually makes a decent coffee. Kudos to the young bar Insta who served me this morning. 

 

And the added bonus, it’s directly below our office down here so I can connect to our corporate and BYOD wifi network while enjoying breakfast and a coffee.  


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  #3105379 18-Jul-2023 10:14
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Senecio:

I wouldn’t normally say this, but. The Starbucks in Dunedin on George St actually makes a decent coffee.



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Senecio:

 

I wouldn’t normally say this, but. The Starbucks in Dunedin on George St actually makes a decent coffee. Kudos to the young bar Insta who served me this morning. 

 

And the added bonus, it’s directly below our office down here so I can connect to our corporate and BYOD wifi network while enjoying breakfast and a coffee.  

 

 

A lot of coffee I buy out (which is not too often) has some kind of taste defect so when I get a nice one it stands out. I drink long black so there's nowhere for cr*p coffee to hide.

 

In the space of a week:

 

I had the most sublime, smooth, cocoa-ee coffee at a very busy cafe with brunch. So nice that I had another after brunch and to my amazement,  the barista repeated the feat. I actually spoke to him on my way out and told him it was the best coffee I'd had for ages. He seemed chuffed to hear that.

 

Cue my disappointment a week later, buy a sit down coffee at a small place. You know, a place with signs telling me about the origin of their organic beans and pictures of the peruvian streetkids who only pick the beans with their left hands at certain phases of the moon etc etc. I could only manage a few sips of the bitter insipid muck. 

 

Unfortunately the barista was busy with customers so I was not able to provide 'feedback' beyond leaving the full cup.

 

 

 

Still thinking of that first place (Maranui FWIW).





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  #3105476 18-Jul-2023 12:03
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Finally building the Lego Saturn V I bought myself for my birthday after three months of staring at the box. Very impressive. Very big.

 

No comments about having to buy my own birthday presents please. And no comments about size either...





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  #3105501 18-Jul-2023 12:47
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rb99:

No comments about having to buy my own birthday presents please. And no comments about size either...



What about the supremely phallic nature of the thing you're erecting?

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  #3105506 18-Jul-2023 13:08
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Coffee.




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  #3105507 18-Jul-2023 13:14
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rb99:

 

Finally building the Lego Saturn V I bought myself for my birthday after three months of staring at the box. Very impressive. Very big.

 

No comments about having to buy my own birthday presents please. And no comments about size either...

 

 

"Only" three months?  I think I'm up to three years of it still being unopened and stacked with the Apollo Lunar Module and the Shuttle.  When I got the Saturn V kit, I had a cat who would have inspected progress but left the kit and completed models alone.  Now I have two "kittens" (two years old) who would inspect very closely, push it off whatever it was sitting on and in the case of one of them, try and eat half the pieces.

 

Nothing wrong with buying ones own birthday presents.  Guaranteed to get exactly what you want at least.  :-)





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  #3105526 18-Jul-2023 13:55
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neb:
rb99:

 

No comments about having to buy my own birthday presents please. And no comments about size either...

 



What about the supremely phallic nature of the thing you're erecting?

 

What - you mean apart from its spectularly overscaled nature ?

 

Of the model I mean.

 

Too much sharing ?





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