That’s a good look and you know it.
As it says in the Bible (prolly) “let he who hath not warn a white Liverpool cup final suit cast the first stone”
Remember, I’ve seen the pictures.
It was like Kid Creole sings *Annie I’m not your daddy* whilst channeling Steve McManaman.
I remember one of my first questions on Sotonians, of our “Style Guru” regarded the choice of coloured socks with sandals. Sound advice was forth-coming and my suave summer attire has gone on in leaps and bounds in the subsequent years.
Thank Belch.
On the subject of sock - Pink is the way forward (the brand not the colour)
anyway, it turns out that my original midlife crisis was a false dawn. My inner accountant wrestled control of the iPad and told my brain to stop being a twat.
However, we might be back on. My cheapie fit bit broke the other day. It has been great for what I needed. Couldn’t fault it ( apart from its obvious lack of durability, but then for £40 what do you expect). So the obvious answer was to go for a like for like replacement.
this time my inner moron was far quicker off the blocks and before my inner accountant could say " you daft cunt", I am now the proud owner of £600 worth of garmin watch thingy, that can do everything. That’s right, everything. Or as the Ayatollah pointed out, nothing that I actually do.
It can track open water swimming, running, sky diving. It can navigate. It can find my car. It knows when someone is trying to contact me (although I think that may be broken cos it doesn’t go off that often).
The one thing I did use was steps - but the fucking thing is so complicated, I haven’t located that yet.
it is more than I was going to spend, it does more than I needed, it is bewildering to use, it is utterly brilliant and I love it.
£600! That’s not a mid life crisis. That’s a full on mental breakdown. You’re a fucking nutter.
£600?
For£50 per month, @fatso would have followed you around collecting your stats with a clipboard.
Plus he has the RateYourPoo feature that Garmin hasn’t got.
Yet.
Step counters are fun. I have discovered that I do about 10K steps per day. That is 200 kcal. About half a Pot Noodle.
It is good to know these things.
10k steps a day isn’t 200 calories.
Unless 5000 of those steps were recorded by your wrist moving more vigorously than your feet.
There is a benefit that garmin hadn’t twigged yet. It is so heavy on the wrist that any extra up and down action will burn off twice the calories than any unadorned wristing
Look, that’s what the health app on my phone says.
Who do I believe? You, who I can’t even trust to pick a decent shirt, or my phone, that can get me anywhere in the country, avoiding traffic?
If 10k steps is the Govt’s benchmark in the war against obesity then we’re all fucked. Easier to cut out half a pot noodle a day surely
I’m spending most of this morning touching up Princess Anne - I had an hour last night as well, it was alright.
I’m genuinely baffled by this one @rallyboy
Are you putting the finishing touches to a full scale replica of Princess Anne, touching up the real one, or something else?
I have taken part in a spin class. Actually it’s worse. A couple of weeks ago I had never considered it. This morning I did my fifth class this week.
Sweating your nuts off while pumping music plays and someone screams at you to go faster and harder is certainly not what it used to be.
Apologies - the user of this account has been detained by Royal Protection officers.
Had my first acoustic practice session last night. Turned one of the rooms in my place into a Fortress of Songitude. Nowt we tried really worried us. Still need to learn my cues, but yeah, making music from nowt is a lot of fun.
Never underestimate the importance of
timing.
Getting that right saves you having to make up new notes.
I used to play a bit srs. We even done a couple gigs. Looking back, I feel a lot of sympathy for the audience tho. The thing about making music from nowt, is you have to be on the right end of it.
Definition of a mid-life crisis:
‘A loss of self-confidence and feeling of anxiety or disappointment that can occur in early middle age.’
I don’t think doing something new and positive sounds like a crisis at all.
Own it, Pap!
