I have battery power motorised blinds. About a month ago, one of them stopped holding a charge. No problem, just keep it plugged in all the time, I thought. When I opened them yesterday, I noticed a swarm of ants on one of the windows and blind. Where did these buggers come from?
After I cleaned the swarm up, I inspected the blind. I noticed that the ants were still appearing around it. So I take the blind down. I pull the motorised end out of the aluminium tube. There I found, an entire colony of ants, nesting on and inside the motor, and down the metre long tube.
Suffice to say, I think I found the cause of why the battery no longer charged.
I cycled down to an event that I saw advertised by a particular local councillor that I had been wanting to have a chat with. Only about a 13 km ride, so should be no big deal.
Unfortunately, it was wet, and rounding a corner at one point my wheel slipped out from under me and I crashed. Got a nasty gash in my elbow and a less nasty one on my ankle, but the worst thing is I landed directly on my phone. It’s now completely buggered.
I had stuck thongs in my bidon cage to change into (from clip-in cycling shoes) once I got there. So I walked the last 4 km in thongs. Do not recommend.
And the kicker? I finally arrived and she wasn’t even there.
Yeah, the irony was not lost on me. I probably would have missed the opportunity already, I suspect she had probably left the event an hour before I even left home if she was there at all.
And yeah, display of super- and subscript on Lemmy is an issue. Jerboa doesn’t display them at all either, and even the web UI doesn’t display correctly over whitespace.
Thongs in the bidon cage, can’t get more Aussie than that!
I remember getting a flat, and having no shoes. Wasn’t going to walk back in cleats so decided to go barefoot. Bad blisters after less than a km. I can’t imagine what walking 4kms in thongs would do. Hope they’re not too bad today.
Yeah I thought it was pretty clever when I came up with it. Normally I’d put closed shoes in a backpack, but I wanted to avoid the sweaty back from having a backpack. This was the first time I didn’t do that. Had I had a backpack, I probably would’ve put my phone in it too and not broken it. Same if I’d worn a cycling jersey and used the back pocket.
The 4 km in thongs was certainly not fun. Slightly injured my foot as a result. But I can’t imagine having to do it barefoot!
In retrospect I should’ve gotten back on the bike, once the rain stopped (which it did fairly early on into my walk). Would’ve been a lot quicker and saved a lot of strife. Ah well.
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