Listening to, today..

RÜFÜS

Music of choice for today... a little upbeat, not super distracting, easy to work to. 

 

 ...but that was at lunch, now it's 8:54pm and I'm not watching football! Infact I need to choose a winner for One Million Photographers and pop up some content for 3 Legged Thing and others... 

SO, music change... Muse, is the album of choice tonight... Live at Wembley... (If anyone is wondering what to get me for fathers day!!)

 

Anyways! Good times... I don't really have much to tell you right now, I'm back on the bike, though I need to make sure I do it daily... Fitness first, then weight / feeling better, though I guess it will all come.  

More on the later! 

Social Media : Embedded Facebook

This blog is all things to all men, err, and women... A mix of social, photo and stuff..  

That said, did you notice that Facebook turned on "Embed Posts" for everyone today?  

 Oddly, the previous embedded post decided that it didn’t embed anymore, I’m not sure why, but it stopped serving to this page and the only way i found out was that Google console told me there was an error.

The joys of platforms that we don’t ultimately control (aka Facebook)  

Try it out yourself.  

On the road again...

When I got back on my bike earlier today, it just felt right... I rode it home via the backstreets (Didn't have my helmet  with me you see) which only took a neat five minutes... I made it home without incident, swapped out the old platform pedals to a pair of Shimano PD-M785 Deore XT Pedals.. Yep, I was going to do it once, and right, as mother would say... when I say do it once and right - I'm most likely talking about getting to a set of traffic lights, forgetting I'm clipped in and falling slowly. 

Happy that my pedals were set up nice and loose, off I went for a quick spin to meet Kev and drop in his TurnStyle bags, then off out round a short loop... Short because I'm super unfit, short because I wanted to make sure all was in order...  

Short because I didn't want to end up laying on the side of the road, out of breath and wondering how long it'd take my body to make enough energy to get me home... Yes, it is that bad.  

Well... This is a [getting progressively more..] fat man's journey back to fit...  

Wish me luck.  

Rancilio Rocky Coffee Grinder Problems

If you have a Rancilio Rocky, chances are you have come across this problem before... The guide that your portafilter sits on during grinding (If you don't have a doser, obviously) slots into two studs that have one brass nut on the back of them, inside your grinder.  

Rancilio Rocky Grinder

Rancilio Rocky Grinder

Sometimes, with all the vibrations that run through your grinder, those nuts can get loose... They fall off inside your grinder (which is mostly fine, they just sit in there and rattle about) ...but getting them back on can be quite the exercise. You either take the whole grinder apart OR you can try what I've recently adopted.. 

I got myself a long cable tie, cable tied it around the nut and slid it up inside the grinder so it was behind the hole where the stud slots through, I gently put the stud through and screwed it into the nut - voila! It works fine... I also left the cable tie on the nut inside the grinder - it's not going to short out on anything as it is plastic, it's not going to get caught in the motor AND with any luck, it will stop the nut coming off as it would have to vibrate the whole nut and cable tie around... Time will tell!  

Have you had success with any other methods? Any other Rancilio tips?