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Lost
by Bruce Ure at 14:20 10/07/07 (Blogs::Bruce)
I am excellent at losing things but I have surpassed myself this time.
Karl left us a multigym when he died, and for a while it lived with me at Simon's flat in Faversham, assembled, then disassembled, and it then returned with me to Dukes Avenue whereupon it lived in the disused shower in our downstairs bathroom.

Since then it's been round the corner to my flat for a year or so where it lived in the garage, disassembled, and most recently it moved back to the shower, but not before spending a couple of months in my broken-down 4x4 on the driveway. It's fair to say it's been around a bit.

About a fortnight ago I moved it from the 4x4 to our newly-extended shed, and over the weekend I started to assemble it. I got about half way through before it dawned on me and I stopped, motionless, mid-screw.

I've lost the weights.

How in HELL do you lose a dozen or so 5kg weights?

I'm going to have to try and improvise something, which looks 'challenging' at best. It's not that I'm short of heavy things, heaven knows, but the mechanics have to be just-so for the weights to slide freely up the retaining poles. Unless I remove the retaining poles, maybe...

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Lost Bruce Ure - 14:20 10/07/07
- Deleted User Account - 15:44 10/07/07
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Re: Lost Bruce Ure - 15:52 10/07/07
Darn right! I noticed a definite bulge in your pocket last time you were round.

I didn't lend you (or anyone else reading this) Bill Bailey 'Part Troll' did I? And/or 'People Like Us' Series 1? I'm sure I must have asked you already. It's very frustrating, I've lent about half a dozen of my best DVDs out (because they are the best, dammit!) and can't remember to whom.

Also lost are Memento (which I've now replaced, it's been so long), Ricky Gervais 'Animals', and a few others which escape me for the moment.

I can of course get them from the interweb, but I'd rather get the discs back :-/

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- Deleted User Account - 15:59 10/07/07
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Re: Lost Steve - 16:20 10/07/07
This is the consequence of old age. Loss of memory. It'll be other things next, mark my words.

I keep my brain in tip-top condition with a daily dose of the "Brain Training" game on the Nintendo DS Lite. It's excellent. Very strongly recommended.

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PS: No. I don't know where your weights are. You didn't leave them in the concrete under the shed, did you? Have you looked under the bed? Maybe Lana has been working out in secret?

Re: Lost Bruce Ure - 16:32 10/07/07
Who are you? :-)

I have yet to get a Supernintendo Chalmers and I'd probably get a WII if I was going to get a games machine. But if it's just mental arithmetic and that, there must be loads of programs out there to train yer brain. Do you know of anything similar to the Nintendo ones you use?

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Re: Lost Steve - 16:37 10/07/07
I haven't really looked. But the Nintendo wins me over in being convenient. I can take it and use it anywhere. And it's a daily thing - you track your progress from day to day and see how well you're improving.

I'll bring it with me next time I come round.

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Re: Lost Bruce Ure - 16:40 10/07/07
Oh I seeeeee, I didn't take in it was a portable thing.

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