{"id":15,"date":"2011-09-22T22:23:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T22:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andy-coates.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2011-09-26T22:37:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T22:37:14","slug":"steak-rowing-pcbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andy-coates.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Steak, Rowing & PCB’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The past few days seem to have flown over, it doesn’t seem like 5 minutes since i was going to sleep on monday night after writing my last post and now its Thursday (22\/09\/11). Im currently working near York and have the ‘joy’ of stopping at Wetherby services ”Days Inn<\/a>” for my duration. Its actually ok here, the hotel is clean the staff are good and friendly, and I know most of them now from a long haul previous job where I was stopping here. \u00a0On Tuesday night a couple of friends traveled down from Newcastle, Chris & Mitch, to swap cars. I had borrowed Mitch’s car to get here whilst mine was in the garage back home getting fixed, here i must say that Mitch’s car is a Golf 16v GTI and compared to mine it is an awesome piece of kit to drive, a fucking flying machine. I only had a lend of it for one day, any longer i may have gotten \u00a0myself into trouble.<\/p>\n

Chris & Mitch met me after work at the services where I suggested we go for a steak, which i didn’t have to suggest twice as a thank-you for sorting my car and the borrow of Mitch’s. \u00a0I took us all to the Ryther Arms Steakhouse<\/a> near Tadcaster for what I knew from experience served fantastic steaks. between the 3 of us we had a mixture of Sirloin steak Rump, beer battered haggis as a side, garlic mushrooms and the usual veggies, all i can say is that we were well fed and again the steak was superb! Anyone wanting a good steak I would recommend checking this place out. All in all we were 3 very full, happy chaps!<\/p>\n

Wednesday was the mega rowing challenge day, I had arranged to meet my mate Simon to go to the gym at Bannatynes York<\/a> and carry on our rowing challenge, 20km in less time than previous. Si had some guest passes which I had already used so I had to re-register under a different name to sneakily get the second set of 3 sessions free, it was quite amusing to see Simon nearly piss himself laughing after signing in a Sandy Boates, aaah the things we find amusing! \u00a0My last two 20k rows had been 100mins and 96mins, this was going to be a challenge. I worked out that I needed to stay under 2.19mins for every 500m to be on track. For some reason this time was especially tough, I didn’t feel I had the energy and I was counting down in 500m sections at a time, the last 2000m was an absolute killer but managed to smash my previous time by doing this 20k in 91mins 48seconds, get in!!<\/p>\n

This was the week for some of the PCB to be delivered for a job I’m currently working on at the moment, its always quite exciting getting things manufactured and delivered after only seeing them on a computer screen in design form. These were the prototype versions before getting the finals made for production. I mounted and soldered the components and beginning testing I discovered I had miss tracked the board and a couple of things needed modifying, nothing which a few cuts and re soldering couldn’t rectify. After an afternoon of updating drawings testing and modifying things were looking good. Almost at the end of another exciting and varied week, which has flown over, off to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy<\/a> this evening in York which looks promising.<\/p>\n

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