Other What's ruining your life right now?

Court, bailiffs, eviction.

All in that order apparently.

 

****. I hope you can sort that out .

 

What name do you want on the cup?

B

B?

Yep, second letter of the alphabet.

*checks cup*

cup says 'D'

 

You ain't gunna find many rocket scientists working in coffee shops. Although, IMO this isn't a lack of intellect and more a case of laziness and a bad attitude. At least, that's my opinion of the staff in our local Costa and Starbucks.

Funnily enough, both the staff and £2.00 Latte in the local independent coffee shop leaves the others in the shade.

 

I can't really. It was inevitable, Byron. I've pretty much lost my wife, attempted suicide and etc because of the way this country works. I can not move out because no one will rent to me (because I am on the dreaded benefits) and I can't leave because then I would have made myself homeless so then I will be homeless.

So I am basically sat in a sinking ship and there is nothing I can do about it. I won't get into all of the ins and outs about it because it would be boring, but basically my landlady ignored me all year and then the other day said the rent was going up by £62 and I had to pay it. £600 a month, the govt gives me £520. Now I could afford it, but for what? Take a look at some of this. The lighting wire is the one in the bedroom, the filthy threadbare carpet in the hall and the entire ceiling has collapsed in the kitchen cupboard due to a damp, bare brick wall in the kitchen that she promised to fix over three years ago.









Oh and two weeks ago the carbon monoxide detector failed and was flashing red and the fire alarm is dead too. All of this reported to her of course, but she chose to ignore all of it because she is too tight.

I have a feeling this will cost her quite a bit more than all of that before it's done.

As I said, nothing I can do. This will make me gut wrenchingly ill but there is nothing else I can do. I need the section form (21?) to take to housing and that's it.

 

Get onto your local environmental services, dude. When we were struggling to get out of our tenancy early (after months of living with a building site for a back garden, no working fire alarms, no working heating on the ground floor etc) the estate agents took sides with the landlord, but a 5 minute call to the environmental services department quickly got results.

By law, any rented property NEEDS to have working fire alarms, that's a huge fine right off the bat!

 

I have. I would imagine they phoned her, because as soon as I put the phone down she went berserk and started accusing me of damaging her flat. Then she told me she was calling the police, bailiffs etc etc. This is after 8 days of me telling her, then sending "I am still waiting" twice a day for 8 days (I got all Gandhi on her ass and pestered her politely) but yeah, she still wouldn't reply or acknowledge my text messages until I grassed her up. And that is how it has been for about three years now. Nothing has been fixed, no maintenance has been done etc.

I've now sent her an email listing all of the things that need doing within two weeks. Tomorrow morning I am going to send it by physical recorded mail etc. I know what to do sadly as I have been preparing for it for about two years. Ever since that first time she text messaged me saying she was selling the flat. I can't leave, because if I do I completely screw myself over.

 

Another thing for the 'broken but can't fix' list... the cooker... ****ing yay...

All you can do is ensure, to the best of your ability, that she gets screwed over too.

 

Yeah this won't be cheap for her. I'm not going anywhere until that section has been served and I am on the streets not by my choosing. So that means I gotta get everything out of here, hunker down and just wait. Will still pay the rent, just don't agree to the raise in it so she is getting what she gets now and tough titty. She has not sent a contract and I have not signed bugger all. All I asked was that for my extra rent she fix all of the problems the flat has that she has chosen (very stupidly) to ignore. And she ignored that too. She now has two weeks to fix it all, or I call environmental services back and as said, the fines will start being handed out. I'll go, but certainly not quietly. I don't give in to bullies.

 

Feel rough as a badger's bum today... Apparently after I polished off two bottles of wine last night I started on the vodka - I have no idea how much I got through, but it feels like it was a lot...

Been trying to sort out my damn server all day. OpenMediaVault won't recognise my 4TB NTFS drive (it is partitioned, there is data on there), but it recognises a 500GB NTFS drive no problem. I thought the BIOS & RAID didn't support a 4TB drive, so I swapped the drives and CPU into a different machine. BIOS reads the drive just fine this time... but OpenMediaVault still doesn't recognise the filesystem. Even running lsblk in a terminal shows incorrect partitions.

In the process of swapping the CPU I managed to bend the damn pins in the CPU socket. The CPU in question is a Xeon X3323 modded to run in socket 775. You have to physically modify the 775 socket as the "notches" are in the wrong place for a Xeon; it's the second time I've damaged pins while doing this, so I'm glad I was able to fix the pins this time. I hate the landing grid array pin design .

I've got a USB3 adapter on order, so I'll just plug the 4TB drive into a Windows machine so I can transfer the data over the network. It'll be slow, but it looks like it'll be the only option. Once it's done I'll be wiping the drive and formatting it as EXT4...

It sounds like you've been preparing for this for a while.

 

Yup. From the first moment she sent me a text and said she was selling the flat tbh.

Crapman - rent a dehumidifier mate.

 

Cloves, or clove oil... if you have either...

 

Hammer? [or get hammered]

 

PUJ worst airport ever. YUL worst luggage management ever. TBSM out.

 

At times I still can't believe 1981. My father died in October. My mother decided to take us to her sister's house (our second home, even before dad died). So we went up there and had Christmas. Went home on the 29th December and a pipe had burst. The upstairs ceiling had collapsed, along with all of the downstairs ceilings, pretty much leaving us a shell. We had these dehumidifiers in there and man, they would fill with water so fast you wouldn't believe it, even though you could not see a drop of water anywhere. Amazing tbh.