Other What's ruining your life right now?

General lack of interest in waking up in the morning.

 

local town hall 100 yards from me is having its annual fireworks display so my street parking looks something like this



some piece of ****'s even parked on my drive, ive shoved my car across the entry so they'll have to knock to move it.

words will be had.

 

Who parks on someone else's drive ffs? Disgraceful.

 

Hang in there bud. All I can say is go for a walk, bike ride, tidy up the garden, whatever. Always sounds like boring and obvious advice but it does actually help. Speaking of which, I've got to go mow the lawn after having left it for 6 months...because I didn't follow my own advice. think I might need a machete to make some headroom.

Edit: Just for the love of whatever don't spend all day in front of the TV/PC. You'll just be really pissed off you wasted the day.

 

Prepared the plants on the balcony for winter yesterday. Felt sooo good afterwards. Today my flu is back with a vengeance.

 

Massive irrational fear of dentists and inflammed gums ARGH!

 

This is an option... though, in fairness, I am a bit too stingy to buy new baking trays now.

On that note, i got a phone call on Thursday stating that the wind screen had been fixed, the Driveshafft Seal was being put in then, and the bumper was in for a quotation.
My feeling is they won't be able to panel beat the creases in the plastic, but that's their problem...
I just wish there was a radio in that crapbox Corolla... it would make it more bearable.

 

Yeah, got a new router/modem (FritzBox) today. Guess what? Yes, still getting random disconnects, but the time inbetween is shorter now! Tried with Devolos, without them, LAN, WiFi, hell, not connecting anything and still after xx minutes the connection will drop. There is no reason on my side, there is no reason on the ISP side. This makes me a lot angrier than it should.

Anyway, I'll finish the latest Stephen King to calm down. If I need it, I will start the Prometheus scripted afterwards. Plus beer. Yes, lots of beer. Sounds like a good idea from over here.

 

They ache like hell sometimes. It's the weather, mate. Really makes a difference if it's cold and damp !

 

politics in germany. Seriously remembers me like it was in the 20s.
Hope we have learnd from history.

 

What exactly reminds you of the 20s in Germany right now? Really curious what I may be missing.

 

Not really ruining, just a series of annoyances with various companies this morning

1) Placed an order a couple of days ago from Bristol Cameras for an item that was 'In Stock' only to receive an email last night saying that they actually don't have stock now until 19th November. They've taken payment off my credit card by the way.

2) Called Mifsuds this morning to order the same item as they also show as having stock - turns out that actually they don't have stock either.

3) Look elsewhere this morning and can't find anywhere else in the UK with stock so looks like I'm stuck waiting for a fortnight.

4) Receive a parcel from Amazon containing an item that is clearly counterfeit. Return arranged no problems but for some reason they've refused to publish my review of the item whereby I wrote in detail about receiving a counterfeit item - that was 15 minutes of my life wasted.

5) Log onto Laithwaites to check on an order placed yesterday only to find that it's been cancelled without any form of email notification. Another phone call and turns out that their system buggered up applying a voucher code and now I won't be getting my order at all and they're going to refund me the payment that they've already taken.

 

As I said in PM man, rest up. I had mine done at 12 and 15 and it was bad enough then ! These days I bruise my knee and it takes a month for the bruise to go.

 

I called that the "pensioner shuffle". You're bent forward, shuffling your legs forward slowly. And yeah, wind can be very painful in places you never dreamed of.