Other What currently makes your life awesome?

The installs have already begun, as a new housing estate on the edge of town already has FTTP, and the exchange carpark is currently home to many economy size cable reels.
Due to having an "Exchange Only" line during the DSL years, my street cabinet is currently around 1km away at the edge of that car park.
This means I can only get FTTC speeds of around 37Mb down / 7Mb up from Sky for around £43/month inc line rental.
Switching to Sky's "Ultrafast" FTTP package seems like it'll give me 3-5x the speed for around £8 less! (£35/mo for 18 months, then £45)

 

We've just had CityFibre install, service via Vodafone, £45 a month for 500Mbps symmetrical connection.

It's via overhead line which I wasn't expecting, but overall it's less intrusive than the BT line or Virgin which are both tacked along the front of the house, at least CityFibre took it along the back wall where no-one sees it.

 

Make those balls squeal!

 

Face is changing at a brisk pace and laserface is confirmed on dec 5th.

 

2 more weeks of work and I'm done for the year.

 

Chicken dinner on PUBG. And I got the last kill needed, and it was a headshot from a vector.

We started out pretty well for who was playing. I wouldn't say we are crap, we're just not as good as the other two players who play with us (who were not online). They are like, really good. Any way, got off to a good start with a DBS. Managed to surprise some guy who did his best to do that annoying jumping **** but jumping out of the way of a DBS is like trying to make a cup of tea in a paper bag.

Got onto the lava map and got three 3rd places. Kept getting flanked at the end. Then last game it was three of us vs 1. He knocked us a couple of times, but we managed to res and move in on him. He had a great position too, but when he came out for the kill I managed to get along side him and put an end to it.

I love winning on that game. It doesn't happen often. Problem is? I am now so pumped full of adrenaline I won't sleep LOL.

 

Man, what a great weekend.

My uncle was supposed to be coming today to help me drag a mattress out for the council to collect tomorrow. TBH I didn't want to see him, as he keeps saying really spiteful things to me. So I told mum last night I would do it alone (it was easy tbh). Any way, I thought I was going to get a lie in today. I had trouble sleeping (as I knew I would, see above) and then at midnight I remembered that a guy was coming to collect a bike he bought from me (which I really wanted the money for). I got a good price for the bike too.

So, pissed off that I had to get up, I set the alarm for 10. Got up groggy (6 hours sleep). Insta message from Mum on Facebook "Your computer parts are coming". Eh?. I ordered the ITX and RAM the other day because it said "Order now for guaranteed delivery on Sunday !" and then no sooner than I had ordered it they changed it to Monday. Which again I was pissed about. Turns out it was coming today. So, down I went, made a coffee and sat and waited. Amazon came around 11. I thought "I bet this guy doesn't show up for the bike and will want his deposit back". Got bored and carried the stuff up to the bedroom. No sooner had my arse hit the chair and the doorbell went. It was the guy. So now I am rather well off, my board and RAM are fitted (about to start playing with it) and the mattress is gone without another guilt trip of horror from my uncle.

And I could have easily slept through it all LOL. At least I don't have to get up tomorrow so I can have my Sunday lay in then.

 

Insurance all sorted, leaving to pick up the new bike in about 30/40 minutes.

Kinda bricking it though TBH... This thing is *way* more powerful than my NC750X, and it's *way* heavier. Slightly concerned about cornering, and absolutely paranoid about dropping it! My NC750X is 240kg and I struggle to pick that up on my own; the Pan European is 320kg, so I've got no chance of getting that off the ground myself!

 

I'm sure it will be just fine, if ever there was a time to upgrade to a heavier more powerful bike it's *checks encyclopedia*: winter

 

Hire a friendly powerlifter to follow you around.

 

3 things...

1 congrats on the new ride
2 don't drop it
3 learn how to pick up a heavy bike the proper way

 

OMG

I love it



Absolute beast of a machine, compared to my NC750X. The NC done me well, but this is just in another league. Much lower to the ground than I'm used to, but it is absolutely glued to the road. There's a certain set of bends on the M4 near where I live that always made me a little nervous on the NC750X. Nothing of the sort on this thing; it just felt so confident and... right. Bags of power, no matter what gear you're in, delivered incredibly smoothly.

 

I have just managed to book the week off before Christmas so that means the rest of this week and next working at home, then a week in the office (still not sure why I need to do that, but hey keeps my manager happy and that means that he leaves me alone...) then I am off until the 4th. Marvelous.

 

I am downloading Project Wingman.

Time to see how good a 'totally not Ace Combat' game mostly built by a team of 3 guys can be.

#Edit: Played the first two mission, turns out it's pretty good. Seems to play like Ace Combat 4 but the mission are on a scale closer to Ace Combat 6, sweet.

#Edit 2: Played 7 Mission now and the room is spinning a bit, might be time to go to bed. It's very good, but does assume you've been playing Ace Combat for a while beforehand, it's very happy to kick you up the bum. Failed one mission before the intro had ended, locked onto a civilian target and lit it up without looking, oops.

 

Tits.

The long tailed tits have returned, was starting to worry.

 

You didn't need anything after the first sentence.