Other What's ruining your life right now?

I was burgled once and caught the guy in my house, almost got charged by the local plod for using excessive force, their words, to restrain the miscreant just because he had a broken nose and severe bruising. To be honest I felt I was very restrained.

 

That is literally how thieves steal cars now. It's pretty much the only way with security being so good.

 

Just had delivered another wall mount for my 55" TV because it was off the level by about 3=5 degrees, a guestimate and it really annoyed me but as there was no swivel adjustment there was little I could do.
Just awaiting the neighbour to give me a hand to lift it in place bit to much weight for a 64 year old.

 

I waited almost three months to put up my 65. God knows how I am going to get it down lmao.

 

Managed to get it down as I only need to lift a little then swivel and dump it on a bed so not a problem but getting it back up, not a chance on my own.

 

I used to have my bed next to the radiator when I was a teenager living at my mums. Many many nights I would burn my innocent butt cheeks on that radiator.

 

At my old house in London the heating was never that good. We had an immersion heater and it was pants. My nana's though? yeah she had rads like that. Kinda sucked because you couldn't lie on the floor and put your feet on them

 

After massaging my phone for half an hour trying to get the display connector back in position (or whatever's wrong with it internally) it's starting to sink in my phone is now completely dead. Its final struggle has ended.
The replacement will probably only arrive late next week. Rather inconvenient.

EDIT:
holy **** it just came to life again out of nowhere
I'm putting "possessed by evil spirit" above "bad display connector" on my list of possible problem causes.

 

Almost had the camera deal of a lifetime.

Saw a little vaguely described listing with some very rare stuff, made an offer, the seller agreed and we set up a meeting. Suddenly this morning though the bids shot up >€100 over my own and since the website tends to advertise listings with active bidding I'm 100% sure it'll go much, much higher still in the next few hours and days.
I'd feel bad for pressing the seller to stick to our arrangement so I won't, but still... It's some magnificent gear I'll be missing out on.

 

Had a better look around last night and I still can't find the spare, so i'll give the insurance company a ring today and see what the deal is. We've been parking my car behind the missus' for now (joy of 2 small cars, they just about both fit on the drive), and we're taking mine away this weekend to Liverpool, so even if they do have it, there ain't much they can do with it for now.

Cheers dude, it looks like they did take my wife's UE Boom speaker (which she uses to teach her dance classes), so had to go out and get a replacement for that - will be keeping an eye on Gumtree/Facebook to see if one crops up locally... They were obviously smart enough to leave anything that could be traced (phone, iPad, laptop, Echo Show etc), but didn't want to leave empty handed, I guess.

It's nowhere near as bad as it could have been - barring a couple of broken blind slats and a dent in the flooring from the paving slab and the really odd bending of my old phone, they didn't completely trash the place or wreck anything for the sake of adding insult to injury - but it's going to be an annoying distraction from what should have been a good birthday weekend away. The rest of the fam are going to be on regular drive-by's to keep watch, and the bonus of the landlord being the father-in-law means he is going to get a couple of cameras to set up in the next week or 2.

 

Tracking shows my Mooltipass was delivered six days ago. Lies, lies and more lies!

 

Must have been a dodgy batch. Honest guv.

 

Old tech is never reliable and more prone to failing...

 

If you don't need a GPU when they're so highly priced don't get one.

If you needed one that'd be a different matter, but you don't so stop being a silly boy.