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I have at least 3 friends with an entire room devoted to their personal library, filled entirely with Billys.

 

My old man doesn’t move in his sleep, like a vampire. I find that mildly disturbing

 

Billy 3 mates?
It was Nobby No mates rather than Billy when I was young...his similarly sad cousin maybe?

 

Was always Billy Nomates here.

Our dog is called Jim, he is AKA Jimmy Noballs...

 

A "Type 2" charging cable for my new car (it only came with a "granny" lead - 3-pin mains to car).
A new backpack, suitably sized to fit the stupid check-in cages all the airlines use for carryon luggage now.

 

Get a cover for it, thats the only real way to protect it! Then it'll be dry and clean when you want it!

 

I've been told I often sleep with my eyes open.

Must be a trust issue

 

You just don’t want to miss out on anything.

 

FOMO eye strain? Could well be.

 

It can be annoying, I have to use eye spray sometimes because they get so dry.

It's the most useless superpower

 

I had to look this up as I thought it couldn't be real, but it is!

Obviously, because I don't suffer from it, I can't understand the mechanics of it. I mean, how do you actually fall asleep? Do you have to be in a very dark room? Does the smallest amount of light wake you up?

Damn. There are SO many ways our bodies can screw themselves over. Kind of a miracle most of us are walking around at all.

 

Yeah I do need a dark room although a bit of light can help as it reminds me I need to close my frickin eyelids!

I have got much better, I usually just tell myself to close my eyes now but, yeah, a little bit of light after I'm asleep can wake me up pretty easily if I have a full vacant sleep stare on.

Bodies are weird. Maybe I'm just part frickin dolphin, apparently they sleep one half of their brain at a time. Or did I just make that up?

Edit: As for going to sleep, well my brain just goes to sleep. Not sure how the mechanics work tbh.

 

With all of my recent luck something had to go wrong, didn't it?

A few days ago I was using my phone viewing my build logs on forums. All of a sudden the phone froze, and Google Assistant piped up asking me if I needed help. I could not get it to stop doing this, and the screen became unresponsive. FFS. After several reboots as soon as I opened Chrome back to that page? it happened again. And again. In the end I managed to move to a different website, problem solved. Sort of. Last night I was on a completely different forum and it happened again. The bottom half of the touch screen becomes unresponsive. This sucks, because it is a ROG phone 3. Which costed me £460. Problem is I have had it three years, so what are you going to do?

I didn't want to go mad mad, but I did fancy a change. The ROG phone has had no OS updates so it is still stuck on a very old Android, and updating it is very difficult given it is a specific version of the phone (Tencent edition) and thus is very complicated. I have 0 experience in it, and I could well brick it. I may ask someone for help on that later, maybe send it to someone and see if a newer OS fixes this issue IDK. Right now though I do need a phone. I wanted a better camera, though, given I am now making videos of my bike collection, so I went to the dark side. I got the 11 Pro Max, renewed from Apple for £350. Which is about my hard limit on phones now.



I did however pay up for the case. £25. It is genuine leather though, not like the nasty PU one I had on the ROG phone.



I'm a bit peeved by this but life I guess.

 

Great bit of kit GH!

A couple of friends are both kitted out with Ryobi battery pressure washers having independently got into that ecosystem.

I used one last year for cleaning green algae off a boat stored uncovered over the winter, it was pretty good as there was a hose but no mains power there.

 

Phone got. It looks brand new. First things I did after setting it up was check it for True Tone (on) and Face ID. Both work fine, so the phone must be all original unless Apple repaired it themselves. Only caveats? the battery health is 82% which from what I have read really ain't bad, and secondly the supplied charger(5w) is total poop and so is the Lightning cable. Easily fixed for £20. I wanted a 6ft one, I hate the short ones.



I think I have a 18w Anker at home, but just to be safe I got these for a tenner.

 

To mis-quote Britney, "Oops, I LEGO'd again..."

 

Your house must be starting to look like mine!