Other What currently makes your life awesome?

2nd coat of Raw Linseed oil on the summerhouse
Signed up for the local pool league
I also now work from home the correct days so I can play in the pool league.
Dartboard and darts are also on order

 

After the car decided to eject all its coolant and overheat on the way home on Saturday, some good news: not only is it now fixed, but I think we've finally found a reliable local garage. Bonus: it's on a bus route.

The bit it was weeing from was, apparently, the thermostat housing, which has now been replaced with a generic equivalent that proved compatible. That, coolant drainage (annoying 'cos I literally just put £6 of brand-new coolant in the pissing thing), new coolant, and labour totalled £155-ish. Could have been a lot worse!

Seems to be behaving itself now, but obviously it'll take a longer journey to be sure. Fingers crossed!

 

God no, for multiple reasons including but not limited to: I hate DIY when it's just putting up shelves, never mind tinkering with a thing that'll be hurtling down the motorway at 70 miles an hour with my family inside; it would have taken considerably more than a day to figure out what the part is, how to remove it, where to source a suitable replacement, wait for it to be delivered, and fit it; and I'm working >12 hour days six-to-seven days a week, I ain't got time to be faffing around with a spanner.

Much better to throw a bit of cash at someone who knows what they're doing!

 

Yeah, y'see, I don't really have days off at the moment, and we've only got one car so downtime has to be minimised.

I can see people taking up spannering as a hobby, but it's not for me. Aside from the aforementioned, I hate cars. Loathe 'em. If it were up to me, we wouldn't own one. I derive zero pleasure from them. I also don't drive, so any benefit from tinkering - like smoother steering - is wasted on me.

Tools I have. A trolley jack I do not have. And while I have a nice big drive, it's also on a hefty incline - so completely ill-suited to doing any kind of work. The street's narrow, too, so not ideal for parking a car up and doing anything more complicated than checking the oil level with the dipstick.

I also wouldn't take advice from YouTube videos when it comes to fiddling with my car (even if I had time to watch 'em). I'm sure that guy knows his onions, but the problem is I don't - and given that absolutely anyone can make a YouTube channel and start uploading, I have no knowledge base with which to separate the wheat from the chaff.

EDIT:
Although I did replace a blocked rear washer nozzle a while back, all by myself. I'll do little bitty things like that.

 

Oh they should really know when to shut the **** up.

We've had someone leave this week that was usually the person who entered payments onto the bank, with 2 others authorising. Manager also on hold this week, depleting our authorisation pool further, so I've had to enter and Auth payments the last couple of days.

Yesterday afternoon I sent an email out suggesting we put in a limit of £50k whereby anything under that I can put on the bank and authorise, very common practice, even in much larger accounts departments, let alone one with as few staff as we have. Little miss argument replied earlier today saying she thought that this might go against internal policy, but stopping shy of actually being for or against and putting that on the accounts manager to confirm.

Had a couple of payments that needed going today, so put them on and first authorised, she then completes the authorisation. Only notices I've done both afterwards so replies and copies in our manager with "sir. Sir! He did this and he shouldn't have!". So I replied saying "I knew you were leaving early so wanted to make sure they were authorised, and as I didn't process or authorise the invoices, there's still plenty of segregation of duty there" She comes back still moaning saying some random sales manager has Auth access (nice to be told these things after the fact) and I should have asked him".

Now, I had refrained from saying so in my first response, because I was trying to play nice and not be argumentative, but **** you. So I reply and put in a load of stuff about how these are exceptional circumstances, why these transactions were very low risk, we're a man down and need to adapt blah blah blah. But as a tasty little morsel near the end, I say "don't forget, I was the one who emailed you all yesterday afternoon about needing to adjust our authorisation process. You didn't seem to mind me entering and doing the first authorisation for the payment we made earlier that morning for £2.5 million." Inserted some ******** about how we'll overcome these challenges as a team, formalise next week, let's go bobcats etc. Have a nice weekend.

And silence. They log off. Good night Seattle we love you!

*Moved from awful thread as although it pissed me off at first, I've taken immense pleasure in hand her gigantic ass to her.*