Other What currently makes your life awesome?

Sounds like the solicitor was on an hourly rate instead of flat fee.

 

Our conveyancer was fine but their solicitor had the buyer panic calling the estate agent thinking I was being obstructive and wanting to pull out.

Answering all questions and wanting a sell date as quickly as possible, yeah, didn't tally.

Even had to push to have the completion date moved forward a month which seemed to be a date their solicitor had plucked from their backside.

Feel for anyone going through it, I mean ours was supposedly 'simple'

 

Giffgaff finally launched their own eSIMs (for existing customers at first) - Installing now...
They don't support "wearables" like smart watches yet though

 

Just strap a phone to your arm.

 

"Accrington woman, 107, says secret to long life is cups of tea."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-lancashire-67083000

This bodes well for me!

 

Looks like I'm living until I'm 1006 years old then. Awesome.

So long as you don't have to live in Accrington as well.

 

Well that's... not terrible...

I set up an Azure Storage Account to act as the backup target for my NAS. I got a rather unexpected Azure bill the other day for the first month's usage, coming to a grand total of £22, and thankfully it seems that was just from the initial upload.



The first uploads were on 8th & 9th Sept (it was too big for one run), so there was about 820GB ingested across those two runs. Since then however I've only been paying to store the data, which is 30p per day for the data uploaded so far. Even if any given day has a lot of changes to upload, it won't come anywhere near that initial upload size. So normal cost should come out to around £9 per month. Not bad... There are definitely cheaper options out there, but I don't think they'd have quite as much storage capacity as a Storage Account would - I can basically use as much as I want.

Of course in the event of hardware failure I'd have to pay to get all that data back out of Azure, but let's hope that's not likely to happen any time soon (especially as I have 2x cold spares in case of drive failures).

 

Found my 1/2" socket, it's been missing for months.

 

Got up this morning (during my holiday!) at 04:30. The reason for this ungodly hour? Went fishing with a friend here on Corfu, in his small boat.

Caught quite a few fish (2.5 buckets full), but more importantly, we watched the stars while it was still dark (very little light around here at night, so a pretty good view of the milky way) and then watched the sun rise slowly over the mountains on the Greek mainland. With a coffee in hand, in the middle of the Adriatic sea.

Good times.

 

Phew… could’ve been worse, it could’ve been the 10mm socket - you can almost always guarantee that those things will go missing.

 

You beat me to it, the classic lost 10mm socket!

 

Very true, but at least I've got a load of spare 10mm sockets, I've only two ½"!

I remember last using it putting it somewhere slightly daft thinking "I'm gonna lose that", and I wasn't wrong. Sully found it while he was playing, it was behind the driver seat in the Landy. What was I thinking?

 

Milestone this morning!
Went out at 8am for a kayak on the harbour, a beautiful sunny morning with mist floating over the water at the start.
A 5 mile route which means I've clocked up 100 miles of paddling in a season for the first time

 

I woke up and my nips were rock hard. It seems the tshirt and shorts I arrived in 8 days ago were not going to cut it for 4c.

 

You’re not alone there, house was bloody freezing this morning. I’ve had my Oodie on all day.

If it keeps up this way it might be time to, maybe, think about drastic steps: putting the heating on.

 

Heating on? Noooooooo! It's not November yet, it's the laaaaw

 

We had it on but up north in an old house it needs it.

What with gas wholesale prices apparently shooting up I'm also glad we recently fixed our prices.

 

We always wait for November, but it's not a hard rule. It's 14.5° in the living room this morning (4° outside) but I expect the sun will warm the house enough for the evening to be tolerable

 

Yep, 14 in the hall here this morning. No heating as I'm off to work & Mrs A is WFH in the garden office. Apparently it was 7 degrees in there first thing, the heating is ON in there!
I knew it was colder yesterday just by looking at the smart meter, the fridge and freezer had less work to do overnight.

House temp has dropped 5 degrees since Saturday, brrrrr

 

Put the batteries back in the thermostat this morning to see it said 14.5 so the heating came on for a bit as my wife was getting a bit chilly yesterday. Car said 3 this morning which was a bit of a shock!

On a more positive note got a design appointment with Howdens this afternoon to hopefully move the potential new kitchen along!