Other What currently makes your life awesome?

Car booked in for a service this coming Friday. Usually I have to book at least a fortnight in advance - I can tie it up with working from home for the day, which is awesome.

Though I imagine I'll be posting in one of the two other threads when paying.

 

Just got a £298 refund from trading in my old phone the other week (see purchases thread).

 

Further to the 'meh' thread removal quote one, quote two came back today over a grand cheaper and another two hundred cheaper if we don't take their insurance.

May not be any point in that because their insurance doesn't cover things packed by customers and home contents may cover that. Dunno, will have to check.

Plus they'd do it in one day, not two.

Much better.

 

I don’t know why I’d never checked for this before, I just assumed that it would be something this car didn’t have fitted. If there was an option available from the factory then this car doesn’t have it. Doesn’t even have an MPG calculator.

But…

Today I discovered that the driver seat in my car has a height adjustment. For the first time in nearly 6 months I’ve been driving it, I can get my legs under the steering wheel.

It’s truly a revelation.

Hyperbole aside, I’ve been on the fence for a while about getting shot of it and getting something larger. Now I know I can fit in the driver’s seat properly, I’m far more inclined to keep it going as long as we can. Need to get that damn back bumper fixed though, it’s been hanging on with gaffer tape for years

 

Haha, I can relate to this so much. Last month, I discovered that the bases of the rear seats in our car lift up and fold out of the way, so that you can actually fold the backs of the seats flat rather than having them sit at about a 30 degree angle. How did I discover this amazing feature, you ask? I... read the manual. We've owned this car for nearly 14 years

 

Ditto.

I was originally looking for ways I could modify the seats or seat rails to make them sit lower, and I stumbled across the manual online. I’ve got the actual physical manual, but no harm in scanning through it while I’m bored at work... Of course the manual explains all possible options, including electric adjustment, tilt adjustment, etc. No chance our car was going to have the fancier stuff, but I thought I should at least check for a height adjustment lever…

Not having to wrap my knees around the steering wheel and contort my feet into weird angles feels so lovely .

I also discovered that the steering wheel can be moved closer to (or further away from) the driver, as well as moving up and down. And I discovered that you can use the remote lock/unlock buttons to open and close the windows…!

And the lesson here, children, is that you really should RTFM!

 

What, break the habit of an effing lifetime?

 

RTFM is a sign of weakness. Real men toil on in ignorance. This is the way.

 

Steam Link.
Found a 1GbE USB dongle that works with my TV. I initially tried a 2.5GbE dongle but unfortunately that didn't work. I kept it in case it ever does.
Now to finish the attic-come-office so I can have the PC plugged in via ethernet as well.

 

Yeah, my only possible line of defence here is that I also have the physical manual, which lives in the glovebox, and I have read it previously, but it covers absolutely every option possible and I assumed that the fold-flat rear seats must not apply to our (relatively spartan) model.

Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

RTFM, never, it's not nearly as rewarding as just pulling and pulling every knob and lever to see what they do, and Civic's have 'magic' seats is a game changer is carting stuff around.

 

I didn't know that

 

Yeah, I found out by accident

 

So does the Nissan Note

 

Another week, another business trip. It's a bit tiring sometimes, but I'm thriving in my new role, against the odds and some people's expectations. Really, deeply satisfying stuff.

Next week, I'll be in Berlin at the industry's most important trade fair. Small team, C levels and management members, only the best at our company at what's needed to get **** done there. And I got one of my newest team members to be part of it, partially as reward for a great start with us, partially because he has potential to join the ranks of that little team of specialists.

Excited, nervous, worried, flabbergasted. At the event and its challenges ahead as well as the fact how fast my fortunes changed since last summer.

I have a clear strategy for the next four years. What I want to do, where I want to go, how I want to get there, what kind of exit is possible then, if needed/wanted. Didn't think I'd get there (so quickly), and it feels good.

Life is strange, but it can be a lot of fun. And it's even better when you have that special someone behind you, pushing and strengthening you all the way.

 

My wife is my special someone but, it's enough of a challenge for her, just keeping me going at all, what with my mental health problems and, poor memory, especially bad short-term memory which is very frustrating for both of us.

Don't know what I would do without her...

 

Removals booked. Ended up not taking the extra insurance as we're packing our stuff so won't be covered and house contents confirmed they cover anyway.

So from a company initially quoting about £2.7k we're getting it done for less than £1.5k

The only decision is the sixty quid each end insurance in case they damage the buildings.... They only cover seventy five quid.

One of those - don't take it out and something happens, do and nothing happens and you waste a hundred quid.

Then again some things will be going in to the rental via a conservatory....

 

A chair leg through a glass door often offends.

 

Easily prevented, by buying rubber furniture...