Other What currently makes your life awesome?

A 20Mbit leased line is £2500 + "additional installation fees subject to survey" (they ball-parked ~£3-4000) and £300/month.

It's going to be a long time before I catch up with that.

I still have my ADSL, so notably large downloads, digital purchases/syncing and any streaming that fits inside a ~3Mbit envelope without issues (e.g spotify) will use that to minimise the overage.

 

Steak night tonight

 

Cars had a rapidly escalating steering issue, in so much it goes stiff at certain points on the rack. The two main components of the steering system are each over £200 so not cheap, considering I forked out a load on it last month I was none to impressed. But turns out I can fix it myself for less than a fiver, heavy spray oil and a piece of plastic tube.
Cunning design means that a drainage channel empties its water directly onto the steering knuckle joint. Pipe diverts water, oil lubricates joint. Happy car again and many pennies saved!

 

Tell partner car cost a bomb, buy PC upgrades and cake, profit!!!11!

 

It's a nice feeling is that. I had to do a few semi serious jobs to our Mini about three years back (new sensors on the engine and manifold, brake pads) but it's passed every MOT since. We did get an advisory last year about the CAT, but there is little I can do about that without swapping it out (many £) so I am just going to see what happens. I doubt we do a thousand miles a year tbh.

Had a look at the tyres etc the other day all looks good. Windshield wipers are toast though.

 

Im single, no one to lie to, guilt free spends!

Had similar a couple years back, managed to spin my car on oil off a roundabout. In a week I replaced the below list an got it MOT'd
Two new wheels
Front shocks and springs
Rear beam/alxe
front left stub axle and bearing
front left lower arm
Left Driveshaft and CV joints
Left wheel arch outer trim

Week later took it in for its MOT, passed with an advisory on brake line corrosion Considering it couldn't be driven because the left rear wheel was no longer attached to the car, I dun gud!

Dodged getting a gearbox though!

 

I think I'm getting nearer to the sweet spot for modem placement...

 

Where do you live. Outer Mongolia?

 

I have a job where I don't make a ton of money, but I have a ton of autonomy. I proposed a project to my small firm and have since brought it to a functional alpha state. We're now all working to get everything else off my plate so a consultant and I can create a sales beta by the end of May.

If this goes as well as we all hope everyone in the office will be getting six figure incomes by either the end of this year or next.

TLDR: I like my job and I've essentially been promoted.

 

Sounds like a great opportunity!!! Good for you!

 

Worse. Outer Nottingham.

 

The boss bought everyone easter eggs, and is getting pizza in for the whole office at lunch. Just what I needed!

 

Healthy eating for all eh?

 

Made some serious money, enough to keep me afloat through the next 2-3 months.

Some of you might recall I quit my day job last month, and this is handy because I should be able to get by without touching my savings now. Not exactly sure what I'm saving for, but I like seeing that number get bigger

Going road tripping with my father next week (funemployment, yay!) and then driving up north with my dog to give my sister some company for a bit. Looks like it's going to be a chill month.

 

He's not wrong. The best bit of the outskirts of Nottingham is leaving IME.

On topic: Six hours with the car, a das6, and various products have all the winter **** off and all the summer **** on.

New front tyres next week and she'll be ready for the road trip bar a good service.

 

COOL!!!! Enjoy!!!

 

Friday feeling for all, more like heh.

This will be the last time everyone is in the office together for a good 6 weeks or so - various people are travelling around for business trips, holidays, weddings etc, so I think he just wanted to make the most of it. We're a small team, only 8 people, so when someone is away they leave a hole!

 

The low mileage is probably* what's causing the cat problems. Just before it's due its next test, try and get a couple of tanks of V-Power through it and take it on as long a drive as possible with decent revs (motorway/B-roads) then once the engine is propperlly warm (at least 30min of "normal" driving - don't trust the engine coolent gauge, it doesn't indicate oil temperatures which are the important ones...) find a nice quiet spot and rev it fairly hard - we're not talking bouncing off the red-line here, but more than you'd** do in normal driving. You'll feel like a chav/boy-racer but the high egt's should help clear some of the gunk out of the cat.

*almost certainly
**probably