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pete* · 3 May 2026 at 07:57

Relationship issues > 'botched' operation > 3 months off work > struggling with money (as overtime not allowed at work while on 'rehab') > Whole month wait for "specialist" appt to see what to do about the OP > unable to stop spending money (yup, still buying off here. ), as I have now found, finally at my old age, something (3d Printing, networks etc) that I find really interesting and want to keep learning/hobbying (ish) - at my old age.

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Been getting the bike back up & running.

I didn’t want to sell it in the first place, I really didn’t want to sell it after washing it, and now I’ve literally just done 60-odd miles, I absolutely definitely do not want to sell it.
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This 100%. Two months ago I felt, I need to sell the bike. Money struggles, and it isn't... "necessary" with a car. - Same as you, it's a 2011, needs a bit of TLC. It has sat in yard with cover since October. Not MOT'd or Taxed it as no £. Wouldn't get much for it, probably £2000 max.
But, I just love riding once i'm out. And it is a good place and, i'd say 'necessary' for my head. It isn't 'THE' bike for me, it's my first 'BIG' bike (Tiger 800) - so I do want to try others in time.
It is the best fun though. Especially if I get to ride with others (not hooligans).

Yeah.

ElThomsono · 3 May 2026 at 10:02

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Doing up the garden because most of the grass areas are rubbish, so I’m replacing it with stone/patio slabs. I jumped into it two-footed with the weather turning, but now I’m about 40% in and honestly regret starting it at all. We are making progress, but it’s painfully slow.

Add in a 15-week-old puppy, and even with proper barricading to keep a safe work area (and stop him eating something he shouldn’t), he’s a menace and will do anything to get my attention — including ripping up the small patch of grass I actually want to keep. That means I’m either stopping every 15 seconds or putting him inside for a nap… which lasts about an hour before he’s back up and ready to cause chaos again.

I even took the day off yesterday to make a proper push at it. We’d already booked the dog walker, so I kept that in to give myself a bit more time, and while it helped, we still didn’t get that much further forward.

We’ve also got this massive mound of earth from digging everything out. I’ve built one planter that’s taken a good chunk of it — it’s not great quality and pretty clay-heavy, but it’s hidden in the base, so really I’m just passing that problem on to whoever buys the house one day if they don’t like my planters. Realistically we need one or two more to absorb the rest — and to be fair, the garden has no plants at the moment, so they’d probably balance it out nicely.

Then the wife adds:
Her: “Do we really need more planters? It’s going to cost money.”
Me: “What else are we doing with all that earth? Because getting rid of it will cost a fortune anyway.”
Her: “Can’t it just go to the dump?”
Me, completely straight-faced: “Yeah… the 3 tonnes of earth… in the boot of my BMW 3 Series?”
Her, also straight-faced: “Well yeah… how else would it go?”

She’s also in this mad rush, which usually means she cuts corners even when you tell her 20x to do something for a very specific reason. Example, I said to make sure the liner went right down into the base and corners of the planter so the wood takes the load, not the liner. So she whacked it in, stapled it, and filled it. Came out later that evening — my side looking perfectly fine, her side… the liner had basically ripped out because it wasn’t touching the base, so all the weight of the soil just pulled it straight through the staples. Probably something I can botch around or its going to take twice the time to redo had I just done it myself...

I’m just holding onto this vision of it being done, pint in hand and the pup settling down into some sort of normality, but right now it feels a million miles away. Weekend’s coming up too, and it looks like rain, so not sure I’ll get much done there either....
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Classic bank holiday weekend experience. Regarding the rest within my social group we call it DWS, Daft Wife ****

The_Crapman · 6 May 2026 at 15:37

Phase 2 of physio began today, it involves a broom and a tea towel, resembles a warmup for curling or the housework Olympics, but it's brutal, and it feels gross.

Kehoe · 7 May 2026 at 08:49

I went to repair a model kit I was working on at Christmas swapped out the replacement parts and nothing works, I've given up it's beaten me but my god it's taken a massive tole on my mental health, worse I'm home alone for another 5 days, it's brought back the bad feelings I had at Christmas, I'm such a defeatist and this just pushed me over the edge. Was hoping Id swap the parts broken and I'd be up n running but nope.

I could build it without LEDs but my autism won't let me, it will now forever be stuck in a box never to see the light of day again.

And now I've gotten myself worked up sad wanting to scream and cry and rage out and struggling to find a way to calm myself.

RedFlames · 7 May 2026 at 17:14

aaked some ppl if i should apply for a particular job...

me - not sure my typing is up to it

everyone i asked - you sure you can not be a miserable git for 5 minutes?

pete* · 7 May 2026 at 19:15

RedFlames said: ↑

everyone i asked - you sure you can not be a miserable git for 5 minutes?
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Bastids

goldstar0011 · 8 May 2026 at 13:25

Started to put all my companies Operations training into the system for digital consumption and recoding as opposed to PowerPoint and Excel spreadsheets, the system does not allow PowerPoint hosting or even allow me to upload PPSX file types whilst we get new training made that is compatible with the system so I have to trust users will run the slideshow.
Most the training docs I have is not in a format I can put in to the system and the Regional Training manager is on leave and when he is in he's really effing busy so I'm just winging it.
This is not going well, only ray of light is by boss agrees it isn't ideal

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