Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?

Ohhh nooo, someone on the internet doesn't like a thing that I like, how terrible. I guess I have no choice but to just... not care...

Well would you look at that, turns out that not giving a toss about what someone else thinks is pretty easy...

 

Same. Still, I call the toilet my amplifier. Really does make them LOUD

 

Alloys + kerb + low profile tyres.

 

Tyre + 2 screws, one in shoulder plus electric handbrake equipped brake caliper that is showing errors minutes after fitting. Car gone for another day...

 

Just dropped £1200 on mine - Discs, brakes, lower arms, full service and a few other little bits. It hurts, but it'll keep the old girl running a good while longer.

 

We had to dump several on ours last year - gearbox completely borked (automatic). Fingers crossed no more for a while.

Hopefully ours will carry on until we run it into the ground. It would have cost more to even get a similar aged car which would have had its own issues.

Best of a bad choice sometimes.

 

£1,200? Ouch.
It's a toss up, good money after bad, or the unknown...

I usually keep cheap going cars and run them into the ground, and am wary after buying a more expensive car 6 yrs ago which let me down big time.

I had 4 cars in 2 years as the next one was a mare and went straight back for a refund under 30 rejection terms.

 

The IT guy at work (who still hasn't been fired yet) has informed us to deactivate IPv6 to deal with stuttering issues during Teams calls.

I'm not an IT expert, but I feel this ain't right. Anyway, done it.

 

The Guff Throne

 

I'm just tired. Tired of work and how things are going there. Not that they're going bad, but they're just not going anywhere and the direction doesn't look appealing. I've spent the day procrastinating on both work and chores at home, so I'm gonna have to rush eventually.

I'm going on a 3 week vacation next week, really hope I'll come back re-energized, though history has taught me otherwise.

 

My ageing father has managed to install some bloody malware pop up thing on his laptop and it's beyond my limited abilities to fix.

I keep telling him he needs to go on a proper computer handling course as I'm getting annoyed that he doesn't take the time to learn properly.

 

Malwarebytes might be a good place to start. https://www.malwarebytes.com/

 

Just recovering from a bout of what could well have been norovirus, for the first time in my life experiencing what they call "both ends going", geez. Still, it was quite short lived and now I'm just tired, seems I got off lightly in the grand scheme of things.

 

I am beginning to wonder if that is what I had, and it wasn't IBS after all. I never puke. Like, ever. I was so close to puking the other night it wasn't even funny. Thankfully the bum let go first.

 

Well Saff had been sick all over me and herself on Monday so I reckon a bug, aye (one of the perks of a £1,000/month nursery subscription).

Reminds me of the Micky Flanagan bit when he was describing his visit to the lavatory: "have you ever emptied out an old radiator?"

 

First time WFH with my "new" work laptop. I say new as I have borrowed one of the old CAD/ Design machines that is currently not required as I wanted to properly test a faster machine in my day to day workload.

Well, it is a lot faster (i9 10885H / 32GB / RTX 3000M) vs i5 8265U / 16GB / Onboard) but damn.... either I have become so accustomed to my MBP making no noise or this thing is annoyingly loud at times.

The ZBook Chassis is too small for the components they crammed in it, at least the i9 anyway. It has the same issue the older MBP's with the same CPU had. Decent burst performance but quickly throttle due to temps. I think the ZBook is better but it leaves so much performance on the table. Plus its battery life is terrible (again, I have gotten so used to my MBP lasting forever, and performing exactly the same whether plugged in or not, that I had forgotten battery life was a thing..).


On the plus side, I have easy access to our coffee machine so....

 

Ah that's a shame @Gareth Halfacree

I've often wondered how reliable the 'bonded in the shelter' thing is.

I can't see it myself.

 

T'is a shame, but I understand completely. We cat-sat a female cat for some friends, and our boy was the same. He'd be fine for most of the day, but at some point he'd see a red mist and start stalking and pinning her. It's what made us decide to not get another cat. Fortunately he has a pretty active imagination and can entertain himself when we're not entertaining him.

 

Ahh, that's a shame...

But, as hard as it might be, you have to do what's best for the cats, and it sounds like that's exactly what you have in mind.