Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?

Youtube playback errors. Lots of them. On three different PCs and my phone on different networks.

Anyone else seeing this?

 

Been blasting some eurobeat playlist without issues.

 

Just been watching a long video, no problem using Vivaldi.

 

So I'm in the process of buying a flat, its new build, everything has been great so far, but we got to a week before completion, and then I'm told the developer never registered themselves as the owner on the land registry... -_- So now we're 2 weeks delayed so far just waiting for this bit of paperwork, there were a couple of other delays previously but since Wednesday that's all there is! What makes it really frustrating is in the contract if I cause delays they can charge me, if they do it nothing! My solicitor has been fantastic, but I seriously can't wait for AI to wipe out conveyancers! Why the hell didn't the developer register, it's literally their job to do this kind of work!

 

I would be perfectly happy for “AI” to stay the hell out of the legal profession… Humans are perfectly capable of fantastically cocking things up on their own, they don’t need juiced-up predictive text algorithms to make conveyancing mistakes at inhuman speeds & scale…

I really should not get into the specific details… but suffice it to say that my mother’s recent house purchase had some serious issues. Very serious. I’m having to engage litigation solicitors because we’re well into the territory of “actual incurred financial losses, impacts on health, impacts on emotional well-being, possible legal breaches, and maybe even fines or prosecution (but I don’t know for certain since IANAL)”.

So… no AI conveyancing, please. Humans already cause enough damage when they get it wrong.

But also I hope your shenanigans get sorted soon, @Bloody_Pete; there’s always something that rears its head and tries to trip you up, so let’s hope this is the last bump in your road!

 

The thing that annoys me is that I have to pay obscene amounts of money to these people, and they still massively mess it up. At least if it was AI it'd be like £50! I could even spin one up on my own server!

The really annoying thing when buying a house is how many times you need to pay a 'money transfer fee' to people who's only job it to just transfer the sodding money! If that's this fee what the hell are all the other fee's!?! I swear there's £200 in money transfer fee's, which isn't much in the total cost, but it's the damn principle of the thing!

 

The whole house buying process seems to be inefficient and arcane. The government needs to develop a more streamlined process and, put it into law so it must be used.

 

Yup.

You often end up doing most of the work yourself so that it gets done properly too.

 

Thankfully I lucked out on my solicitors, so although they basically don't communicate, they quietly did literally everything. As an FTB it would have been nicer to have more communicative solicitors though!

 

Our last ones were ok to be fair but it was a purely online jobby, thinking about it it was our best experience yet - even regular online updates of progress.

Our former ones have been shocking.

Our estate agent was top though, so much so we went back to her for our most recent sale.

Hope you're not kicking your heels for too much longer, hiccups can come and it feels like it's stagnating but then alot happens quickly.

 

Maybe we need a list of which ones are good or bad on here!

I have the last 2 weeks of November off and most of December, so as long as I get key this week I'm set! Otherwise I'm just going to book a last minute all include somewhere warm and lay on a beach for a week! With a Steam Deck

 

Oddly enough we've ended up on trips during our last sales and purchases.

Even when we've tried to time things, it doesn't matter, they just wait until we've just started relaxing

 

Back to work after a much needed week off. Kinda nice to be back into the routine of things, but at the same time, week off = lots of crap to come back to....

Back to an earthing job for the Middle East, a small(ish) substation building with 4 transformers, a couple of switch rooms, and 3 generators. The problem being that the drawings I was working from before I went off showed 2 transformers, a couple of switch rooms, and 2 generators.... And those drawings were marked as FINAL....

It also appears that they want all the earthing systems separated as well which means a total of 11 separate earthing systems for one building... Lightning protection, MV, LV, ELV (aka clean), 4 x transformer neutral, and 3 x generator neutral. I could design a single system that will do the lot, but no, they all need to be separate (never mind that they are all plugged into the same conductor (the earth) as each other and as such will not be separated at all....).

Ah well, such is the life of someone who doesn't get listened to....

 

My motorbike dealer & garage, Thunder Road, has gone titsup. They were sold to a new parent company a couple of years back, but they went into administration at the start of October. I only found this out yesterday…

I’ve only owned 3 bikes in 8 years but they’ve all been from Thunder Road Cwmbran; they’ve always done all the repairs, servicing, MOT, etc - everything except tyres. They weren’t the cheapest, not by a long shot, but they were worth the price. They’d always get work done promptly, didn’t fob you off, give you the run-around, or lead you down the garden path, and would bend over backwards to help.

I’m not bothered about getting work done - there are other garages and other dealers a hell of a lot closer than Thunder Road were - but it’s the staff I really feel sorry for. They were a great group of people: passionate, really knew what they were talking about, didn’t pressure you at all, didn’t try and foist pointless and expensive “up-sells”, and you could talk to them for hours. Apparently none of them knew a thing until a 6am text message on a Friday morning.

 

My wife wanted some Pepsi Max. No problem, I grabbed a couple of bottles on the way home.

Turns out that it is Pepsi Max - Cherry..... Bottle looks the same, says Pepsi Max on the front - with "cherry" in smaller text right at the bottom of the label.... Highly unfair.

 

It's all about the bottle caps now.

• Regular is black
• Lime is green
• Cherry is purple
• Raspberry is red
• Mango is yellow
• Ginger is gold

 

This one has a bright red lid and is cherry... Although raspberry would also not have been received well...

 

Cherry has big red dots all over the label too.
Pepsi knocked raspberry flavour on the head, which is a shame

 

Just own your error and accept that it'll serve as corroborating evidence in every argument between now and Easter.