Amazon being dicks. A couple of days back I got an email to say my 4060LP would be delivered today between ~11am - 1pm. Great, four days earlier than expected. Checked the tracking again yesterday, still on for today. Checked again this morning... nope, Tuesday. The email not only gave me a date but a timeframe, but now it just says Tuesday. FFS.
Tried to watch a video on BBC News and gave-up because the idiot filming it, used the phone in portrait orientation, so it was difficult to see what was happening. Why are so many people too stupid to use the phone in landscape orientation, when it would enable them to capture the event they are filming, much more effectively?
After 3 and a half weeks of vacation + time off at home, tomorrow (today) is a dreaded Monday over which I'm already losing sleep thinking about all the things I need to pick up.
Woke up with jelly botty. Oh joy. Managed to resolve jelly botty with codeine, yay. Weather is even better than last year,yay. Took much upgraded bicycle for a very long shakedown. Did not realise that 23mm tyres @ 100 psi make the saddle a ring piece battering ram. I took walking straight for granted. Not helped on by said jelly botty.
One of those reminders of advancing age... Vyvyan, the mad, orange haired, punk in The Young Ones, AKA Adrian Edmondson. Never think of him as older than me and, indeed he's only 7 years older than me but, he's 66.
I'm not sure what Jelly Botty is so took to google it... not sure I got quite the result I wanted. Spreading something between somewhere and well... ehhh...
It’s from The Young Ones. Boring, IIRC. Rik says “let’s play Botticelli!” Vyvyan replies “Let’s play jelly botty, where you have to eat 18 curries !”
2 hours a day overtime at work for the last few...months? Lost track Not in the ruining thread as I get paid overtime, so the savings are going up. But I'm cutting some sleep to make time for hobby in the evening, and it's starting to wear.
Idiots. Idiots everywhere. Idiots tailgating the f’ out of me. Idiots who tailgate the f’ out of me and then dangerously undertake me when I wave them back. Idiot pedestrians blundering across the road without even looking up because they’re constantly staring straight down at their phone*. Idiots who don’t understand that a 20mph default speed limit in built up areas does not ****ing mean that you drive at 20 ****ing mph when there’s multiple ****ing road signs telling you the ****ing speed limit is 30 ****ing mph! This last one is really starting to boil my piss. There’s so much vitriol against the new default limit in Wales, but the vast majority of these idiots can’t exercise even one iota of brain power. “So does that mean all roads that were 20 are now 30?” No, it means you follow the speed limit on the signs, and if there’s no signage you do exactly the same thing you always should do to work out the limit. “So does that mean that if a road has a 30 limit sign that I have to do 20 on it now?” No, it means that you do the limit that the sign says - if it says 30 then you do 30! “So what if you’ve got 20 and 30 signs on the same road?” Well what would you if you were on a dual carriageway and there were alternating 50mph and national speed limit signs? You’d follow the god damn speed limit on the god damn signs ffs. TBF the “Welsh” Tories can take a lot of the blame for constantly calling it a “blanket policy” when it never was; councils have always had and will always have the option to exempt roads and keep them at 30mph. This, of course, being the very same “Welsh” Tories who bloody well voted in favour of this policy in the Senedd three damn years ago. *Look, I’m not one of those “damn kids always on their phone!!” types, but I am one of those “don’t just walk into the road without even looking, ffs!!” types.
I'm down a road i'm not sure i wanted to go down... ...that i'm not totally sure i want to continue down ...but principle and pride says i must continue down it And the strees of it all is getting to me more than i thought it would.
Dropped our guinea pig to the vet, I'm dreading the potential costs of this now. I've already signed up to £151, if he needs sedation it's another £74, given he's a squirmy little fella I'm definitely paying £225. But that's just to find out what's wrong, read online about certain procedures hitting four figures... Ultimately, I have to do what's right for the animal. Textbook case of failing to evaluate the true cost of owning what seems a cheap/low maintenance animal... Why "Meh" and not "ruining" once upon a time I wouldn't have been in any position to pay for the scan let alone anything else! I suppose this is the true use of a credit card.. update: Didn't need sedation so saved me £75 (woohoo) but wanted to do a test on his pee that costs £130.. boooo
My iPad’s battery is toast. Still at 91% of original capacity, but it barely lasts 3 days in standby. It lasted at least a week when I first got it. Apple don’t recommend replacing the battery until it gets below 80% capacity. Even if I got them to do it anyway there’s no guarantee I’d get a brand new replacement because it’s a discontinued model - I could end up worse off than I am now. There don’t appear to be any replacement battery kits on iFixit for this model either. On the other hand however, CeX are still willing to give me roughly £360 in cash (or £400 voucher) for it - it’s a 4th gen 12.9” 128GB iPad Pro with cellular, so clearly it’s still holding some value. I paid about £650 for it from CeX about two years ago. I can also get around £100-£150 for the ThinkPad T490 laptop I don’t really use, and that total is well into “decent GPU upgrade” territory. I wouldn’t be getting a 4080 because absolutely **** right off am I paying £1100 for a ****ing graphics card, but that’s easily a 4070 - or a 4070Ti or a 7900 XT, if I chuck in an extra couple of hundred. (I’m not sure the 4070Ti is worth the extra premium over a 4070, but that’s research for another day.) But I do like having an iPad, and the main reason I don’t really use mine is that the battery is toast - every time I want to use it the battery is flat. Or I’ve turned it off to stop the battery draining and have to wait for it to boot again.
