Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?

I think I'm going to sack my right knee, as it's no longer doing it's job properly.

A knee's job description does not include, providing near constant pain, even when in bed.

 

6am work flight tomorrow morning means 4am at airport means 315am taxi.
On thinking about this, I had input on this flight with the boss and how much time we spend on the project and I opted for more time so these where the best flights for that, so this I pretty much my fault.

 

Annual flare up of gout in my left foot, specifically the joint behind my big toe. Currently running on around 4 hours sleep over two nights... Can't have anything near it, touching it or properly walk on it.

 

Separate to above, just love that suddenly our (now previous) car insurers are suddenly able to offer a much compelling renewal quote once you jump through the renewal cancellation hoops...



Stil £35 more than our new insurer (which is a full £135 less than the initial renewal..).

Quotemehappy have been fine for the last 3 years with renewals well within the top 5 of offers on comparison sites. However this time around they were no where close.

 

I must be getting really old, as mine has dropped 3 years in a row

 

The market’s become a nightmare after the anti-price-walking stuff the FCA brought in a couple of years back.

TL;DR: Insurers must now offer the same prices to renewing customers as they would to new customers.

Previously the industry would offer large discounts to new customers that would not be offered to renewing customers, leading to a gradual and artificial price creep for people who stuck with the same company for years on end. When that was banned in Jan 2022, the industry in general jacked its prices up across the board. Within the space of a year, average prices went up by 40% across the board.

The industry is a joke, honestly. The legal minimum insurance requirement should be a state-backed offering, with strong protections and controls on pricing. It shouldn’t be left to the volatility of private organisations whose number 1 priority is shareholder profit.

(Previously worked at “Big Price Comparison Website (No Not The One With The Stupid ****ing Meerkats)”, and I was there both before and after this legislation hit. I had a front-row seat to watch how the market responded.)

 

Our's went up 2½ years ago, when I made the front end of our car, much shorter than it used to be...

 

Mother in law may have the Big C. Definitely something amiss, got a scan in 10 days followed by a consultation. But a variety of tests and examinations are pointing heavily in that direction.

Wife is all over the place understandably.

 

Yodel have had a parcel for me since the middle of last week.
I pushed the delivery from last Friday to today (Monday) due to a work event which meant the place would be empty.
At 9:30 this morning (at least 90 mins before delivery vans leave the depot) the status changed to:-
"Your parcel is on its way to you but our driver has experienced a short delay. Please check back for updates"
And hasn't changed since...


EDIT - They've now pinged me on their app to say my parcel will be delivered between 5 & 7 tonight.
Even though my delivery address says "This is a business address. Deliveries are ONLY accepted 8am-4pm Mon-Fri" !

 

Younger daughters birthday today, and she gets a brown letter from DWP about moving her to UC from ESA, she suffers from anxiety and depression so it's hit her hard on a day that's ment to be happy.

 

Update:- Yodel messaged me at 5:10pm to say the parcel had been left in my "Safe space" - on the front doorstep of the factory!
I hadn't set a safe place because "none" is not one of the offered options.
I also hadn't set a "deliver to neighbour" because it's an industrial estate ffs!

Luckily, someone brought it into the lobby before they went home, and I have my stuff this morning.
It wasn't the value of the parcel that's so upsetting, it was the 4-month wait for it to finally arrive.

TL;DR - They got all the 1-stars I could give. Worse! Than! Evri!

 

Yodel suck donkey ass

More than EVRI for me...

 

Looks like Evri are trying to get their title back.
They have a parcel for me to be delivered today, and *checks notifications at 12:30pm* they still haven't given me a time slot for it.

Do courier companies no longer do mornings, lunchtimes or even afternoons?

 

I’ve a delivery coming in the next couple of days, via Evri, don’t put the mockers on it…

 

<mockers>Still no time slot at 1:45pm</mockers>

UPDATE - Since telling them that they're coming to a business that only accepts deliveries 8-4 M-F, they've finally updated. But...

Wierd that their page says they posted that at 10:17 but it took until gone 2pm to show for me.
I guess they're switching to an employed van driver instead of some rando gig worker they use in the evenings.

 

Body dysmorphia, I’m enslaved to a version of myself that doesn’t exist yet.

 

Father-in-law has passed today, was fine all of a half hour before. Sad sad times

 

Sorry to hear this bud

Hope your OH and you are doing ok. Well, as ok as such crappy situations allow.

 

Sending virtual bro-hug