Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?

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

 

My mother-in-law has cancer... well, it’s been described as “99% sure it’s cancer.” I’m not entirely sure that makes much sense following a CT, but that’s what the doctor has said.

My partner is in bits, understandably. She (my MIL) is on her way back now for further scans to try and find the origin and discuss the next steps. The problem is, she had some of these symptoms 9 months ago and has been hiding them since.

Personally, I’m keeping my fingers tightly crossed for an early stage that’s treatable, but it feels like the odds are against us here…

 

Fingers crossed its been caught early and has a straight forward treatment plan.

Going through similar atm with my mum. She randomly "forgot" to tell me that she needs another MRI as they have found more growths (she is already on chemo for context). I am honestly numb atm as I don't know how to react given everything going on (its more complicated than just forgetting to tell me..)

 

The death of my 1250c was a pivotal point in my adult life, I know how you feel. Such a no-nonsense, unreasonably good for the money little printer.

Sleep well little printer bro.

 

BT still, it's exactly 3 months to the day that I signed a sales order to move my work line to digital and bring in the residential line at the same address into the VOIP system.
I was on the phone to them yesterday for the best part of an hour.

Fortunately the installation guy in India has stayed with me the whole process since we set up the handsets 10 days ago, so some continuity.

He rang me at 8.40, luckily I was in the office after a cancelled early appointment, that call was 35 mins and he'll be back to me when he has hopefully untangled the lines.

I wanted the office line to go on Webex on my phone and the old house line to 4 handsets. Both lines were ported on Friday at lunch time, the office line rang on my mobile and one of the house handsets and the house line has been dead until this morning...
Not ideal for elderly parents whose friends preferentially call on the landline.

We now have the landline on 3 handsets and have disabled the 4th for a reset and base station reprogram. Hopefully then the work line can be reinstated on Webex.

Having a bricked handset at the start and 2 faulty wifi extenders in the mix has been challenging. The person on the phone yesterday has arranged for a new wifi extender to be posted to me, so that should resolve the wifi coverage.

Aaaand breathe

 

BCP Council with their new proposed plan to charge for parking in almost all roads up to 1km from the seafront in Poole and Bournemouth. Residents would have to but a permit tied to a particular vehicle at a minimum of £70 a year.
It's out for consultation which they will ignore even if they get a massive negative response which is already happening.
This will affect me at home where I park on the road and work as well, and the permit can't be given to a visitor. No idea if I my permit would work in both zones, I'd wager it won't.
This means trades people will have to pay to have a van outside your house when working, and people will probably dig up any remaining front gardens to increase off road parking and add to flooding.
Worst of all, it won't decrease the illegal and dangerous parking in the summer that it's supposed to help with. People park on roundabouts, double yellow lines and on the pavements of our local car park access road which is narrow on a good day.
Asking residents to pay for parking well away from the beach is a cynical money grab, so they can supposedly afford to pay for more enforcement officers and tow trucks.
I have some sympathy for the council as the discounted £35 parking charge is only 50% more than 24 hrs in a beach car park and therefor little deterrent, they supposedly lose money on the £150 charge if you're towed away if the car is held for more than a day or 2. They have asked the government to raise allow them to raise charges, but outside London it can't be done unless the whole country changes apparently... Also the charges haven't been raised since 2008.
That said, the aforementioned sympathy evaporates when you look at how many car parks have been sold on the BCP area recently with more still for sale!