Other What's ruining your life right now?

No snow expected, according to The Met Office: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcwdpv169#?date=2019-05-03

 

Balance must be restored to the force...

 

I'm from Essex, live in the pancake-flat Cambridge and took a front wheel drive Suzuki Swift to the highest village in the UK (awesomely named "Flash") during the February blizzard of 2018... Just about made it out alive - with lots of wheel spinning, much digging and gritting by hand, and the wife flipping between laughing hysterically and crying with fear on the various single-wide, sheer-drop, completely frozen roads. When we got to the cottage we were staying at, the bloke (in his Defender) was genuinely amazed we made it.

 

Often little front wheel drive cars are best in the snow. I remember two funny snow incidents, one years ago I tried to drive my extremely low at the front end were talking about an inch an a half with the splitter. got about 20 feet of my drive before the car ground to a halt. Full plough mode that, didn't get to work in the end
An last time it snowed I was one of the only cars using the "fast lane" on the A5 which hadnt been ploughed, so it was defenders, Discos, rangers and Hilux's an me booting it along in a lowered Saab screaming around on boost with traction control fully off.

On that note, I actually really miss that car an its silly turbo/exhaust noises, exhaust note of an Astra VXR, comically turbo you'd hear spooling up from 1200RPM that sounded like it was trying to inhale everything around it, then comically loud flutter dump an the odd exhaust flash (no pop). An the fact it went like absolute stink, only downer was the £60+ a week in fuel.

 

Was that a 9-5? Absolutely brilliant cars, the more powerful ones were absolute rockets. Supremely comfy seats, too!

 

Was a Mk2 9-3 the 1.8t which was the same as the 2.0T but a low pressure turbo. Had some playing with an was seeing about 240BHP by the end. Agree though the seats were glorious an some of the silly things like night mode on the dash an the wine bottle slot in the glovebox.

Always better seeing those, or passing one stuck in the snow

 

Ah yeah, night mode! It's the simple design touches that I liked, like the fact that you have two sun visors rather than one, so you can have one across the door window and one across the windscreen. And the cunning pop-out cup holders.

 

Never got those sunvisors on the 9-3, got a funky cup pop out cup holder though, an the head up display.
It met an untimely death the balancer chain tensioner failed when I started it one morning, that jammed, the main chain then jammed an snapped an lots of things collided that were not meant to. Upshot was an engine (B207) cost more than the car so I stripped an scrapped. Wish Id taken the drivers seat out an converted it to an office chair, imagine getting the heated seat to work!

 

That's one of the things that I love about our Mini. There's the normal sun visor and one in place of the grab handle above the driver's door. That second one is so useful as it stops the flashing that you get with low sun and trees.

 

The orange man is right! It's all a lie! It's not getting warmer it's getting colder!

... Sorry.

 

Irksome more than ruining, but.

Desktop has the shiny new Office icons - Which is annoying in a way, as I can't remember what they all look like as I clutch-less scroll through the start menu - But the Surface doesn't despite all my manual intervention with regards to icon caches and updates.

 

It's a bank holiday weekend and I'm doing DIY. I feel like a walking cliche right now.

To be fair, it's about damn time the sealant around the bath was sorted. It's been ****ed ever since we moved in and repeated attempts to get it fixed have been hampered by the useless contractors that our landlord seems insistent on appointing.

 

That reminds me, our shower in the new house needs some fresh sealant.

I say shower, it's not been put in yet but we've luckily landed a good plumber who'll be putting that in soon. The sparky has been to put the isolation switch in (.....) and I picked up an 8.5W shower to go in. That's in place of the 10.5W shower that didn't have the wiring for a 10.5W shower, nor an isolation switch, and was dripping towards the mains.....

Anyhoo...

 

ugh i have the same issue, leaks into the room below, I bledy hate that sealant crap and the bath drops by a couple mm when we get in, going to try the sealant strips instead

 

Looks like my "favorite customers" killed their PC. This looks bad. Like magic smoke bad. Worse, I'm no longer hourly.

I7 3960X, 32 GB RAM, 1070. I expect none of it to have lived.

 

Firefox. Big sack of crap. Waterfox has been my back up, now its my main.