Other What's ruining your life right now?

I once gridlocked Liverpool for an entire morning. I was doing a system move for the traffic control computers, and the historic database wouldn't transfer. I figured it wasn't really necessary so went ahead and figured I'd sort it the following day. Well that day came and as I drove from the hotel to the offices the signals weren't operating correctly. There were huge queues and the main drag was being given four seconds of green before going to the empty side street for ages. I finally made it to the offices and upon walking in was given a silent thumbs down by a huge Scouse bloke.

Turns out that 25% of the induction loops that sense cars were dead. Normally this isn't a problem, if they don't detect for three minutes then system figures they've failed and they go off to the historic database which tells them "normally 25 cars here at 8am on a Monday", of course without that data it instead inserted zero and the signals ran their minimum stage before going back to the side street where it knew there were two cars.

Even Highways England had been on the phone asking why people couldn't get off the motorways into the city

Oh well, the traffic guys are never that upset when a thing like this happens, it reminds everyone of how important their roles and budgets are

 

That sounds like utter torture, I cringed reading that. However has reminded me I really need to sort out a dentist checkup, it has been almost half my life (17 years out of 35 on this earth) since the last one!

 

Venting. I've had massive mental health issues most of my life which have started compounding with neurological issues

Might have ran into a wall in therapy. Something was done to me while I was eight, gave me complex PTSD, borderline and dissociative symptoms including amnesia episodes lasting months to years. Longest known is three and half years during which I moved across one country and gained a degree... Been working on this for 3+ years with my current psychotherapist, all we have to go by is a translated copies of the event paperwork from 1987 and therapy back then. How do you process and heal from something you can't remember a single shred of? I'm not going to heal until a memory of the event surfaces

I need a stiff drink. Or a great many

 

I'm on holiday in Belgium, yesterday I failed to charge my car because the local town was as good as shut due to a massive cycling festival. I drove round for ages twice getting within 400m of the rapid charge station and twice falling foul of closed roads.

Today I drove further out to another town, but due to a connection issue the car wouldn't charge, I tried again and this time it randomly locked itself and aborted. At this point, the chargers started refusing my card as I'd pre-authorised it twice. At this point I decided to sign up to Ionity as you can pay through the app, avoiding all the contactless bollocks. Of course, the nearest Ionity charger was so far away I'd arrive there with 1% charge left. I disabled the climate control, uncoupled the front motor and drove there real smooth like. Arrived with 4% charge, workable should I need to move on. Luckily this one worked fine, but as I waited a German guy in an Audi has the same problem. By now I'd learned the connectors are junk and need to be held in, I did it while he worked the machine and we were both happily charging.

80% range in 30 minutes, not bad. It's enough to get me comfortably back into the UK. In other news, I have now accidentally been to The Netherlands.

 

Infrastructure is going to become an issue in a number of places and will be the biggest blocker of widespread adoption.
Flats/apartments without big enough car parks is an obvious one.
Anywhere that houses don't have driveways is also going to put such a huge onus on councils and governments to put in the infra and figure out payments or whatever.

 

In Germany, multi-apartment houses are still being built with .7 parking spaces per apartment and 0 charging spots.

I likely won't buy an electric car ever, but that just seems daft. Then again, it's Germany. Why am I even pretending to be surprised?

 

My water cooling on my pc just failed badly to a point i can smell smoke.


*update*

Ive stripped it all to bits and its down to parts.. i think its the mobo dead as the gpu i smell nothing yet the mobo smells nasty :-(

I also put a UV light on the inside as i had uv cooling this was a mistake. Ive never felt so sick.. well if i wasnt sure if i wanted a new pc i think i do now

 

Recent MRI revealed a new damaged area in my brain which lead to a call this morning. Cried until I became physically and mentally numb

Wasn't a surprise. It's MS

 

NHS England and NHS Scotland use different computer systems and cannot communicate, so.....

I'm on hold with the out of hours service (again) - second time tonight since already being cut off after 30 minutes on hold. This is after spending hours on the phone with them on Monday for an emergency prescription. They finally issued one with the (eversoslightly) wrong item description on it, so the pharmacy refused to dispense. And!!!, because the prescription was issued my the OOH service, I can't get it resolved by anyone else, apparently.

It took me a day to get the messed up prescription in the first place, because it was issued late monday when all the pharmacies were closed and I thought it made sense to collect it from the hospital front desk the following morning, on my way to the pharmacy. Stupid boy. It was apparently locked in some out of hours cabinet and was "impossible to access" until after 7pm when the OOH staff came in; and when all the pharmacies were shut again.

 

In a horrible amount of pain right now. I have long term lower back and pelvis issues resulting from getting hit by a car over 30 years ago and every now and again it flares up, normally during warm weather (cold is quite the opposite, hence one reason why I much prefer winter).

Got huge pain in the back of my pelvis, radiating around my right hip and a line of pain down my leg. Of course, this means that the rest is having to compensate which is never a good thing. Not a lot I can do other than pain pills and rest. I have a physio appointment next week, but the exercises that I am doing from them are not really hitting where the pain is, just around it.

Meh, kinda used to it by now, i shall just get on with things as normal.

 

Not really ruining my life, as it's actually given me a huge sense of relief. Just updating the thread as I posted about this previously. Mum passed away on Thursday. The cause of death is aspiration pneumonia, which I was told would happen way back in December. I've been grieving the loss of my Mum for 7 months now. So it's not been a shock, and I am coping pretty well. I still haven't told my Dad as he's not lucid at all lately, and I have too much to get done. His best friend died a few months ago, and he took it surprisingly well and forgot about it almost immediately. I don't think he really understood. I'm just so pleased she's free now. She would have hated everything that's gone on for the last few months. I will say, I'm glad I'm the only person who saw her in A&E Resus. That was horrific. I was surprised she didn't go there and then. She was setting off all the alarms constantly: low blood pressure, low oxygen, high heart rate, etc. They ended up setting the alarms to absurdly high amounts as the muting would stop after a while, and they'd beep again! She did calm down, though, before her sister got there. Then decided to hang around in a ward until she'd had all her visitors.

It also means she still had a little bit left in her savings from the £2,000 a week Nursing Home costs, so I don't have to worry about Financial Assessments and the fact that I just found out about land that she owned part of in a trust, that can't be sold. So would've stopped her getting financial support, without any way to actually pay for her care - that worry was crippling me! I still have to deal with solicitors on that too, which will now be a bit weird as it's changing names anyway. Apparently, they changed something with the trust in 2023, and the person working at the firm cocked the entire thing up and took my Mum's name and another two of them off the Land Registry. So now she's being put back on - just in time for us to have to switch it to my Dad anyway!

 

Phishing email meeting with the business unit director. FML

 

DON'T let them click on the link!

 

I'm the dumbass who clicked the link.

 

Oh. Been nice knowing you!

 

It's all good. I've basically got to keep my nose clean for 3 months and I should be good. Basically just be suspish of *e v e r y t h i n g*