Wait...is rag a removed word?

Edit - Nope...   

Just now, TomsFocus said:

Wait...is rag a removed word?

That'll do, lol.

5 minutes ago, alexp999 said:

Kalms never worked for me.

I used Bach's rescue remedy to get through learning to drive and my test.

Tried it again recently to help with buying my first home and it's not worked at all. :(

I've been trying to remain patient and amenable, but I've had enough with the process and feel like loosing my !Removed! today. Lots of phones calls to come....

EDIT:

Haha, the word that's been removed isn't even a swear word, not the word you think, but I can't think of anything else to put, so removed will have to stay for now.

Ironically buying a home is one of the things that makes me calm, as my old (and most loved) job was at an Estate Agency, where I dealt with property sales.  My current job has definitely exacerbated things. 

4 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Wait...is rag a removed word?

Edit - Nope...   

Think you answered your own question there Tom...  That's what I thought it was though!!

I did indeed, must admit I also thought it was another word for faeces, which would've been my word of choice there, but doesn't seem like something Alex would use, at least not on here anyway.  

Maybe I should have just used the chocolate whip emoji.

Maybe I should have just used the chocolate whip emoji.

(Pssst...Alex...that's not chocolate whip...)

:D

1 hour ago, TomsFocus said:

I did indeed, must admit I also thought it was another word for faeces, which would've been my word of choice there, but doesn't seem like something Alex would use, at least not on here anyway.  

That was the obvious first thought, but then he said that it shouldn't have been censored so that ruled it out!!

1 hour ago, alexp999 said:

Kalms never worked for me.

I used Bach's rescue remedy to get through learning to drive and my test.

Tried it again recently to help with buying my first home and it's not worked at all. :(

I've been trying to remain patient and amenable, but I've had enough with the process and feel like loosing my rag today. Lots of phones calls to come....

 

I bought my first home with my partner in June, there was a bit of a rush before hand, it all started in March when we put our offer in. Now we're putting a new central heating in (had warm air heating in before), doing a full rewire and we've put a supporting beam in place of a wall to open in the kitchen through to the dining room :)

It's great when you finally get things moving :D

I don't like finding a solitary 25mm M8 bolt on the lower part of the drive, I'm left wondering where it came from?

Has one of the Foci lost a fastening?  Or was it just tossed there by a passing pedestrian, or dropped by a magpie, or was it flushed out by the recent rain and then washed down the drive?

I also don't like stepping a small pool of diarrhoea, whilst going down the drive to retrieve the M8 bolt.  As it was beyond the gates that are halfway up the drive, a local fox is the No.1 suspect or a badger with a dodgy stomach

6 hours ago, GMX said:

I don't like finding a solitary 25mm M8 bolt on the lower part of the drive, I'm left wondering where it came from?

Has one of the Foci lost a fastening?  Or was it just tossed there by a passing pedestrian, or dropped by a magpie, or was it flushed out by the recent rain and then washed down the drive?

I also don't like stepping a small pool of diarrhoea, whilst going down the drive to retrieve the M8 bolt.  As it was beyond the gates that are halfway up the drive, a local fox is the No.1 suspect or a badger with a dodgy stomach

M8 is big enough to be used as a butt plug 😀

perhaps it fell out causing the unwelcome discharge 😂😅😭😂😁

My wife found this company on Facebook to steam clean out the spouting on the roof aswell as the fascia, spouting and Windows for €75

Ours haven't been touched since house was built 9 years ago and there green in some places black with 5" inch grass on back one.

Anyways she said that were coming today.

I come home from work and it all looks the same 😦

I asked did they come to clean the spouting today?

wife says yeah....

I said did you pay them? 

She says yes, 

I was like 😮 all that money and it looks exactly the same as it already was,

She says I'm joking there coming tomorrow 

😥

I don't like CloudMagic implementing a subscription fee, forcing me to change email app.

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I don't like what just happened...

Been out in the ST, not gone far...loads of puddles and small floods to go through...mid way through one I notice a waterfall coming from the kick panel where the bonnet release handle is!!  Hmm, seems it happening at every puddle, oh dear!

So I pull over and put some tissues down to soak it up and carry on back with the heat on full.

Decide to pull into a local park car park to idle it with heat on without annoying the neighbours.   Mk6 Fiesta follows me in, I think nothing of it and get my phone out...

There's a PCSO at the window...  I open it and she basically wants to know if I'm one of the 'usual' youths that cause a nuisance in the car park because I looked young (think she assumed my age due to the stripey ST as you can't see in in this rain!).  Anyway, said I wasn't and she apologised and left...

Then I realised...  I'm sat in an empty car park in the pouring rain, with the heat on full, damp tissues on the floor and my phone in my hand...I dread to think what she thinks I was doing now!!  

But in other news at least I know not to drive like an idiot near that particular mk6 in future!

2 hours ago, TomsFocus said:

I don't like what just happened...

Been out in the ST, not gone far...loads of puddles and small floods to go through...mid way through one I notice a waterfall coming from the kick panel where the bonnet release handle is!!  Hmm, seems it happening at every puddle, oh dear!

So I pull over and put some tissues down to soak it up and carry on back with the heat on full.

Decide to pull into a local park car park to idle it with heat on without annoying the neighbours.   Mk6 Fiesta follows me in, I think nothing of it and get my phone out...

There's a PCSO at the window...  I open it and she basically wants to know if I'm one of the 'usual' youths that cause a nuisance in the car park because I looked young (think she assumed my age due to the stripey ST as you can't see in in this rain!).  Anyway, said I wasn't and she apologised and left...

Then I realised...  I'm sat in an empty car park in the pouring rain, with the heat on full, damp tissues on the floor and my phone in my hand...I dread to think what she thinks I was doing now!!  

But in other news at least I know not to drive like an idiot near that particular mk6 in future!

Good Lord!

Speaking of puddles... I didn't enjoy last nights storm - kept me awake, and felt like a zombie at work today.

Choosing to not work from home was also a big mistake - usual 40 minute journey doubled to 1hr20 mins. Insane traffic - even switched off the engine at one point. The car said I used > 40 miles worth of petrol for a 17 mile journey.

Thought that the journey home would be better, but alas no. The A3095 was cordoned off by police (presumably due to flooding), and the whole area was a grid-lock, with most drivers not knowing what to do. Luckily Waze got me out of there pronto (and took me down some back roads and residential streets), but still added a good 20 mins to the journey time.

@GMX - was Brandy able to sleep last night? 

Mum arriving back home in the storm last night, and in her haste to get from her car to the front door without getting soaked, she slammed her car door into the Focus. 

It's left a relatively small dent but noticeable if you know where to look, she said she'd pay for it to be fixed so it'll get done when the bonnet and O/S front quarter panel are resprayed. Never mind, accidents happen! 

I thought Thursday night's storm was going to track north east of us and head up through Hampshire, with just the forecasted raining falling.  Whilst one part was doing that, another part was using Dorset as it's route

By around midnight thirty it was directly overhead and seemed to be tracking north very slowly, it took a good three hours to move completely away. 

An absurd quantity of rain fell, for about an hour my drive was a fast flowing river, my road became the tributary to the lake that forming in crossroads together with all the water funnelling down the road behind me The pavements had vanished beneath water line, it's edges lapping the walls and fences of the surrounding houses.

I went to get a better view of the swelling lake from the bedroom window and watched a Peugeot 508 hesitantly trying to drive across it. Suddenly there was a loudish crack type bang coming from my home office milliseconds after a lightening strike over the house opposite 

When I went back to look what it might have been, I noticed my router appeared to be dead, at least as far as the broadband and wifi were concerned.  The wired ethernet LEDs were still illuminated.  I suspected the the lightening had hit the pole and travelled along the network knocking out everyone's router

However, this didn't turn out to be the case.

As the wired ethernet was still working I thought I'll see what the syslog says happened.  Having tried to log into it and getting "destination unreachable", I tried pinging it, from within windows command prompt.  All four packets lost and "destination unreachable" again, each time I tried.  I concluded I'd probably had part of the internal board taken out. 

However, comparing to what I remembered last time I lost a router (autumn 1996, where I also lost a motherboard, a PCI controller and several other critical components on other cards) in a lightening strike hitting a local pole. This time only the broadband and wifi were taken out.  Using my phone's browser, I checked just see if anyone had reported an outage to both Timico (my ISP) and BT Open Reach's service status page, just in case it was a network problem and not my router. Nobody had at that stage, but the storm was still raging and it was rather early for anyone to notice (1:25am).

Thinking I had nothing to lose by doing so, especially as I'd concluded it was going to be router replacement time anyway.  I performed a factory reset on it, by powering it down, then unplugging it and leaving for half an hour.  When I reconnected it's power source, it powered up normally, broadband was connected and wifi re-established.  It appears Netgear have built something in (anti-spike trip switch deice?), to preserve not only the connected PCs and devices but the router itself.    

On the animal front

On one particular loud thunderclap Molly jumped off the settee and raced into the coat and vacuum cleaner cupboard, where she remained until the next one clap.  Then she decided to bolt through the house and squeeze under a wardrobe, where she remained at least until after I'd gone to bed

Brandy didn't seem to bothered by the storm, she was asleep in the bathroom on the rug, when it started  As the volume of the thunder increased she got up and went curled up by the airing cupboard, suggesting the acoustics in the tiled bathroom made it too loud to snooze: in comparison to the carpeted insulated hall. 

 

18 hours ago, Incontro said:

 - was Brandy able to sleep last night? 

Apart from changing rooms, the storm didn't seem to interrupt her sleep

I don't like feeling the start of a sore throat that I fear will become yet another cold/flu!  Why I have to get ill at least once a month I don't know!!

Don't like my marriage is on its backside, my wife isn't talking to me, I've got no one to talk to, I couldn't feel any more alone if I tried. The one person who I thought would help me (my wife) couldn't care less.  Times like this make you wonder why you bother

I don't like last night's suspicions being true.  Feeling like absolute crap today and can barely speak, which could be a problem considering I work in a CALL CENTRE.  Of course this happens just three days after I was already off sick for a different reason, I am now faced with the prospect of calling in sick tomorrow when I already have a meeting scheduled for a stage two absence warning.

The irony is that at my last job I was there for almost two years and had a total of two sick days, when I was literally bed-bound.  Other than that, I was there come hell or high water.  Since changing to my current job I am ill at least once a month and have had five sick days in the past 16 months.

4 hours ago, jmurray01 said:

I don't like last night's suspicions being true.  Feeling like absolute crap today and can barely speak, which could be a problem considering I work in a CALL CENTRE.  Of course this happens just three days after I was already off sick for a different reason, I am now faced with the prospect of calling in sick tomorrow when I already have a meeting scheduled for a stage two absence warning.

The irony is that at my last job I was there for almost two years and had a total of two sick days, when I was literally bed-bound.  Other than that, I was there come hell or high water.  Since changing to my current job I am ill at least once a month and have had five sick days in the past 16 months.

Join the club Jamie. Had a fever last night (>38C), and feeling very drowsy/weak - I don't know what I even have tbh. Spent most of the weekend lying down doing nothing, feels like such a waste. Being healthy/well is sooo underrated! Lol.

1 hour ago, Incontro said:

Join the club Jamie. Had a fever last night (>38C), and feeling very drowsy/weak - I don't know what I even have tbh. Spent most of the weekend lying down doing nothing, feels like such a waste. Being healthy/well is sooo underrated! Lol.

Isn't it just!! 

I don't like feeling even worse this morning, if that was even possible.  Add to my previous symptoms, I now feel light-headed/dizzy and increasingly nauseous.  Probably not the best idea to drive full stop, let alone going into work for 9.5 hours - but it's that or call in sick and end up possibly losing my job. 

The joys of working for a large company where you are simply a number with "productivity" stats rather than a valued employee with feelings.