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Post by mick on Sept 13, 2024 9:04:48 GMT
Have the time and location for Monday now just waiting for the official contract to show up tomorrow Good luck! I'm sure that each and every one of us is hoping that nothing goes wrong and that your employment is long, happy and remunerative.
Mick
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Post by willien on Sept 13, 2024 10:15:25 GMT
Finally got my £200 cash back from Samsung after "escalating to the CEO", a facility that appears on your visit to their support website some time after you put in an original complaint email which in itself is a facility that appears some time after they are late in making the payment. Staged damage limitation management anyone?
My view is they prefer to pretend to customers that they care rather than hiring temps to sort the issue in a reasonable time. Hell knows how long people who don't go the complain and escalate route take to get paid.
Looks like we are going to have to replace both fridges in the near future. Despite being very pleased with the Samsung freezer we bought early in the COVID lock down neither new fridge will be a Samsung.
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Post by willien on Sept 13, 2024 17:14:24 GMT
1. Used the tablet in "anger" for the first time. Basically bought it to act as a music score reader. The main reason for not getting into it previously is no doubt largely psychological - while I was pissed off by the UK arm of its maker I did not feel positively towards it - but also the very frustrating learning curve to achieve the, one would think simple, task of scanning in sheat music so you can use large tablet rather than unwieldy book on a music stand AND "turn pages" with a bluetooth footswitch. I will not bore you all with the details of that learning curve but there was some swearing che W in the last few weeks. However I now seem to have got the hang of it and while the system is not perfect it is a joy to use compared with paper - albeit I foresee a lot of scanning in my immediate future.
2. Every cloud has a silver lining. The back fridge (an old, but not sure how old, budget Beko) now says -5c or switch me off at the mains (despite me fitting a new thermostat and then in desperation swapping back in the original one). However, my beer arrived 1/2 an hour ago and a) it is cooling quickly and, b) since there is not much we trustto put in a fridge that cold, I am not getting grief for stuffing said beer into fridge.
A Bosch is on order (a bit over a week to go) and when it arrives we (who am I kidding? I) will haul out the 24 year old AEG built in from the kitchen to see if a non built in fridge will fit in the gap ( measurements say marginal) before I change the thermostat on said AEG. Trying the new Bosch in the gap will inform the decision as to what to buy if (when?) replacing the thermostat of a 24 year old fridge proves a waste of time.
All in all a better day than yesterday. For a start no thermostat replacing was involved.
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Post by willien on Sept 13, 2024 19:07:42 GMT
Jury not daft enough to convict a brown woman who suggested Little Rishi and Cruella are Coconuts (Brown on the outside white on the inside) of racially aggravated public disorder. Of course I am pissed off that some of my taxes were used to bring the prosecution in the first place... www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2x202v2ejo |
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Post by peterba on Sept 13, 2024 19:31:29 GMT
I will not bore you all with the details of that learning curve but there was some swearing che W in the last few weeks.
I'm shocked, Willie..... shocked, I tell ye.
Your post suggests that - when there's none of that hassle (of the learning curve variety) - there's ordinarily no swearing, chez Willie. To say that I'm disappointed would be an understatement of the first order.   |
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Post by willien on Sept 13, 2024 19:35:07 GMT
I will not bore you all with the details of that learning curve but there was some swearing che W in the last few weeks.
I'm shocked, Willie..... shocked, I tell ye.
Your post implies that - when there's none of that hassle (of the learning curve variety) - there's ordinarily no swearing, chez Willie. To say that I'm disappointed would be an understatement of the first order. Like Billy Connolly I know a large number of words but nevertheless prefer ****. It's a revolutionary household by the way. |
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Post by peterba on Sept 13, 2024 19:50:22 GMT
Like Billy Connolly I know a large number of words but nevertheless prefer ****.
That's one of my favourites, too..... |
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Post by daves on Sept 14, 2024 18:09:58 GMT
I went up to the big layby overlooking Abbotsbury and took my old XT-1, a tripod, and a few lenses.
Got a few photos that I'm reasonably happy with.
Nothing special but trying to rekindle my photography mojo after too long slumming it with a smartphone.
ETA, RTBC, I didn't twist my ankle and embed gravel in my knee as I did last time.
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Post by willien on Sept 15, 2024 18:33:38 GMT
Fair dos to Skye Arts.
Wathing their prog (see what I did?) on Jethro Tull.
Realised that the sound quality of people talking was crap (despite the rather expensive hifi it is going through) so set my hearing aid to the music program - much better.
I assume someone set the entire programme's sound output to be optimised for music.
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Post by spinno on Sept 15, 2024 19:11:38 GMT
Fair dos to Skye Arts. Wathing their prog (see what I did?) on Jethro Tull. Realised that the sound quality of people talking was crap (despite the rather expensive hifi it is going through) so set my hearing aid to the music program - much better. I assume someone set the entire programme's sound output to be optimised for music. I suspect that setting sound output to music is the default for drama programmes, either that or my hearing is shot |
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Post by lesleysm2 on Sept 15, 2024 22:00:13 GMT
Almost ready for the morning I was panicking a bit as I bumped into some friends in the Half Moon and got back a bit late but I have done most of the things I needed to do and those I haven't I know where they are for the morning
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Post by John Farrell on Sept 16, 2024 22:16:19 GMT
Here's something for all those who have problems with couriers. I ordered a pack of hinges (for my kitchen) from a shop in Auckland, on Sunday. They were picked up by the post office courier mid morning yesterday (Monday), and I had an email this morning saying they were with the postie for delivery.
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Post by mick on Sept 17, 2024 6:56:18 GMT
Almost ready for the morning I was panicking a bit as I bumped into some friends in the Half Moon and got back a bit late but I have done most of the things I needed to do and those I haven't I know where they are for the morning Hope it went well. I'm waiting with bated breath for a report!!
Mick
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Post by John Farrell on Sept 17, 2024 19:30:28 GMT
And yes, the hinges arrived mid morning yesterday. I can now replace the awkward one, which requires the rubbish bin removed from the cupboard...
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Post by gray1720 on Sept 17, 2024 19:55:32 GMT
Someone has promised me a little something...
In other news, with a little help from someone not a million miles away, I have succesfully straightened a bent bike wheel for the first time, which I am unduly chuffed by. JUst wish I knew why it went - I'd just got off, lifted the bike overa kerb, and as I got back on I heard a spoke go! I'm on the chunky side by my standards (just over 11 stone), but hardly by the standards of some of the people I see on bikes...
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