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[zeitghost]

And here we are.

ZeitZenChuryOm(tm)

[NickFitz]

What, specifically in Toyota, do you require doing?

I've had it now for half its life, in terms of mileage (it's just over 81,000 now), and its only had the back-street type of service in that time. Toyota offer a full service, including various tests and diagnostics and what have you, for a couple of hundred quid all-in (though probably quite a bit more if anything big needs doing) so I figured it deserved a treat, to keep it going for the next 80,000 miles

There's nothing necessarily the matter with it - the oil consumption is still a tad high, but seems to have settled back to a more reasonable level - but it just feels sometimes like a good tune-up to factory specs would do it some good.

[NickFitz]

The washing machine is indicating to me that I've put too much in it.

Mine has just finished. I'd decided to use the 1600rpm spin, as it's not a hot day that would dry stuff quickly. This has a tendency to make the cooker vibrate like a mad thing. After the time the other week when I spent a couple of minutes looking out of the window trying to work out why the police helicopter was hovering low over the house before realising it was in fact the cooker vibrating, I now rush in there when it's due to start the spin cycle, quickly clearing pans off it and jamming a tea towel under the top, which stops the worst of the noise.

The time when I'd left a glass baking tray, with a metal baking tray inside it, and a metal grille inside that in the oven as it all kicked off was quite something to hear

[NickFitz]

Just tried calling Ikea to notify them about the parking, etc., as theirs is yet another website that swallows forms with no indication of whether the information has got through

Waiting time of ten minutes. Decided I couldn't be bothered waiting. I'll try again later.

[zeitghost]

So far the tarp under the washing machine is doing the business.

[zeitghost]

There we are, fish cooked & eaten.

Yum.

Followed by stewed apple and custard.

Yum.

Currently making the stock for tomorrow's lentil <pfffffft> soup.

[SimonMac]

Just tried calling Ikea to notify them about the parking, etc., as theirs is yet another website that swallows forms with no indication of whether the information has got through

Waiting time of ten minutes. Decided I couldn't be bothered waiting. I'll try again later.

There we are, fish cooked & eaten.

Yum.

Followed by stewed apple and custard.

Yum.

Currently making the stock for tomorrow's lentil <pfffffft> soup.

You know what, you two would make a great "odd" couple #JustSaying

[mudskipper]

very probably.

Some of the stuff I've asked to do for them is quite

The best one was the guy who wanted to magnetically suspend 75kg of steelwork.

I told him he was outa luck.

I've got visions of an impressive installation with a very strong electromagnet. 75kg of steelwork. After opening to visitors, it becomes a living installation with random pushchairs flying towards the ceiling before attaching themselves. Maybe the odd walking frame with dangling old lady too.

[zeitghost]

You know what, you two would make a great "odd" couple #JustSaying

I'm Walter Matthau, so I suppose that Nick is Jack Lemon.

I've got visions of an impressive installation with a very strong electromagnet. 75kg of steelwork. After opening to visitors, it becomes a living installation with random pushchairs flying towards the ceiling before attaching themselves. Maybe the odd walking frame with dangling old lady too.

Yup.

He wanted a control system designed so this monstrosity levitated as if by magick.

Seemed ever so disappointed when I told him to think again.

Then there was the art installation proposed for the beach, comprising a windmill of sorts, attached to a dynamo attached to, IIRC, a laptop.

That didn't fly either.

It might have blown away & decapitated someone though.

[NickFitz]

I'm Walter Matthau, so I suppose that Nick is Jack Lemon.

In The Apartment, or Glengarry Glen Ross?