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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast. Humid. Currently 20 degrees with a high of 24 expected. Barometer up to 1013 mBar.

I received a call about a job this morning. Client in Clapham, outside IR35, 100% on site. Document digitisation project, experience of rollouts of such things with DocuSign needed. £150 a day. That's less than the very first rate I was on when I started in 2005. I doubt I'll be hearing back on that one.

Have been on hold with BT for nearly 45 minutes while I wait for another person to tell me that the service cease that should have happened a month ago isn't closed and it's because of a "system issue" and they'll put in a request and that request will take 24 hours to complete, so call back tomorrow.

[ladymuck]

Lunch was a jacket potato with lashings of butter and a sprinkling of a sharp cheddar.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Links are up

You actually managed to create a new thread that's readable??

[NickFitz]

Lunch: sausages in finger rolls

The formerly ailing freezer continues to function impeccably. No idea what's going on with it

[NickFitz]

You actually managed to create a new thread that's readable??

Yes! Though it did help that I was able to log in to the Admin Control Panel and clear the system cache first, as I know that's been the cause of problems in the past

Ages ago, I was trying to get the new administrators to switch the forum to use an alternative cacheing mechanism (memcached), as the database is under enough strain as it is. But they never got around to it

[NickFitz]

Tea: chicken madras with rice and naan

Nice evening out after a mostly cloudy day

[NickFitz]

Old Police Interceptors was tonight's only viewing, as usual

And later, I read some more of Sam Pepys' account of 1667

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Patchy cloudy out, but still quite sunny. Apparently it'll get clearer during the day then cloud over some more towards evening, a reversal of last week's procedure. It's already 15°C and heading for 23°, with the barometers up a little at 1004/1011mB

[WTFH]

Morning all

CBS, etc.

I ordered some things on Friday and at checkout I was offered EXPRESS DELIVERY for £45 or Standard Delivery for £40. The earliest date for EXPRESS was today. The earliest date for Standard was ... today. I suspect the extra £5 was for the bold font.
Anyway, standard delivery and today was what I chose.
On Saturday I had a text message saying delivery would be today between 7am and 11pm.
On Sunday I got a text message saying delivery would be today between 7am and 7pm.
Yesterday I got a text message saying delivery would be today between 7am and 1pm, and that I would receive a more accurate time today.
6.45am: Your delivery will be between 7am and 11am. (this curtailed the walk, I clicked on the link in the test which just said the same time)
7:05am: Your delivery will be with you shortly (clicked on the link, showed the driver about half an hour away, if he was coming straight here)
7:10am: Your driver has 2 more stops before you
7:15am: Driver phones to say they will be here before 8am