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Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
I went with Hey!Broadband and their home worker package. I wanted something that didn't have to come bundled with a phone line.
Morning (just)
are landlines still a thing? when I moved my BT broadband the 'landline' was VOIP, so i canned it (NBG in emergency. - no power = no router = feck all comms)
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Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
I went with Hey!Broadband and their home worker package. I wanted something that didn't have to come bundled with a phone line.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostA meeting overran and there wasn't much time to do anything before the next one, so I bought myself a new iPad Air just for something to do. Delivery tomorrow
During standup my phone rang with a number I didn't recognise, so naturally I ignored it. Afterwards I Googled the number, and it was from a small hairdressing salon near the seafront in Swanage, a place I've never been
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Morning all
Cloudy. Grey. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 20 expected. Rain forecast this afternoon / early evening. Barometer down to 1015 mBar.
Sold a Tumi carry on suitcase this morning, so that's an extra £100 I didn't have when I woke up. Someone got themselves a bargain and I have one less thing to move that I don't use.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
It's a Toyota - patch up that bit and the rest of it will keep going forever
Can't remember exactly what mine's on but I think it's about 165K at the age of 23
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Morning gang
Very dull and grey here. Laptop wouldn't power up and needed me to faff with the self test sequence etc to get it to respond. Not a good start to the day.
CovKid 2 is off to a visit to a farm with school today, CovKid 3 is in nursery and Mrs CB is in the office. It's just me and the CovMogs today
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostMorning all
A short walk has been walked (5.1km)
The sky was menacingly black looking north, but that has blown through without any precipitation round here.
Already in discussions with project managers about the next few weeks of meetings: what is the purpose of them, who is attending, where are they being held, etc. You know, the important stuff. I've been told 3 different hotels for the first week, and for the next trip, since it was first mooted:
Day 1:
PM1: If you can go, book your flights
Me: I can go, will reorganise a few things.
PM2: Don't book your flights, PM1 is not authorised to ask you as they have not checked with my plan
Day 2:
PM3: We'll let you know today if you should book your flights
Day 3:
PM3: We'll let you know by close of business today if you should book your flights
Day 4:
PM2: Book your flights
Me: These flights are a LOT more expensive than normal.
PM2: Don't book your flights
Day 6:
PM1: Have you booked your flights yet?
Me: These flights are a LOT more expensive than normal, if you're authorising me, I'll book them.
PM1: Give me an estimation for the the full cost of the trip
Me: Researches it all, prices up hotels, parking, mileage, etc
PM1: I'm not sure I should authorise that, but you have to be there. I need to speak to PM4.
Day 7:
Let's see what happens today.
For context: PM1 is full time employed by the client and signs off all time sheets and expenses. The other 3 PMs are contractors brought it to manage different parts of the project.
Me: I need 3 weeks notice
PM: Why
Me: Flights start to get really expensive 3 weeks before the flight date
PM: but we don't know if we can do things that week
Me: Trust me get things sorted
PM (2 weeks later): Everything sorted can you book flights now
Me: Find another £2k - I did warn you..
Hotels we always had the continued joy of client please use our discount code - hang on that's €40 more expensive than me using my own, are you sure this hotel likes you?
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Morning.
Tuesday.
Grey. Gloomy.
Sunless.
"Dry" except it seems to be picking with rain.
Cool in here at 18.8 deg, 19.5 deg in the kitchen, 18 deg in the leanto.
1008.5 mBar, 29.78 in Hg, 756.43 Torr, 14.627 psi, (down from 1021 last night assuming I tapped it), 78% RH (GDR hair), 74% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 5th of October 2019 I was thinking of doing some "gardening" until it started raining which put that on hold, followed by watching yet more of S2 of Jeremiah which proved less than inspiring after the first two eps, followed by World War Weird, whereas NF was doing the laundry and then discovered that the film he was thinking of watching had a score of 3.5 on IMDB so didn't bother.
Still raining.
For the sake of sommat to do: washed the floor in the porch, disturbing many spiders in the process, including what may be a false widow.
Then I found some more books to donate to Oxfam, including one about Uncle Dickie which I'm very unlikely to read, plus a Colin Watson hardback (One Man's Meat to accompany the two paperbacks by him I found recently), and a hardback copy of "The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover" which I didn't know I had, the paperback version going the way of all books a month or so ago. Currently debating if I wish to read Douglas Bader's autobiog or donate it unread.
Lunch: baked spud etc. Over toasted the toast. Ho hum.
Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about holidays <click>. Haven't been away on holiday since 1976.
Veronica Mars S3 E2 "My big fat Greek rush week". What the feck are sorority & fraternities about? Thank feck we don't have them this side of the pond.
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Morning all
A short walk has been walked (5.1km)
The sky was menacingly black looking north, but that has blown through without any precipitation round here.
Already in discussions with project managers about the next few weeks of meetings: what is the purpose of them, who is attending, where are they being held, etc. You know, the important stuff. I've been told 3 different hotels for the first week, and for the next trip, since it was first mooted:
Day 1:
PM1: If you can go, book your flights
Me: I can go, will reorganise a few things.
PM2: Don't book your flights, PM1 is not authorised to ask you as they have not checked with my plan
Day 2:
PM3: We'll let you know today if you should book your flights
Day 3:
PM3: We'll let you know by close of business today if you should book your flights
Day 4:
PM2: Book your flights
Me: These flights are a LOT more expensive than normal.
PM2: Don't book your flights
Day 6:
PM1: Have you booked your flights yet?
Me: These flights are a LOT more expensive than normal, if you're authorising me, I'll book them.
PM1: Give me an estimation for the the full cost of the trip
Me: Researches it all, prices up hotels, parking, mileage, etc
PM1: I'm not sure I should authorise that, but you have to be there. I need to speak to PM4.
Day 7:
Let's see what happens today.
For context: PM1 is full time employed by the client and signs off all time sheets and expenses. The other 3 PMs are contractors brought it to manage different parts of the project.
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Morning denizens
Grey start out, 14°C with 17° due later, and the barometers are down again, to 1000/1008mB
On the bright side, it's bin day! And indeed, the bin wagons are just arriving - both recycling and general waste travelling in convoy today, it seems
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Teatime viewing was an old Police Interceptors
And then E1 of D-Day: The Unheard Tapes on iPlayer. Very interesting hearing accounts of the day in people's own voices.
And in Atomic Accidents, the Castle Bravo H-bomb test produced a much bigger bang than expected, and shut down the entire Japanese fishmongering industry for a while when the fishing vessel Lucky Dragon 5 returned from the vicinity with a catch of highly radioactive tuna and a highly radioactive crew
Goodnight all
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Quick bit of gardening done (2hrs of digging up the roots of an old tree so we could reposition a bird feeder), followed by dinner. Been watching our fox, who hasn’t interacted with any of the hedgehogs yet tonight, but it’s only a matter of time.
Meanwhile Max is exhausted from being a good, but stressed out, boy over the last few days, having finally got his home back himself alone. Will take him for a walk in the morning before sorting out hotels and flights for work over the next 2 weeks.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
We're supposed to be able to get that round here; they announced it not long after I moved in, when I'd already arranged a two-year business broadband contract through MyCo
That runs out in December, so I'm going to see what's on offer in the autumn - I assume they'll need to run the new connection up to the flat somehow, and that will almost certainly involve the property management company, so it might take a few weeks to sort it all out
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Originally posted by ladymuck View PostBooked broadband installation (full fibre!).
That runs out in December, so I'm going to see what's on offer in the autumn - I assume they'll need to run the new connection up to the flat somehow, and that will almost certainly involve the property management company, so it might take a few weeks to sort it all out
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