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Post by amanda on Aug 18, 2024 22:39:18 GMT
It may depend on his provider and/or space on his phone.
Another largely sleepless night, due to hormonal headache and the thought that I could hear rats again in the ceiling space.
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Post by amanda on Aug 20, 2024 8:12:04 GMT
Today the other woman and myself again moved the next lot of books along the shelves. Did two bays worth, so about ten shelves. Then I realised that we'd muddled it up somehow as the Dewey numbers were wrong. .45 on the top shelf, then 44, then 43 etc. (should have been 43 on the top first, then 44, then 45 etc)
After much grumbling and carrying on, we had to work out how to fix this mess. Then the first lot of the interstate books were all out of order too.
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Post by emily on Aug 21, 2024 7:41:04 GMT
I need to vent. last week I joined a forum so I could discuss my condition with other sufferers. I have been experiencing.. well, for lack of a better word, the full force of it- and I was hoping to get some support
A week later and I'm still not actually aproved to the site
I'm sat here about to lose it honestly. I have waited so long to use it..
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Post by amanda on Aug 21, 2024 7:45:07 GMT
Is there a way to contact admin on that site, like how on FB you can often private message someone if needed? They may be away or unwell themselves though if that's the case, should also consider asking for more help.
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Post by emily on Aug 21, 2024 11:51:54 GMT
Is there a way to contact admin on that site, like how on FB you can often private message someone if needed? They may be away or unwell themselves though if that's the case, should also consider asking for more help. I wish I could think as logical as you could I always think the worst- like oh they don't want me or something
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Post by RLDavies on Aug 21, 2024 13:36:11 GMT
Please ignore previous rant, Rifftrax is back on the air!
The problem, as it turns out, was: The company they used to be affiliated with (Legend Films) had a stable of YouTube channels, and they had a lot of copyright strikes against them. YouTube decided to pull Legend's main channel and all subsidiary channels. And even though Rifftrax has had no connection with Legend for years, YouTube thought they were still a sub-channel and took them down. They eventually managed to get to a human and prove their case, and were reinstated with all their videos intact.
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Post by jenny on Aug 21, 2024 14:45:08 GMT
Is there a way to contact admin on that site, like how on FB you can often private message someone if needed? They may be away or unwell themselves though if that's the case, should also consider asking for more help. I wish I could think as logical as you could I always think the worst- like oh they don't want me or something Cock up is nearly always more common than conspiracy, Emily, and we're very happy with your presence here so I can't imagine they'd have any reason to reject you out of hand. You seem nice! As the doctors are taught to think - when you hear hoofbeats, think horses rather than zebras.
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Post by Dix on Aug 21, 2024 15:34:07 GMT
I've been spray-painting the metal part of some furniture that really need a spruce-up. First item looks nice from a reasonable distance (well, a lot better than before) so I was going to buy sufficient paint to do the rest. Only to find that the particular colour I chose for the finishing coat is now out of stock. In all nearby branches of the retailer. It's not the big orange retailer this time. It's one of the other chains, and their web site isn't telling me where (if anywhere) it might be available or when it'll be back in stock. I can get it elsewhere but at a higher price and I'll have to wait for delivery.
Bah!
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Post by amanda on Aug 21, 2024 22:52:55 GMT
I cannot cope with constant severe headache for days. And this continues every month. 'It's hormonal' everyone says.
Maybe but I seem to get a bad headache. Because it's not classed as a migraine (no aura, vomiting) I can't get anything for it and due to my sensitive stomach/IBS, can't take regular painkillers as I'll then be on the toilet with a bad headache.
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Post by amanda on Aug 23, 2024 2:08:34 GMT
Headache continues and hay fever has also hit. I am taking the hay fever pills but have just returned home from being out and upon getting home, the nose blowing and itchy eyes started.
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Post by amanda on Aug 31, 2024 11:54:03 GMT
The ongoing cold snap, with strong winds for days and nights, resulting in most parts of my body hurting and then my hay fever being set off from the constant wind, needing the heater on full time - though it has struggled lately - which blows the inside dust around everywhere.
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Post by emily on Aug 31, 2024 12:57:38 GMT
Amanda, regarding your headache, it's best to be in a cool dark room if you can do that. Lie down if possible. Lots of water. When you're lying down try to make it something soft to rest on. No sudden movements or loud noises.
I don't know what causes your headaches. It could be lots of Caffeine. I did read once that some people do have a strong reaction to it
I'll be praying for you, both at this moment and in church tomorrow. If it's agrivating it, try and keep away from the screen for a while.
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Post by amanda on Aug 31, 2024 23:40:20 GMT
My headaches are hormonal induced. I'm at that stage of life where everything becomes erratic in that regard and I can't control it.
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Post by emily on Sept 1, 2024 5:23:55 GMT
My headaches are hormonal induced. I'm at that stage of life where everything becomes erratic in that regard and I can't control it. How bad are they? I mean on a scale from 1-10
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Post by amanda on Sept 1, 2024 10:15:38 GMT
Depends. Sometimes it's a 10 and lasts for three days. Other times milder, I'm aware of it, can still do things but feel tired from it.
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Post by amanda on Sept 2, 2024 6:31:37 GMT
In the middle of the worst storm of the century here and my two small chocolate mint plants in pots outside have decided now is the time they've outgrown the pots, and need upsizing NOW and will die otherwise.
So there I am, in the middle of the cold front with another shower overhead, hand in the potting mix bag, to try and repot them. Did the smaller one, the bigger one will have to wait a bit as my disturbed night is catching up with me and I'm tired at 4.30pm.
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Post by Bondee on Sept 2, 2024 8:25:31 GMT
Fuck that! Let the smaller one wait as well!
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Post by amanda on Sept 2, 2024 10:07:49 GMT
Ended up doing it as well as I'm due at the school job tomorrow (should have started today but wasn't going in the weather anyway, a 90 minute one way bus trip across the suburbs)
If I end up working tomorrow, Wed, Thursday, that's three days the plant won't have. Geraniums have been in their too-small pots for a year and still growing and flowering, this choc mint throws a tantrum.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 2, 2024 12:15:23 GMT
Way back in May of 2021, my SMART meter packed up, and I was told that an engineer would be in contact to get it sorted. In July of this year, I got an email saying they had noticed the problem, and someone would be in touch to arrange a visit. That finally happened on the last day of August, and I am finally booked in for the middle of September to have it repaired. So that is three years and four months since the issue originally arose, assuming they actually turn up and fix it this time, regarding which I am far from sanguine.
A while ago, I picked up some weird conspiracy theory-laden paper which claimed that new laws would mean that electricity companies could force their way into your home to fit a compulsory SMART meter. Given that it has taken the thick end of four years to get them to fix the one I took willingly, I will take that claim with a very large amount of sodium chloride.....
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Post by suze on Sept 2, 2024 17:13:16 GMT
A while ago, I picked up some weird conspiracy theory-laden paper which claimed that new laws would mean that electricity companies could force their way into your home to fit a compulsory SMART meter. That isn't quite true yet, but it probably won't be long.
No one in Britain makes "stupid" meters any more. The larger suppliers do still have a few on their shelves, intended mainly for the fairly small number of houses which are unsuited to smart meters. If you are not in such a house and you want one of those remnants anyway then some suppliers will still let you have one, but you'll probably have to pay for it*. Not all suppliers have any left, and when they're gone they're gone.
* All meters both smart and "stupid" have an end of life date. Since the supplier rather than the customer owns the meter, suppliers cannot charge you directly to replace a life expired meter - unless you want a non-standard meter when a standard one would work.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 2, 2024 21:07:58 GMT
So what it boils down to is that they could always insist on you having a new meter, so they know how much to charge you, but now the new meter is almost inevitably going to be a SMART meter, which puts a whole new slant on the claim...
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Post by suze on Sept 2, 2024 22:44:50 GMT
That's about the size of it.
A small number of properties are unsuitable for a smart meter. But unless you live in a castle (the walls are too thick for the smart meter to transmit through) or a prefab made of asbestos (there aren't many of these left, but the meter installing folk won't touch them), your house is probably not among them.
I've never entirely understood why some people are so opposed to smart meters, but those people do still have one card to play. It is possible to have a smart meter which functions as a "stupid" meter. It doesn't transmit anything, and still has to be read by a person with a torch. Some suppliers are reported to claim that they don't know how to disable the smartness, but if they say that they are not telling the truth. For now at least, they must disable the smartness if you want them to - although you may have to pay for it, as per my earlier post.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 3, 2024 0:24:17 GMT
Bizarrely enough, part of my house (in fact, the part where the meter is) was probably built from the wreckage of Builth Castle when it burnt down in the 16th century....
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Post by amanda on Sept 3, 2024 9:41:21 GMT
The Victorian (Australia) Education Department's rules on passwords cans/cannots/musts etc are so extreme that it doesn't even accept a random string of letters as a possible new password, despite issuing such ones as temporary passwords.
I tried at least five different ones today, including the required upper case letter, lower case, length (minimum seven characters) and a number and symbol like @, #, % etc.
After it not accepting a few different things I thought of a 'sentence' if my cat walked across the keyboard and it still didn't accept that. In the words of my father, Ich gebe auf!
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Post by RLDavies on Sept 3, 2024 14:01:00 GMT
Well, crap. I was eating last night (well, a peppermint) and a chunk of tooth fell out of my head. Looks like it was the corner of a rim of tooth around a filling.
It's not officially within the definition of a dental emergency, as there's no pain, no swelling, I can use my mouth just fine. Just a rough craggy area where the filling is exposed. So I wasn't in the mood to stay up all night till 8:30 to phone for a same-day emergency slot -- I was much more interested in going to bed.
Now that I'm up (2:30 pm) I phoned the dentist first thing and negotiated a semi-emergency appointment for Thursday morning. I can cope for a couple of days, being careful to stick to soft foods.
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Post by Bondee on Sept 3, 2024 17:22:33 GMT
The Borrowers have been at work round here.
I obtained my current soldering iron almost 10 years ago after my then employers upgraded their equipment and we were offered the obsolete stuff FoC. I also <ahem>... "aquired" a reel of solder, several reels of desoldering braid and a couple of flux pens.
I put everything in the same box after the last time I used my soldering iron. I know I did because why the fuck would I put it anywhere else!
I opened the box again today. The braid and flux pens aren't there.
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Post by RLDavies on Sept 3, 2024 20:21:44 GMT
That happens around here all the time. And it's not always just me chucking things down without paying attention.
Try opening the box and then saying aloud (as heartily and sincerely as you can): "That was a good joke! Very funny. But I need my things to work with, so can I have them back now, please?" You may be surprised.
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Post by jenny on Sept 3, 2024 20:22:10 GMT
I had dental bad news the other day - a back molar that has a twenty year old crown now has an unfixable cavity under it and will have to be pulled. This year I have paid for two implants and a recrowning of an eye tooth, so I am distinctly unhappy about another implant. I could just have it pulled, but then the tooth that lines up with it on the lower jaw will move up and then those roots will decay and that will have to be pulled. I might just have the bone graft put in and see how it goes. I've already spent about as much on my jaws this year as a small second hand car might cost. I blew through my dental insurance allowance on the first implant.
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Post by Bondee on Sept 4, 2024 9:12:26 GMT
That happens around here all the time. And it's not always just me chucking things down without paying attention. Try opening the box and then saying aloud (as heartily and sincerely as you can): "That was a good joke! Very funny. But I need my things to work with, so can I have them back now, please?" You may be surprised. I've just ordered a flux pen and a reel of braid from ebay, delivery is expected on Friday.
You can guarantee that the "lost" items will be in the box when I open it on Friday morning.
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Post by emily on Sept 4, 2024 11:58:41 GMT
Stopping by to say that some websites don't make it easy to get what you want out of them!.
I found this site which you can use if you want to talk to.. well, they call them listeners- people who aren't qualified in your situation but it's their job to understand and listen.
15 minutes it took me to fill out the form, and I still only managed to get to 16 percent. Sheesh
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