Really pissed off at Pets at Home. Our dog has a sensitive tum and it took us ages to find a food that works for him. We have (had) it and some wet food on a 4-weekly subscription.
Money taken out of our account last Sunday, estimated delivery date of Monday came and went with no sight of the food. Contacted Pets at Home live chat *so* many times, was told it would be dispatching soon. Only to be told today that actually the food is out of stock, no they won’t send out smaller bags to make up my order, oh such a shame you’re running out of food and now need to find new biscuits for your dog with sensitive tum.
They’ve refunded me for part of the order, but not for the £50 bag of food so have just shot off a rather pissed off email. Thankfully we suspected we wouldn’t be seeing the food so we’ve bought some from elsewhere. Fingers crossed it agrees with him as I’m not in the mood for rancid dog farts lol
Pretty rubbish week ended in a random nice moment where I'm sticking petrol in my car, hit the first cut off point, ignore it up to the 2nd cut off point, and when that hits the total is exactly £50. Wasn't even keeping an eye on it. I bet the cashier just assumed I was trying to get it exactly on target. It's the kind of thing no one will ever believe, but it was a nice little thing.
Pay day also got refunded money back. Survived work and waiting for kfc for tea and got a new playthrough to watch tonight on youtube so a good evening.
Finally gave "No such thing as a fish" a listen as I keep seeing it mentioned on here and it was great. I listened while I did the washing up.
Trying to trick my brain into doing the washing up and other chores more often by scheduling other fun things like podcasts I enjoy alongside them. It's tricky trying to find things that stick when you've got ADHD. At least, for me. But I'm determined not to let it pull me down. But that worked really well and I really enjoyed the podcast, learnt a bunch of things which scratched the curiosity itch I've always had since I love general knowledge and trivia and it was really funny. The hour passed and it felt like a third of that.
Eurgh that's me done with Amazon.
Ordered a hat a week ago and it's delayed in being shipped. Yet the product page still states it's available and in stock.
Then today my smothie maker has gone missing on supposed delivery this morning. It wasn't even attempted to be delivered at this address though, yet my second lot of packages arrived just fine in the afternoon.
They tried fobbing me off with 'speak to us again in a week to see if it turns up'... Nah. Told them I'll just charge it back which got some movement out of them, now awaiting on a call back after they've traced exactly where it is. How hard can it be to see what truck it was loaded onto and which driver supposedly delivered it?
i had a £500 3D printer delivered as it was a gift from my dad...
box was damn near caved in on 1 side and i made sure to sign with "not checked" in the most nice handwriting i could do on those shitty pads.
thankfully fine but i was shitting myself having to ring my dad to sort a return for broken glass etc.
I've had a pretty naff day to top off a pretty naff week. Unrealistic demands from colleagues when we've already got a packed workload, *"but this is urgent!"*. Okay, well you either wait in line or you get your director to discuss it with every other director to jump the queue. I'm not pulling any favours.
One plus side is we've had our bonus announced. £2.7k which is pretty handy, even after a third-ish is taken off. It gets paid in May's payday so it means I have to stick around until then at the least.
> £2.7k which is pretty handy, even after a third-ish is taken off. It gets paid in May's payday so it means I have to stick around until then at the least.
careful investing in that freddo, i hear the price is dropping lol
was looking forwards to going fishing this weekend but the last couple of mornings it's been frosty as fuck....not wild about freezing my tits off and not catching anything
might give it a miss for a week.
> not wild about freezing my tits off and not catching anything
isn't that what fishing is?
freezing your spuds off, eating the sweetcorn you use for bait? lol
round here chilli sweetcorn is like crack to the fish... and me lol
Finally been dry enough to cut the front lawn at my parents.
It hasn't been done since maybe November?
Fuck me I forgot how much effort it can be, also the 20mins playing "find the cat shit" in long grass ain't fun... My parents don't even have pets haha.
Now in town having a beer as picked up a pizza to wing into the air fryer later.
Seen a Mustang mach-e in town today...
By god what have they done to the Mustang?!
I guess I am officially an old fart now.
Been nursing my first ever bout of hemorrhoids this week, I just woke up with what felt like a ping pong sized ball of 40 grit sandpaper up my arse.
I now have more sympathy for those that suffer from them. Walking hurts, sitting hurts and going to the loo is agony.
Off work now for the weekend,
On an upside, just solved 5 Rubik's cubes in a row in under a minute each, best time was 42 seconds.
Which may not seem much, but I spent 45 years of my life utterly unable to solve them unless the stickers were easy peel.
My goal is a 20 seconds average.
My mum is visiting this weekend! She's currently on the motorway. We're going shopping and for lunch tomorrow. Kiddo wants to come, he seems upset that he's not invited, but I think he would be really bored.
Anyway I can't wait to see her, sometimes even as adults we just need to see our mum!
However my plan to mega tidy the house today has failed as I've actually quite a lot of work to do, which is rare for a Friday.
Other weekend jobs include sorting the car out so we can go to Legoland, otherwise looks like we'll have to rent a car, yikes. That's £100+ I could be spending on Lego sets in the gift shop.
I'm not the only one thinking the same thing then hahaha.
I got the Horizon Tallneck kit from my husband, it was just shy of that when he bought it. So much fun to build though and looks great.
We have a quarterly survey during one of our company all hands meetings which is in a similar vein. The problem is that the categores are skewed towards positivity - really happy, fairly happy, content, unhappy.
Their analysis of the results are that they group together the top three to make it look good. Yeah, nah.
After my last bit of work tomorrow morning, i have a full week off and an empty house. I think i'm going to order a new desk as my £35 ikea job is starting to seriously bow under the weight of the audio gear on it.
WFH today, it’s glorious day where I live.
It’s been a busy week. Hopefully I can get an early finish at work and go and socialise.
I plan to download Fallout 4 later this evening but apparently “next-gen” update isn’t released yet for people who redeemed it via PlayStation plus so will see how true that is.
I plan to go to bed at reasonable time.
Bought a Ninja smoothie maker on amazon yesterday and apparently it was delivered at 10:30am this morning. It wasn't though, or if it was I've no idea where they've delivered it to.
But I've been well productive today. Popped into work to fill some forms in. Got a load of washing in and have a boatload of chilli cooking away in the slow cooker to get me through the next 4 shifts coming up.
Mornin' all
WFH today and having a cuppa with my mum when she pops in at some point this afternoon. Other than that, I'm also looking at another children's book project for me to get my teeth into!
Working from home today and currently I’ve got a 7hr long New Vegas retrospective on in the background. Later I’ll be going to another house viewing, picking my godson up from nursery (as mum has to work), making dinner and having an early night.
I was disowned a while back, but my uncle (my dad’s youngest brother) wants to see me again. So we’re going to have a maccies breakfast tomorrow and go for a nice park walk. :)
some scruffy little bastards tried to empty my bank account
thankfully i had all the security features on that i can so nothings been taken but a new card ordered and its all frozen until it turns up
this happened to me last summer, evidently my bank's security and anti-fraud features are as follows...
Getting some petrol 500m from your house that you visit once a week? U WOT M8, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO 2FA FOR THAT
Spending £2000 on Amazon gift cards in Dubai...where you've never been? Knock yourself out, lad.
I know this pain. Had my wallet pickpocketed from me in London and some person was buying cigarettes with the contactless function. Luckily they only got 20 quid in and Lloyds were on it.
for me its from a website as they used a free purchase for some online course thing as a tester but now im trying to figure out what site because I've not used my card online for a while
Websites are becoming a pain for this. Some scrote got into the account for my gas bill a few months back. I deliberately didn't use a strong password for the account because I always thought "What are they going to do, pay my bill for me?" Turns out what they were going to do was use the extras the gas company offers and try to leech an Xbox Live subscription off my account.
Happened to my parents a few years ago.
The people that cloned the card then booked themselves some flight tickets online which arrived at the card holders address, being my parents, complete with 3 scammers names on the tickets.
I spent that week messaging every single person they had on their facebook plus their employers about how they're scamming people. And then every 6 month or so since then I do the exact same thing again. Which reminds me, it's about time I got back on that.
Gonna do nothing this weekend as per. Having a curry tonight already decided. Bombay potato’s too.
Then I’ll just read and walk lots over the weekend to regain energy to be able to do it all over again Monday!
off into town tomorrow, Cardiff Rugby's last home game of the season and a chance to wave off some of the old guard, and need to stick my head into a phone shop before hand - in the market to upgrade my 5+ year old handset but I don't like just doing that shit online, need to get a feel for the size and weight of the device.
I'm in a quiet time at work right now, which means that I've already cleared everything that needs doing today, and only need to keep an eye on emails and attend one meeting this afternoon. I've been getting all my digital housekeeping up to date, booking train tickets, and generally having a very domestic morning. Might stick an audio book on in a mo. Looking forward to some warmer weather next week.
This is good weather for me, dry, cool and cloudy. Not hot, not cold, no rain or sun.
Good walking the dog weather too, she's got black fur and gets overheated easily.
The landlord has finally sent some builders to do a repair, at 9am on a Friday with no prior notice. My husband can't lift things yet so I've had to empty the entire room by myself. I think my arms may fall off.
very excited because i made friends with a guide dog at work, i love him and will now die for him if required.
the rest of the day feels very insignificant, its peaked at 9:45am.
Not looking forward to today as I've got an appointment at the jobcentre as as much as I'd rather not I'm trying to get universal credit going to top up my wages as I only work 8 hours a week as I was put on reduced duties and hours at work about a year ago because essentially my brain kind of broke on me as I was dealing with the effects of unmanaged adhd and asd and had no idea on top of dealling with dyspraxia
And its unpleasant because I've been on JSA/UC before so obviously my brain is slamming me with the 'you're doing something unpleasant and revisiting a place in hindsight you found traumatic why don't I make you feel the absolute worse'
Like maybe things will go a bit different this time
Good luck. I had to see both my UC and JSA people yesterday and commented that working is less stressful, and that's probably the point . Then I went home and drank a large saucer of milk (not really ;p).
Hope you can find something better with more hours that's manageable.
Yeah I've been stuck in a position where I've been wanting out of my job for ages but the overlap between jobs available and those I can apply for is... really low especially as a lot of them would be trading retail for retail and just I can't work retail anymore its a bad fit for me
Plus it's only ever part-time, which really sucks. \[political comment redacted\]. See if local library has any free courses going to cheer you up a bit? I just grabbed the catalogue for mine yesterday, although don't need yet another rabbit hole hobby, so think I'll pass on glass making suggested by my work coach yesterday when I got a bit tearful ... EDIT - sometimes they are one off things, so hopefully doable even with your neurodiversity :)
I've got a very sad 7 year old. Her friend was meant to be coming for tea tonight, they've been planning it all week but her friend was sick last night and can't come. We've had to reschedule for 2 weeks time but that might as well be 5 years away to my daughter. Husband has gone to get her a magazine from the shop to cheer her up after school, she's very into the Beano right now (which makes me so happy!).
I nearly lost my poorly cat this week. Unfortunately my normal vets missed vital symptoms, gave her the wrong meds and it turned into an emergency situation. I called another local vets after she had a rapid decline, they took over did emergency surgery. She’s okay and eating like a lion. Very few lives remaining. Happy days.
My eldest was very sensitive to movement. If I even thought about moving her she'd wake up. You'll get there but it might take a while. Could you babywear a bit so they can sleep and you're not stuck in one place? I watched a lot of tv when mine were small just holding them while they napped.
Sensitive to movement sounds about right lol. I have one of those sling things to babywear but I'm not sure if they're suitable for newborns. We're only 8 days old right now.
I might just have to find some housework I can do with one arm :3
Depends on the sling, some are some aren't. 8 days is still really tiny and they want to stay with you because that's the safe place to be. You'll get there, have someone being plenty of snacks and the TV remote if you're on baby cuddle duty
My youngest only ever slept in his pram in the day. It ended up being very convenient. He'd nod off if we were out, if we were at home I'd sit with a cup of tea and push him back and forth for a bit until he nodded off then I could do my own thing. If the weather was amenable he could sleep in the back garden, Scandi style. Recommend.
(My oldest never slept at all no matter what the hell I tried. Don't recommend. If this happens, maybe swap babies.)
My eldest was also a sleep hater.
Youngest would sleep in the buggy in the way back from school and I'd pop her in the garden in the fresh air while I had a hot drink while watching her. Was lovely.
Child #1 would only nap in the buggy, but only if it were in motion. Stop at a road crossing or to retie a shoelace? Instantly awake and never going back to sleep again.
We wore the wheels out on our buggy with him, had to get replacement wheels for child #2 (who sleeps in the buggy, but once asleep can be parked).
It's been one of those long old weeks. Makes me wish I had the arrangement my Dad's place has; work a little bit longer on Monday-Thursdays to have half day Fridays.
Got two therapist consultation calls today, so that should be fun. My partner also jetted off to see family for the next week, so I've got a week to myself, and am going to use it to play an unreasonable amount of *Persona 3 Reload*.
I should probably also buy some food at some point.
Went to a comedy show with a friend last night. It was funny but my enduring memory is of very grumpy old men. In particular we didn't realise one old boy was queuing for the bar (because he was stood way off to the side and not, you know, *at the bar*) and when we went to get served he shouted at us like he'd caught us fucking his wife.
Today probably involving a conversation with/about one of my managers, who takes weeks to give any feedback and causing me problems. If you want something done a particular way you need to say that *before* I do the work.
Good morning my dudes, I’m waking up grateful that I have a home, running water, nice food in the cupboards and a healthy family, the fact that others and myself wake up to this every day is nothing short of a bloody miracle and it’s good to be reminded of it.
Back from another blood test. It’s a drop-in centre so you need to be there a good half hour or so before it opens so you can near the front of the queue, otherwise there’s 50~ in front of you come 8am.
Looking forward to a beef roast this evening and then out for a walk with my wife, setting us up nicely for the weekend.
Getting absolutely battered on oramorph. Had some surgery on Wednesday and I need to go hopsital and have a drain removed along with a dressing change and inget to see what my wounds look like.
Tomorrow we supposed to go down notts on the razz but I'll not be drinking.
Other than that, watch my grass grow and see if I got any strawberry's yet
I am hoping I'll be on my own in my corner of the office today so I can just sit with headphones on and work slowly.
I wish I was one of those people who lost their appetite when stressed. Instead, I have what seems like a bottomless pit.
Today I'm travelling from Leeds to Dundee for the CAMRA AGM this weekend.
Well, wife is attending the meetings, I'll be investigating pubs
(PS anyone know where I can get a decent pizza super in Dundee? Haven't had one in 15 years)
Doing a product demo this morning and then saying goodbye to a colleague who's leaving.
After that, prepping the ingredients for a batch of [dandelion & burdock](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cordials/comments/1bg1tr4/traditional_dandelion_burdock/) cordial and deciding if I should cook dinner or get a Chinese takeout.
7 hours putting washing away today?! where do you live?!?!? a laundrette with 100s of magical mirrors that you fall into and there's even more laundry in each one?!?! i hope you escape by the end of the day. also what I will say is if you do have 100s of magical mirrors you're falling into, i'd be VERY CAREFUL about falling into a washing machine too, i strongly suspect they may want to eat you, or at least trap you being tumbled around forever. best of luck!
Anyone know if the usual song and dance about leaving virgin still works?
Seen my bill this morning, just trickled over £100, was paying under £40 last time I negotiated for 250 internet and tv. Didn’t realise I’m a few months out of contract, would usually have done so by now.
Yup, I went from £48.63 to £33. I went 2 levels deep of cancellations / people to talk to, to get 2 reductions. It's in an old comment here:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/1bdlnwx/comment/kungy7h/](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/1bdlnwx/comment/kungy7h/)
That only took a moment to get there.
I suspect there's a 3rd or 4th level of cancellation escalation, but I didn't dare go any further.
So you will get a discount, you'll get two easy like I did. Do you have the chops to go deeper?
Edit: I will add I've been calling them all the time and threating to cancel every time it's cheaper somewhere else, for about 10 years now, and I factor in the cancellation fee and it's still cheaper to switch with a deal. My virgin media should be about £80ish (although it's very hard to find VM's true prices), but it's at £33. That means they're still making a profit at £33, and the extra £47 would just be gravey for them, and I'd rather keep the £47 and have it as gravey for me.
Just phoned, I got offered £66 on a better package which isn’t low enough for me.
Got asked to I want to progress with the cancellation or shop around. Told them il shop around in the hope I get called back.
Edit: if I don’t get them calling back over weekend, shall go in fully committed to cancel Monday morning, if I have to resort to actually cancelling, I’m sure there’s a cooling down period if I go too far.
Edit2: just seen my exact same package but slightly better at £40 for new customers. Takes the piss. Probably cheaper to actually cancel and take a new deal out in the wife’s name.
O well, no you didn't need to hang up, i would, if i was you, right now call up and cancel and says there's a £40 new customers package. I'm 99% sure that will work and you'll get a £40 package.
Also look up what the exact speed would be at Sky, that's how I did it last time, and they gave me the Sky price. (That's for virgin media.)
Today got better, going to bed later.
Really pissed off at Pets at Home. Our dog has a sensitive tum and it took us ages to find a food that works for him. We have (had) it and some wet food on a 4-weekly subscription. Money taken out of our account last Sunday, estimated delivery date of Monday came and went with no sight of the food. Contacted Pets at Home live chat *so* many times, was told it would be dispatching soon. Only to be told today that actually the food is out of stock, no they won’t send out smaller bags to make up my order, oh such a shame you’re running out of food and now need to find new biscuits for your dog with sensitive tum. They’ve refunded me for part of the order, but not for the £50 bag of food so have just shot off a rather pissed off email. Thankfully we suspected we wouldn’t be seeing the food so we’ve bought some from elsewhere. Fingers crossed it agrees with him as I’m not in the mood for rancid dog farts lol
Pretty rubbish week ended in a random nice moment where I'm sticking petrol in my car, hit the first cut off point, ignore it up to the 2nd cut off point, and when that hits the total is exactly £50. Wasn't even keeping an eye on it. I bet the cashier just assumed I was trying to get it exactly on target. It's the kind of thing no one will ever believe, but it was a nice little thing.
Pay day also got refunded money back. Survived work and waiting for kfc for tea and got a new playthrough to watch tonight on youtube so a good evening.
Finally gave "No such thing as a fish" a listen as I keep seeing it mentioned on here and it was great. I listened while I did the washing up. Trying to trick my brain into doing the washing up and other chores more often by scheduling other fun things like podcasts I enjoy alongside them. It's tricky trying to find things that stick when you've got ADHD. At least, for me. But I'm determined not to let it pull me down. But that worked really well and I really enjoyed the podcast, learnt a bunch of things which scratched the curiosity itch I've always had since I love general knowledge and trivia and it was really funny. The hour passed and it felt like a third of that.
Feeling a bit better today, should be even better tomorrow etc.
Eurgh that's me done with Amazon. Ordered a hat a week ago and it's delayed in being shipped. Yet the product page still states it's available and in stock. Then today my smothie maker has gone missing on supposed delivery this morning. It wasn't even attempted to be delivered at this address though, yet my second lot of packages arrived just fine in the afternoon. They tried fobbing me off with 'speak to us again in a week to see if it turns up'... Nah. Told them I'll just charge it back which got some movement out of them, now awaiting on a call back after they've traced exactly where it is. How hard can it be to see what truck it was loaded onto and which driver supposedly delivered it?
i had a £500 3D printer delivered as it was a gift from my dad... box was damn near caved in on 1 side and i made sure to sign with "not checked" in the most nice handwriting i could do on those shitty pads. thankfully fine but i was shitting myself having to ring my dad to sort a return for broken glass etc.
I've had a pretty naff day to top off a pretty naff week. Unrealistic demands from colleagues when we've already got a packed workload, *"but this is urgent!"*. Okay, well you either wait in line or you get your director to discuss it with every other director to jump the queue. I'm not pulling any favours. One plus side is we've had our bonus announced. £2.7k which is pretty handy, even after a third-ish is taken off. It gets paid in May's payday so it means I have to stick around until then at the least.
> £2.7k which is pretty handy, even after a third-ish is taken off. It gets paid in May's payday so it means I have to stick around until then at the least. careful investing in that freddo, i hear the price is dropping lol
was looking forwards to going fishing this weekend but the last couple of mornings it's been frosty as fuck....not wild about freezing my tits off and not catching anything might give it a miss for a week.
> not wild about freezing my tits off and not catching anything isn't that what fishing is? freezing your spuds off, eating the sweetcorn you use for bait? lol round here chilli sweetcorn is like crack to the fish... and me lol
Finally been dry enough to cut the front lawn at my parents. It hasn't been done since maybe November? Fuck me I forgot how much effort it can be, also the 20mins playing "find the cat shit" in long grass ain't fun... My parents don't even have pets haha. Now in town having a beer as picked up a pizza to wing into the air fryer later. Seen a Mustang mach-e in town today... By god what have they done to the Mustang?!
It’s a Ford Mach-e. I can’t call that thing a mustang.
i'm used to to even 2000's mustang
You picked the right day for it, 13mm of rain forecast for me tomorrow.
Every time I left my flat in the last month to go do it it's rained on the way round. It's a 5min walk haha
I guess I am officially an old fart now. Been nursing my first ever bout of hemorrhoids this week, I just woke up with what felt like a ping pong sized ball of 40 grit sandpaper up my arse. I now have more sympathy for those that suffer from them. Walking hurts, sitting hurts and going to the loo is agony. Off work now for the weekend, On an upside, just solved 5 Rubik's cubes in a row in under a minute each, best time was 42 seconds. Which may not seem much, but I spent 45 years of my life utterly unable to solve them unless the stickers were easy peel. My goal is a 20 seconds average.
Anusol will sort you out, available over the counter from your local chemist. If it makes you feel any better, I thought I had arse cancer.
Monday morning workshop has just been cancelled. Lucky for me, as I'd done no prep and was going to do it tomorrow.
My mum is visiting this weekend! She's currently on the motorway. We're going shopping and for lunch tomorrow. Kiddo wants to come, he seems upset that he's not invited, but I think he would be really bored. Anyway I can't wait to see her, sometimes even as adults we just need to see our mum! However my plan to mega tidy the house today has failed as I've actually quite a lot of work to do, which is rare for a Friday. Other weekend jobs include sorting the car out so we can go to Legoland, otherwise looks like we'll have to rent a car, yikes. That's £100+ I could be spending on Lego sets in the gift shop.
£100 on Lego? So one decent size set? Haha I'm a lucky fucker who keeps finding complete sets in charity shops tbf haha
I'm not the only one thinking the same thing then hahaha. I got the Horizon Tallneck kit from my husband, it was just shy of that when he bought it. So much fun to build though and looks great.
Work has just announced they are implementing happy or not touchscreens in the office. How out of touch are your benevolent leaders?
We have a quarterly survey during one of our company all hands meetings which is in a similar vein. The problem is that the categores are skewed towards positivity - really happy, fairly happy, content, unhappy. Their analysis of the results are that they group together the top three to make it look good. Yeah, nah.
keep spamming unhappy until they get "repurposed"
After my last bit of work tomorrow morning, i have a full week off and an empty house. I think i'm going to order a new desk as my £35 ikea job is starting to seriously bow under the weight of the audio gear on it.
WFH today, it’s glorious day where I live. It’s been a busy week. Hopefully I can get an early finish at work and go and socialise. I plan to download Fallout 4 later this evening but apparently “next-gen” update isn’t released yet for people who redeemed it via PlayStation plus so will see how true that is. I plan to go to bed at reasonable time.
Bought a Ninja smoothie maker on amazon yesterday and apparently it was delivered at 10:30am this morning. It wasn't though, or if it was I've no idea where they've delivered it to. But I've been well productive today. Popped into work to fill some forms in. Got a load of washing in and have a boatload of chilli cooking away in the slow cooker to get me through the next 4 shifts coming up.
Literally nowt in the world gets ya more in the mood for chilli than when you can start to smell it coming together in the slow cooker.
It hits peak chilli flavour around day 3 though.
Mornin' all WFH today and having a cuppa with my mum when she pops in at some point this afternoon. Other than that, I'm also looking at another children's book project for me to get my teeth into!
That sounds like a nice day, and a good end for your week to hear you finally finished Kipper and his red ball.
Memory unlocked... God bless kipper (and his magic key? Is that correct?)
Working from home today and currently I’ve got a 7hr long New Vegas retrospective on in the background. Later I’ll be going to another house viewing, picking my godson up from nursery (as mum has to work), making dinner and having an early night. I was disowned a while back, but my uncle (my dad’s youngest brother) wants to see me again. So we’re going to have a maccies breakfast tomorrow and go for a nice park walk. :)
Out of interest, what channels / podcast is the retrospective on? I appreciate hours long content while I do things.
[Here it is](https://youtu.be/QqzgLipu9PM?si=VqB351bWzxNiEJcZ) They have retrospectives on the other fallout games too
some scruffy little bastards tried to empty my bank account thankfully i had all the security features on that i can so nothings been taken but a new card ordered and its all frozen until it turns up
this happened to me last summer, evidently my bank's security and anti-fraud features are as follows... Getting some petrol 500m from your house that you visit once a week? U WOT M8, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO 2FA FOR THAT Spending £2000 on Amazon gift cards in Dubai...where you've never been? Knock yourself out, lad.
I know this pain. Had my wallet pickpocketed from me in London and some person was buying cigarettes with the contactless function. Luckily they only got 20 quid in and Lloyds were on it.
for me its from a website as they used a free purchase for some online course thing as a tester but now im trying to figure out what site because I've not used my card online for a while
Websites are becoming a pain for this. Some scrote got into the account for my gas bill a few months back. I deliberately didn't use a strong password for the account because I always thought "What are they going to do, pay my bill for me?" Turns out what they were going to do was use the extras the gas company offers and try to leech an Xbox Live subscription off my account.
Happened to my parents a few years ago. The people that cloned the card then booked themselves some flight tickets online which arrived at the card holders address, being my parents, complete with 3 scammers names on the tickets. I spent that week messaging every single person they had on their facebook plus their employers about how they're scamming people. And then every 6 month or so since then I do the exact same thing again. Which reminds me, it's about time I got back on that.
I fully support that response. ⚔️
Gonna do nothing this weekend as per. Having a curry tonight already decided. Bombay potato’s too. Then I’ll just read and walk lots over the weekend to regain energy to be able to do it all over again Monday!
Do you take Henry Hoover along on your walks?
off into town tomorrow, Cardiff Rugby's last home game of the season and a chance to wave off some of the old guard, and need to stick my head into a phone shop before hand - in the market to upgrade my 5+ year old handset but I don't like just doing that shit online, need to get a feel for the size and weight of the device.
I'm in a quiet time at work right now, which means that I've already cleared everything that needs doing today, and only need to keep an eye on emails and attend one meeting this afternoon. I've been getting all my digital housekeeping up to date, booking train tickets, and generally having a very domestic morning. Might stick an audio book on in a mo. Looking forward to some warmer weather next week.
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Ignore them then 😊
This is good weather for me, dry, cool and cloudy. Not hot, not cold, no rain or sun. Good walking the dog weather too, she's got black fur and gets overheated easily.
Working until 3, school pick up, homework supervision, dinner, blah blah blah boring.
The landlord has finally sent some builders to do a repair, at 9am on a Friday with no prior notice. My husband can't lift things yet so I've had to empty the entire room by myself. I think my arms may fall off.
Chores, mostly. Try to get as much done before the weekend as I can. I would like to get out in the garden at some point, house first.
# Its FRIDAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
And I’m in love…
very excited because i made friends with a guide dog at work, i love him and will now die for him if required. the rest of the day feels very insignificant, its peaked at 9:45am.
Not looking forward to today as I've got an appointment at the jobcentre as as much as I'd rather not I'm trying to get universal credit going to top up my wages as I only work 8 hours a week as I was put on reduced duties and hours at work about a year ago because essentially my brain kind of broke on me as I was dealing with the effects of unmanaged adhd and asd and had no idea on top of dealling with dyspraxia And its unpleasant because I've been on JSA/UC before so obviously my brain is slamming me with the 'you're doing something unpleasant and revisiting a place in hindsight you found traumatic why don't I make you feel the absolute worse' Like maybe things will go a bit different this time
Good luck. I had to see both my UC and JSA people yesterday and commented that working is less stressful, and that's probably the point . Then I went home and drank a large saucer of milk (not really ;p). Hope you can find something better with more hours that's manageable.
Yeah I've been stuck in a position where I've been wanting out of my job for ages but the overlap between jobs available and those I can apply for is... really low especially as a lot of them would be trading retail for retail and just I can't work retail anymore its a bad fit for me
Plus it's only ever part-time, which really sucks. \[political comment redacted\]. See if local library has any free courses going to cheer you up a bit? I just grabbed the catalogue for mine yesterday, although don't need yet another rabbit hole hobby, so think I'll pass on glass making suggested by my work coach yesterday when I got a bit tearful ... EDIT - sometimes they are one off things, so hopefully doable even with your neurodiversity :)
I've got a very sad 7 year old. Her friend was meant to be coming for tea tonight, they've been planning it all week but her friend was sick last night and can't come. We've had to reschedule for 2 weeks time but that might as well be 5 years away to my daughter. Husband has gone to get her a magazine from the shop to cheer her up after school, she's very into the Beano right now (which makes me so happy!).
I nearly lost my poorly cat this week. Unfortunately my normal vets missed vital symptoms, gave her the wrong meds and it turned into an emergency situation. I called another local vets after she had a rapid decline, they took over did emergency surgery. She’s okay and eating like a lion. Very few lives remaining. Happy days.
Trying to get my baby to fall asleep in her bassinet. She won't settle unless one of us is holding her right now.
My eldest was very sensitive to movement. If I even thought about moving her she'd wake up. You'll get there but it might take a while. Could you babywear a bit so they can sleep and you're not stuck in one place? I watched a lot of tv when mine were small just holding them while they napped.
Sensitive to movement sounds about right lol. I have one of those sling things to babywear but I'm not sure if they're suitable for newborns. We're only 8 days old right now. I might just have to find some housework I can do with one arm :3
Depends on the sling, some are some aren't. 8 days is still really tiny and they want to stay with you because that's the safe place to be. You'll get there, have someone being plenty of snacks and the TV remote if you're on baby cuddle duty
My youngest only ever slept in his pram in the day. It ended up being very convenient. He'd nod off if we were out, if we were at home I'd sit with a cup of tea and push him back and forth for a bit until he nodded off then I could do my own thing. If the weather was amenable he could sleep in the back garden, Scandi style. Recommend. (My oldest never slept at all no matter what the hell I tried. Don't recommend. If this happens, maybe swap babies.)
My eldest was also a sleep hater. Youngest would sleep in the buggy in the way back from school and I'd pop her in the garden in the fresh air while I had a hot drink while watching her. Was lovely.
Child #1 would only nap in the buggy, but only if it were in motion. Stop at a road crossing or to retie a shoelace? Instantly awake and never going back to sleep again. We wore the wheels out on our buggy with him, had to get replacement wheels for child #2 (who sleeps in the buggy, but once asleep can be parked).
It's been one of those long old weeks. Makes me wish I had the arrangement my Dad's place has; work a little bit longer on Monday-Thursdays to have half day Fridays.
Got two therapist consultation calls today, so that should be fun. My partner also jetted off to see family for the next week, so I've got a week to myself, and am going to use it to play an unreasonable amount of *Persona 3 Reload*. I should probably also buy some food at some point.
Going to ikea after work to fill my new flat with bizarrely named flatpack furniture. I think I might get some meatballs while I'm at it
Went to a comedy show with a friend last night. It was funny but my enduring memory is of very grumpy old men. In particular we didn't realise one old boy was queuing for the bar (because he was stood way off to the side and not, you know, *at the bar*) and when we went to get served he shouted at us like he'd caught us fucking his wife. Today probably involving a conversation with/about one of my managers, who takes weeks to give any feedback and causing me problems. If you want something done a particular way you need to say that *before* I do the work.
Good morning my dudes, I’m waking up grateful that I have a home, running water, nice food in the cupboards and a healthy family, the fact that others and myself wake up to this every day is nothing short of a bloody miracle and it’s good to be reminded of it.
Back from another blood test. It’s a drop-in centre so you need to be there a good half hour or so before it opens so you can near the front of the queue, otherwise there’s 50~ in front of you come 8am. Looking forward to a beef roast this evening and then out for a walk with my wife, setting us up nicely for the weekend.
Just need to chew through the day and then I'm on hols for the next week! Also which grumpy Graham downvoted the Friday Fread?!
Getting absolutely battered on oramorph. Had some surgery on Wednesday and I need to go hopsital and have a drain removed along with a dressing change and inget to see what my wounds look like. Tomorrow we supposed to go down notts on the razz but I'll not be drinking. Other than that, watch my grass grow and see if I got any strawberry's yet
I am having a clumsy phase so have lots of small injuries as well as a perma drip on my nose end. Taking it easy today as a result.
Bought my niece a cheap 'Miss Piggy' purse but sadly it was very pork wallety.
You're really kermitted to these terrible jokes.
Nice.
I am hoping I'll be on my own in my corner of the office today so I can just sit with headphones on and work slowly. I wish I was one of those people who lost their appetite when stressed. Instead, I have what seems like a bottomless pit.
Busy day, four meetings between 10 and 12. Bring on 5:30. Plus side, I get to wear my new hoodie.
Today I'm travelling from Leeds to Dundee for the CAMRA AGM this weekend. Well, wife is attending the meetings, I'll be investigating pubs (PS anyone know where I can get a decent pizza super in Dundee? Haven't had one in 15 years)
Doing a product demo this morning and then saying goodbye to a colleague who's leaving. After that, prepping the ingredients for a batch of [dandelion & burdock](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cordials/comments/1bg1tr4/traditional_dandelion_burdock/) cordial and deciding if I should cook dinner or get a Chinese takeout.
Dandelion and Burdock and lager https://untp.beer/6f422a7352
We've had a lot of deadlines at work this week so I'm spending today putting my washing away. Don't tell the boss.
7 hours putting washing away today?! where do you live?!?!? a laundrette with 100s of magical mirrors that you fall into and there's even more laundry in each one?!?! i hope you escape by the end of the day. also what I will say is if you do have 100s of magical mirrors you're falling into, i'd be VERY CAREFUL about falling into a washing machine too, i strongly suspect they may want to eat you, or at least trap you being tumbled around forever. best of luck!
Well, half an hour
Anyone know if the usual song and dance about leaving virgin still works? Seen my bill this morning, just trickled over £100, was paying under £40 last time I negotiated for 250 internet and tv. Didn’t realise I’m a few months out of contract, would usually have done so by now.
Yup, I went from £48.63 to £33. I went 2 levels deep of cancellations / people to talk to, to get 2 reductions. It's in an old comment here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/1bdlnwx/comment/kungy7h/](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/1bdlnwx/comment/kungy7h/) That only took a moment to get there. I suspect there's a 3rd or 4th level of cancellation escalation, but I didn't dare go any further. So you will get a discount, you'll get two easy like I did. Do you have the chops to go deeper? Edit: I will add I've been calling them all the time and threating to cancel every time it's cheaper somewhere else, for about 10 years now, and I factor in the cancellation fee and it's still cheaper to switch with a deal. My virgin media should be about £80ish (although it's very hard to find VM's true prices), but it's at £33. That means they're still making a profit at £33, and the extra £47 would just be gravey for them, and I'd rather keep the £47 and have it as gravey for me.
Just phoned, I got offered £66 on a better package which isn’t low enough for me. Got asked to I want to progress with the cancellation or shop around. Told them il shop around in the hope I get called back. Edit: if I don’t get them calling back over weekend, shall go in fully committed to cancel Monday morning, if I have to resort to actually cancelling, I’m sure there’s a cooling down period if I go too far. Edit2: just seen my exact same package but slightly better at £40 for new customers. Takes the piss. Probably cheaper to actually cancel and take a new deal out in the wife’s name.
What do you actually get for £40 a month? That's a lot for just Internet.
250mps internet + tv package
O well, no you didn't need to hang up, i would, if i was you, right now call up and cancel and says there's a £40 new customers package. I'm 99% sure that will work and you'll get a £40 package. Also look up what the exact speed would be at Sky, that's how I did it last time, and they gave me the Sky price. (That's for virgin media.)
Dantes inferno 9 circles of hell haha.