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A frustrating day on the everything front -- one of those days when I wondered whether I had turned from my normal "ever-so-overprepared" person into one of my friends who are noted for there lack of correct advance thought.
I picked up my Amazon package this morning and took my shoes in for repair. Then I took the usb-stick into Happy Snaps to get about 90 snaps developed. So far, so good.
Then things went slightly awry.
First, my nice new Haas & Cie watch suffered from the fact that it was built for a man with the wrist the size of my forearm. OK, I can get that done when I go to pick up my shoes, I thought. At last the fact that watch-repairers and shoe-repairers are in the same shop!
Then, as I fitted my new WiFi connector for my LG TV, so that I could watch streaming from the Internet on my TV, I couldn't work out why it wouldn't show any network connection. Perhaps if I had thought it through I would have realized that it was my Panasonic DVR that was internet-enabled, not the TV -- and the DVR didn't have wifi capability either -- only wired.
So, that'll have to go back to Amazon under the 30-day returns policy. Postage shouldn't be too much. But, a hassle, nevertheless, and a bit of stupidity that I don't usually fall for.
When I took the watch into get some links taken out, it transpired that when removing the rubbber sole from my shoes, the leather sole underneath had come away. Last pair of Churches I buy. No extra cost, but extra time required.
I couldn't go back this afternoon, because I was waiting for the man to come to repair the fridge-freezer.
He did turn up, but he effectively said that the fridge was a write-off because the back of the fridge interior had separated from the condenser wall. That meant that the compressor was working far too hard because the sensor wasn't able to work properly. All of this rang true. I'm awaiting a quote for a new compressor, but he said that, TBH, it might be best to write it off as a bad job. He was very surprised that the fridge-freezer was only three years old.
I may get the new compressor, get a year out of the machine and then trade in for an under-the-counter fridge-only (where my never-used dishwasher currently sits). That would free up quite a lot of space in the kitchen, and I could put a table in there with a couple of chairs.
Still a bit of a pisser, though.
So, all-in-all, a day when electronics has got the better of me -- without any computers of Microsoft being involved (something of a first). And much of it was my fault. That said, the AEG-Electrolux model that I bought got almost universal rave reviews at the time (notwithstanding the fact that I hadn't read them before making the purchase!) so I would probably have gone for it anyway.
It's amazing how much time is taken up by admin tasks when you don't make the effort to get it right first-time round. Today I think I wasted about three hours through no fault of my own and three hours because I failed to prepare properly. Lesson learnt.
Interesting last two turbo tournaments. Both times I went out with flopped flush under flopped flush.
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I picked up my Amazon package this morning and took my shoes in for repair. Then I took the usb-stick into Happy Snaps to get about 90 snaps developed. So far, so good.
Then things went slightly awry.
First, my nice new Haas & Cie watch suffered from the fact that it was built for a man with the wrist the size of my forearm. OK, I can get that done when I go to pick up my shoes, I thought. At last the fact that watch-repairers and shoe-repairers are in the same shop!
Then, as I fitted my new WiFi connector for my LG TV, so that I could watch streaming from the Internet on my TV, I couldn't work out why it wouldn't show any network connection. Perhaps if I had thought it through I would have realized that it was my Panasonic DVR that was internet-enabled, not the TV -- and the DVR didn't have wifi capability either -- only wired.
So, that'll have to go back to Amazon under the 30-day returns policy. Postage shouldn't be too much. But, a hassle, nevertheless, and a bit of stupidity that I don't usually fall for.
When I took the watch into get some links taken out, it transpired that when removing the rubbber sole from my shoes, the leather sole underneath had come away. Last pair of Churches I buy. No extra cost, but extra time required.
I couldn't go back this afternoon, because I was waiting for the man to come to repair the fridge-freezer.
He did turn up, but he effectively said that the fridge was a write-off because the back of the fridge interior had separated from the condenser wall. That meant that the compressor was working far too hard because the sensor wasn't able to work properly. All of this rang true. I'm awaiting a quote for a new compressor, but he said that, TBH, it might be best to write it off as a bad job. He was very surprised that the fridge-freezer was only three years old.
I may get the new compressor, get a year out of the machine and then trade in for an under-the-counter fridge-only (where my never-used dishwasher currently sits). That would free up quite a lot of space in the kitchen, and I could put a table in there with a couple of chairs.
Still a bit of a pisser, though.
So, all-in-all, a day when electronics has got the better of me -- without any computers of Microsoft being involved (something of a first). And much of it was my fault. That said, the AEG-Electrolux model that I bought got almost universal rave reviews at the time (notwithstanding the fact that I hadn't read them before making the purchase!) so I would probably have gone for it anyway.
It's amazing how much time is taken up by admin tasks when you don't make the effort to get it right first-time round. Today I think I wasted about three hours through no fault of my own and three hours because I failed to prepare properly. Lesson learnt.
Interesting last two turbo tournaments. Both times I went out with flopped flush under flopped flush.
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