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Collette wrote: "Serial wrote: "" I ran out of gas a good couple of weeks back"A rare relief for D, i imagine."
My sides are splitting here! 🙄🙄🙄"
Happy to be of service, C.
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Naughty Step or Taser Test Subject? ... Hmmm? - decisions, decisions?!!"You can't use the taser, officer, for just being a bit mouthy, he's not black.
Today..i will mostly be spending the entire day building a flat pack double height office desk, with built in shelves, a cupboard and a cd rack et al. Looks nice in it's various constituent parts. However, building might be a challenge.....one thing the manufacturers could've done better.....is provided a larger printed assembly instruction sheet. The one they've provided will practically need a microscope to be able to decipher the miniscule print of diagrams, i'm 'spose to follow on this dinky piece of paper that came in the box! Surely, an A4 sized instruction sheet would cost only a few pennies more, for pete's sake?!After that...assuming that my head hasn't blown orf through the frustration of building the above..i've also got a little under desk filing cabinet to assemble as well.
Just as well as i've stocked up on beer this week..i've a feeling i might be sinking a few later! :)
Today we'll be getting a new Government (Ireland).Took a while.
theDuke wrote: "Today..i will mostly be spending the entire day building a flat pack double height office desk, with built in shelves, a cupboard and a cd rack et al. Looks nice in it's various constituent parts. ..."Good luck with that, Duke :0.............ha ha
Nightmare stuff.
The kids kitchen I put together last Christmas still sends tremors through me at the thought of the construction.
theDuke wrote: "Today..i will mostly be spending the entire day building a flat pack double height office desk, with built in shelves, a cupboard and a cd rack et al. Looks nice in it's various constituent parts. ..."Can you photograph/scan the sheet and expand it to print or display a bigger version?
Today I plan to actually get my butt onto the exercise bike, instead of just sitting staring at it..which I've been doing for weeks. Only other plans are listening to some music, then a film and a bottle of wine tonight.
My niece wants my help with our family tree so I'm digging out what I started some time ago. We know very little as my mum was adopted and all we have to go on is her original surname. No forenames or possible siblings. We only know my dad's father's name (a very common Welsh name) and nothing about his mum or their original address.
Lez wrote: "My niece wants my help with our family tree so I'm digging out what I started some time ago. We know very little as my mum was adopted and all we have to go on is her original surname. No forenames..."I find genealogy fascinating, Lez.
My Mum was adopted. When she was in her 50's once her adopted parents had died she traced her birth mother, who was still alive. My mum's now 70 and her birth mum is 94. They've had, and continue to have a good relationship. Also there's 1/2 siblings and other family too.
Lez wrote: "My niece wants my help with our family tree so I'm digging out what I started some time ago. We know very little as my mum was adopted and all we have to go on is her original surname. No forenames..."It's great that she's starting at a comparatively young age. It's important to get as much as you can from all living relatives. This is where a tape recorder or recording app can be very handy. One of my ongoing tasks (I try to do a bit each day) is write on the backs of photos just who everyone is and where and when it was taken. And I'm binning photos that I know will mean nothing to my children - e.g. my uncle was married three times (he was widowed twice). His second wife had adult children who became family friends; likewise his third wife (a divorcee) had three adult children who I got to know quite well. But my children don't know these people at all, they all live on different continents, and it will only confuse them if I leave their photos in with family photos.
We have one photo of my mum's adoptive mum and my profile pic of my dad's aunt. Otherwise nothing before my parents and only about 6 of them. We just weren't a photo-taking family. Unlike J.'s gang (of charabanc fame) who had literally hundreds, few of whom we knew.My niece's husband has tracked his lot back to Agincourt, including along the way, a Native American, a descendant of whom they met when he was in London for a human rights convention a few years ago. Exciting stuff, eh?
Isabella wrote: "theDuke wrote: "Today..i will mostly be spending the entire day building a flat pack double height office desk, with built in shelves, a cupboard and a cd rack et al. Looks nice in it's various con..."I could..if i had scanner that worked Isabella! Something else on me wish list..for later..a new all-in-one printer. I'd like to get laser printer this time, cos i've had enough of ink printers tht only work properly half the time. My current HP one, decides of it's own accord when it chooses to print or not, it's become so lazy and careree of late, tha wee bar stewerd! And of late, it's has taken to printing sheets when asked to, but minus any ink on them....even though i KNOW the cartridges aren't empty, cos i refilled them not long ago! I stopped buy new cardtridges, just cos i refuse to pay the daft prices for them...and instead bought a refill kit, which works, but comes with it's own problems. The manufacturers of these replacement ink cartridges, have in their infinite wisdom, wised up to this practise a long time ago, and so put chips in them, to tell the printer when it's out of ink. You can refill 'em....but ya can't tell the wee bar stewards to tell the printer that can ya?! So the little chips continue to confuse the printer....and thus the performance of said printer is haphazard. But i remain defiantly stout in my resolve, as i refuse to pay the hideous ransom demands for more ink. I hate tech giants!
So yeah..i think i'd like to try a laser one this time, and see how toner manufacturers compare to their ink counterparts! Thhhrrruupphh!
Anyway, back to topic.......i doubt if phtographing it then scanning and blowing up the image, would do much for the poorly printed piece of rubbish i had to read from.
As it happens..i planned to modify a couple pieces from this new desk, to make it fit the space i've allocated for it. And thus, i've taken the approach of assigning which piece should go where i want it to, not where this useless asssembly instruction says it should go.....and to hell with what it'll finish looking like..so long as it functions as intended!
..........reflecting on being 'fed inna babylon' yesterday evening. mrs tech, after shopping, was inspired to pick up takeaway meals (inna socially distant stylee) from the 'Reggaelicious' food van positioned nearby the supermarket. mrs tech had jerk chicken, miss tech, sunshine chicken, and in the absence of goat on the menu, i had curry chicken, and it was all unspeakably toothsome! nice to see a business opening, and apparently thriving, in kilmarnock!(because we'll never be able to tell when shops open up again after lockdown!)
theDuke wrote: "Isabella wrote: "theDuke wrote: "Today..i will mostly be spending the entire day building a flat pack double height office desk, with built in shelves, a cupboard and a cd rack et al. Looks nice in..."Oh, the curse of the printer! We rarely print colour, mostly diagrams at that, no dazzling sunsets or the like but it still won't print my charts in colour and we only put new cartridges in a little while ago. :o(
That's why all-in-ones and printers are so cheap - the cartridges make the profit.
I'm marvelling at how much someone will pay for a used t shirt on ebay. It's a nice shirt and I was watching it with its low start bid. It has an image of Stevie Ray Vaughan behind a Fender Stratocaster (presumably they make a replica of his battered old Strat) in a nice shade of blue rather than the normal black. It finished this morning and when I logged off last night it had already reached over £30 which I thought was silly money. What do you think it made and would you ever wear/wash it?https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hanes-Men-...
Yuk! Fancy paying for a sweaty used T-shirt!
Bloody hell. I bet that was one happy seller.At the moment I'm sat like the great unwashed watching Dress To Impress. My only other plans today apart from a quick go on the bike and a shower are watching a couple of eps of The Brokenwood Mysteries and drinking lots of tea.
Brass Neck wrote: "That's why all-in-ones and printers are so cheap - the cartridges make the profit."I use the HP monthly automatic ink service. I pay £1.99 a month and they send a new cartridge when the present one is getting low. It works out much cheaper for me, though I can see it wouldn't suit everyone and you need an HP printer.
Re: printers - I always buy legit Canon cartridges despite the cost. I've used generic ones in the past & they ended up buggering up the printer beyond repair.Re: used, sorry I mean, vintage t-shirts on eBay - Some Sisters stuff goes for really crazy prices (bootlegs & books etc. too).
Eg - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Bl...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sisters-of...
Today, I shall mostly be wearing...socks! Yes, you'll all be relieved & enthralled to learn that the socks are firmly back on my feet. Two whole days without, though.
I gave up on owning a colour printer years ago and never missed it. I had a wonderful Canon mono laser printer that worked like a charm for years till my daughter buggered it up last year. I replaced it with a Brother Mono Laser Printer HL-L2305W (about £60) and so far, so good. If I need a colour print for any reason, I get one of my offspring to do it or go to Office Works down the road.
With Helen on this, I mean using original Canon cartridges. Bought my Pixma mp180 ages ago, still works as a charm, also there is built in scanner. To keep it in order from time to time just do occasional nozzles & print roller cleaning.
Brass Neck wrote: "I'm marvelling at how much someone will pay for a used t shirt on ebay. It's a nice shirt and I was watching it with its low start bid. It has an image of Stevie Ray Vaughan behind a Fender Stratoc..."£68!!!!!!!!! And it's been worn...heavens above!
Must be a limited edition or summin.
Lez wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "That's why all-in-ones and printers are so cheap - the cartridges make the profit."I use the HP monthly automatic ink service. I pay £1.99 a month and they send a new cartridge..."
I didn't know HP provided such a service. Granted in my case, i probably don't use the printer enough to make that work economically viable....but nice to know.
I have completed modifying and assembling me new workstation, bar the necessitation of ironing on a new piece edging to one piece of table top, that i had shortened & curved off one corner, to make it fit the space i had allocated for it. Fits like a glove. Otherwise, it's looking good. Stinks to high heaven though, as the veneer is real wood, as yet unfinished. But i'll be putting a coupla coats of clear beeswax on it shortly.
Tis odd, though...that having completed everything, there are however 5 pieces of wood left over! Okay...3 of them i left off deliberately, as i didn't use the pointless undertop sliding keyboard tray thingy (they're always too low, me legs won't fit under it! #lankylegs.com!), and seeing as i've bought a wireless keyboard & mouse combo, that sliding tray is redundant for it's intended purpose. I may turn that into a shelf or cupboard at some point. 2 other small bits of wood, along with the plastic CD slots, were also left off, as otherwise my new 24" monitor wouldn't fit in the space allocated for it. Maybe the desk designer hadn't anticipated some folks using a large monitor for thier desk. I may reconfigure those pieces later, as i do need more CD storage space. But..there are these 2 other pieces, that go nowhere! I've used everything else in the manual, so as far as i can make out...one of them, is a dupicate piece of the overhead shelf, and the other small square bit left over...i've not got a clue what that is for! I can assure you everything else is where it's 'spose to be.
And should you be tryin' to picture just exactly what it is i've built and am now currently typing on, i shall spare your inquisitive curiousity (yeah...right!); so here's a piccy of it:
The rightside of the L top, was the bit that was truncated, and you can see the now absent parts as on my workstation.
The little matching underdesk 2 drawer & cupboard unit (pee easy to assemble compared to the workstation!), fits neatly in the corner (where the bin is). The wee cupboard/drawer unit is mounted on castors, so can be wheeled out if need be.
PS:...that's not my room! :)
So..the plan is...to study all these bit and pieces....and figure out a nifty wall mounted shelving system for hold CDs. I've bought several metres worth of iron on edging..and I've got loads of dowels, and chipboard screws.....i just need to work where this yet as undesigned and unconstructed thing can go! :)
I dun like to waste perfectly good materials...every bit of left over stuff gets a chance to be upcycled into something...at somepoint! :)
Helen The Melon wrote: "Re: printers - I always buy legit Canon cartridges despite the cost. I've used generic ones in the past & they ended up buggering up the printer beyond repair.Re: used, sorry I mean, vintage t-sh..."
I wasn't aware that you had gone without wearing such hosiery items, Helen!
theDuke wrote: "Lez wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "That's why all-in-ones and printers are so cheap - the cartridges make the profit."I use the HP monthly automatic ink service. I pay £1.99 a month and they send a n..."
Ha ha, I thought that was your room. I was just thinking bloody ell, he lives in some kind of show home, with a suspiciously placed bin.
And Duke, fair play building the thing, and getting the word 'truncated' into a sentence.
Duke, second thoughts on instructions. Last lot I used, perfectly legible, unlike yours, but didn't actually tell me things I needed to know. So, as you've made you desk just as you wanted it, no loss.Congratulations! :o)
Where there's a will, there's always (hopefully) a way!I must confess...i don't usually read the instruction sheets on anything (typical male!)..however it was these extra bits of wood that threw me....i couldn't for the life of me, work out why i had them..and I still don't!
There always seems to be bits that get left over when embarking on one of these flat packed jobs, dunnit?!
Serial..if i had a home like that......i could've paid somebody else the build the darn thing for me!
As for truncated.....it's a good word isn't it?! :)
'As for truncated.....it's a good word isn't it?! :)'Damn good word!
"There always seems to be bits that get left over when embarking on one of these flat packed jobs, dunnit?!" - infinitely preferable to being unable to finish because there are components missing I'd have thunk?
As an Ikea flatpack assembly expert I can confirm that you do sometimes get extra bits which I assume are added as packing materiel to protect the genuine bits and stop them from moving and getting damaged in transit.Gosh, that's a long sentence.
Today I shall mostly be, parting with cash :(Now I did know the brakes were bad on my car, and had been for a fairly lengthy while.
But.
I didn't realise the calipers, brakes discs and pads were all fecked. The discs grooved with damage, one caliper seized, one not much better....
520 euro later........
:0
There'll be no stopping you now …… errr…...
Brass Neck wrote: "There'll be no stopping you now …… errr…..."Stopped at a junction after getting car back, nearly went through the windscreen when I put the brakes on.
Take some getting used to.
Brass Neck wrote: ""There always seems to be bits that get left over when embarking on one of these flat packed jobs, dunnit?!" - infinitely preferable to being unable to finish because there are components missing I..."I've got somebody elses bits then?!
Ah...'ang on, just read Derek's reply.
Serial wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "There'll be no stopping you now …… errr…..."Stopped at a junction after getting car back, nearly went through the windscreen when I put the brakes on.
Take some getting used to."
My Mum's car has got powered brakes on her motor. I tells thee..you only have to look at the brake pedal, before practically finding oneself needing to reinsert vitals organs back in one's body! It's only a small car as well...why the blazes manufacturers feel the need to put such powerful brakes on dunky cars, i dunno. The darn thing stops on a sixpence.
When i used to drive, i favoured a heavy brake and accelerator pedal, namely because of my big heavy size 13s. SMost cars i had, i added an extra spring, to those pedals, to make them more resistant to my foot pressure. Those little mods, helped saved the knees of mylanky legs from aching on long journeys!
oh, the rage, the rage,till queue in poundland,
me - please could you move back a little?
ugly jakey wummin - i'm just looking at these f***in' socks!
me - yes, but could you please move to an acceptable distance?
ujw - whit the f*** are you talking about?
son of ujw - aye, we've been f***in' testit!
me (after short period of considering the situation) - listen! go get yer f***in' heid testit!
next please!
Tech XXIII wrote: "oh, the rage, the rage,till queue in poundland,
me - please could you move back a little?
ugly jakey wummin - i'm just looking at these f***in' socks!
me - yes, but could you please move to an a..."
Ha ha..
How glad I am we don't have 'jakeys' in rural Ireland.
Only a few members of the travelling/thieving bollixes community to contend with.
Tech XXIII wrote: "oh, the rage, the rage,till queue in poundland,
me - please could you move back a little?
ugly jakey wummin - i'm just looking at these f***in' socks!
me - yes, but could you please move to an a..."
Poondland, surely?
Called to see a Nuns garden today, I kid you not.She needs some trimming doing.
Bushes haven't been trimmed in a good while.
Serial wrote: "Called to see a Nuns garden today, I kid you not.She needs some trimming doing.
Bushes haven't been trimmed in a good while."
Job for your hand tool?
Brass Neck wrote: "Serial wrote: "Called to see a Nuns garden today, I kid you not.She needs some trimming doing.
Bushes haven't been trimmed in a good while."
Job for your hand tool?"
Poor old dear needs a young man to get stuck in.
"Poor old dear needs a young man to get stuck in." - you'll have to employ one then.
we'll have nun of that! he'll just need to wade in swinging his chopper to get the job done!
Off to Mum's in a bit, so we'll be having a lazy day watching last night's eps of River City Rewind, horror dvds, then tonight a nice bottle of white wine.
Getting very frustrated with my family tree, I keep reaching dead ends and things I know to be true facts aren't appearing.I love how women who would call themselves housewives are said to be doing 'unpaid domestic duties'.
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Argos are rip-off B's with their prices, Suzy, and adding that seller's postage cost on, her/his price works out the same. I'll just wait til my wee shop re-opens. I can get 3 filled there for what Argos are charging for 2. Luckily fizzy water multi-packs from Aldi and Asda are really cheap.