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Got back from my Daughter’s football training last Friday with armfuls of kit & shopping that we stopped on the way home to get.
Sort everything out. Fine.Get up on Sat morning to take her to a game. Cannot find the car key. Look everywhere that it could possible & impossibly be. No sign anywhere. Check all the ridiculous locations. Nope. Ask Wife & Daughter about 100 times whether they have seen it anywhere. Go through bins. Nope.
It’s just gone. Vanished. The car was locked, so I know we had it when I got home. But where that key is now!? No idea.
Luckily I have a spare, but buying a replacement is looking like it will be a pricey affair, which will inevitably lead to me finding the lost one.
I was fully expecting you to say that it was found in the washing machine.
Motivation for anything
Indexing my gears after fitting a new inner cable. In fact, I fail every time I do it.
The APM PMQ (Project Management) exam back in April. The passmark was 55%, I got 45%
Fitting tubeless tyres. Recently had to replace tubeless tyres on both my mountain bike and my road bike.
I actually tried the mountain bike but the bead wouldn't pop into place and I don't have a compressor with high enough flow. Had to get my LBS to do it for me using their compressor.
Then, when my road bike needed a new tyre, I just took the wheel into the LBS and got them to fit it cos my road wheels must be ever so slightly too large a diameter (every single tyre on these rims is a MAJOR fight to fit). Anyway, even the LBS struggled so I'm kinda justified getting them to do it. Of course, if I do puncture, that's gonna be a taxi ride to get me home cos there's no way that tyre is coming off at the side of the road.
Fixing the leaking tap in the kitchen. It is leaking from a different spot now. Does that count as a win?
I’ve just built a modest row of houses in Macclesfield, but I think I got the layout wrong.
Lawn needs more lawn too
My job. Spent a year not really achieving anything, then resigned.
Ditto job, took 18 months to realise though.....I'm a slow learner. 😀
I have failed once again at sorting my paperwo0rk out. Two letters need to be replied to to give me some money. I just keep on putting it off
My job. Had a chat with my boss last week and I'm not up to scratch. I had a double promotion into a completely new field 2.5 years ago. I'm good managing people, headcount turnover is nonexistent and no one is asking for more cash. I'm good with clients, always positive feedback. I'm good with the tech team and and ok at delivering on time & in budget (I'm ex-tech staff).
But I'm bloody shit at the next level, transform the business stuff. I'm always on the back foot, struggling to keep up. And that's the main part of my job.
So I'm moving sideways back into tech to support a failing department with the skills I do have.
Feel kinda blue, and also relieved tbh. The stress has been tough at times, so will be nice to be back in a relative comfort zone.
Oh yes – genuinely had a plan in September to lose 10kg, and only 11.8kg to go as of this morning.
Think positive.
You'll really get your moneys worth in the crematorium oven.
Selling specialist screws.
And taking my family on holiday…
We’ve just returned from a week long camping holiday that involved half a day packing, half a day driving, blowing up the turbo on our car 30 minutes from the campground. Getting trailered to the nearest town, a motel for the night in a room next to a Würth representative (IFYKYK), waiting half a day for another tow truck, getting rained on and then spending the other half of the day being trailered home.
I mean it was an adventure I guess…
My spare PS4 controller had a bit of "drift" in the left thumbstick (it thinks you're pushing forward when you're not). I gave it a bit of a clean/lube but it still did it, so I thought I'd take it apart to have a better look at it, and better access for cleaning (I'm fairly techy so didn't think it'd be a problem).
There was a ribbon cable to remove which came off easily, however when reassembling I just couldn't get it to reattach, I eventually ham-fistedly bent some of the incredibly delicate pins.
After watching a vid, it seems the plug should stay attached to the pins and the cable pulls out of the plug - I've never seen that before... D'oh!
It does beg the question, if it's supposed to work that way, why isn't the plug glued to the pins...
Ah well, a controller that didn't work very well, now doesn't work at all - not the end of the world.
EDIT: Shown here at about 2m20s, the white plug stays attached to the board, not the cable...
Cracking nuts over the bin I’ve just let a good chunk of walnut slip through my fingers 😭
