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I was just thinking... today has been a mix of emotions and luck or not as the case may be...

MY shed roof is leaking and in danger of causing quite substantial water damage to the contents...

My DD was in a p**y mood when she rang this morning.. annoyed me..

Regardless of me bleeding them, my radiators upstairs are not getting hot, which means I'm paying for heat yet the upstairs remains cold...and with the price of heating currently I cannot afford to lose heat...

OTOH>..
Today I was sent a New Expensive rug to replace one I bought which wasn't up to expected standard..for free..without having to return the first one

I had a totally unexpected Bonus payment into my bank account..

A book I ordered and have been looking forward to reading.. which has been held up due to the Postal strike arrived today...

..and the noisy foreign tenants who rent the house next door have returned to Bulgaria for the rest of the month...woohoo!
 
I'm running away. My cursor quit working so I'm reduced to using a mouse. It's a PITA.

Besides that, I've been cranky all day. And it's dark outside, gloomy, cold, and everdamnthang that could be screwed up, is. My hair needs to be colored. I don't like being cold. I don't like dark and gloomy. My lower denture doesn't fit quite right, which adds to my crankiness.

And I feel like whining so just pay me no mind. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
Furthermore, the tablet that I got for Christmas last year? The tablet that I couldn't use because I couldn't get into it and the person on the other end of the phone who was supposed to help? That person whose English was so bad that I couldn't understand him nor he me? That person who couldn't understand that I needed to talk to a person who spoke American English? Yeah. Him.

That tablet has been sitting here for a year now, unused. So DSIL is going to try to get into it. First it has to charge. That'll take a while because it hasn't been charged for a year.

I hate technology. Abacus. Two tin cans and a string. Or remember "Number, please?" Carrier pigeons. Human messengers. And remember letter carriers? The ones who came twice a day? I'm ready to go back to that stuff. Heck, today I'd even go back to laundry on a washboard with FelsNaptha and rinsing in galvanized tubs, hanging the clothes on a line.

Add all that to the fact that the retiree who was going to work in our bakery who got tired of the shuffling and hem-hawing and went to work somewhere else.

I've had it, I tell you! I want a drink and a cigarette. Never mind. Bring me a bottle and a straw and a whole carton of cigs.
 
Never mind. I don't want my mommy. She didn't like me.

DSIL is gonna do a factory reset on the tablet after it charges. It was so dead that it will take about an hour. Truly. An hour. It was pretty dead⚰️

Looks like this laptop is about ready for the last rites. It's kinda old...maybe four or five years? Old eough that it runs on Windows 10 because it's not up to date enough for Windows 11.

Carrier pigeons.
 
hollydolly said:
I was just thinking... today has been a mix of emotions and luck or not as the case may be...

MY shed roof is leaking and in danger of causing quite substantial water damage to the contents...

My DD was in a p**y mood when she rang this morning.. annoyed me..

Regardless of me bleeding them, my radiators upstairs are not getting hot, which means I'm paying for heat yet the upstairs remains cold...and with the price of heating currently I cannot afford to lose heat...

OTOH>..
Today I was sent a New Expensive rug to replace one I bought which wasn't up to expected standard..for free..without having to return the first one

I had a totally unexpected Bonus payment into my bank account..

A book I ordered and have been looking forward to reading.. which has been held up due to the Postal strike arrived today...

..and the noisy foreign tenants who rent the house next door have returned to Bulgaria for the rest of the month...woohoo!
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quoting my own post just to add, that I managed to get 2 of the 3 upstairs Radiators working after bleeding them for a second time.. so the heat in the house is reaching optimum temp quicker, thank goodness
 
I checked out of the hotel this morning so my post-retirement extended traveling trip is officially over. Kind of sad about that.

It turns out that even tho my internet isn't being set up until tomorrow, now that the xfinity provider has me in their system, I was able to create a user account and now I can log into the local hotspot for internet (I don't really understand what the hotspot is or how far it extends, but it is available here in my condo so that is good enough for me!). Technology sometimes is so convenient!

My new bed feels like a rock, I hope it will loosen up, at the store the mattress felt like a bouncy firm not like a solid board. They don't accept returns/exchanges until a person has given the bed 30 days to break in. But will I break before that??? I've ordered a mattress topper from Amazon. Hope it arrives soon, it looks like delivery times are strangely long, maybe due to the holiday rush.

Also my bed doesn't have a headboard and the guys that set it up left it several inches from the wall, and I was all stressing about it because I like to sit up in bed to read, so I ordered a bolster pillow from Amazon, but then just now while I was typing about it I realized I can probably sit up because the whole bed adjusts so I ran in and tried that. Looks like it will lift the head enough, and it occurs to me all the bending will probably soften the mattress (maybe eventually too much but that worry can wait for the future).

I'm doing a very poor job of unpacking, after I finish tossing everything just anywhere and recover from all the change, I will have a LOT of work to do to adjust kitchen shelves so short-me can reach more than one, and I need drawer/shelf paper, I feel like the place needs a good cleaning but I don't even have a scrub sponge or sink cleaner or vacuum (I'm suddenly missing hotel life and maid service), and then I guess I can think about organizing better.

My poor cat couldn't find a good place to hide and was trying to look small in a corner, so I made it a priority to get the bed skirt on so he could hide in his favorite type of hidey-spot under the bed. He spent hours under there, but now he's come out to explore (cautiously).
 
Disgustedman said:
I'm hoping for a break in the clouds. Going to fill my tanks. Oh boy $14.50 per tank and 7 of them. I'll be warm for 21 days though.

Oh Lord, that was a major mistake......... My right shoulder is on fire. Aspirin helps, but throb, throb, throb.......$100.88 for all of them, but again, warm for 21 days
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Pepper said:
Picture please ma'am.
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