What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[vulgalour]

I'm down to just 2 pieces of artwork to clear by the 1st of December to have all of my backlog of work from being ill cleared.  I won't hit that deadline, but I'll come really close, I reckon I'll be a week over.  Huge sense of achievement really.

As I've been getting better it's allowed me to get out of the trenches and actually take some action on making my business more streamlined, and identifying problems.  Perhaps I needed my health to absolute collapse to give me some perspective.  I can see a way out now, I just have to be patient with everything.  December is going to be slow, it always is, and right now that's a good thing.  I can do a light overhaul of the website, have already overhauled my systems for keeping track of updates, and figured out some stuff I can chop out that were wasting time and not earning me anything.

I'm feeling more positive about my future today than I have in a while, even though I still don't have any definitive answers as to what actually happened to my health.  I feel like I can manage it and move forward safely again.

[iainrcz]

Got a reduced Terry's chocolate orange dark.

[richardmorris]

[somewhatfoolish]

[myglaren]

[Joey spud]

[808 Estate]

 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

11 minutes ago, 808 Estate said:

 

That's fantastic. It deserved an 8 pot from the outset, and that setup certainly wouldn't disappoint...

Major surgery but worthy end result. Shame about the exhaust outlet treatment though.

https://engineswapdepot.com/?p=103735

 

[DavieW]

In a main Mercedes dealership just now with 2 female service advisors on the front desk. Not sure what the start of the conversation was but as I walked past 1 said "I'm lucky, my boobs are still quite perky and not droopy, but I haven't had kids" 

[Rust Collector]

Today I got the news that my current fixed term job role has received approval to be made permanent. I’m a very happy chap as a result!

[richardmorris]

[richardmorris]

This is a fun take down of musk.

 

[Markeh]

Was writing a massive rant in the grumpy thread about the local heating firm not showing up, and midway through, they did! I clearly need to start typing rants more.

[62 Austin]

On 27/11/2024 at 15:30, Joey spud said:

        I thot the new rools won't let us post that kind of nuditity here.

 

[95 quid Peugeot]

On 27/11/2024 at 14:27, wuvvum said:

Further to my recent grump about eBay deliveries being screwed up - I lost one of my Torx spanners recently (think I left it under the bonnet of the Merc 😖), ordered a replacement off eBay at 3pm yesterday afternoon and it dropped through my letterbox at 9:30 this morning.  Which is bloody impressive by anyone's standards.

I ordered a battery for the ASX from Tayna on ebay 17.10 last night, just arrived....  cracking service again from Tayna

[richardmorris]

[DavieW]

Notice a garage toilet I was in this morning. 

 

[horriblemercedes]

On 27/11/2024 at 18:46, iainrcz said:

Got a reduced Terry's chocolate orange dark.

You might find some superficial damage to the box, but the chocolate's perfectly edible

[808 Estate]

[iainrcz]

15 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

You might find some superficial damage to the box, but the chocolate's perfectly edible

It had been taped up with brown tape, looked absolutely fine inside. So it got scoffed.

[horriblemercedes]

Just now, iainrcz said:

It had been taped up with brown tape, looked absolutely fine inside. So it got scoffed.

[iainrcz]

As today is the famous "black Friday" I thought I'd share a short tale.

 

I bought a new hard drive for my PC the other day, because I thought there's no way it'll be much cheaper than what it was on that particular day. A Western Digital SN770 2tb NVME. £92 delivered from Overclockers.

Checked today and lo and behold, it's gone up to £120.

Amazon even have "Black Friday deal" on their listing. That's £119.99 too.

[myglaren]

I'm convinced that it is nothing but a con.

Don't go near any shops on Black Friday.

I passed through our local 'shopping mall'  yesterday, rarely go there, too many people and hardly anything I would want.

What I did notice was the abundance of tat, mainly glittery, shiny tat.  Wouldn't give any of it houseroom.

I think I am in the wrong thread  

[maxxo]

I grin at the fact I chose unlimited minutes and calls with British telecom when I moved in

already at 19 hours of telephone use in the last 3 weeks

yes I do use the telephone quite a lot

[maxxo]

Spent today rearranging the lounge and putting pictures on the wall

im quite liking how it’s looking

[MiniMinorMk3]

17 hours ago, Markeh said:

Was writing a massive rant in the grumpy thread about the local heating firm not showing up, and midway through, they did! I clearly need to start typing rants more.

Sounds like a touch of commentators curse.

[Markeh]

8 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Sounds like a touch of commentators curse.

Oh, they're back on the shitlist.

"The part for your boiler is obsolete. We recommend you buy a new boiler."

The part that's in stock right now at Toolstation, Wolseley and at least 2 or 3 other companies within 5 minutes of googling?

[comfortablynumb]

Only in Wisbech...

 

[richardmorris]

5 hours ago, myglaren said:

I'm convinced that it is nothing but a con.

Don't go near any shops on Black Friday.

I passed through our local 'shopping mall'  yesterday, rarely go there, too many people and hardly anything I would want.

What I did notice was the abundance of tat, mainly glittery, shiny tat.  Wouldn't give any of it houseroom.

I think I am in the wrong thread  

I’ve just placed an order for some stuff I needed and was going to buy online anyway, because it’s today there’s 20% off and free delivery. So an actual saving.

[EyesWeldedShut]

I fecked up and placed a FleaBay order last night for some stuff - turns out TopCashBack are offering an extra 10% for eBay today

I did find, though, that most of the 'bargains' on eBay  can be fairly easily found elsewhere on the internet at the same prices without jumping through hoops - e.g. cheap and nasty Freeloader back box is about £52. CarPartsinMotion had one for £62 yesterday but there was a eBay 20% Black Friday thing that brought that down to pretty much the same price. Big bonus was that the thing turned up at 10am this morning - very impressed. Very happy.