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Can't sleep, again.

 

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I know the feeling. I was up at 2am yesterday. Still, I had a lie in today. 3.40am when I got up.

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I have been up since 2. However I did go to bed at 8 last night so have had a few hours kip.

 

Today will be fun. Had a bad day on the old mental health front, triggered by a trip to hospital. Two very minor things happened. Was about to be served by the pharmacist when a woman yells “how much is this?” Holding up a tube of lip balm or whatever. Pharmacist then walks over to the woman, starts a discussion about lip moisturising, makes some recommendations and then brings the woman back to the till while I was standing there to serve her. I pointed out that I was there first, but the pharmacist just looked at me and said “I don’t think so”

 

That annoyed me. As I say, minor thing but it got my goat.

 

Next up, popped into M&S next door to get something for dinner. I was starving so wanted to buy a sandwich, Mrs P couldn’t understand why I couldn’t wait until dinner so explained i hadnt eaten all day. So she had a pop at me about that. The shop was small, staff had left cages on the shop floor, it was busy and I just generally felt harassed. Everywhere i tried to stand to get out of the way was somewhere where someone needed to be so I was just playing dodgems with people while waiting for Mrs P and Parkette to choose between two similar things.

 

I don’t have patience in shops. I don’t browse or look around, I go, i select, I pay and I leave.

 

The drive home took ages because someone had broken down at the entrance to the Dartford Tunnel so the traffic wombles closed all lanes while they recovered the car which took 15 minutes and then another breakdown caused chaos nearer to home. A ten minute drive took ninety. Shit happens but I wasn’t in the right frame of mind.

 

Got home, had dinner, got moaned at for being in a bad mood, went to bed early as thought it was safer to walk away from a situation which had the potential to escalate. Sensible strategy? I think it was but no doubt Mrs P won’t see it that way.

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Oh lordy, I had that game in our "new" office at my old job. Got to the point I just took my own desk light in as I got fed up of the minute round trip to the nearest sensor.

 

Used to scare the hell out of people by ignoring the fact the lights had gone out as I'm quite happy to touch type...that ability seemed to confuse my coworkers.

Taking my own lamp is a really good idea!! It’s very distracting to jump up and down all evening. I don’t mind touch typing in the dark, I just worry about the eye strain if I sit for a couple of hours tapping away without any lights

 

 

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I know the feeling. I was up at 2am yesterday. Still, I had a lie in today. 3.40am when I got up.

I ended up watching hour or so of YouTube after popping on here for a moan.

Got to sleep at about 4am.

 

It's a thing I go through every now again, god knows why.

 

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I ended up watching hour or so of YouTube after popping on here for a moan.

Got to sleep at about 4am.

It's a thing I go through every now again, god knows why.

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Don't sweat it, sometimes I find I feel better on minimal sleep. The '8 hours a night' concept is, as far as I'm concerned bollocks.

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Now the clocks have changed and the evenings are drawing in, I’m started to get really hacked off with motion sensor light switches.

 

Despite the sensor being reasonably close to me, it can’t “see” me typing, answering the phone or writing on my desk, so every 12 minutes I have to get up and dance for my light giving master.

 

 

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Put your feet up & go to sleep every time it goes dark & when it's mentioned say it's a natural instinct which you can't over come. Or pretend to fall over something walking to the sensor & claim several grand compo & a few months off.

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Doesn’t sound like him. Perhaps he will be along sometime to explain.

 

As to MYGlaren which Feynman book? Physics or anecdotes?

 

"The Meaning Of It All" a selection of his lectures.

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My sleep pattern is all over the place, don't sleep for days then fall asleep early (last night - afternoon, I fell asleep at about 4) and wake up days later! I actually slept for 14 hours and got up at 6:00 am today.

 

Feel really MUCH better for a decent quantity of kip, only woke up when the mutts requested a trip outside for a pee/Jumbone and then straight back to sleep.

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Taking my own lamp is a really good idea!! It’s very distracting to jump up and down all evening. I don’t mind touch typing in the dark, I just worry about the eye strain if I sit for a couple of hours tapping away without any lights

 

 

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Contact your HR dept and ask for a DSE assessment  ( http://www.hse.gov.uk/msd/dse/assessment.htm )

 

They'll get you to fill in something like this  ( http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/ck1.pdf )

 

On page 8 of 10 fill in the bit  ( Is the lighting suitable, eg not too bright or too dim to work comfortably? ) with your lack of photon issues and return the form.

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Taking my own lamp is a really good idea!! It’s very distracting to jump up and down all evening. I don’t mind touch typing in the dark, I just worry about the eye strain if I sit for a couple of hours tapping away without any lights

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In absolutely public places, sure. In an office environment? If you can train a dog to do it, you should be able to find people who know how to switch a light on and off, if not, train them or put a sign. If they leave the lights on, have words. If they still do, have more words.

 

Mind you, our kids like to leave the lights on, no matter how many times I ask them to switch them off. My answer? Fit lights that are really cheap to run. The LED lamps they have now are 4.3 Watts. Compared to the TV set that they absolutely must have on its minimal though, and running the air conditioner dwarfs that usage, too...

 

But, in an office the only automatic light needs to be on the outside of the building.

 

I was surprised though the other day, at a restaurant we visited there were some automatic lights in the toilets, and several sensors had been put up above the stalls so you could go in to take a crap without the damn lights going off.

 

Phil

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Years ago I worked in an office with sensors on the lights, fine when plenty of people were in, but no use when I had to go back in late to do somebody else's job (I was covering for a colleague on long term sick, was supposed to be paid for it but that's another matter). I took my own desk lamp in, did feel a bit Bob Cratchitt sat in a corner of a dark office. It also meant that I couldn't see what the dogs were doing (I used to take my Spaniels in for company) I did catch one of them eating the sugar out of the sugar bowl, didn't bother me as I don't take sugar.

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Compared to most of the gibbering morons on youtube you could be an improvement.

I don't do broadcasting any more for a reason.

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On page 8 of 10 fill in the bit ( Is the lighting suitable, eg not too bright or too dim to work comfortably? ) with your lack of photon issues and return the form.

AutoLight.....Your photons are our concern....

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Now the clocks have changed and the evenings are drawing in, I’m started to get really hacked off with motion sensor light switches.

 

Despite the sensor being reasonably close to me, it can’t “see” me typing, answering the phone or writing on my desk, so every 12 minutes I have to get up and dance for my light giving master.

 

 

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Time for a novelty desk ornament or an oscillating fan(with the blades removed)?

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Don’t really know what you’re moaning about, TBH.

 

£50 I paid the therapist to cure my Jim Diamond obsession.

 

I should've known better.

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But did he let you down? He had a PHD you know. 

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A letter from Specsavers to make an appointment.

I was there yesterday for my appointment, had to terminate before I saw anyone due to excessive amounts of pongy stuff.

 

Bill from Northumbrian Water for £250 - only owned the house for five weeks :(

Trying to contact them is almost impossible.

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Years ago I worked in an office with sensors on the lights, fine when plenty of people were in, but no use when I had to go back in late to do somebody else's job (I was covering for a colleague on long term sick, was supposed to be paid for it but that's another matter). I took my own desk lamp in, did feel a bit Bob Cratchitt sat in a corner of a dark office. It also meant that I couldn't see what the dogs were doing (I used to take my Spaniels in for company) I did catch one of them eating the sugar out of the sugar bowl, didn't bother me as I don't take sugar.

Last year I worked in an office with auto-lights.

 

One time as the dark nights had closed in, there were 5 of us working away and the lights went off.

 

Nobody moved and then someone came into the office, and we all shouted "surprise"

Oh how we laughed. He almost had a heart attack.

 

Strangely we had to get the key from security, in the morning and could see when it had last been used, and if you got there first at 6 am the lights were always on. Some sort of ghost I reckon.

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Minor grump.  Got a cold and a bad back and find that there's no milk.  Simple, I'll just hop in the car and drive to the shop, job done.  Car won't start.  Battery on car nearly flat and still won't start.  Jump leads won't reach the other car and the other car is boxed in.  Because of bad back, I can't push non-starting car out of the way which I'd need to do to free boxed-in car because otherwise I'll block up the whole street with non-starting car.  Princess was doing so well at being in my good books lately too.  So well.  Oh well.

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You could get the blocked-in one running and use it to barge (sorry) the Prinny out of the way into oncoming traffic and hope to jump in it whilst it is rolling and feather the handbrake on halfway across a busy main road whilst attempting to use the last bit of momentum to get it approximately near the far-side kerb.  

 

Or  you could not try copying me and instead dismiss it as just, thankfully, a bad idea..... 

 

Cars concerned were a Mk3 Zodiac and a Mk1 Granada.   Not my best shout....

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Just got asked this IMPOSSIBLE question by a bloke doing a survey outside Argos.

 

“What would you rather - sex twice a day for life with your Mrs...or a brand new car” ??

 

I honestly don’t know.

 

What would you go for? Petrol or Diesel?

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It is unfathomably hot in the office today, I don't know why but i'm literally feeling faint...

 

Meanwhile, my colleague sat next to me has put his fleece on

 

There is something seriously wrong with one of us

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Just got asked this IMPOSSIBLE question by a bloke doing a survey outside Argos.

 

“What would you rather - sex twice a day for life with your Mrs...or a brand new car” ??

 

I honestly don’t know.

 

What would you go for? Petrol or Diesel?

 

I can't answer that without a pic of your missus.

 

/Obvious answer

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Don't sweat it, sometimes I find I feel better on minimal sleep. The '8 hours a night' concept is, as far as I'm concerned bollocks.

It absolutely is.

Ask any expert and they'll all have a different idea of what the human body is designed to sleep for, how often etc. Four times a day, only when you absolutely need it, 8 hours between the same times every day.... They've all got different ideas.

 

I work as well on 3 hours as I do on 8, just if that's a regular thing I'll feel tired more early after a few days of shorter sleep. That usually ties in with a weekend, massive lie in, 10 hours sleep, sorted.

 

Thankfully my wife is the same, as I'm just on my way out for the evening in London and she's picking me up from the station at 1.30am :-D

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Strangely we had to get the key from security, in the morning and could see when it had last been used, and if you got there first at 6 am the lights were always on. Some sort of ghost I reckon.

Most PIRs are pyroelectric based and detect a change in heat. Probably the heating firing up at 6am and causing a big temperature swing out of the airvents/radiators that triggered it.

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Ah, that'll be another dead condenser then.

 

Electronic ignition it is.  Not because I want to, just because I can't reliably get a decent condenser any more.

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Just missed being able to attend an important meeting with a specialist at the hospital as I wound up waiting 36 minutes for a parking space to become available.

 

Oh, and had the first one nicked by an arsehole in a Kia Sportage who cut straight in front of me. Having already been waiting 20 minutes by that point I came very close to flying completely off the handle at that point.

 

Common courtesy these days is anything but common it seems.

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Just missed being able to attend an important meeting with a specialist at the hospital as I wound up waiting 36 minutes for a parking space to become available.

 

Oh, and had the first one nicked by an arsehole in a Kia Sportage who cut straight in front of me. Having already been waiting 20 minutes by that point I came very close to flying completely off the handle at that point.

 

Common courtesy these days is anything but common it seems.

Next time do a Kathy Bates, as seen in Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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Ah, that'll be another dead condenser then.

 

Electronic ignition it is.  Not because I want to, just because I can't reliably get a decent condenser any more.

 

Exactly what drove me to Pertronix and the like.   Haven't (so far) regretted it, 9 years on......

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Just missed being able to attend an important meeting with a specialist at the hospital as I wound up waiting 36 minutes for a parking space to become available.

 

Oh, and had the first one nicked by an arsehole in a Kia Sportage who cut straight in front of me. Having already been waiting 20 minutes by that point I came very close to flying completely off the handle at that point.

 

Common courtesy these days is anything but common it seems.

 

if your in the van get the tow rope out and use the torque of the mighty* Mercedes diesel engine to drag it back out the spot  :mrgreen:

 

 https://youtu.be/cDoRmT0iRic?t=168

 

(I do wonder what would the Legalities of that be? if your about to get towed but your able to tow the tow truck...)

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