SMS from dryer delivery company: Please expect a phone call from us between 6:30 am & 10 am tomorrow, April 2, 2020 to confirm delivery time.
@indigo More often true than otherwise. https://www.canidae.com/blog/2017/01/why-do-small-dogs-live-longer-than-big-dogs/
// @matigo @variablepulserate @whoisashygirl
On Friday my tumble dryer died, it's an old 2nd-hand one anyway. Only rotates the drum for about ½ a second. Then won't restart. I visited a couple of retailers, neither had the one I wanted in stock, they suggested I buy online which would include home delivery for $55 extra & I'd be stuck with disposal of the old one, unless I paid another fee of around $40. Nope. Not going there.
Bought online, then received an email saying nil stock in the warehouse, please wait a few working days, we'll get back to you when we find one. Was also given the option to cancel the order.
Tuesday morning: no response, I cancelled the order, was notified of pending PayPal refund.
Went hunting for that same unit elsewhere. I found an online-only retailer which had recently closed all 22 of it's showrooms to become an online-only enterprise.
Paid $3 less than the first transaction, the thing will be delivered sometime on Thursday. Free delivery; free removal of the old dead unit & free recycling of the new one's packaging.
Happy with that.
@joeo10 I was aware of the iOS client/Facebook tie-in. Thanks for the rest of the info.
// @sumudu
@sumudu I'm very impressed with Zoom, used it on Tuesday last week to join in a meeting. Then I sat in on a webinar about some of the more basic settings of the app. Webinars have the audience muted and can involve up to 10,000 participants.
@variablepulserate I learned that a buzz cut costs ⅔ the cost of other cuts, apparently if scissors are needed that's a full price deal. I get the longest buzz cut, a number 8, which is one inch/25mm.
Just heard from a friend whose daughter works in the health field: two big racecourses in Melbourne are being set up as emergency coronavirus hospitals. Most likely to be staffed & run by the Army.
@variablepulserate Hairdressers here are permitted, but customers can only be there for 30 minutes. No-one has thought that through. Still, if there's no queue 10 minutes is all I need for a buzzcut.
OK, they've removed that time restriction cos it's unrealistic. Salons are required to keep to the "one person per 4 square metre" rule.
I guess the hairdressers have to be gibbons with really long arms.
@variablepulserate Small dogs tend to outlive large dogs but a considerable margin.
// @matigo @indigo @whoisashygirl