Sent in a scathing review of an office chair to Amazon. The bloody thing cannot be assembled by following the instructions as two of the four screws attaching the arms to the seat back cannot be aligned. The only method that worked was to loosely attach the arms to the seat back, then also loosely attach the two rear screws on the arms to the seat base. Now the remaining two screws that go into the foremost part of the seat base can be wrestled into position, best done with three hands but I only had two available. Then all the screws get tightened and the plastic caps are fitted to hide the screws.
Next I hammered and levered and bashed the special easy-roll wheels off the old seat to fit to the new chair. These wheels are single 3-inch rubber ones rather than the dual two-inch plastic piece-of-crap castors than come will all such chairs. The chair rolls a lot easier and also gains an extra inch in height.
Four months. Four effing months since I went into hospital with septic arthritis in my left knee. It’s still an awful long time until I recover from it. It’s so bloody frustrating but whenever a physiotherapist or other health practitioner sees me they are really impressed with my progress. But dealing with the pain and frustration on a day-to-day basis, I just can’t see it that way.
Had an inexpensive Amazon delivery stolen last night. I’d dearly like to know why the driver decided to make the delivery at 8:45pm when the daily delivery window is 8am to 8pm. Usually if the delivery can’t be made in that timeframe it’s held over to the next day. They sent an email with a photo at the time of delivery but Do Not Disturb settings prevented notification of said email.
Opened the email this morning, saw the photo, definitely my doorstep. Went out to find no package. I’m wondering if the driver had been followed by the thief?
A replacement has been ordered and should arrive tomorrow, at a nearby Amazon locker.
I mentioned to the installers of the new unit that I'd had a quote from another company to install a similar system for a cost 50% higher than their quote. The unit installed is rated at 3.5 kW, the team leader said for that kind of outlay he could supply and install an 8kW heat pump. In fact, the cost of this new unit was less than $300 more than the original installation done in February 2014.
I have set the new heat pump reverse cycle A/C unit to 20ºC. According to the temperature sensors in. the stereo pair of HomePods in the same room, the temperature is between 19.6º and 20.5º. The 10-year-old model that was changed over early yesterday morning struggled to get with 4 to 5º of the selected setting.
The new one is maintaining those temperatures on the lowest fan setting with the quiet setting also active; the quiet setting reduces airflow noise.
The old unit needed to have its fan on a higher setting in order to achieve any useful heating effect.
We had a family reunion about ten years ago in the rural city where our grandparents lived all their married lives. We tried to get a date closest to Feb 28, their wedding anniversary, settling on Feb 8th. The temperature was 42ºC on the Saturday and 43ºC the following day. But because the humidity was around 8% all we needed was shade to be mostly comfortable. The initial meeting place was the park across the road from where their house used to be but after about six travellers joined the group we adjourned to the pub that the grandparents visited every Friday.
I had to hurry home on the Sunday because a crew was coming the following day to install a reverse cycle air conditioner.
Lately that device has been giving trouble, taking too long to heat or cool the room so in a couple of days another crew will replace it with a newer version. I had the old one serviced and was told it had lost some of its refrigerant over time.
The current outside unit is mounted to the concrete slab beside the garage door, the new one will be on a wall bracket and the condensate will be directed to a stormwater downpipe instead of just slopping about on the pavement.
If the person who named walkie talkies named everything:
Stamps - Lickie Stickie.
Defibrillators - Hearty Starty.
Bumble Bees - Fuzzy Buzzy.
Pregnancy Test - Maybe Baby.
Bra - Breastie Nestie.
Fork - Stabby Grabby.
Socks - Feetie Heatie.
Hippo - Floatie Bloatie.
@variablepulserate Wrong. He was slightly injured in the collision and sought medical assistance. He also made a police report of the incident as the injured party, quite within his rights. He wasn't even aware of the court case, didn't even know there was one.
Feeling a lot better now. The court case I was involved in is over, I was facing a charge of careless driving following an incident in January this year involving my next door neighbour and his 17-month-old daughter. She was uninjured but very distressed, actually went under the back of my car while I was slowly reversing.
I had a lot of trouble getting the recommended legal advice, eventually found a great barrister through a website. Essentially, I paid him to do all the worrying. The case was scheduled for 11am today, it was all over 20 minutes before that time.
No conviction was recorded, I had to make a small donation to a road trauma charity and am on a 6-month good behaviour order. That should not be too difficult, my driving record for the last 5 years is completely clear.
I was told I could expect some side effects of yesterday's COVID number 6 injection. One such problem encountered was upper arm pain late last night and today. What I didn't expect was to encounter similar pain in the other arm.
I was given a small pack (20) of Tapentadol painkillers when I left the rehab hospital 7.5 weeks ago. Until tonight I had used nine of them, 5 in the first 6 days. What's really neat about this medication is it's less addictive than Oxycondone while offering near-identical pain relief within 25 minutes of ingestion. I'm feeling a whole lot better now.