It’s been a difficult week.
The scaffolding’s reached my floor. It’s strange to see people standing outside of my window. On the eighth, you get used to privacy. Walking into a room and coming face to face with someone is a shock.
new neighbours
But they have moved on up. Next they will be encapsulating us in the blue plastic. Everything will be dingy and blue.
I’m told that the worse part is when the drilling starts, eight hours a day, five days a week. I don’t know weather I’ll be able to work.
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I’ve been having a lot of trouble with my phone recently.
It keeps getting cut off. I have called Virgin Media four times in the last week. It’s getting ridiculous.
It’s also getting expensive. Calls to Virgin customer service costs 40 pence a minute on my mobile. And each call takes on average ten minutes.
They’ve changed the call waiting system since I last called. Now, “to ease the pain of waiting” you can select the type of music to listen to (at 40 pence a minute). You make your selection. It then ignores it completely and plays the same song
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where am i?
I have trouble waking up on winter mornings.
Summer I’m OK, I leave the curtains open. I wake up no problem. The sun shining into my bedroom.
Winter’s a different matter. I find it very hard to get out of bed. Perhaps it’s that I’m too tight to have the heating on for long. Anything over 20 DegC is outrageous opulence.
My niece just started selling for Avon. I looked through the catalogue. There was an alarm clock with a light. The light brightens slowly over 20 minutes to simulate a sunrise.
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Kevin Nibbs came around yesterday to fix the boiler.
burnt out circuit board
It was the circuit board. You do not have to be an electrician to see there is something wrong with it.
It was only five years old.
The price of the new board was £150. That’s the same price as the motherboard in this computer. But the processing power to run a household boiler is minimal.
I suppose the much smaller numbers of boards for a boiler compared to a PC explains part of the price. But I still feel ripped off
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