Be Excellent To Each Other

Went for a proper golf club fitting and got a new set of irons, an absolute bargain at only £170 per club.

Fucking hell! I hope you’re only using those for best.

A replacement for Edith, our 19 year old boiler, so named as we used the money left to me by my aunt Edith to buy it.

Unfortunately, the new boiler''s not working at the moment because there was an elbow pipe missing from the box and they couldn't get hold of a replacement today, we've been without heating or hot water since this morning. We've got a hive hub as well, but I don't intend to use it, it was included in the deal at no extra charge on free trial for three months. We've got enough devices using our router without adding another one to save me getting off my backside to fiddle with the thermostat.

I bought £50 of light bulbs today and when the heck did light bulbs get so expensive?!

When political correctness went mad and unelected bureaucrats in Brussels forced everyone to buy "woke" LED bulbs instead of incandescents.

I was forced into getting this by greed.

Not greedy at all mate, most people buy pianos with way more keys than that.

This just has the good ones. They told me at the shop.

I remember back in t’olden days when everywhere was falling over themselves to give energy saving bulbs away.

We don’t need bulbs of any sort, thanks to daylight savings time.

We did it! We saved daylight!

Those bulbs were crap. Who wants bulbs that have to warm up before they get to full brightness, which wasn't very bright anyway?

The fluorescent tube in our kitchen went on the blink last week. I'd been looking at prices for replacement tubes and it was only then that I discovered that they've been banned since September. Then, when I was taking the faulty tube out of the fitting, it started to fall apart, so I wouldn't be able to install another tube, even if I could get one. This was turning into a classic 1st world problem as we were having the new boiler installed on Monday and didn't have fully operational lighting in the kitchen.

Anyroadup, the boiler is now working as the missing part was delivered and installed this morning, and we've got an order in for an LED replacement for the knackered fluorescent tube, so hopefully we won't have an ugly mark on the ceiling where the old one used to be.

LED there be light. Replacement for the knackered Fluorescent fitting.

Now you just need a new camera

No, I need to learn how to use the one in the phone. And posting on here has quite severely cropped it, so it's your fault,

I'm not sure the site changed the focus

Soft focus, innit.

Romantic

Hawt.

Anyway, how much worse is the LED woke version of a strip light?

Traditional strip lights give me migraines, and I can’t explain this but they guvexne panic attacks and have done since I was about 12. I wonder if these will be better for that.

I'm not sure. What scale are we using to measure this?

Whiteness

Is that like the Daz window test?

This week, I made reference to leaving a box of daz on the back windowsill to indicate to your lover that your spouse was out to be met with blank looks.i am sure it was A Thing

I don't remember that from the Doorstep Challenge

That rings a faint bell with me, too.

I'm confused. Why would I want to indicate to my lover that my spouse was out being met with blank looks.

Oddly enough, I was met with blank looks when I cheerily hailed a couple of our neighbours when I was walking the dogs last week. Perhaps it was because I didn't have a box of Daz with me.

Were they in their taxi? If not, that's probably why.

A very expensive trip across the Thames as I forgot to pay the Dartford tunnel toll....

I've been there. Painful and frustrating.

Oh no hang on it seems it is only £3 as I am a first time offender!

Stupid London.

Yes, complain about the small fine, so they charge you more.

No, just walking in the opposite direction on the opposite side of the road. We don't know each other well and only met for the first time a couple of months ago when some new neighbours a couple of doors down invited us to a 'get to know the new neighbours party.'

Similar problem at the Mersey Gateway Bridge. You have 24 hours after crossing to pay the toll. I think I only forgot to pay on two occasions, but it was frustrating as I'd paid the toll lots of time, so they had my registration and email address, so they could easily set up an automated email to regular users to remind them if they've forgotten to pay.

Now I'm approaching having everything set up (only 6 months later) I can tell you it absolutely isn't so that my work laptop has the keyboard and mouse while some other device has the monitor.

I've now got a monitor arm to free up all the space the stand occupied. It's rated for 15kg on the gas strut (massively overbuilt in every other aspect). Turns out my monitor is really bloody heavy, it can hold it when it's too high but get to horizontal and the gas strut gives up. Too much effort to undo and return, so it's wedged for now and I'll figure out how to limit the range of motion.

Or I could use the dial to adjust the tension on the arm.

Escape Room Advent Calendar!



Enjoyed doing similar one last year so thought I'd make it a tradition.
Quite fun to do a little puzzle every day over lunch or before dinner. Only gave up totally on three!

Hit Squad games for the Speccy!

Darkman (last sold item on eBay £411.99
Addams Family (last sold £389.90)
WWF Wrestlemania (£103.00)
Castle Master (Not sold items showing)

I got them at £20 each from a place you wouldn't expect spectrum games to be. BARG!

Sweet! I love Speccy and BBC B games as they seem to be able to do so much with so little.

Where is this magical place?

It is a magical marketplace that normally is known for arts and crafts that is 1/2 of eBay.

£20 each? I should look and see how much I can get for my tapezzzzzzzz in the loft.

They're worthless, mate. Luckily I am in charge of a recycling plant for magnetic media (very caustic) and will take them off your hands before you're stopped by the police.

I remember the Speccy version of Addams Family. Very different to the 16-bit versions, but a lot of fun. Wrestlemaina on the other hand...

I had Wrestlemania on the Amiga and I can't tell you how disappointed I was with it. From the screenshots, it looked just like WWF Superstars on the arcade. A game that I loved and still play to this day but the gameplay of Wrestlemania was completely different. You just had to waggle the joystick to perform moves. Terrible. I managed to complete it but only by having the mouse in the joystick port and waggling with that instead.

But anyway, I thought I'd kept up with game prices but those prices are absolutely crazy! An amazing find Dimrill. Few and far between these days but well done.

Simpsons Hit Squad went for over £500 a few months back. I was getting a lot of the younger and rarer titles for under a tenner, but then Retro Gamer did an article on a Hit Squad collection and it's gone mad since then.

Those games look like they're in great condition, too.

With prices like that, is there a grading service like there is for MTG cards and the like?

I replaced the cases with nice minty fresh ones and popped em into protective sleeves. No idea if they'd load, of course

Ha, the mouse waggle hack is an incredibly evocative memory.

Weird question, but does that matter to collectors?

Lawks knows, but it's miiiiiine now