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That’s strange pm, my x220 (i5 not sure what) took just under 45mins and had one reboot.
Windows is a mystery to even itself I think.
Cardiff is the best footballing day out city bar non. Even better when a rugby trip, as the Cardiff city nobheads don’t decide to come and fight.
But Cardiff is just great, thr ground right inside a create small city. Also I’ve not seen Liverpool lose there. Love it.
Ive been once by car, my dad died there, and iirc Penarth road, seems to be 300miles long, and traffic was terrible. Though it was a short walk into town for a pint.
Gotta take the rough with the smooth.
Never got to the bay, usually drinking footy and more drinking, but here good things about the place. Only real issue I have, ironic considering I live in Wales, is it’s a bitch to get to from the north.
I’d love cup final day to go back there. Some great memories of a younger me. Old Wembley was poor, new Wembley is worse.
Thanks tippon, I should of updated here. I’m all good now. Dave sorted it for me.
I get a monthly bag of pills for my back. Earlier this month I looked over my prescription slips and they say ”review due July 2014.”
Sort of sums my GP practice up.
Done mine all seem to go well. I didn’t times the desk tops, but my main lappy, an old x220 thinkpad, took about 40mins.
I hit go just before the footy kicked off, and noticed it wad ready for a re boot just before halftime.
I have no idea tbh Dave.
The wife mentioned the service Tippon mentioned earlier to her consultant and nurse, as predicted they looked at her blank, said they never heard of it, and advised to mention not to her GP.
Car dealers hate me, as I know exactly what I want when I walk through the door.
I’ll say ”I want model x, eginge x in this spec. And maybe x option. What’s your price?”
They start the patter, and I’ll say, ”I know what I want, as do you, all I want is a price.”
If they carry on with the patter I’ll just leave. They always call with a price. Then back again with anther offer within 24h.
I don’t blame them for their tactics of up selling as if some is going to send upward of 20k and they don’t know what they want, haven’t put any effort in, to me it’s their fault they are about to be fleeced.
I said call me back, for my last car, I didn’t give them a number, I gave them my email. They hate that as they can’t sweet talk you. Email haggling is the way to go. And when you stop responding they get twitchy.
It also helps to mention rivals cars in detail that are in direct competition to the one your looking at.
Ie if say a fiesta St, I’d drop in, it’s a shame it doesn’t have a LSD like the corsa vxr, or just drop in ”god this interior would really suit them vxr seats”, compare hp figures.
Not in an obvious way and not directed at the sales man, just in a browsing way.
As they they are continuing their patter, look at your watch, or have the wife say ”have you seen the time”, you I’ll reply with, I’ll leave that price with you, as we have an appoint ment at Vx in 30 mins. Then leave and go home.
You’ll have an email in 30mins with their first best price. My reply would be somthing like, ” really, ford of (next town) is x cheaper, but I’d rather not go that far to get it, leave it with me. Thank for your time”
Tomorrow you’ll get anther offer.
My old man was a haggler, as a kid he would embarrass me. He could walk into a shoe shop and come out with a second pair for half price. Ive never been able to do that.
Tippon that looks very useful, just told the wife and sent her the link. We are off the ozzy in 30 mins for anther zap session, so he is going to ask about it there. Then at her GP the next time we go.
I’ll take a bet now, they will look at her blank. This is the type of system that should be in place. And I think they wanted to, iirc patient ID, it fell through or died on the vine due to costs, probably down to too much outside interference .
I have to agree with that, move my wife is a regular at our cancer unit, she is on text messaging terms with her team. The official stuff just follows behind.
But this sort of backs up my view of its an easily fixed system, but it’s in no one’s interest to fix it.
This highlights the difference between a company with a monopoly (or government run), and a company that has to keep evolving its service to compete in a sector, where the product (eleccy in this case) is the same no matter your supplier.
You can go two routes, compete on price, but this you can only go so far, or compete by offering try best costomer service.
It’s the latter that keeps me with Amazon for example. It’s also why I left BT and Sky. BT ten years ago was horrific to contact, and sky was not quite as bad, but they have an almost monopoly on tv so they don’t need to worry about price or service.of you want it you have to put up with both.
So I wouldn’t expect the NHS to evolve anytime soon. If anything bits will epvolve, while others won’t, and the two will gel worse than pre evolution, making matters actually worse.
What’s worse is it should be a simple and relatively cheap issue to solve. Though if you streamline the ship, it will end up in redundancy. And give its government pay, it’s better ecomomics to keep it inefficient and employ more people, than get rid of them and pay them benifits and them have less disposable income.
Given the NHS is probably the largest employer in thd UK, if they was to overhaul it, the unemployed numbers would jump though the roof, and the net disposable income would plumit, meaning less pounds floating around. The knock on effect is layoffs in shops, pubs, restraints. food sales drops that would then impact manufacturing etc…
So ultimately its more economically efficient, to be less efficient right across the civil service.
Basically, our medical mail isn’t going to be getting here any quicker any time soon. A simple email direct to your doc could be done in 12h. But instead we employ many to send a letter to you on 7 days, and you pass it on to a doc assistant to them sort it and input it into the system. Ironically the same system the assistant in the hospital had to print it from.
I’ll stop now. I’m sat in an ozzy atm, why Doris is getting zapped. Sigh.
Isn’t the open guest part, a part that any other bt customers can access? As I now in the US one of the big providers does that. If your with them you can jump on anyone else’s router. It’s a cheap way to extend your user reach.
Blanket a large portion of the country for basically free. That’s the theory behind it anyhow.
Internet banking is the way to go Richard. Life to busy to have to go into branches. It’s a rare occasion I ever go to the bank.
It makes micro managing your accounts so easy, And passing money around a doddle.
Great news.
I feel your pain re the admin. It’s not uncommon for simple letters to not get to or from our docs and hospitals. It’s seems to get worse year on year.
Glad to hear you feeling a bit better bob, and good luck to all who have their own battles.
I don’t even know how it works. How do you accumulate points Lee?
Is it on bad spelling and grammar? As that would explain how I’ve managed to get some points.
I know the feeling. It’s usually around pint 3 or 4. Time 8 comes you’ll forget alot of past lessons, but feel the wisest man in the world ??
Just took a a czech bud keg to a friends. It’s very nice indeed, dispite our poor pouring form. Lol
BL the euro beers catch you out that way. You can’t sup them like we do carling etc… The sun doesn’t help either
I forgot. I installed retro pi last night. Totally screwed it up, ended up with a few emulators but not nes! Not sure what I done wrong, but I’m gonna reformat and start aging tomorrow while the footy is on.
I did end up with an Amega 500 emulator, so I’m going to have to make shire that’s back on, and relive Cannon fodder.
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