Perhaps this might be called the ‘toil of travel’ but I think what I wrote will cover the essential point that for some people just getting to work is a hard task in itself without the effort involved of then carrying out their duties. Take the wife for example. This morning as is now usual … More The travellers travails.
Indeed… a day when nothing is exactly going ‘wrong’ but isn’t going according to plan either. By now I should be at the gym well into my daily trek and perspiring with the extended effort. As it is I’m sitting at home (again) in front of the computer with yet another cup of delicious liquorice … More It's just one of those days…
This morning I received a long ‘essay’ via a third party. The request was that I print a ‘rebuttal’ by the relatives we told would have to leave after they’d lived here rent free for four months. So I read it… and re-read it with a growing sense of incredulity which rapidly turned into anger … More End of the line.
The ‘Major Whinge’ thread was getting boring so I’ve taken the post ‘offline’… pro tem. The way to ensure the situation doesn’t occur again is quite simple and involves wielding a pair of metaphorical scissors. This might upset a couple of people along the way but hard luck. We’ve enough stress from ‘without’, we don’t … More Whinge revisited.
What has happened to the education system in Wales? I had a comment posted on the blog a short while ago that, apart from making little sense in the context of the post it responded too, was chock full of spelling and punctuation errors! I happen to know this person was born and educated in … More Education in South Wales
So… the toe is *still* infected and looks dire (to me), however the specialist tells me it looks much as he expected it to. He also says I’ll almost certainly need another operation to ‘cauterise’ the nail to stop it regrowing since it looks like it won’t regrow onto the bed properly. The wife was … More A bit more toe stuff.
It seems to me the service industries are providing less and less in the way of ‘service’, at least as far as customer interaction is concerned. My beef this time is with the national carrier ‘Telstra’ who, since they are trying on the one hand to become commercially viable whilst at the same time pander … More Telstra service chaos.
Discovered last night that the entire months bandwidth was used up a week early and we’ve been shaped’, i.e. our access speed has been dropped from 3Mbps+ to 64Kbps. The reason is obviously that the allowance has been used. What’s really annoying is that it isn’t *me* who’s used it! I’m not even sure it’s … More Bandwidth Busted.
I just read what I sent to Samsung and at first sight it looks as tho I’ve given them nowhere near enough information… for example it appears I didn’t tell them the date of purchase 🙂 However while it *looks* ‘woolly’ in fact that information *has* been sent to them. Having said that I could … More Woolly writing
Last Xmas we bought the eldest daughter a Samsung phone. This Xmas it stopped working – three weeks after the end of the warranty period! I wrote the following to Samsung Australia to see if it would persuade them to do something useful… like repair or replace the unit. I’ll let you know what they … More Samsung SGH-A501
The Eclectic Interweb 