The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.

[Beardy]

Open plan office: Good for collaboration, teamwork and bouncing ideas.

Open plan office with PEOPLE WHO TALK SO LOUDLY: Bad and makes me grumpy.

Hearing aid off switch for the win.

[PhilO]

Open plan office: Good for collaboration, teamwork and bouncing ideas.

Open plan office with PEOPLE WHO TALK SO LOUDLY: Bad and makes me grumpy.

But only for extroverts who don't get embarrassed at the sound of their own voices.  For those of us who are rather self-conscious, it inhibits communication. A small room with a couple of others is far more conducive to sharing ideas.

You can tell I've done a lot of thinking about this over the past 12 years, can't you?  :'(

[rogerzilla]

Bought a supposedly unmarked and unused Epiphone SG guitar from the Bay of Thieves, since I have time to play again.  I do have a Tele that I built myself from mainly Warmoth parts many years ago (it cost more to build than just buying a Fender USA one, when it was all done) but I fancied a cheap one for messing around on.

It would be beautiful except that it has a massive bash on the body    It wasn't very well wrapped but that's not my problem.

And...
eBay has generated a 2kg Royal Mail return label 

I am NOT posting it back at my own expense.  The last time I did that, I never got all the money back from the seller.  A retailer of vintage bikes in Oxfordshire, in case you were wondering, and they'd sent me a frame resprayed and decalled as something it wasn't.

[Feanor]

<sigh>
The central heating boiler has disgraced itself again, leaving a great wet puddle on the floor.

Got up this morning and thought it was a bit chilly.
Hmm, no heat.
Look at heating timeclock. No lights on, and no display.
Go to meter cupboard, look at consumer unit. Circuit RCBO tripped. Hmm.
Switch it back on. It stays on, and does not trip again. Good.
Still no heats.

Down to the garage where the boiler lives, to be met with a puddle on the floor.
That's not good.
Zero pressure on the gauge, so that's why the boiler is not firing up.
Experimentally open the fill loop to pressure it back up.
Water pisses everywhere out of the boiler.
Stop that right away.

I have a maintenance contract with BG for exactly this eventuality.
They have availability today!
And they turn up!

Primary fault is the main pressure sensor on the water loop has literally burst apart, spraying the entire inside of the boiler with water.
This is replaced, curing the water leak, but it won't power up.
New PCB installed.
Still won't power up.
Looks like something else has gotten wet, and is not happy.
So he's gone away and will come back tomorrow with some more PCBs, a fan, pump, and HV Spark Igniter.

Bah.