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

[Mrs Pingu]

So far this week my days have been spent feeling crap, then good, then crap, then good and now crap again. WTF's going on?

Is the crap/good/crap/good coinciding with being at work/home/work/home?

No, more Mondaycrap Tuesdaygood Wednesdaycrap Thursdaygood Fridaycrapagain. If i didn't know better I'd say my body was putting off having the lurgy to save it for le weekend.

[perpetual dan]

I've had a bad back all week. Can't go for a ride. 

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Jenners won't replace my collapsing pans because after 10 years I don't have proof of purchase. Understandable, but disappointing. I'll be buying replacements (eventually) elsewhere though.

[LindaG]

Oh FFS.  Equations.  With Greek letters in them.  I'm back in my secondary school nightmares 

[Karla]

I've got a hillclimb tomorrow and I've also got a cold.  How am I meant to bust a gut for 7 minutes when I can't even breathe?

[LindaG]

I've got a hillclimb tomorrow and I've also got a cold.  How am I meant to bust a gut for 7 minutes when I can't even breathe?

Don't bother.  Do Gerry's Autumn Brevet instead.  You know it makes sense.

[jogler]

Oh FFS.  Equations.  With Greek letters in them.  I'm back in my secondary school nightmares 

I loved doing equations

[hellymedic]

Oh FFS.  Equations.  With Greek letters in them.  I'm back in my secondary school nightmares 

I loved doing equations

Equations were OK until I did O Level Mathematics and the paper told me to solve an equation which was not an equation (no = sign).
I put up my hand to complain and stupid invigilator told me it WAS an equation.

I abandoned question but was rather put out.
Maths teacher told me I was right months later but I'd lost much confidence.

[Kim]

Equations with greek letters in them are fine (unless handwritten by mathematicians, of course), up to the point where they require integration-by-pulling-things-out-of-your-arse.  So about halfway through A-level, then.

[LindaG]

e-learning's all very well.  But some of us need a PERSON to talk us through all these bloody diagrams and algorithms and formulae.  Gah.   

Blow this for a game o' soldiers.

[Mrs Pingu]

Tea + cake = haapy face?

[LindaG]

Tea + cake = haapy face?

Got tea.  Got cake.  =   

[why1040]

I thought I'd got some reasonable control over this damned chronic fatigue...I've had a month of feeling vaguely decent-not great, but without the real dips.

Bah!  Today's been a complete write-off!

[Androcles]

Morrisons - why do you sell bottles of cleaner for GP contacts but not conditioner solution?  I mean, at a pinch you can get the worst off with conditioner, but you can't store them in cleaner   

While I'm at it, handy "flight packs" of lens solution - but only for soft lenses.  GP users don't fly, apparently (although anything longer than a two-shirter will mean check-in baggage anyway).

[Dibdib]

Retail (i.e. not ex-rental) Blu-rays with non-skippable trailers. Eff the eff off.

[cycleman]

pulled my back this morning .

[clarion]

Oh bother.

[tiermat]

Jenners won't replace my collapsing pans because after 10 years I don't have proof of purchase. Understandable, but disappointing. I'll be buying replacements (eventually) elsewhere though.

Go to Costco(there is one in Edinburgh), they do a most excellent Circulon set for (IIRC) ~£160 (retail value over £300) or a Costco own label Circulon copies for about 1/2 the price!  As a civil servant you can get personal membership (if you haven't already got one, well worth the money).

http://costco.co.uk/locations/edinburgh/

[rafletcher]

Morrisons - why do you sell bottles of cleaner for GP contacts but not conditioner solution?  I mean, at a pinch you can get the worst off with conditioner, but you can't store them in cleaner   

While I'm at it, handy "flight packs" of lens solution - but only for soft lenses.  GP users don't fly, apparently (although anything longer than a two-shirter will mean check-in baggage anyway).

Well you can - it's only peroxide isn't it?  Back when I had GP lenses there were three solutions - a cleaner, a disinfectant (peroxide at 3% generally), and a neutraliser (catalyst to break down the peroxide). But nowadays (even for GP I thought) the norm is a single step clean/disinfect with a peroxide solution (no more rubbing the lens with cleaner and a finger) put into a case with a catalyst to break it down?

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

The printer is possessed by demons again.

[David Martin]

Strange. Normally it is possessed by daemons.. (sysadmin joke).

I must do a bit more local printer possession..

<manic laugh>

printer by davidmamartin, on Flickr
</manic laugh>

[Andrij]

  x 2

[Mrs Pingu]

Oh how I wish I could do that.....

[Kim]

Fairly straightforward if the printer speaks PCL...

[hellymedic]

I am without electricity AGAIN!
Dodgy Interwebs via a dongle on ancient Windows netbook.
No central heating.
No cordless phones.
No lights.
BAAA!