Todays - What Grinds my gears

[hellkat]

Bit of a bugger if you need to put in some fuel, I expect.
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[Robby]

[Easy-X]

Not so much "gears ground" but bemused.

Yesterday I espied a guy in a Mercedes on his tod wearing a face mask No TFL sticker or other evidence of being a taxi, car was a bit too grubby if anything.

Maybe the body in the boot was kicking off a bit.
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Easy-X]

Wasting an entire afternoon with the Virgin Media chat window. Calling their 150 number just takes you to automated payments: "your outstanding balance is... zero pounds. Please enter your card details now."

I think it's taken me 6 or 7 iterations of the Chatbot and/or Indonesian call centre slaves to find anyone the least be cooperative but it looks like I might manage to haggle them down to the same price as the previous 18 months, give or take a couple of quid.

An afternoon's work or see my bill double

<addendum> haggled 'em down to £4 cheaper per month than the last contract for the exact same services
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[hellkat]

[hellkat]

Today I am mostly emailing 165 people.
One.At.A.Time.


Perhaps I could have used mail-merge (or indeed AI) to do it but it would take me longer to work out HOW to do it than to actually do it.

Luckily it is the same message/attachment so I only have to do minor faffing and then press send on each one, and now I am "in the swing of it". (I am already up to #50, anyway)

Sooner or later some of them will read it, freak out and I will have to deal with the fall-out.
Hopefully not until tomorrow/in dribs and drabs over the next few weeks.

One hopes one will not have to email the other 200-ish people.

If nothing else it will be an enriching exercise.
There may also be some schadenfreude ...
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[panrider_uk]

Broke a tooth.
Fortunately I was due at the dentist for a checkup next week anyway
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Current bikes: Hondas - Forza 750, ST1100A

[CrypticCrud]

Overnight petrol dropped to £129.9 from £133.9.

When i filled up yesterday. Fuckers.

And how come 4p in 1 night?
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I've done my CBT.

Nothing else to report.

[to v or not to v]

[BanditsHigh]

[Easy-X]

[hellkat]

I do use Office but not 365 in any effective way, I'm still in old skool mode.

I used to be the mailmerge champ in pre-Windows days so its not that I can't use it - I had just started down the road of emailing, and there were a fair few that needed little extra additions ("the personal touch") in the message as I was sending them.

Anyway, it's all done now, nose to the grindstone an' all that
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