The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
I bet she thinks shopping with you is a nightmare too!! Ha Ha.
Im glad you know your place.... say "yes dear" and pay up!
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What's made you grumpy today?
Im glad you know your place.... say "yes dear" and pay up!
Soon after we moved to this house, we were in town, walking past shops, when she disappeared. Found her in a furniture shop looking at a large wall mirror. Until then I had no idea 'we' wanted one, so a bit of a shock, especially when the price was noted. Early days then, money was a little tight, and with the 'shock', I said no.
This led to a frosty week, and I relented. Returning the following saturday, we found the shop had closed down - oops! Secretly, inside, I felt better.
Much grumbling for the next two weeks. Near us, we have a wonderful 'emporium', car scrapyard, building materials, garden ornaments, lots of strange stuff, some new, some used, some end-of-line stock, some incorrect size, etc. Also a shed with new tools, usually well-priced, but occasionally expensive, homewares, ladders, and more. But also a large shed of used furniture, and a smaller one with new and end-of-line or bankrupt stock. Browsing in there one day, alone, I spied a mirror, seemingly identical to the one we missed, labelled damaged, and around a third of the other's price. I took it home. I was forgiven soon after.
We've had it now around 27 years, still haven't found the damage.
Another story. She wanted a new dining table, so off we went. Decision made, ordered, and awaited delivery some 6 weeks later.
I had no idea these things came flat. The thing took up half the floorspace in or lounge-diner, more as the box was opened out. The legs were separate, and clearly manufactured separately, some time before the table top. I would have expected it to have been assembled at factory, to ensure it fitted properly and sat level, then marked as a set, but no apparent evidence of that.
The table top was face up. Needed to be face down to fit the legs. Need a bigger room to turn it over, and physical help, as it was too heavy for me. I complained to the shop. They may know all such furniture comes flat, why should I know? I persuaded them to send help, as they dumped it the wrong way up. When the help arrived, we turned it over, and fitted the legs. One was not vertical. No adjustment, just not jigged properly in manufacture. They insisted on turning it over to stand on its legs, which we did. The leg drew my gaze. No way was I ever going to live with that. We took the legs off, and they took it all away.
We still have the old 1950s table given by her mum. Nothing wrong with it. Still don't know why we needed a new one.
Sofas, and now recliner chairs have been easier.
Today's trailer shopping wasn't as painful as it could have been, but she's still over thinking. We went to a local place instead of where the trailer she showed me was located. That place was an hour and a half away on a good day. The local place is about 20 minutes, less via back roads. We looked at about 25 different units. Things I would not think twice about, she is putting too much thought into. We whittled the 25 down to 6. We got pricing on those, got some other questions answered, got lunch, then went home.
We whittled the 6 down to 2. We're going to sleep on those tonight. There is a $3,000.00 difference between the 2 but I think a coin toss may be the deciding factor.
Thank Ja the local kids and grandkids are out of the country or else she'd involve them in this, too.
We whittled the 6 down to 2. We're going to sleep on those tonight. There is a $3,000.00 difference between the 2 but I think a coin toss may be the deciding factor.
Thank Ja the local kids and grandkids are out of the country or else she'd involve them in this, too.
Oh dear, you know how "they" say it's the small things? Well, Mrs J has never been good at putting the tops back on things. For instance, the tops of stuff like milk cartons, jam jars with screw lids, the Marmite jar, If it's got a screw thread then she'll cross thread it. The other annoying thing she does is place a top back on a bottle, for instance the tomato ketchup bottle, but not screw it down. So, if you attempt to pick it up by the top, the bottle will often land on it's side with you holding on to just the top. After many years of this I'm not now caught out very often, but I realize I'm beginning to become more annoyed by it than I ever was before - is this the start of something?
Mine's never been good at putting tops on either, with similar results to yours.
Also, early on, she rarely closed a drawer fully, leaving it just open by an inch. Initially it annoyed, then I turned that around by progressively shutting the things ever more harshly. That worked, so at least we've had closed drawers for many years.
The most obvious cross-threaded top was always the Marmite. The yellow on black at an angle was so obvious. As I don't like the stuff, and it always migrates to the outside of the pot, like marmalade, I rarely touch it, so there it sits, with a cock-eyed lid.
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
Oops just realised tomorrow is wedding anniversary.... 44 years. it MUST be time for a change. Ive had some 80 cars, dozens of jobs, 8 houses 4 or 5 caravans, several sets of teeth 4 dogs, 7 Fiats, one wife but....just one cornetto. It must be down to milk deliveries stopping. No milkman for er to run off with!
Thanks for the reminder there, just over a month to go for ours! Married in 1970! Think I'll just stick with the one I've got - couldn't be bothered to train another one!
49 for us in November.
Pulled the trigger on the trailer today.
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This was the pricier of the two. The dealer dropped another grand off the price to get it off the lot. I'm booked for the next week so we'll pick it up a week from Saturday. It has what they call the Off Grid/Off Road Package which is a roof top solar panel w/controller and batteries along with beefier suspension and ty(i)res.
Some of the amenities I could do without but SWMBO apparently needs them. At least if we're stuck in it due to weather, we can get away from each other.
Pulled the trigger on the trailer today.
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Some of the amenities I could do without but SWMBO apparently needs them. At least if we're stuck in it due to weather, we can get away from each other.
Longer than I have been alive and I still managed 2 wives in that time (not at the same time)
Fabia has lit the engine management light.
OBDeleven (VAG diagnostic app) initially showed several faults, but seems to have lost something in translation, but was pointing to the pre-cat sensor.
Cleared codes, drove again, no issues. Next journey, light on, only post-cat sensor showing a fault.
Tried to read live data, but the app requires live connection to internet, so 50 yards up the road, signal lost, and automatically disconnects from the car. I guess the app contains little actual functionality. Only works on android or apple, so my ancient tablet is it. Have to hotspot it to my phone, but then lost the 4G signal, so lost data again. On return, again showing post-cat sensor fault, despite sensor live data looking good.
I'm guessing the post-cat sensor is getting lazy, not being ready when teh ECU asks, but chimes in later when hotter.
Sensor on order. Now considering VCDS.
OBDeleven (VAG diagnostic app) initially showed several faults, but seems to have lost something in translation, but was pointing to the pre-cat sensor.
Cleared codes, drove again, no issues. Next journey, light on, only post-cat sensor showing a fault.
Tried to read live data, but the app requires live connection to internet, so 50 yards up the road, signal lost, and automatically disconnects from the car. I guess the app contains little actual functionality. Only works on android or apple, so my ancient tablet is it. Have to hotspot it to my phone, but then lost the 4G signal, so lost data again. On return, again showing post-cat sensor fault, despite sensor live data looking good.
I'm guessing the post-cat sensor is getting lazy, not being ready when teh ECU asks, but chimes in later when hotter.
Sensor on order. Now considering VCDS.
Difficult to think of anything better for the home mechanic. - as far a s VAG stuff is concerned of course, although it does have an embedded generic OBD2 reader in it which used to "talk to my boy's Astra very well - Had mine for about 10 years - when bought was called VAG-COM - free updates have worked well. It can do things I still don't understand! Two contacts I can recommend, our old friends at Gendan but also Ilexa https://www.ilexa.co.uk/shop/VCDS-V...eevv17c2u7Lu69Sfz2ybe_T1MXobGpVAaAq7JEALw_wcB where I bought mine.
Stepping in dog poop while out walking the dog and then smearing it all over the accelerator and brake pedals… 
Where most dog owners now clean up, we are not used to staring at the ground as we walk. Makes the risk of stepping in stuff greater, and of tripping.Stepping in dog poop while out walking the dog and then smearing it all over the accelerator and brake pedals…
Those of us who are a little older, grew up in a time where we had to look where we were putting our feet, with some pathways being a challenging obstacle course. it is better now, being able to mostly look where we are going, and seeing more around us.
The current trend, for younger people especially, to walk around staring into a phone, would have been impossible only a few years ago.
I noticed a problem with the wipers on the pick up yesterday. They'd start moving when I'd turn the key on and stop when the confuser finished its self check. They would not park properly, no intermittent function, and the washers were funky. I hadn't moved the truck for a couple weeks but I had a sneaking feeling that it was...MICE. Little pricks.
Not fun to get at without removing the wipers and fascia to get to the wiper motor plug. Anyway, my future targets munched heartily on one wire and absconded with another.
Thank Ja, GM uses different wire colors like almost everyone else. I am very familiar with an outfit that uses just one color wire with a number tag on each end. Something like this would have me questioning the parentage, and a few other things of the clowns that allowed it. But I digress... I spliced in two new sections of wire with solder and heat shrink tubing. It's all better now.
I figured that while I was at it and N. Illannoy isn't suffering under the awful heat that's everywhere else, I'd install the Bluetooth radio I bought for the beast a few years ago. That got as far as removing the old radio and putting it back in because the old radio has a coax style antenna connection while the new radio has a plain old antenna plug. Thanks, GM.
An adapter is on its way here for tomorrow.
Not fun to get at without removing the wipers and fascia to get to the wiper motor plug. Anyway, my future targets munched heartily on one wire and absconded with another.
Thank Ja, GM uses different wire colors like almost everyone else. I am very familiar with an outfit that uses just one color wire with a number tag on each end. Something like this would have me questioning the parentage, and a few other things of the clowns that allowed it. But I digress... I spliced in two new sections of wire with solder and heat shrink tubing. It's all better now.
I figured that while I was at it and N. Illannoy isn't suffering under the awful heat that's everywhere else, I'd install the Bluetooth radio I bought for the beast a few years ago. That got as far as removing the old radio and putting it back in because the old radio has a coax style antenna connection while the new radio has a plain old antenna plug. Thanks, GM.
An adapter is on its way here for tomorrow.
Wife was given some free Lego by a work colleague. She said thank you very much, noted it smelled of smoke and took it home and decided to wash it.
In the washing machine...the bag opened and that is where today's pain began.
Anyway 2 hours later I've drained the washing machine manually about 8 times...and I think I may have flushed all the pieces that escaped from the drum out of the system. Everytime I thought I had them....the sound of a piece in the pump announced "no not yet mate."
However we've managed a rinse and drain...and it's now on short wash, fingers crossed.
And in case you're wondering how much Lego escaped..
Edit: nope here comes drain number 9...
In the washing machine...the bag opened and that is where today's pain began.
Anyway 2 hours later I've drained the washing machine manually about 8 times...and I think I may have flushed all the pieces that escaped from the drum out of the system. Everytime I thought I had them....the sound of a piece in the pump announced "no not yet mate."
However we've managed a rinse and drain...and it's now on short wash, fingers crossed.
And in case you're wondering how much Lego escaped..
Edit: nope here comes drain number 9...
10..
Ok at this point despite running water through the machine with the pump open..I'm still finding bits.
In theory I don't need to call a repair person...as there's a finite amount of Lego eventually I will remove the last piece.
In practice my patience is wearing thin after 3 hours of this and disassembly of the machine to remove them is starting to feel like an option
In theory I don't need to call a repair person...as there's a finite amount of Lego eventually I will remove the last piece.
In practice my patience is wearing thin after 3 hours of this and disassembly of the machine to remove them is starting to feel like an option
Hour 4....
Maybe...just managed a wash, and a spin and drain, opened the bottom up one more time and there's nothing in the pump.
Guessing next few washes will have to be attended.
Poor lad it's the first day of summer holidays and he's basically seen me ****ing with a washing machine for 4 hours while being in a terrible mood that has nothing to do with him.
Maccas and Park after lunch I think..
Maybe...just managed a wash, and a spin and drain, opened the bottom up one more time and there's nothing in the pump.
Guessing next few washes will have to be attended.
Poor lad it's the first day of summer holidays and he's basically seen me ****ing with a washing machine for 4 hours while being in a terrible mood that has nothing to do with him.
Maccas and Park after lunch I think..
Dishwasher for Lego.
Dishwasher might be a bit hot for Lego. Depends on the lowest temp setting of course, but dishes generally expect more heat than clothes.
I'm guessing the Lego is trapped between the inner and outer drums, and may continue to appear. There may be a sock there too.
Having thought of a sock, if anyone has a need to wash Lego again, tying bits inside socks, then putting the socks inside a bag, might prevent escape. (Sorry Steven, no help for your predicament.)
