Well, the good news is I got 18 years out of my last water heater.
I don't need to tell you the bad news.
I don't need to tell you the bad news.
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TBH I was happy and not happy at different points in my life. But no I don't sit there wishing I was this age or that age. Well maybe retired on a Monday morning!
THe real bad news is you'll be lucky to get half of that with your new one! Good luck with it.Well, the good news is I got 18 years out of my last water heater.
I don't need to tell you the bad news.
My mother always said that her family were what she used to describe as "late developers", and used to assure us (when we were adolescents) that it didn't matter if you hadn't worked everything out in your teens, or early twenties, that people developed, and matured, at different rates, and that she (and she had excelled at sport in her twenties, playing table tennis at just under international level) herself had hugely relished and enjoyed life - both personal and professional - in her forties and fifties, much more so than when she had been younger, though she had also enjoyed that.
I am truly astonished that I managed to survive my twenties...
And those are the very years (along with a period in your late teens) when you are utterly convinced that you are quite simply, virtually immortal.
Some days I just can’t do it. Amazing I’ve made it this far to be perfectly honest.
Also, any science people here—do you know what a byrotron is? First time in the science building (at the end of my second year!) and on the third floor there is a room with a big metal door with a “Byrotron” sign and the room number. Google has not helped me. I may have misread the sign, but I don’t think so because I double-checked I was spelling it right when searching the term.
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Teens for me. I was a heavy drinker back then. Settled down by my twenties. I met Mrs AFB when I was 22.
I was probably the opposite. I think because I was out of education and into full time work at 15. You had a lot less time to work stuff out. You just had ti get on with it.
I got a first in the school of life.
A quick dash to the farmers' market this morning yielded a haul of fresh herbs (parsley and thyme), cherry tomatoes, cucumber, salad greens, lots and lots of new season's garlic, onions, french onions, chives, free range, organic, eggs, along with oranges, raspberries, cherries, nectarines, some fresh bread from the French bakery, and gigot lamb chops from the organic butcher.
The demise of customer service is on my mind. Mobile phone companies in particular.
Oh, yes.
Amen to this.
Mobile phone companies are among the very worst for customer service.
Actually, one of the (many) reasons that I like the farmers' market is that I am dealing directly with - talking to, engaging with, buying from - the people who grew (or raised) the produce that they are selling, the people who did the actual work, and not some anonymous multinational company.
Unfortunately.
Actually, I must say that I really hate to see small, family owned, businesses (permanently) closing their doors.
Such businesses - both owners and whatever additional staff they have - tend to know their stuff, and take pride in what they do, and are in a position to be able to give good advice and recommendations.
Moreover, their reputation matters to them, and, if you have a problem with something you bought from them, (quite apart from the protection provided by consumer law) their customer service tends to be pretty good, and it is possible to build up some sort of relationship with them.
The phrase "smooth robot comfort" contains only "o" vowels, and they're all pronounced differently.
Interesting.
Interesting.
My guess is that it's some sort of in-joke for the Physics department. A lot of particle accelerators' specific names end in -tron but these massive, expensive installations tend to reside at large research universities (places like University of Wisconsin) and dedicated, usually government funded, installations (such as Fermilab). Maybe the room is really a supplies closet, ha ha.
After yesterday’s rain and the warmer weather, the weeds are on my mind. Will start the weeding after my second tea though. Tea is essential before most tasks I find!
And I would imagine that they each may have been spelt rather differently in the time of Chaucer, a time where the spelling would have reflected the pronunciation to a greater extent, although both spelling and pronunciation have changed considerably (the former standardised, the latter influenced by changes such as what is known as The Great Vowel Shift) over the subsequent centuries.
Wow seeing that post about MacNN brought up a memory of Mac360 and Tera Talks....it's sad. https://web.archive.org/web/20121017062940/http://teratalks.com/2006/05/101_days/
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I have long found 'newsnow' exceedingly helpful, especially when I am abroad, and might not know all of the relevant available media in a given country.
Simply type 'newsnow' followed by the name of the country (or city) that is of interest to you, and you will see every single (in my case, English language) news story published about that country (or city) by a source anywhere in the world, and ranked according to how recently it has been published.
I purchased a pre-owned iPhone 13 Pro back in 15 June 2024 and I sold it and bought a pre-owned iPhone 11 Pro Max on 14 December 2024. The iPhone 11 Pro Max is now approaching 6 months this 14 June 2025 and I am thinking of selling it but I am having doubts whether to proceed or not. If I proceed to do so, will I be having the same thoughts by 14 December 2025?
I guess iOS 26 [which Apple should have kept the name iOS 19] is having an effect on me knowing the experience will only be good on iPhone 15 Pro and newer.
I guess iOS 26 [which Apple should have kept the name iOS 19] is having an effect on me knowing the experience will only be good on iPhone 15 Pro and newer.
Ok, it has been an absolutely crap day. Nothing serious. Just other people. And all of my socks have divorced and one partner moved out to who knows where.
So, the only known cure is kitten photos. Herewith --
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This is the look my cat gives me, not when the bowl is empty, but when any part of the bottom of the bowl is visible. There might be 3 days worth of kibble in there, but if 1 square millimetre is visible, I am promptly informed that the situation is not satisfactory.
So, the only known cure is kitten photos. Herewith --
This is the look my cat gives me, not when the bowl is empty, but when any part of the bottom of the bowl is visible. There might be 3 days worth of kibble in there, but if 1 square millimetre is visible, I am promptly informed that the situation is not satisfactory.