Death in the family. Internet outage. Medical emergency.
Lots of reasons. Yes it is annoying but there are worse things happening right now in the world (Texas, Palestine, Ukraine etc.).
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Lots of reasons. Yes it is annoying but there are worse things happening right now in the world (Texas, Palestine, Ukraine etc.).
These are all possible reasons, but I am almost certain it had to do with the automated scheduling thing. The automated scheduler of course doesn't know when real people are available, so it just threw a list of possible options, and I chose one. This all would have worked if I could have been in contact with a real person, but it was all AI. I don't see why anything of this sort needs to be automated.
Perhaps, something unexpected (death, - and yes, I have had to cancel stuff when an unexpected death happened), medical emergencies, (likewise), missed flights, transport and communications difficulties, - came up.
So one of my vendors (US based), uses an online booking system for a meeting. Anyway they forgot to block yesterday as a non work day and I forgot it was a holiday for the US. Anyway I realised on Thursday and offered to change it to next week, but we had the meeting anyway.
I agree with @Scepticalscribe once you have made the booking follow up with a message or email to confirm.
Well, Apple changed the way they handle EventTaps from CGF api/framework which completely crashed one of my apps on Tahoe, and so far I can't find away around it. It's on the app store and I think I have to pull it until I can get this sorted but it's very annoying and Apple does stuff like this all of the time.
Hope it doesn’t end up needing too much rebuilding. 
Best of luck!
I had to get another bicycle saddle and surprisingly ended up having a good look at Andy Schleck’s old Trek Madone 6.9SSL - complete with battle scars and race number. I spent a good 5 minutes looking at it closely. It all still works too. It has 10 speed Dura Ace Di2.
It was a real blast from the past to see one of those old school top end race bikes. I still have a very top end Giant from a couple of years later than that and it is still pretty fast.
Best of luck!I had to get another bicycle saddle and surprisingly ended up having a good look at Andy Schleck’s old Trek Madone 6.9SSL - complete with battle scars and race number. I spent a good 5 minutes looking at it closely. It all still works too. It has 10 speed Dura Ace Di2.
It was a real blast from the past to see one of those old school top end race bikes. I still have a very top end Giant from a couple of years later than that and it is still pretty fast.
Blessed be, enjoying brunch just under a tent roof as it’s raining. 24 degrees and some more rain tomorrow and Tuesday. Not heavy mind and the rest of the week, the last with our summer students, will be sunny with temps 23-28. The week after back to 29 or so but this cooling is really needed.
What ‘s on my mind? Saturday is on my mind. Yesterday was … interesting lol. I brewed some coffee first thing and didn’t align the carafe quite right and went outside to clean up the fireworks mess from the night before & fill my bird feeders & when I went back in, it leaked coffee all over & down my counters. Had to clean that mess up.
Then, my 3y/o refrigerator broke and so had to spend the next hours getting many bags of ice & putting what I could into my coolers and extra freezers. That was a pain. Called four repair shops but they can’t make it until Monday lol, hence the ice.
We just did our grocery shop too so the fridge was full of stuff.
Anyways with it empty, I decided it was a good opportunity to give her a good top to bottom cleaning before the repairman gets here tomorrow.
Fun times
Had to clean that mess up. Then, my 3y/o refrigerator broke and so had to spend the next hours getting many bags of ice & putting what I could into my coolers and extra freezers. That was a pain. Called four repair shops but they can’t make it until Monday lol, hence the ice.
We just did our grocery shop too so the fridge was full of stuff.
Anyways with it empty, I decided it was a good opportunity to give her a good top to bottom cleaning before the repairman gets here tomorrow.
Fun times
So yes. If your fridge freezer breaks, it’s always full!What ‘s on my mind? Saturday is on my mind. Yesterday was … interesting lol. I brewed some coffee first thing and didn’t align the carafe quite right and went outside to clean up the fireworks mess from the night before & fill my bird feeders & when I went back in, it leaked coffee all over & down my counters.
Then, my 3y/o refrigerator broke and so had to spend the next hours getting many bags of ice & putting what I could into my coolers and extra freezers. That was a pain. Called four repair shops but they can’t make it until Monday lol, hence the ice.
We just did our grocery shop too so the fridge was full of stuff.
Anyways with it empty, I decided it was a good opportunity to give her a good top to bottom cleaning before the repairman gets here tomorrow.
Fun times
Of course now you’ve spent the time cleaning it the repair man who will turn up Tuesday (not Monday as promised and you have swapped things round to be there for), will tell you the part it needs is more expensive than it’s worth.
Well that’s how it always goes for me! Good luck with it.
I hope not! I can’t believe it failed. It’s only three years old! lol and was just out of the extended warranty I purchased for it. I should have kept the one the house came with. It was like 30 something years old lol; a tank. An inefficient, energy guzzling, heavy, ugly tank but a reliable tank none the less.
I just had a thought. I recently bought a new TV 85", my previous was 75", and had it professionally wall mounted. No wires anywhere and just floating there perfectly. I don't like tilt just straight up flat. I also then did the same thing with a 65" Samsung Frame and floating console in the dining room. So it's a picture frame during the day and dinner...optionally switch to TV mode whenever we feel like it. People who come by sometimes never realize it's a TV in reality. I'm thinking gee when I was a teen, and saw these rich millionaires with the big TV back in the 80's I thought that will never happen for me...so sad too bad right? Here I am. I am NOT a millionaire, but I got these two things in my house. My how times have changed and products more affordable...not necessarily better quality for longevity but sure is affordable these days. Once a dream as a teen is now reality.
Apart from food, electricity and rent and mortgages. They are a lot less affordable than they used to be (where I live anyway).
Oh you are absolutely right about that. Watching some show and people paying over 2500 for rent and 1500 or more in a crappy place and crappy apartment just blows me away. These places are owned by investment firms or private firms jacking up the rents to insane levels. I think it's out of control and outrages. Even Trailer Park or Homes properties are taken over by these firms and jacking up their monthly rents to double, triple their current rates.
I’ve not rented since I was about 24. My mortgage is a few years off being done (thankfully).
I am so jealous. I just bought a condo at 30, and I'll be paying it off for the rest of my life.
We lived mortgage free for more than a decade. But ended up buying a more expensive project home nearly 6 years ago.
In Vancouver, if you have a project home we know instantly you're a multi-millionaire due to housing costs here.
On a 14 day river cruise… 4 days in , my wife did her wash first, now my turn. Insanely high prices for them to do it.
The struggle to save money is real. My girlfriend usually does a lot of small things to keep cash in our wallets, so I feel like she would totally do the same in that situation.
On a 14 day river cruise… 4 days in , my wife did her wash first, now my turn. Insanely high prices for them to do it.
lol. I’m anything but. Just don’t go on holidays, eat out, do take aways or drink or smoke. The little things add up!
Yep, that’s why I own a lot of dorky looking travel clothing and packable clotheslines and the like. On shorter trips, self-laundry can make flying with only a carry-on possible while on longer trips to developed countries and anywhere you’re a captive guest (ships, resorts, space capsules ha ha), doing your own washing saves a lot of $$$. I find, though, that a proper laundering every fifth day or so is worth the expense.
The wonderful range of local (locally grown) seasonal fruit (of high summer) is on my mind.
Another thing currently on my mind is Japanese culture, cuisine, and design sensibility, much of which I find extraordinarily appealing and attractive.
Another thing currently on my mind is Japanese culture, cuisine, and design sensibility, much of which I find extraordinarily appealing and attractive.
Forgive my ignorance. Is a Project Home a "Custom Designed Home"? Like the ones rich people build?
No.
In general, it tends to mean a house that is not new - it could be of any age from twenty years old to two hundred - but which therefore may need to be modernised, or renovated; that - the modernisation (such things as installing new wiring, plumbing, heating, furnishing, insulation, perhaps a new roof, perhaps solar panels if permitted by planning laws, new bathrooms, kitchen, etc) is what is meant by "a project".
The project will - invariably - be both time consuming and (considerably) more expensive than you initially think, or have planned, or budgeted, for.
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