MY Word
Every day thoughts and perceptions, random and considered.
- Google....I wanna tell you that your blasted constant pinging notifications that your most useful ever tool is being discontinued, are doing what you intended, they are really annoying me... though, not quite badly enough to make me take the action you are asking me to take. I will not, repeat... I will not uninstall the app that takes me directly to my mail page. I never much cared if I was notified whenever I had mail. From what I have seen in chat rooms, I am not sure if that is what everyone else wanted either. I do hope there are lots and lots of people like me who are ignoring your instructions to nuke the app.
New Releases on MUZU.TV. HELLO MADAM
by menhir @ 20 Mar. 2014 – 20:08:11Hello madam my name is Craig.....'madam?' I'm on the alert.he continues...I'm just ringing to find out who in your house is eligible for assistance.These cold calls are beyond the pale.The companies appear to have cottoned on that asking for a few moments of my timehas worn thin. It is where the call ends. A previous call was very much more deviously polished than the one above, from Craig...Hello, I won't keep you long. I just want you to know that you could be eligible for a large amount of money.... I am silent; for him, cue to continue:...we are offering the householder -are you the householder? - (silence) a large discount on replacing your windows........STUFFED WITH WHO KNOWS WHAT
by menhir @ 18 Feb. 2014 – 17:23:27This week found me doing jobs that I had never thought, ever, to do. I'm not sure how it came about, some things are like that, they just happen.Years ago, (different years) I received gifts of boxes of chocolates. These boxes had different designs and finishes, they were also made with three drawers for the various selections. One had handles with which to open the drawers and the other had small tassels, which sadly, have become a bit threadbare through use. I used these two boxes for storing needlework essentials and various kinds of makings. Whenever and wherever I moved these two boxes set up home with me. A new reel of thread, packs of needles, pins, safety pins of all sizes, scissors, many types of buttons, all found their way into these small but seemingly capacious little drawers!Back to where I started: hunting about in drawer number one, did not produce what I wanted. I pulled out everything, I inspected all the little packages and discovered long forgotten things,I opened drawer two, still no luck. I did retrieve a gold coloured metal powder compact in very good condition and a plastic 45rpm centre-piece for the circular hole that facilitated placing the record on the deck spindle. I can only assume that some countries had 5cm record deck spindles, which is why I must have bought the 'filler'.After another rummage, drawer three yielded more success. I had also added to a pile of bits and pieces that had to be sorted and tidily replaced between the three drawers.My 'What shall I do with these?' haul at the end of the process, was, one powder compact, one record centre-hole filler and in a twice folded envelope, in which, were a number of fossilised sharks' teeth...I have yet to take the notion to start on the second box with three drawers stuffed with who knows what, apart from needles and thread. Perhaps that will happen, just like it did with the first three drawer box.
Phishers and Touters
by menhir @ 24 Jan. 2014 – 21:34:01There is a dull regularity in invitations from people who drop themselves onto the BCUK platform, have no blog history, and look suspiciously like phishers and touters. Sad really.
Paperless Housekeeping- Oh Yeah...
by menhir @ 12 Jan. 2014 – 19:25:44I'm trying really hard to gird my loins for daily activities in 2014. Having a dead bulb replaced in the light fitting might help to brighten things up a bit! There is such an awful lot of sorting to do. You know, stuff you keep in case it's needed; some of it might be, a lot of it is not.
Housekeeping the computer files is on my 'to do' list before they get totally out of hand. The photographic ones are a daunting thought. No, these are not New Resolutions for 2014, I gave up that process a while ago. This is digital administration. It should be less back-breaking than the paper filing variety and more of a headache I think. If the truth be told there is a bit of paper filing to do as well. I do not have a paperless environment, I have yet to meet anyone, or, any business that has become completely paperless.Trial Adblocker For iPad
by menhir @ 11 Jan. 2014 – 22:50:55Trialled the suggested ipad advert zapper. I decided against continuing the trial. The idea of it is smart, as yet it has some way to go, I think, to be seamless in use, if that will ever be possible. The current answer is to post and 'chat' either on a desktop or a laptop computer where AdBlock can be used.It was worth a try.TO ZAP OR NOT TO ZAP
by menhir @ 06 Jan. 2014 – 22:37:36WISHING EVERYONE A HEALTHY AND GOOD 2014.I have my desktop set up to zap site ads, seems they can still insinuate themselves on my site when using my ipad. Does anyone know how to stop it?XWHERE DID YOU SAY OUR NEAREST MAIN POST OFFICE WILL BE?
by menhir @ 22 Dec. 2013 – 12:12:46Our worn and weary MAIN POST OFFICE is going to be closed for at least two weeks in January for 'upgrading'. Dealing with the three years old, (plus some) hole in the ceiling and the leak from the roof that runs along the cables into a bucket in the customer area, more like.The helpful [not!] people in a London UK head office have advised customers who wish to deal with the business elements that main post offices are authorised to do, for example, checking passport and driving licence applications, to go to the next nearest main post office. To get to it, we would have to take a ferry journey of 21 miles across the sea!!!!!!
Oops, oh dear, well, there are a couple of sub-post offices equidistant, about five miles from where I live that can deal with general post. Alternatively, if you fancy a 40 miles round trip, there's another post office that can undertake some of the work.Genuine Introductions And Requests To Link Up
by menhir @ 10 Dec. 2013 – 17:22:55Why does it not surprise me that a friend request is from someone who has recently joined Blogland, has no personal biography, not even a hint of it, and has never written a single post. In summary, there is nil on site.It is sad to relate, I would be very surprised these days, if a request was made from someone who had made a genuine attempt at introducing themselves and had genuinely posted at least a couple of times, better if more, before requesting a link up.
- by menhir @ 28 Nov. 2013 – 20:15:45At the risk of being boring, here is a post script to my last post on the cost of goodwill mail.I had absolutely no idea that there were measurement gauges for all parcels, that is those parcels that do not look like packages; when did that happen? I was under the misguided impression, parcels were still charged by weight. I was surprised to see a shoe box size parcel placed into a box before a charge was imposed for it. You haven't seen the half of it....said the post mistress, when I expressed my surprise. This is the second one we have had this year. The 'new' gauge is the same width and depth as the previous gauge but is 10cm SHORTER (A whole four inches in old measurements, shorter!!!)There is likely to be a backlash with all these ruses for raising prices,I said.It's already happened. My small business customers now use couriers. They can get a straight £4 charge for each of their regular parcels. She continued... I don't see them much now; I can't ask them how good the courier services are.
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