What a crapy week
Jul. 29th, 2011 07:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luckykaaI've had an annoying cold since Monday. This is the main problem. Everything else just feels bad because I'm not in a mood to deal.
Work continues to go rather slowly without any concrete targets. I really want to have some designs and specs and actual targets. It's been three and a half weeks and we've started nothing.
Finding lack of useful utensils annoying. I need a knife that actually cuts! Or a knife sharpener. Landlady is a bit of a hoarder. That's why there are 7 pepper mills and no salt. (Also 2 couple of bread makers that are never used and 2 irons for some reason). The result is there's a lot of stuff but never what I actually need.
Landlady asked me to install a printer for her. It was a freebie from her neighbour because hers was out of colour ink. Most of us just buy a new cartridge. Didn't come with cables or installer. Landlady's PC is on its last legs. Windows should not take 5 minutes to shut down. Also found HP's installation software horribly slow. Printer requires ethernet connection to set up wireless. After waiting an hour and a half or so for the whole thing to install, it only printed in black and white. Checked the ink cartridge. No colour.
Spent far too long today getting PC to connect to internet Is a bit of a faff anyway because my room is in the opposite corner for the house from the router - low speeds and frequent lost connection. But even so - I was just getting the "connection issues" wireless message where it refused to give me an IP address.
Had some leftover spinach. Googled for interesting recipes to use it up. Saw a nice cannelloni recipe on BBC Good food. Put it in saucepan. Knocked saucepan on the floor. As expected, there's no useful utensil to scoop up. Also have no remaining ingredients. Sigh. Off to supermarket.
And LJ's been down all week so been unable to complain about it properly. I'd switch to Dreamwidth or something but I refuse to let myself be forced into an action that would effectively legitimise the attack.
Work continues to go rather slowly without any concrete targets. I really want to have some designs and specs and actual targets. It's been three and a half weeks and we've started nothing.
Finding lack of useful utensils annoying. I need a knife that actually cuts! Or a knife sharpener. Landlady is a bit of a hoarder. That's why there are 7 pepper mills and no salt. (Also 2 couple of bread makers that are never used and 2 irons for some reason). The result is there's a lot of stuff but never what I actually need.
Landlady asked me to install a printer for her. It was a freebie from her neighbour because hers was out of colour ink. Most of us just buy a new cartridge. Didn't come with cables or installer. Landlady's PC is on its last legs. Windows should not take 5 minutes to shut down. Also found HP's installation software horribly slow. Printer requires ethernet connection to set up wireless. After waiting an hour and a half or so for the whole thing to install, it only printed in black and white. Checked the ink cartridge. No colour.
Spent far too long today getting PC to connect to internet Is a bit of a faff anyway because my room is in the opposite corner for the house from the router - low speeds and frequent lost connection. But even so - I was just getting the "connection issues" wireless message where it refused to give me an IP address.
Had some leftover spinach. Googled for interesting recipes to use it up. Saw a nice cannelloni recipe on BBC Good food. Put it in saucepan. Knocked saucepan on the floor. As expected, there's no useful utensil to scoop up. Also have no remaining ingredients. Sigh. Off to supermarket.
And LJ's been down all week so been unable to complain about it properly. I'd switch to Dreamwidth or something but I refuse to let myself be forced into an action that would effectively legitimise the attack.
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Date: 2011-07-29 08:39 am (UTC)My lodging woes this week have been:
Got back late and knackered, but needed to bathe before bed. Bathroom occupied. When bathroom free, no hot water. Boiled 2 kettles to take the chill off the water enough to wash my hair.
This morning - as usual if I get up early, landlord in bathroom having bath. He has an ensuite with shower, but of course I can't use that. The loo in the bathroom is the only one in the house that I'm authorised to use. The other 2 are ensuites, in other peoples' space. I fucking hate fucking ensuites. Since when do I want my bedroom to smell of toilets anyway?
So I had to head into work sharpish for a pee! Good job it's a very short drive.
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Date: 2011-07-29 09:03 am (UTC)Seems a little inconsiderate for him to occupy the bathroom first thing in the morning. Even if it is his house, nobody's forcing him to take lodgers.
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Date: 2011-07-29 09:38 am (UTC)Fundamentally, I can do one of the following:
whinge uselessly to him - there is no obvious practical solution apart from major building work. I don't get up that regularly, and can't really tell him not to have a bath in the morning just in case I choose to get up at that time. It's on a par with the damn fool wiring, whereby there is a light switch at top and bottom of the stairs, but it's set up so that you can only turn it OFF using the switch that turned it ON. Fucking eejits.
Leave.
Get a chamberpot. Which I wouldn't be able to empty until the evening, or the next day if I'm going home...
Get up later, or earlier.
Rush into work, and whinge to friends and colleagues. Currently my preferred option!
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Date: 2011-07-29 09:38 am (UTC)