I took my car to get the iffy wheel bearing replaced. The garage said, where is the bolt for your wheelnuts?

I said, dunno, is it not in the glovebox?

They looked. No, they said.

Then we all looked all over the car in all of its many many cubbies. We took All the Things out, and there were many of them. I found things I'd forgotten that I owned! I ( Read more... )

 I just took a backup of my entire LJ, including all the 3000+ photos and comments, using Bookblogger. The result is a massive 724Mb PDF file.

I very much hope that the rumours that the Russian internet will be cut off from the rest of us by a virtual Iron Curtain are untrue. That would be a grim thing, even if the fact that we can all talk so ( Read more... )

It had a long list of passwords that it thought it knew and wanted me to change ( Read more... )

New dishwasher arrived and was installed and they took away the old one very efficiently, all masked and with the windows wide open for a healthy draught. This year has been all about the healthy draughts so far, the whole thing of 'keeping the heat in' has rather blown away ( Read more... )

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I've been off adventuring in Middle-earth last week and will post about that once I've finished writing it up & sorting the photos, but that may take a bit longer since I must face the fact that my laptop is dying ( Read more... )

Yes, the boiler has died again! As usual, I am glad we have a gas fire and an electrically heated shower. I have sent an email to Artifice Plumbing, the nom de guerre of our current Boiler Man, and live in hope ( Read more... )

At the moment, all the cats are staying indoors, because Nenya hasn't quite completed her vaccinations, and also none of the cats has yet worked out how to use a catflap, and we also want to make sure that Fankil will come back before he gets to go out.  I think he will: he's pretty good about coming when called, now, though we still can't touch ( Read more... )

I really hate the style of form captcha where one must demonstrate that one is a human being by choosing all the photos that contain cars, or all the photos that contain street signs, for example ( Read more... )

Phonecall from NHS: will I come in for checkup?  Well, OK I say, and agree a date and time.

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