No-one knoweth the hour
Still no **TODO news. Due date at the weekend; **FIXME was a fortnight late so we could be in for a long wait. Or things could kick off this afternoon. Who knows? It all feels terribly millenarial.
There's all those sensible-religious antidotes to that sort of thing - e.g. the Rabbinic advice that if you're planting a tree, and someone comes and tells you that the Messiah has come, finish planting the tree, or that Martin Luther King quote: "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree". But they don't seem to be of much practical help to me in a situation when I'm really pretty sure that the Big Event is indeed Nigh.
[I do have a soft spot for terribly sensible and practical religious thinking. Like the Jewish legal principle of pikuach nefesh that holds that it's not only Ok to break a law if a (specific) life is at stake, it's mandatory. Or Oliver Cromwell's "Trust in God and keep your powder dry", and my deeply Scots Presbyterian grandfather's favourite, "If you pray for potatoes, start digging."]
Anyway, I'm busily Doing Some Stuff and getting past the "must do before birth" items on the to-do list to the "would be really, really good to do before birth" ones. One of which is to sort a small car windscreen chip picked up the other day.
It's not an MOT failure job (less than a pound coin, well away from the edges, well out of the driver's field of view) but for my own peace of mind I'd rather reduce the chances of the crack spreading at a bad time. Or indeed at all - not sure there actually is a good time for a cracked windscreen, more times that are not quite as dangerously and appallingly bad as when you're driving at high speed to transfer your labouring partner to hospital. And winter, with its frosty-to-toasty morning thermal shocks is a hard time for windscreens.
Autoglass or Glass Doctors will come out and fix it for you for about £50-£80. (They'll do it for free on your insurance if you have fully comp ... but I don't, reasonably enough since the insurance only cost me about twice the cost of a repair.) Or you can buy a DIY kit in Halfords for £30 or from some dodgy online place I've never heard of for £20. The paid-for people are full of tales of woe about how rubbishy DIY jobs are, and of indeed how rubbishy each other are.
Anyone any experience of getting a windscreen chip repaired? Or doing it themselves? Did it work?
There's all those sensible-religious antidotes to that sort of thing - e.g. the Rabbinic advice that if you're planting a tree, and someone comes and tells you that the Messiah has come, finish planting the tree, or that Martin Luther King quote: "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree". But they don't seem to be of much practical help to me in a situation when I'm really pretty sure that the Big Event is indeed Nigh.
[I do have a soft spot for terribly sensible and practical religious thinking. Like the Jewish legal principle of pikuach nefesh that holds that it's not only Ok to break a law if a (specific) life is at stake, it's mandatory. Or Oliver Cromwell's "Trust in God and keep your powder dry", and my deeply Scots Presbyterian grandfather's favourite, "If you pray for potatoes, start digging."]
Anyway, I'm busily Doing Some Stuff and getting past the "must do before birth" items on the to-do list to the "would be really, really good to do before birth" ones. One of which is to sort a small car windscreen chip picked up the other day.
It's not an MOT failure job (less than a pound coin, well away from the edges, well out of the driver's field of view) but for my own peace of mind I'd rather reduce the chances of the crack spreading at a bad time. Or indeed at all - not sure there actually is a good time for a cracked windscreen, more times that are not quite as dangerously and appallingly bad as when you're driving at high speed to transfer your labouring partner to hospital. And winter, with its frosty-to-toasty morning thermal shocks is a hard time for windscreens.
Autoglass or Glass Doctors will come out and fix it for you for about £50-£80. (They'll do it for free on your insurance if you have fully comp ... but I don't, reasonably enough since the insurance only cost me about twice the cost of a repair.) Or you can buy a DIY kit in Halfords for £30 or from some dodgy online place I've never heard of for £20. The paid-for people are full of tales of woe about how rubbishy DIY jobs are, and of indeed how rubbishy each other are.
Anyone any experience of getting a windscreen chip repaired? Or doing it themselves? Did it work?