|
Two golden-retriever sized dogs here. We've bought a used Mercedes Vito two years ago but by now we're not so happy anymore. Lots of costs for keeping it going, too huge if we go to Sicily with it's narrow streets, and simply too valuable if we go where we want to go with the dogs - meaning out in the green, far away from proper streets. Also mislike the looks we're getting from those that don't know you get that car used with 15.000, because it just looks like Men in Black arriving. In Sicily drawing too much attention from robbers. There are places in the world you don't want to draw attention.
We're having a look at Dacia Dokker right now. In Germany you get that new for 15.000€ with all extras available. Already have a Sandero for daily use and are very happy with that one. Dokker should be big enough for your ponys too 
|
|
|
|
|
Missions for the day:
1) Clear up cat vomit under the bed from 04:30.
2) Fix two leaking taps: cold in the kitchen, hot in the bathroom.
1) Right in the middle, so I have to move the whole bed and it's sodding heavy. Briefly consider dismantling it, but then remember what a PITA it was to get together in the first place. Move bed. clean vomit, wash carpet, dry, hoover - and notice more that must have been there at least a week ...
2) Kitchen tap is a mixer, and it's probably from the 70's. I keep a stock of as-close-as-I-can-get O-rings to replace it's seals, and I swapped the old style "tap washer" cartridge for ceramic blades about five years ago. Non-standard, of course - but I didn't know that when I fitted them...
Bathroom taps are separate, and were new when we had the bath pulled out and a wet-room shower installed. Ceramic blade, natch.
Cold tap in the kitchen. Simple: take old one out, take it with you, buy a replacement cartridge. Fit it, turn on water and find the leak is worse.  Repeated trips to plumbers merchant, eventually get a non-drippy tap.
Hot in bathroom. Simple: buy standard items, take old out, fit new, turn on water, it doesn't leak.
But the pipe leading to it does ... sodding thing. That means fitting a new fibre washer, and that means getting the basin spanner which is at the bottom of the tool cupboard in the big heavy box marked "heavy and specialist tools".
I remember why I went into software now: "it's indoor work with no heavy lifting". 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
My sister had a Siamese with the elegant name Cavendish but whose epithet was Barf-o-matic.
One of my profs had a cat that was named Hoover because it liked to lick carpets.
I'm rather allergic to cats, which is probably why they're drawn to me.
|
|
|
|
|
Greg Utas wrote: One of my profs had a cat that was named Hoover because it liked to lick carpets.
I...nah...too easy. Kid sister rule.
|
|
|
|
|
Select your preferred reply:
0. You'll make someone a wonderful wife!
1. Whipped!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
Ah - schadenfreude - I love it when some one's having a worse day than I! I am having a reoccurrence of the Amoebic Dysentery that I first got in Tehran in 1975. It comes back every once in a while, just to remind me of my mortality.
Antibiotics just seal the damn thing back up in its pustules, but the control procedures can be bearable. Pour a generous measure of brandy into a glass, together with a squirt of honey. Then add a cupful of hot ginger tea made by boiling up lots of peeled root ginger until the water is yellow.
It may kill me, but right now the world is sufficiently blurry that I won't notice!
|
|
|
|
|
Are you sure you need the ginger water and honey? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
I recommend tequila if it don't kill it you won't care. 
Monday starts Diarrhea awareness week, runs until Friday!
JaxCoder.com
|
|
|
|
|
OriginalGriff wrote: Clear up cat vomit under the bed from 04:30.
 Thanks for the reminder - a similar incident yesterday.
|
|
|
|
|
I'm on my second "carpet spot cleaning" machine, which at least make it a little less unpleasant early in the morning (when you can get at it, which wasn't the case this AM).
The first was a Bisell - good machine let down by lack of thought. The suction tube has an internal spiral which traps the waste, and it all starts to stink very quickly. You can't clean it because it's not removable, and it gets plastic fatigue shortly after the warantee expires...
This one is a Rug Doctor - bigger, heavier, and not free of cr@p design problems (try cleaning the waste tanks some day, and the nozzle design traps cat hair where you can't get at it at all easily) but it's a lot more robust and reliable long term.
At least furface jumped off the bed today before he started to puke. vomit on the duvet is a lot less fun.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
Tapped out on taps.
I bough, quite some years ago, a budget bathroom sink tap for our "new" bathroom. It was the "big box" store's house brand and an amazing bargain . . . at first. The cartridges wore out surprisingly quickly (at least the cold water side) and the replacements were amongst the most expensive . . . and only sold in pairs.
Eventually I took the cheap way out and bought a new set from a real brand. One of my earliest (but not last) made-in-China bargains. The infestation of untested and overpriced at any price junk had yet to fully encompass the world.
Now I look at the cost of spares to replace things before I buy the new one. Even the lovely Xeon box they bought me for work was against my recommendations. I wanted (and specified) an approximately equivalent gamer's box. It was cheaper up front and was built with standard parts rather than the exotica needed to care and feed a Xeon. Well - it's not my pocket but I spend other peoples money like it was my own (in the positive sense!). A digression - but look for the ability to maintain you purchases of value to you as part of the cost.
| Ravings en masse^ |
|---|
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
OriginalGriff wrote: Clear up cat vomit under the bed from 04:30.
I will never understand why people want to have cats in their home. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
|
|
|
|
|
It's like having children but with lower bills, and less teenagers.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
I hope you never have children and if you do that they never read that statement. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
|
|
|
|
|
ZurdoDev wrote: I hope you never have children
Everybody tells me that - often the first time I meet them!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
And you can give away your grandcats.
|
|
|
|
|
Well, these days I have the opportunity to work a lot at home. There is nothing worse than being in a deep coding trance, mighty bytes are flowing and suddenly in another room comes the sound of a cat upchucking.... and no, though they be family cats, they are not mine.
To make you feel better, I'll up you one - Saturday evening around midnight - snuggled into deep rem cycles...
Knock, knock on the bedroom door - wife opens the door - son: "Hey I heard the water heater making a weird sound. It's dumping water out the bottom, is it supposed to do that?"
<insert adrenaline="" rush="" here="">
How many of you know where your main cutoff is? 
Yeah, I didn't get back to sleep until about 4am...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
|
|
|
|
|
Great pianist, he'd been a member of Coltrane's quartet.
![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
|
|
|
|
|
Didn't hear about that, sad indeed.
phil.o wrote: Great pianist
Agreed! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
|
|
|
|
|
To the tune of “come on Eileen”
Thank me later (or not)
|
|
|
|
|
COVID-19 is not funny to me. Yesterday, news just revealed a new cluster (source of 21 patients) at a restaurant that is within walking distance from my house. 1 confirmed case just a street away from me. It hit too close to home.
|
|
|
|
|
We have it one hop away at my wife's workplace, and a known person of us is already in quarentene...
but I still prefer to try to laugh about it than to get mad by panic and dumbness as many other people around here.
Edit:
And with here I don't mean CP but the area I live in.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 7-Mar-20 19:33pm.
|
|
|
|
|
It's not funny, but in the US alone the 2019-2020 flu season has killed 20,000 to 52,000 people.
COVID-19 hasn't hit that worldwide and it's been around almost as long.
|
|
|
|
|
Flu is still worse then COVID-19.
20K+ deaths in the U.S. already due to the Flu.
John Hopkins has gone on record as saying that this COVID-19 will most likely end up being similar to a very bad influenza outbreak.
None of this is going to cause the end of the world or 70% removal of the earth's human population.
Media is hyping this big time and causing panic on purpose and all of this has been politicized.
The average human's chances of living through this virus is much greater than not....just like with the flu.
It's much easier to enjoy the favor of both friend and foe, and not give a damn who's who. -- Lon Milo DuQuette
|
|
|
|
|
The real problem, in my opinion, are all these people that are overdosing on hand sanitizer. All that does is INCREASE the chances of the virus becoming a real problem. Our bodies need conflict to get stronger and when you remove all viruses and bacteria, you end up weakening your immune system and now we'll have a weak herd and it will be a bigger problem than it should have been.
I'll paraphrase Master Oogway, we often create the future we are so desperately trying to avoid.
Wise turtle.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
