Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

chewmylegoff

God SW trains and the jubilee line really are an awful combination at the moment. I don't know what's wrong with them but the last three months have been a complete disaster. I can't wait until later this year when I can start getting to work at 10 again and "missing out" on rush hour.

lostinrates

Chewy, and other London peeps...what are your emploeyers' plans about travel/work over the games period?

silvercar

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

It's amazing, the sudden thirst for education and desire for hard graft that has sprung up chez NDG. Everyone belted out of the door this morning, apart from Muggins, who cops "waiting in for the gas fitter" duty.

Hope they can fit a temporary supply at least.

LydiaJ

chewmylegoff wrote: »

To be honest there's hardly any debate about house prices and/or the economy outside of this thread. It's just about six people insulting each other constantly. This thread isn't any more off topic than a load of people waffling on about how they have destroyed HPC or some other nonsense. If you want this board to be on topic stop engaging in ridiculous verbal battles with geneer about who used the correct punctuation.

If we start discussing that, it will rapidly become not nice at all, so let's not.

Davesnave wrote: »

True, but importantly, quite a few of the contributors to this thread have bought & sold IRL since coming here, not just talked about it.

Talk is cheap.

And we do talk quite often about what to do with the houses that we have bought - extensions, renovations, redecoration, PV, etc. We've even been discussing whether it would be a good idea (financially) for michaels to buy another house to do up. Sounds relevant to house prices to me!

I am wrestling with my PV panels' data logging. On the advice of the guy who sold me the panels (who was very knowledgeable, and not at all hard-sell) I chose an inverter that he said was the best for reliability and had a longer warranty, even though its coms are known to be poor.

I am a spreadsheet geek, so I like to have an Excel sheet tracking how the panels are doing and drawing a little graph of peak output and daily yield. So far I have been going up in the loft every day to get this data from the inverter. However, I'd like it to be logged automatically, so I don't get any gaps in my graph if I go away for a few days. (I know, I know, I did admit being a spreadsheet geek.)

I have discovered you are supposed to be able to get it to log onto a computer by connecting with a serial cable, and I have an obsolete laptop that I can use for the purpose. The coms really are not at all well developed, though, and so far I am finding it quite tricky setting it up so that it logs every day without needing to be reset. My latest attempt to sort things has involved finding a setting in the laptop's power management plan that I think may have been making the USB port go to sleep, and disabling it. If that doesn't work, I'll try eliminating the serial-USB converter and getting an actual serial cable to connect to the laptop's docking station.

Meanwhile, I'm still reading the numbers from the inverter in the loft every day, and beginning to see effects of spring. Saturday and yesterday were the first two yields of 10+ kWh that I've had since November.

lemonjelly

silvercar wrote: »

I once read that having cold feet makes you feel the cold much more than the rest of your body being cold and more like you to waken you. In really cold weather I wear socks in bed, OH is never impressed with this.

I can't wear socks in bed. It just doesn't feel right.

My feet are almost always cold. Not just in winter...

lemonjelly

Doozergirl wrote: »

It might sound silly, but a hat will really help if you can find one that he can sleep in comfortably. I always have one at my aunts house - their boiler is in their room and they refuse to sleep with it on. The hat is the only thing that works for me - I'd sleep with the duvet over my head but it's suffocating.

It's a generally held urban myth that we lose 50% of our body heat through our heads. It simply isn't true though...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/dec/17/medicalresearch-humanbehaviour

lemonjelly

SingleSue wrote: »

When our heating system went base over apex

Really like that turn of phrase:D

lemonjelly

Davesnave wrote: »

True, but importantly, quite a few of the contributors to this thread have bought & sold IRL since coming here, not just talked about it.

Talk is cheap.

I haven't...:(

Wheezy_2

Got my new PC yesterday and it's seriously fast
For any computer nerd NP's (and for me to show off ), the specifications are:

Inwin Z637 Micro ATX Screwless Case
Intel Core i5 2500K Processor 3.30 GHz (No Overclocking)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler
Asus P8H61-M LE/USB3 Basic Micro ATX Motherboard
8GB PC3-10666 1333MHz DDR3 Memory (2 x 4GB sticks)
Integrated Intel Graphics
1000GB 7200RPM Hard Disk
Sony 24x DVD-RW Drive
EZCool Basic 500W PSU
Onboard High Definition Audio
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit

Probably I'll add a half decent graphics card at some point. Nothing fancy though as I don't game...it's mainly for video editing, photoshopping, etc...
Also need an extra hard drive, but prices are quite high at the moment as supply is disrupted because of the Thailand floods, but once they come down, another 2TB would be nice....

Wheezy_2

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

P.S. Isn't there a discussion arms forum, where you can get a pint as well

Yes, but the moneysavers' arms is just not posh enough for us.