Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

misskool

PasturesNew wrote: »

Going home now. Back on later.
Cheers
I was all dark and lonely ... and even had a little cry earlier

hugzzzz

although, i think what might be best is if you stay after work and use their internet (check with your boss if you want but it would be a cruel person to deny you that!). you'll be warm, have coffee and not be in car in carpark.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

They don't have phones at work, they have mini switchboard types... but I'll ask. It's a tiny place. The thing is, people are happy to see if they have things at home and bring them in tomorrow if they have .... but all I can see is days whizzing by potentially, which is why I bought a SCART as one person said they might have one, or not, and if they do and can find it they'll bring it in tomorrow.... so I bought one... only to discover I now needed batteries.... it's never ending.

Well that's good news. It goes to show that they like you. In non-Aspie world we're a fickle lot and they wouldn't bother if they didn't. Shows you are settling in well and already seen as one of the team.

vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

Also in my power cut box! Shame you are not near enough to send the box over to you!

Do you mind if I ask what's in your box silver? I do have stuff together, but no phone as my wired phone broke. Wondered what else you've got that I can steal the idea for:o. Yours sounds better than mine...

PasturesNew

If I am lucky ... this will post.

I've found a "sweet spot" inside.... just. RIGHT by the ferkin' freezing, draughty front door. Laptop atop a small coffee table, with an upturned big box on it.... and I can get a 40% signal. BUT - I've a signal and it's inside. Just bl00dy cold, inconvenient and a nuisance

Edit - and I got the telly working (that took some going...) but it's going. However.... I am not in that room telly in one room....,me up the hall and round the corner in Cold Comfort Corner.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Well that's good news. It goes to show that they like you. In non-Aspie world we're a fickle lot and they wouldn't bother if they didn't. Shows you are settling in well and already seen as one of the team.

Well, we are a team of two .... and I did a big favour on Friday (lift). As for the rest... it's a tiny firm and getting tinier. I think 4 people have left since I started..... seems to be arguments, not choices... and now I am waiting for the rest of this page to load before I can post this.... come on... load ... load ... and post.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

hugzzzz

although, i think what might be best is if you stay after work and use their internet (check with your boss if you want but it would be a cruel person to deny you that!). you'll be warm, have coffee and not be in car in carpark.

It's a good job you said coffee... I'd wandered off, put a saucepan of water on to make one .... and it'd slipped my mind. Although, now, I can actually hear it, so it wouldn't have been a disaster.

Was going to stay tonight, somebody said he wouldn't mind - but then he plonked himself down behind me to explain an entire system to somebody (who has taken on sudden new tasks today).... so I crept out ..... it's not a 'modern thinking' workplace, very old-fashioned 'control mechanisms' methodologies.

zagubov

PN, if you can stop for a breakfast at a Weatherspoons on the way to work one day, they can connect you to the internet free with a service named after bad weather.

Other breakfasts are available. :beer:

The dish will be on the south of the house facing slightly east.

Tesco's is O2 and they have very good deals. Just I can't get their signal. I had to contact O2 when in Germany once and found their landline number via a website called Say No To 0840 oir something like that.

Tbh I'd imagine the MSE site would have people that can put you wise to the right numbers better than I can.

vivatifosi

For anyone who has got access to National Geographic channel. There's a special edition of Preppers on next week, looking at people preparing for meltdown. See:
http://natgeotv.com/uk/preppers-uk-surviving-armageddon/videos/paranoid-or-mad

Reminds me of my favourite thread, though none of them have mentioned window licking (well not in the trailers anyway).

ETA: not next week, starts this Wednesday. Sorry...

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Seem to have found the answer to the BTOpenzone and O2 mobile broadband answer. It's the same name as another service - and you can only connect to it if you are in a bar/cafe running it .... it's not the same BTOpenzone that I pick up on my "available networks" box, as they are home users and I can't connect.

Daft bar ... stewards....

They don't make it easy to find out/discover these things at all

If you want Openzone login details, please let me know!

CK

Spirit_2

Pastures - Welcome to your new home.

Teething problems. Then they are mostly sorted and you will have privacy and be back to making cheesy mash.