Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

Thanks Tilly! Just a quick one, as I was out at lunchtime.

RT - yes, that kind of activity can show you all sorts of gaps, can't it! Mind you, moving's stressful/tiring, there's no doubt about it ...

rtandon27

KC - a quick appliance question if you don't mind...

When the nice Arg0s man brought your new dishwasher did he attach it as well?

I'm getting very confused with all the delivery options on their web-site - there will be nothing for him to take away, but I'd be most pleased if he'd install it!

BTW - was your solar kettle issue resolved after the complaint you wrote? :mad:grrrr to cheap knock-offs the whole idea of free boiled water was really quite exciting!

Cheery_Daff

I thought of you earlier KC as I was poking around Elance (after all my talk of side incomes...) and spotted someone wanting a book writing about genealogy :j I always wonder how these things work - does the person who paid for it then claim it's 'their' book? I imagine I'd feel rather annoyed if that was the case! :eek:

Not made it to vote yet (but I will!) - we've had our neighbour's dog all day

Karmacat

rtandon27 wrote: »

KC - a quick appliance question if you don't mind...

When the nice Arg0s man brought your new dishwasher did he attach it as well?

It was a washing machine, RT - the offer was for delivery and installation, and thats what they did, including taking the old one away. I hadn't un-installed it, either, which is what you're supposed to do - the delivery guys were absolute stars!

I'm getting very confused with all the delivery options on their web-site - there will be nothing for him to take away, but I'd be most pleased if he'd install it!

Absolutely - but they will say installation if its what's offered. You have my sympathies

BTW - was your solar kettle issue resolved after the complaint you wrote? :mad:grrrr to cheap knock-offs the whole idea of free boiled water was really quite exciting!

Not yet ... half a dozen emails, and they said they were sending something, but it never arrived. A couple of days ago, I wrote a quick email saying if they hadn't contacted me by Monday, I'd raise a dispute with them on ebay, and miraculously they contacted me a couple of hours later :cool: they still haven't confirmed they're sending a lid, as opposed to a replacement plastic gasket or what ever the thing was, but they say they're sending "another one" by tracked delivery. We'll see. I do indeed sense a ripoff merchant.

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

I thought of you earlier KC as I was poking around Elance (after all my talk of side incomes...) and spotted someone wanting a book writing about genealogy :j I always wonder how these things work - does the person who paid for it then claim it's 'their' book? I imagine I'd feel rather annoyed if that was the case! :eek:

Yay! Hadn't come across that one! I'm sure if you write it, you mostly give up the copyright when you're writing to order like that, unless you're already famous. "Ghostwriting" is a legitimate skill on elance and I'm *sure* those aren't the ones with their names on the cover

Frankly, I think the people who are offering jobs like that are, um, lets say, they're the losers - some of the money isn't bad for a book like that, US $500 is a regular amount. You couldn't make that in any other way about genealogy, as an outsider (I consider that I'm an outsider in that world - I'm an amateur, absolutely). I wouldn't need to do *huge* amounts of research, write a lot of it from examples I already know, and then get paid $500? No problem! Looks like I can use it as an example of *my* work on elance, if I write that sort of thing - knowing what my current little book is earning on Amazon, and knowing just how many books there are about genealogy, I'd be fine with it

Not made it to vote yet (but I will!) - we've had our neighbour's dog all day

Wuff! Wuff! Awww ...

Hope you got out there - I saw the result and thought of you.

Karmacat

Ug, I am *so* tired today ... didn't really get much sleep after 3.30am, and I'm supposed to be going to London tomorrow - its an experiment to see if I can cope with it, and I'll be off to my youngest nephew's pad if I can hack it. Its train/bus not "chauffered in a car" which is why I'm dubious ...

I don't think I can do any big projects today - it's a case of little bits here and there, as I can (and heaven knows, there's enough little bits of tidying that need doing!). There's the verification thing some time after 4, and I can mooch about elance and learn more about it. A few listings, a load in the washing machine, that sort of thing.

I'd also like to arrange to win the million pound premium bond next month. Thanks awfully.

rtandon27

KC - what a faff the kettle has become - sigh - let's hope that you can raise a case with bay of e and just get your money refunded!

Appliances... have now realized that each appliance is listed 3 times, each time with different options...yeah - I can now see there is one with installation - nothing for them to take away - we just have a gap where the machines need to be installed!

You'd be proud of OH - in the middle of all the move confuzzlement he remembered we needed to vote and made sure we got there! (I'm usually the one who does the nagging!;))

OH & the nice young men who were running the polling station had a good chuckle over my indignation at the old boys sitting outside the door asking for card numbers - I mean really - is that not infringing on my democratic rights? I should not feel harrased while trying to pick from the lesser of the evils!!!!;)

...and then to top it all off they wanted to know who I'd voted for:mad: - sigh - is there no privacy left in the world?!?:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Today it all seems amusing but yesterday I was really worked up! My quest for a state of zen really took a beating!:D Voting should not be so stressful!

Karmacat

RT! They're from the political parties, that lot outside, and you have no obligation whatsoever to share information with them! I just said no and walked determinedly past them - last time, I tried to stop and be polite, and one of them actually took hold of my voter's registration card, she hadn't realised she was doing it, and stopped when I protested. They've no idea, some of them!

Plus, if the aliens took over they *could* check how you voted - I struggled with it for a few years, and decided voting was too important not to do it, but there's ways and means of identifying you - numbers, punched into the fabric of the paper, usually. Its not all its cracked up to be, representative democracy....

But I *am* proud of your OH! Lots of 19th and early 20th century history is about winning the right to vote - and although its partly symbolic these days, its a really important part of everything else, things would be an awful lot worse without it.


In matters of mere global importance, something loud and buzzing has fallen down my chimney, and I can't see where it is

And txxte spxrt have told me I have to ring their freefone number to sort out the login. Ah well.

I'm getting nothing done really fast today ...

Cheery_Daff

It's not a day for doing things fast today KC! Not in my neck of the woods either

Hope your buzzy thing is just a drowsy wasp that finds its way back out again x

Good point with the geneaology stuff on elance, hadn't thought of that! I suppose because writing and intellectual copyright (if you want to call it that) and having your name on things is such an important part of my job, it seemed odd to *not* have your name on something you'd written. But you're right, it's a different set of values - to actually be *paid* for something is also pretty useful, and if you can use it as an example of your work, then great! :j I'll have another proper look at some point

Karmacat

I see what you mean, Cheery - I tell you what you might find interesting if you go there again. Look at the bit under the "Hire" button, select search freelancers, select Writing and Translation, then shuffle down a bit and select the country, UK. There's a lot of Cambridge graduates on there who've made sizeable amounts of money. And whatever you write can be used in your portfolio, no problem, you're not expected to pretend you haven't written it when touting for other work, doesn't seem so, anyway.

I have to say, I think the editing etc is what I'll go for first, get my feet wet, then the ebook market - I've got an idea for my *own* ebook, and
I know more about marketing now too.

Got my portfolio together - a bit from the kindle book, a bit from a fan magazine article that I wrote, and part of a dooyoo travel review ... of such cobbled-together toot is life made

I had my Verification call - and my hair's all fuzzy from just washing it, argh! And I was balancing my laptop on one arm running up from the kitchen with it, because I was hungry :rotfl:

Hungry again now

greent

rtandon27 wrote: »

OH & the nice young men who were running the polling station had a good chuckle over my indignation at the old boys sitting outside the door asking for card numbers - I mean really - is that not infringing on my democratic rights? I should not feel harrased while trying to pick from the lesser of the evils!!!!;)

...and then to top it all off they wanted to know who I'd voted for:mad: - sigh - is there no privacy left in the world?!?:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

The ones outside are, as KC said, from the parties. They're usually really only interested in you if you've pledged your allegiance - the details are fed back to each candidate's local 'command centre' and cross referenced to those who said they'd vote for them. Any who said they'd vote but haven't are 'knocked up' - literally someone will go around and knock on the door and remind them of the importance of voting and perhaps offer a lift if needed. This may happen several times - I remember 'knocking up' one household 3 times :eek: before they went off just before the polling station closed. Therefore if you've not pledged your allegiance anywhere then it matters not a jot if they don't have your details


The ones on the way out - well, the exit polls are quite interesting, imo - but can never tell a full story even if everyone *did* say, because of postals
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