Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

GDB2222

Generali wrote: »

I can definitely recommend a short commute. My record was 4 minutes, door to desk.

My commute is about 10 seconds - I go up one flight of stairs. It's actually rather too short, as there's not enough separation between home and work.

Gen, I must be about the only one here who hasn't said anything about your health. That is because everybody else has said whatever I had in mind, but much more eloquently than I could manage. Just bear in mind that I am thinking of you and beaming positive thoughts in your direction.

Generali

GDB2222 wrote: »

My commute is about 10 seconds - I go up one flight of stairs. It's actually rather too short, as there's not enough separation between home and work.

Gen, I must be about the only one here who hasn't said anything about your health. That is because everybody else has said whatever I had in mind, but much more eloquently than I could manage. Just bear in mind that I am thinking of you and beaming positive thoughts in your direction.

Actually this is something I've noticed. Everyone feels the need to eloquently say something about how they wish I get better in a particularly unique and wonderful way.

Frankly all I care about is that people care about me and want to listen to me drone on about how awful it all is.

To summarise:

Positive thoughts: good
Whingy thoughts: eff off
I'm an Asre: Up yours
You're an Ars&*al fan: get over it and get up the other end of the Seven Sisters Road. COYS!

mystic_trev

Generali wrote: »

And I'll have a scar from the op. Chicks dig scars. Given my already striking handsomeness I think I will be basically unable to go out in the city on a Friday night any more.

Perhaps you can get them to give you a Tattoo at the same time?

Hope all your 'procedures' go well next week. I'm sure being a fit and healthy young man, with a positive frame of mind, will see you through the next few weeks and months.

Me Crystal balls given you anther 60 years, but it does have an error rate of five years either way.

Generali

mystic_trev wrote: »

Me Crystal balls given you anther 60 years, but it does have an error rate of five years either way.

I can't have crystal balls. They don't work well with cycling.

Yorkie1

Speaking of cycling, the 2 presenters from the Yorkshire local news programme Look North have been cycling the Tour de France route through Yorkshire on a tandem over the last few days, finishing this afternoon in Sheffield, for Sport Relief.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-26674264

The weather has been pretty awful. Harry Gration is no spring chicken, and had a serious bout of illness last year or so, and his back has just about given up during this challenge.

And Davina McCall undertook a 500 mile cycle / swim / run recently for the same cause. I take my hat off to them.

Having a struggling afternoon. I live with anxiety / panic attacks; most of the time I live with the restrictions it places on me and just get on with life. However, sometimes it gets a bit debilitating when I feel completely burnt out. After a few hard weeks at work, I've got a flexi day off today and can't motivate myself to do anything this afternoon. There's a stack of bank type paperwork in the lounge but all I can do is sit here with a hat on, cuddling a hot water bottle (anxiety = feel cold) watching property !!!!!! shows (HuTH, Place in the Sun etc). Nothing like what you're coping with, Gen, I know - but every now and then it just gets on top of me. Living alone means there's nobody else to share the load.

Anyway, onto happier topics before I get completely maudlin. I had a lovely chocolate orange Danish pastry for pudding at lunchtime, after a hot chocolate drink and some pecan / sultana fruit toast in the (cold) sunshine at the reading caf! in the local park this morning.

tomterm8

/Rant

Dear Argos,

(1) When I check online, and the computer says that the item is in stock in store I am happy. When I go to the store and find that not only is the item I want not in stock no similar item is in stock because Argos only has it in store three days after you reserve it online, this annoys me.
(2) When I return home, and reserve the item online and three other items that I need to use the item I expect to be able to collect them all on the same day. I don't expect that you will decide to split it into two reservations which handily means that I won't be able to pick them up on the same day.
(3) I'm not going to go into town three times just to get the stuff I want. It's not that I don't like the town, I just have a life.

/Rant Ends

But, on the positive side, I had an ice lolly today! It was nice, too

michaels

tomterm8 wrote: »

/Rant

Dear Argos,

(1) When I check online, and the computer says that the item is in stock in store I am happy. When I go to the store and find that not only is the item I want not in stock no similar item is in stock because Argos only has it in store three days after you reserve it online, this annoys me.
(2) When I return home, and reserve the item online and three other items that I need to use the item I expect to be able to collect them all on the same day. I don't expect that you will decide to split it into two reservations which handily means that I won't be able to pick them up on the same day.
(3) I'm not going to go into town three times just to get the stuff I want. It's not that I don't like the town, I just have a life.

/Rant Ends

But, on the positive side, I had an ice lolly today! It was nice, too

An inside source tells me they are looking at keeping even less stock and instead sharing stock between local stores with vans driving between them so that you can 'reserve and collect within 1hr' - this may make things better (or worse). In the mean time, the reservations not collected are cancelled each night shortly after the stor ecloses so you can then reserve for the next day until you arrange all 3 reservations for the same day...or just order form Amazon for locker collect instead....

tomterm8

michaels wrote: »

An inside source tells me they are looking at keeping even less stock and instead sharing stock between local stores with vans driving between them so that you can 'reserve and collect within 1hr'

I don't mind waiting - not one hour, or three days for big bulky items. That's fair enough, really, they can't stock everything. What I mind is thinking that I was going to get my toy today, going into town especially, and them not having the toy

It'll probably sort itself out... I'll reserve the items last thing on sunday and pick them all up together. But it is a hassle

michaels

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Speaking of cycling, the 2 presenters from the Yorkshire local news programme Look North have been cycling the Tour de France route through Yorkshire on a tandem over the last few days, finishing this afternoon in Sheffield, for Sport Relief.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-26674264

The weather has been pretty awful. Harry Gration is no spring chicken, and had a serious bout of illness last year or so, and his back has just about given up during this challenge.

And Davina McCall undertook a 500 mile cycle / swim / run recently for the same cause. I take my hat off to them.

Having a struggling afternoon. I live with anxiety / panic attacks; most of the time I live with the restrictions it places on me and just get on with life. However, sometimes it gets a bit debilitating when I feel completely burnt out. After a few hard weeks at work, I've got a flexi day off today and can't motivate myself to do anything this afternoon. There's a stack of bank type paperwork in the lounge but all I can do is sit here with a hat on, cuddling a hot water bottle (anxiety = feel cold) watching property !!!!!! shows (HuTH, Place in the Sun etc). Nothing like what you're coping with, Gen, I know - but every now and then it just gets on top of me. Living alone means there's nobody else to share the load.

Anyway, onto happier topics before I get completely maudlin. I had a lovely chocolate orange Danish pastry for pudding at lunchtime, after a hot chocolate drink and some pecan / sultana fruit toast in the (cold) sunshine at the reading caf! in the local park this morning.

Hugs:grouphug:, I know how debilitating anxiety can be. Do you find distraction helps?

Yorkie1

It depends on the type of the distraction, really. I was concentrating on something at work over the last 3 days, but the tension kept increasing although the work in itself wasn't particularly taxing, resulting in mental exhaustion when I stopped today. I'm not great at pacing myself, and am rather a perfectionist.

I tend to resort to hot water bottles (or those microwaveable heat packs at work) during times of panic and to relax the muscles as I can't do that enough physically.