Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

tea_lover

I can't imagine any future employers would view it like that at all. It's a good (on paper!) job, that you'll have had for a good few months by the time you do decide to move on. People change jobs so frequently these days, I really don't think that being somewhere for a short time is seen as a negative now.

I'm also resigned to nothing happening for a while (although am open to offers lol), but after Christmas will start seriously looking for something else. Somewhere where the heating works past 1pm would be nice.

Pyxis

With only two more green bin collections left until February, I went out today to cut down some shrubs to put in the bin, and now I've got pains.

I knew I would. My poorly wrists don't like me doing things with loppers and secateurs.

I've managed to fill the bin and got stuff cut down ready for the final collection though.

Blasted convolvulus had taken over, and it kept whipping me in the face.

Waves_and_Smiles

Well, that was embarrassing. I finally got my iphone and totally failed to set it up correctly. I called the Apple Store in despair and the incredibly helpful man told me to factory reset the whole thing. He then took control of my laptop and set up an Apple account (which I apparently needed) and talked me through everything, he made it look like something a child could have done. I feel really stupid now.

I am giving myself brownie points however for not freaking out completely when he said he needed access to my laptop. It all went so fast that by the time I had started panicking he had deleted the software and was gone again.

I am now discovering that my phone is actually really easy to use!

Pyxis

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Well, that was embarrassing. I finally got my iphone and totally failed to set it up correctly. I called the Apple Store in despair and the incredibly helpful man told me to factory reset the whole thing. He then took control of my laptop and set up an Apple account (which I apparently needed) and talked me through everything, he made it look like something a child could have done. I feel really stupid now.

I am giving myself brownie points however for not freaking out completely when he said he needed access to my laptop. It all went so fast that by the time I had started panicking he had deleted the software and was gone again.

I am now discovering that my phone is actually really easy to use!

WaS, he made it look like something a child could do because he knew it inside out and back to front, and was telling you what to do in easy steps.

I've just watched the last episode of Back in Time in Brixton, and during the 1970s decade that they were simulating for the family, the teenage kids were given a portable radiocassette recorder and a record player, and were told they could have a go at recording the vinyl record onto the tape cassette.

After having several goes and failing to record anything, they had to call their mum in, who immediately saw what they were doing wrong and had it recording in seconds.

I bet you could have done that all right!

If you don't know, you don't know, and having random goes can make things worse!
The chap at the other end had to be taught, even if was just by gradual absorption of knowledge over a few years; you're not born all-knowing!

There's no shame in that!


Part of the problem is that we no longer get proper, comprehensive, step-by-easy-step manuals. There's a certain amount of assumed knowledge, and then what manuals there are are online, which is difficult to read while you're actually trying to do what it says!

codemonkey

WaS, if it's any help I'd probably struggle to set up an iPhone. I think you'll like having a smartphone. I do just about everything on mine.

Is it too early for Christmas music?

Pyxis

codemonkey wrote: »

WaS, if it's any help I'd probably struggle to set up an iPhone. I think you'll like having a smartphone. I do just about everything on mine.

Is it too early for Christmas music?

Yes!




We had to start singing some at AmDram in October, which was a right pain.

Am sick of them already! :rotfl:

elsien

It's too bloody late for advent calendars. just been on a hunt and unless I want a £10 one they've sold out.

codemonkey

That's rubbish elsien. You always used to be able to get one cheaply after December 1st, but I've noticed that that doesn't seem to happen anymore.

I am still feeling a bit miserable.

Gingernutty

Had two guys show up to assess my house after I logged a job on Rated People.

There's a long, slow slog ahead.

I could have timed it better. Wobbling over rubble and building supplies after my foot 'thing' yesterday was pretty silly.

I couldn't keep warm so I splurged on disposable hand warmers.

I'm suprised they actually work, but £4 for 5 pairs is a little extravagant.

I went to Hobbycraft to find buttons for a charity shop coat.

I'd paid for buttons previously and paid to have them attached, but it's only after seeing them on the coat, that I realised that the buttons are two different sizes.

The shop I bought them from was closing down and things were all over the place.

So I've got to try and sort that out.

There's less pain, but it feels different like someone's pinching the skin between my toes.

Still I hope it feels better when I wake up.

Sorry to tell you Penguin about death

The comedian and actor, Andrew Sachs is dead.

2016 strikes again

Pyxis

Gingernutty - - I didn't understand the bit about having your house assessed after logging a job.


How annoying about the buttons!
Sewing on buttons is one of the few sewing jobs I can do, even though the result might not look all that wonderful! I so don't like sewing though.
I've got a small pile of minor things waiting to be done, that have been on a chair for about two years!
There's so no hope!


Honestly, the internal politics and personality clashes of the AmDram is making me miserable. The group is divided into two - those that want to put the work into it and improve and progress, and those that, basically don't, who want the buzz of performing but only on their terms. So you get one half who do all the work and the other half who coast along.
Thus was it ever so, I suppose. Tricky when 2-3 of those people are in the section you're responsible for, even trickier when you're not very good at being any sort of leader, and still trickier when it's a hobby, not a job, so you don't really have any clout, and the worse thing of all is that numbers in the group are so down that we need everyone we've got.
Add into the mix a couple of not very nice personalities and even the odd occasion when someone decides off their own bat to decide something that goes against the grain, and you have one rather sad Pyxis at the moment!

I hear you saying, why put yourself through that? :rotfl: I ask myself that a lot!
The thing is, I love the performing side. Plus it has reawakened a bit of a talent in me that had been buried for years and years, and I don't want to re-bury it!It's growing and developing again nicely.

Plus it has increased my confidence in my abilities, such as they are. It is one if the few things I really am quite good at, even if that isn't terribly well recognised!

Plus there are a handful of people I'm on the same wavelength as, which helps, although they aren't very forceful, either!

Plus, while I keep getting this series of minor illnesses, it's the only thing that gets me out of the house at the moment....everything else has gone due to not feeling well most of the time!

It'd be great if it weren't for most of the people there! Hahahahahaha!

I suppose if I'm honest, I had originally hoped it would be a group I felt I really 'belonged' to, and was appreciated by, but at the end of the day, I'm still on the outside looking in, again, or that's what it feels like, anyway.

I know, sigh, it's probably me, not them! :rotfl: