Travelling On

Karmacat

It was nice too, thanks, though not gooey, mea culpa   

Definitely need lunch now after a late morning snack of so much sugar I'd like to get more weeding done for the bin tomorrow, but its raining.  That's the advantage of June - lots more hours in the day when working outside is okay  

I've also been trying to do number 12 - get the new cc functional.  Seems fine, but I have to use it with the pin before it will do contactless, which is actually a really good security idea.  Since I have to buy covid tests, I'll do it with that, that'll work, and kill two birds with one stone.

badmemory

Can you do the same with the cc as you can with a cash card.  Just put it in an ATM & ask for a balance or similar?  Save you actually spending money!

Karmacat

Maybe, badmemory, I really don't know.  But I actually do need to spend money on the LFT - I have to have a test 24 hours before travel, and I have to provide proof that I'm in the clear.  The cruise company mention "the test cassette showing a negative result", and I *will* keep my test cassette, but I'd prefer to use something like this Fit to fly lateral flow test kit with verification service | LloydsPharmacy which has a verification service.  I'm prepared to spend a bit more than I'd like to make sure of not getting turned away at the gangway! The cc letter does say there needs to be a transaction, and I'm not going to risk major inconvenience by not making a purchase on it, when I need to make a purchase anyway  

Spent an hour doing more waste management - a *lot* of weeds pulled up, though a few let seeds float around, but not many.  I need to keep at it!

My current cause for craziness is that I'm trying to log on to my broadband account from my new kindle - but it won't.  I just realised I probably need the account password, not the router password.  So the account password will need to be reset.  

I do feel like I'm going a bit bonkers with this  one more try, and I'm done - Outlander will rule!

greenbee

The NHS app is useful anyway KC - all my allergies are listed in it for a start.

I've been using Prenetics for my LFTs for the US (not that I used the last one as they changed the rules). 

Karmacat

Hiya greenbee - when I stopped being so micro-focussed earlier today, I started to realise that  I think it could be very useful.  The whole thing of scanning my face in the 3 primary colours while I tried to keep my eyes open was a bit strange, but it must hopefully mean its very, very secure   

I tried again with the kindle for ages - I've already used it, I know its okay, but I just can't get it working my broadband.  I'll try again tomorrow.

In the meantime, I filled another bucket full of weeds and brambles   

Karmacat

Hmm  bought the ready-to-travel LFTs from Lloyds, but didn't have to use the pin number, annoyingly  well, maybe the new cc won't be ready for contactless, but at least I know it's useable.  Actually, I don't even know if it *has* a pin now.  Maybe I'll need to have another supermarket delivery just to find out 😲

That fulfilled two items from the list, plus I paid the French management company.

I can carry on with AN item I started yesterday - functionality of AA batteries - but not the wireless connection on the kindle, as I have a supermarket delivery this afternoon, and if I do both, my head might explode

Karmacat

Decided to carry on checking out the new cc - I've just asked for a pin reminder, as I really don't want to get stuck abroad with an old pin number  should be here in 3 - 5 days, that's good.  Plus I downloaded some statements, that was on the big list.

Supermarket delivery arrived - I'd cancelled a few unnecessaries, thankfully, it's nearly all cleaned and put away.

The item on the big list about washing new purchases is also being attended to (4 items done, 8 part done).  

Currency is on the list too: I imagine there's very little to buy, apart from in Reykjavik, but sister and I both want cash currency for each place.  But need to buy it from somewhere I can walk to, and somewhere that will buy it back, because I just won't use all of it.  Post Office seems the only one - but the website is appalling, been going round in circles.

Anyway, I zoomed in to the U3A meeting on spaceflight this morning - had to cut it in half, it was *so* hard to do it on zoom - skype is actually better, I've used that recently with subtitles for calls, which is astonishing.  I'm fairly useless at zoom.

Cooking lots of portions of red kidney beans/split peas/red lentils in the slow cooker right now - that helps too.

YG Finance offering 500 points for linking an active validated account, and 100 points for validated savings accounts.  Hmmm, thats £5 and £1 respectively.  And YG are a firm that make money by selling people's information/opinions.  I think others have done this?  Ed, maybe ... comes down to trusting YG, though, doesn't it, and I'm not sure I trust them with that level of info.  I'll have a look and see.


ETA - just looked at YG - not doing it, it's a tiny amount of money compared to the disclosure of so much financial information.

Emailed starzplay to cancel debit while I'm away.

greent

I dislike z00m - I'd rather use other options for online meetings.

Cheery_Daff

Ah, oddly enough I much prefer zoom to everything else! 😂 I suppose it all depends what you're familiar with and what you use it for. I used Skype quite a bit pre pandemic and it was a pain in the bum, and when everything else stepped up I ditched it entirely. Can't abide teams.

I think my approval of Zoom stems mostly from the 'touch up my appearance'  function 🤭🤭😂😂

beanielou

I like zoom!