Returning to MFW, my elusive unicorn!

coldcazzie

I feel like I've caught up with some of the sleep I was lacking last week, finally. Caught up with Picard as well - watched the finale. Not sure what we'll move onto next but we have several options.

We made it up to 40 eggs this morning so I had an omelette for lunch. Got tea in the slow cooker and it smells ah.ma.zing - a definite downside to the slow cooker as a cooking tool reckon I'll be doing some baking tomorrow to use up some more eggs!

Big Small got a letter yesterday from her college reassuring her that her place for next year is secure and that they will support her in whatever she needs for exam results etc. Feels like a little glimmer of security in a sea of uncertainty right now!

V8D

That's brilliant news re. Big Small. 😀

Will also be breaking the slow cooker out tomorrow to make stew, or rather the husband will. 🙂

coldcazzie

Mine lives on my worktop it is used so often! *whispers* I also have more than one!

Almost all of the bills have been paid now, including our new mortgage payments (at around £112 less pcm I think) which went out for the first time today! last bill goes out on Wednesday. My aim over the next few months is to TT the excess so that on the 1st, the account ends in a 0. This month it will be straight 0, and it'll be tomorrow, not the 1st. Next month I'm aiming for 0 being £80. The month after I'm aiming for £150 being 0. Fingers crossed blah blah.

Cashed out another £5.something from Prolific - will be tf almost all of that into the OP/SHTF pot, but leaving a few pence in the jt acc so that it can finish the day on 0, as I said. It would have been 34p OD otherwise, and for the sake of 34p.... 

Online pilates classes have been organised for twice weekly lasting 40 minutes, I think. Really looking forward to it.

Now it's breakfast time! (yes yes, I know it's gone noon! hush!)

coldcazzie

• Zoom based pilates classes have been paid until April 24th; money has come from the Health Pot. Twice weekly sessions, which will be nice, and 1hr sessions not 40mins like I was thinking. We did lots of work on abs this evening so expecting to feel that tomorrow!

• Prolific cash out hit PP, so that has now been moved to the OP/SHTF acc, minus 34p which has left us square in the jt acc at exactly £0.00. OP/SHTF account now stands at £161.96.

• CTC and final bill tomorrow.

• Chilli and rice for tea tonight. Chilli was out of the freezer, batch cooked in the slow cooker on 25th August 2019. It was the final portion though, which isn't really great timing, given the current circumstances!

• Booked myself on to a CPD type webinar tomorrow afternoon, centred around adapting my business to providing largely online services instead of face-to-face ones. It's PAYF so I will send them a bit of money.

coldcazzie

Finally, the Zoom session today was made more tricky by Zoom insisting that it couldn't find a camera. This is patently boll0cks because:
1, Zoom has used the camera before to video call someone.
2, I used the camera at the weekend so the kids could video call a friend on his birthday via fb messenger.

Also frustrating was this message:



So, I called in the big guns (aka Manwife™) who attempted to reinstall the drivers. The computer insisted the drivers didn't need reinstalling because it already had them, and then, after a quick reboot, the computer miraculously "found" the camera.

I am, of course, interpreting this as the technological equivalent of when someone says they absolutely definitely looked a bunch of times and the thing they're looking for "isn't there", only to have their other half point it out to them right in front of their face, and then they get all embarrassed and huffy.

Fun times  

V8D

😂😂😂 I've got a video conference tomorrow and downloaded zoom in advance as I didn't have it and never used it before. It downloaded fine but then the speakers wouldn't play the audio test, lots of googling later and checking to see if my computer was still playing music - nope I had the genius idea of restarting the computer. Started and miraculously the speakers came to life both to play music and zoom. 🙂 Love an easy solution. ❤️

Grogged

Some apps can lock the device, denying it to others.
See this all day trying to switch between Skype and Teams meetings. 😠
Might be the cause of your problems.

coldcazzie

Grogged said:

Some apps can lock the device, denying it to others.
See this all day trying to switch between Skype and Teams meetings. 😠
Might be the cause of your problems.

I have no idea. But it seems to be fixed now so I'm touching all the wood and hoping it'll not get itself in a tizz again before Friday!

coldcazzie

Also @Grogged, I blame you for this!  

Grogged

Brilliantly awesome!😆
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