This Instant And Moment - 2023!

[LuckyBenski]

Just loaded the car with final stuff to move out after 11.5 years. Done about 5 trips to storage today, but now it's time to drive the 70 miles to Bedford and bed.

Work at 9am and I'm hosting visitors at 9.30

 

[LuckyBenski]

Just loaded the car with final stuff to move out after 11.5 years. Done about 5 trips to storage today, but now it's time to drive the 70 miles to Bedford and bed.

Work at 9am and I'm hosting visitors at 9.30

... Survived the work day without nodding off onto my laptop (for more than a few seconds at a time...). Now dead on sofa. Really dead.

Send help and snacks.

 

[Zenduri]

Currently hanging both ends over porcelein and being the most i'll ive ever been, for the last 10 hrs with no end in sight. Cant drink anything as its on express evac mode circa 5-10 mins.

Upside i've lost 5 lbs since 4pm...newer... slimmer...me.

 

[cyber69]

Royal mail failed to collect a postage item twice now this week, ended up taking it down the post office myself.

I was getting too drunk on the easy-ness of the collection from home.

 

[Derek W]

My front door lock failed on me and it switches between failing to unlock or when it does it sounds quite loose. Got someone to come out and look at it tomorrow afternoon. I'm just wondering now how he'll get in to take a look at it

 

[potatolord]

Just been out the garden.

The lilac hedge is in full bloom and smells great, and it's underlaid by the smell of wet earth and grass. Spring is edging to summer.

It's especially good to be alive on nights like this.

 

[gingergundog]

Had to remove the lock on the garage door as I've lost the key. Trip to toolstation for a new one then.

 

[Rroff]

Going through around 200 old 3.5 floppy disks I've had stored away from approx 1985 to 2005, a bit of a chore as some are in non-standard formats requiring OmniFlop to recover data. Surprisingly how many still work like the day they were new and others totally dead. 99% of the data not worth keeping but some interesting finds.

One a little sinister a disk I lent to someone at college one day so they could take a copy of the project they were working on home... never looked at it since they returned it. Has a game they made in Visual Basic with pixel art representations of all our lecturers which you can torture by punching, stabbing, throwing acid, etc. at them :s they were clearly quite disturbed.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Going through around 200 old 3.5 floppy disks I've had stored away from approx 1985 to 2005, a bit of a chore as some are in non-standard formats requiring OmniFlop to recover data. Surprisingly how many still work like the day they were new and others totally dead. 99% of the data not worth keeping but some interesting finds.

One a little sinister a disk I lent to someone at college one day so they could take a copy of the project they were working on home... never looked at it since they returned it. Has a game they made in Visual Basic with pixel art representations of all our lecturers which you can torture by punching, stabbing, throwing acid, etc. at them :s they were clearly quite disturbed.

On the other hand, I recall having a 3.5"floppy disk with a copy of Zelda Link to the Past on it...The game is actually less than 1mb in size!

 

[Rroff]

On the other hand, I recall having a 3.5"floppy disk with a copy of Zelda Link to the Past on it...The game is actually less than 1mb in size!

I've got a customised copy of Quake 2 (just one map for multiplayer) I made which fits on a single 1.44MB disk so we could play it at college.

 

[LuckyBenski]

For me it was Pokémon Gold. A terrible translated ROM, fit on one floppy. But needed a separate disk for the emulator!

This was before I had even dialup at home, so would download games at school and take them back.

 

[Rroff]

Not sure I should post this :s

Spoiler

Several files are missing and I can't get it to load up properly in VB4 (originally a VB3 project) kind of glad I didn't find it at the time as I guess I'd have had to report it - someone did not like our lecturers.

 

[cheesefest]

Not sure I should post this :s

Spoiler

Several files are missing and I can't get it to load up properly in VB4 (originally a VB3 project) kind of glad I didn't find it at the time as I guess I'd have had to report it - someone did not like our lecturers.

The days of only allowing 8 characters per file name

 

[cheesefest]

Got the onion gravy granules out from cupboard. Sneezed on doing this and tub flew out of my hand sending about a third of contents everywhere.

 

[gingergundog]

Turns out I have a garage key on my keys, so instead of buggering around removing the lock this morning I could have just opened it.

 

[dlockers]

Turns out I have a garage key on my keys, so instead of buggering around removing the lock this morning I could have just opened it.

It's typically much easier to do that tbh

 

[cheesefest]

On the subject of keys. When I lived with my parents- about 6 miles from where we live now. Parents were on holiday. Drove back home. Couldn’t find my house keys. Neighbour who has spare keys was also on holiday.

Drove back to work.Searched my locker- not there. Dropped my bag. Heard a metal clang. Keys went through a small hole in lining of bag. Hole was tiny. HTF did it make in there?

 

[Rroff]

Had a colleague who did similar - leaving at the end of the day and had a massive panic because they couldn't find the fob for their car, searched everywhere, I was about to get my car so we could retrace the route he'd done in the company van as he thought he'd heard something drop when he got out at one point, eventually found it had slipped through a gap into the lining of his bag.

 

[dlockers]

Easily done --- when I worked site crew the lads with the telehandler used to cable tie the keys to a 2 by 4 that was about 2 foot long lol. No chance of losing them that way!

 

[Rroff]

Easily done --- when I worked site crew the lads with the telehandler used to cable tie the keys to a 2 by 4 that was about 2 foot long lol. No chance of losing them that way!

Call me paranoid but I keep my keys on me attached using a carabiner.