House moves are painful, I had about 3 hours sleep 2 days in a row leading up to the last one, then was on the go from like 3am on the day of moving - by 11pm I was hitting a wall mentally and things were becoming fractious with family. Fortunately no bridges burned.
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House moves are painful, I had about 3 hours sleep 2 days in a row leading up to the last one, then was on the go from like 3am on the day of moving - by 11pm I was hitting a wall mentally and things were becoming fractious with family. Fortunately no bridges burned.
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The RAM in my PC has been running at 2133MHz instead of 3200MHz for a while... I decided to randomly open CPU-Z after watching some LTT videos.
I really hope it hasn't been like that since I built it...
I really hope it hasn't been like that since I built it...
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The RAM in my PC has been running at 2133MHz instead of 3200MHz for a while... I decided to randomly open CPU-Z after watching some LTT videos.
I really hope it hasn't been like that since I built it...
On the plus side, you have a free upgrade!
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This is the ultimate flashy RAM rookie errorThe RAM in my PC has been running at 2133MHz instead of 3200MHz for a while... I decided to randomly open CPU-Z after watching some LTT videos.
I really hope it hasn't been like that since I built it...
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Saw a van reversing into a parking spot, but the parking bays at at a 60 degree angle to the back, and a foot away from the end is a wall....The van driver clearly only looked at 1 wing mirror, the side furthest away from the wall and not the other.
Then BAM! and oops and he wondered what he hit.
Then BAM! and oops and he wondered what he hit.
The RAM in my PC has been running at 2133MHz instead of 3200MHz for a while... I decided to randomly open CPU-Z after watching some LTT videos.
I really hope it hasn't been like that since I built it...
That must have mega hurtz
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When I was in infants school I saw this big Royal Mail van reverse into a curved brick wall - obviously only paying attention to the one side with longer distance, whole wall fell clean over - driver took one look then got out of there as quickly as they could. From Google maps looks like it has happened a few times since (they've put reflective triangles on it as well).
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Ooof someone posted a meme about common sense on Facebook and I nearly replied with a meme about being stupid is like being dead - it is other people who feel the pain... then remembered their partner passed away a few days ago... would have been a bit of a faux pas.
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Am I the only one amused that the latest tory alleged groper is called "Mr Pincher"?
Nominative determinism in action.
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No. No, you're not.
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So i have wailed 6 weeks for an electronic module fitting to my car (i know i could code it with vcds but needs to be registered by Skoda on their network) did a quick chase up call as tomorrow was the fitting day and they hadn't ordered the part ,its great down here but my god there's so much incompetence ,the garage i use for mots is in Batley and its totally worth the journey
That's a lot of wailing!
But yea, I'm originally from the West Country, and though in Lincs now where things are on a go slow, whenever I visit again you can still feel time slow even further
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That's a lot of wailing!
But yea, I'm originally from the West Country, and though in Lincs now where things are on a go slow, whenever I visit again you can still feel time slow even further
damn my spelling after red wine but me wailing for 6 weeks fits as well tbh
I always forget what this thread is for but had my first real experience of Alzheimer's yesterday and am so fortunate neither of my mum's parents suffered from it.
Cycled past an elderly woman who didn't look right, stopped and went back to ask if she was OK. She said she was lost and suffered from it, told her I worked in a hospital (but not a clinician) and showed her my badge to ease any possible fears of a tall stranger.
She had a badge on a lanyard and some keys there, remembering the road she lived on which luckily was just down the road. Queue us walking there, wheeling my bike on one arm and propping her up on the other. Every few minutes she'd ask how did I know where she lived and tell me she received an MBE for teaching.
She remembered the door number and as we approached she started to get excited and practically started sprinting to the door almost falling over several times. We get to the door one from hers which she mistakingly thought was her so I rang every doorbell and asked if they knew, one did and confirmed she lived one down from theirs. But by this point she was adamant it was the on we were at and we were now in inside. The neighbour who confirmed came out to help and knew her. She was having none of it and just wanted to get inside a house/flat, we were calmly trying to plead with her it was next door. I used her keys to enter her actual place while the neighbour dealt with her for a few mins, tried to grab a family picture (there were notes all round the flat reminding her of things) and found her phone which fortunately had ICE information including her son's number. The neighbour had wisely told her husband to keep their flat door closed in case she tried to get in, he did but for some unfathomable reason opened it a few minutes later and the woman made a dash for it. Here's me trying to softly physically pull an elderly lady from someone's front door and tell the muppet husband to keep his front door closed.
Eventually the mxiture of the son telling her which door number she lived at and me pointing out we were at the number next door, it just clicked and the two of us walked her next door to her flat. Her son told me to plonk her down on the sofa, put the TV (she grumbled when I asked if she wanted Wimbledon/Murray on
) on and leave him on the phone. Mission accomplished. So glad I stopped as it could have ended very differently for her. A truly horrible disease (she kept saying she was mental because of it and I tried my best to reinforce she isn't). And husbands - if your wife tells you something, especially in a high pressure situation - listen to them!
I heard the neighbour mention carers but for the limited knowledge I know, living by herself isn't going to work
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Edit - a bit of internet sleuthing and I think I found her and also a few facebook comments from former students of hers saying what a wonderful teacher she was
. And forgot to mention my wife coming to the rescue/backup as I briefly rung her at the start of the ordeal to explain what I was doing/why I was late (told her the street name), but forgot to send her my location and because of so many things going on, hadn't messaged back for over an hour.
Edit - one more thing, please add In Case of Emergency (ICE) information to your phones if you haven't. That's twice now it has really helped the situation (previously found a teenage girl having a seizure and cracked her head open).
Cycled past an elderly woman who didn't look right, stopped and went back to ask if she was OK. She said she was lost and suffered from it, told her I worked in a hospital (but not a clinician) and showed her my badge to ease any possible fears of a tall stranger.
She had a badge on a lanyard and some keys there, remembering the road she lived on which luckily was just down the road. Queue us walking there, wheeling my bike on one arm and propping her up on the other. Every few minutes she'd ask how did I know where she lived and tell me she received an MBE for teaching.
She remembered the door number and as we approached she started to get excited and practically started sprinting to the door almost falling over several times. We get to the door one from hers which she mistakingly thought was her so I rang every doorbell and asked if they knew, one did and confirmed she lived one down from theirs. But by this point she was adamant it was the on we were at and we were now in inside. The neighbour who confirmed came out to help and knew her. She was having none of it and just wanted to get inside a house/flat, we were calmly trying to plead with her it was next door. I used her keys to enter her actual place while the neighbour dealt with her for a few mins, tried to grab a family picture (there were notes all round the flat reminding her of things) and found her phone which fortunately had ICE information including her son's number. The neighbour had wisely told her husband to keep their flat door closed in case she tried to get in, he did but for some unfathomable reason opened it a few minutes later and the woman made a dash for it. Here's me trying to softly physically pull an elderly lady from someone's front door and tell the muppet husband to keep his front door closed.
Eventually the mxiture of the son telling her which door number she lived at and me pointing out we were at the number next door, it just clicked and the two of us walked her next door to her flat. Her son told me to plonk her down on the sofa, put the TV (she grumbled when I asked if she wanted Wimbledon/Murray on
) on and leave him on the phone. Mission accomplished. So glad I stopped as it could have ended very differently for her. A truly horrible disease (she kept saying she was mental because of it and I tried my best to reinforce she isn't). And husbands - if your wife tells you something, especially in a high pressure situation - listen to them!I heard the neighbour mention carers but for the limited knowledge I know, living by herself isn't going to work
.Edit - a bit of internet sleuthing and I think I found her and also a few facebook comments from former students of hers saying what a wonderful teacher she was
. And forgot to mention my wife coming to the rescue/backup as I briefly rung her at the start of the ordeal to explain what I was doing/why I was late (told her the street name), but forgot to send her my location and because of so many things going on, hadn't messaged back for over an hour.Edit - one more thing, please add In Case of Emergency (ICE) information to your phones if you haven't. That's twice now it has really helped the situation (previously found a teenage girl having a seizure and cracked her head open).
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Well done, doodah- good people make the world a better place.
My mate's mum has alzheimers and it is horrible to see it progress. She keeps trying to get out (and she has got lost once slready), so someone has to be with her all the time now
My mate's mum has alzheimers and it is horrible to see it progress. She keeps trying to get out (and she has got lost once slready), so someone has to be with her all the time now
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