Random Irritations

Finally managed to get to see my boss this afternoon and all is now well. I just couldn’t apologise enough but he was fine with it.

Glad it’s OK. Of course it was.. I’m ’the boss’ at my place and absolutely second that if someone knows they’ve messed up, and comes and says “sorry - I’ve messed up with this - I’ve got this far in putting it right but I wanted you to know and I need your help/permission/whatever to do this to fix the rest” … well I don’t really have anywhere to go with that now other than say well OK, let’s crack on and sort it. 😁 I’ll have probably forgotten about it 5 minutes after it’s fixed too :)

It’s anyone that tries to hide something or doesn’t even seem to care. Then we have issues…
 
Finally managed to get to see my boss this afternoon and all is now well. I just couldn’t apologise enough but he was fine with it.
Like I said in earlier post,EVERY ONE makes mistakes.
At least you’ve owned up to it.
I work with people that constantly make mistakes & rely on others to get them out of the 💩.

Morbid,but if you died tomorrow,they’d replace you in a couple of week.
 
Going out for a group christmas meal that turns out to be 3 courses of christmas-dinneresque sharing platters.
If we wanted tapas we'd have gone to a tapas bar.
I don't like sharing my food.

To expand on this.
People who go for a curry then ask “shall we all get something different so we can taste each others?”.
Just no, I want to eat my madras and only my madras, no other bugger is getting near it.
 
A third of the way to Scotland and the car has broken down. Two hour wait now in the world's most boring service station (Norton Canes). Joy.
Full update then... after 4 hours waiting for RAC, he changed the spark plugs, which got it moving but it was still juddering. Drove to nearby garage where he inspected it and basically the car is toast. Something to do with cylinders, new engine required. Bugger. We had to leave it in a car park there and hire a car from enterprise to continue our journey. God knows what we'll do with it when we come back on Monday. 😖

Oh to make matters worse (for me), my wife has left her driving license at home, so Enterprise would only let me take the care, and I had to drive the entire remaining 5 hours of the journey (which we normally split).
 
Going out for a group christmas meal that turns out to be 3 courses of christmas-dinneresque sharing platters.
If we wanted tapas we'd have gone to a tapas bar.
I don't like sharing my food.

And if it’s finger food platters, noooo! Great watching someone return from the bathroom and reach into one of the platters. That platter becomes out of bounds for me.

To expand on this.
People who go for a curry then ask “shall we all get something different so we can taste each others?”.
Just no, I want to eat my madras and only my madras, no other bugger is getting near it.

Not “just no,” definitely no! I order extras like Bombay aloo, saag aloo which I don’t mind sharing but the Karahi/jalfrezi/dansak etc is mine. If I don’t finish it, it’s fair game.
 
My iPad has an update waiting to be installed but I’m reading too many posts about issues. Nervous-R-us.
I haven’t done the iPad yet not looking forward to that seeing how the phone has changed 😒
I have done the iOS26 update on both my iPhone SE and iPad Pro (2020 models).
Aside from my moan about Google Maps in CarPlay (which I'm sure is down to Google and happened before the iOS update) they've been absolutely fine. I think that performance has improved with both and I like the "Glass" features and the new AI, which seems less intrusive than Effing Siri.
I've now gone a full week without asking, "Hey Siri, why are you such a....?"
 
I have done the iOS26 update on both my iPhone SE and iPad Pro (2020 models).
Aside from my moan about Google Maps in CarPlay (which I'm sure is down to Google and happened before the iOS update) they've been absolutely fine. I think that performance has improved with both and I like the "Glass" features and the new AI, which seems less intrusive than Effing Siri.
I've now gone a full week without asking, "Hey Siri, why are you such a....?"

We’re about to go there… be it on your head ;) :eek:
 
To expand on this.
People who go for a curry then ask “shall we all get something different so we can taste each others?”.
Just no, I want to eat my madras and only my madras, no other bugger is getting near it.
My wife often dumps a forkful of her food on my plate for me "to try".
I just want to flick it off and say "If I want to try yours I'll ask".
 
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