Mundane News

[DCLane]

At the hospital yesterday, one of the (hundreds?) of things they said was that my phosphates were low.

Phosphates?

Without goggling it, would you have known what they meant?

SWMBO as she's a Dietitian. Ask for a referral to one and they can help.

 

[Speicher]

The only phosphates I could think of, was organo phosphates, which was used in insecticides (and sheep dip) and is highly toxic,

Phosphates, as in electrolytes, are part of out diet. They are found in diary, meat and amongst other things, dark chocolate.

 

[biggs682]

Evening cuppa went down well with a slice of toast

 

[Gwylan]

BTW, I generally don't "do" breakfast unless I'm out for the day. Then it's usually a big bowl of porridge.

Think some horizon broadening is necessary here

 

[Jenkins]

Windows update here.

That's pending for when I've finished browsing later

 

[Gwylan]

Trapped finger at work,it's swollen a d the nail is black and ruddy hurts

Retirement looms, out of court settlement must be several zeroes.

 

[Jenkins]

It turned out that my memory was correct and the car's computer showed a range of 160 miles on the remaining fuel - I ended up with it showing 75 miles and no low fuel light when I got home.

Slight problem with the planned route in that road closures for the Long Stratton bypass construction put me a couple of miles north of where I needed to be and the only way of getting there was 2 miles on the A140 southbound into a headwind & no cycle lane/pavement. Not a chance I was going to do that (if you've ever used the road when busy you'd know why not) so I abandoned the plan and just made things up based on local knowledge.
45 miles in seriously warm sunshine and an increasing southerly breeze was very much enjoyed, as was the large pizza for tea!

 

[Jenkins]

At the hospital yesterday, one of the (hundreds?) of things they said was that my phosphates were low.

Phosphates?

Without goggling it, would you have known what they meant?

Aren't they the things that wash off the fields in the rain and contaminate the water courses?
Have you been out in the rain and they've all be washed away?

 

[Jenkins]

Anyhow, time to get off the computer and let it update while I make a hot chocolate.

 

[tyred]

A dry but horribly humid day today. I am so looking forward to to Friday and being off work for a whole two weeks. I'm fed up with work at the moment, as our new supervisor constantly micro-manages us. I thought it was just me, but others have been saying it too. I seem to spend so much time replying to the emails to tell me to do the things that I was going to do anyway that it is difficult to actually do what I need to do!

I had my Wednesday night dance class. So hot in the upstairs room.

As I was walking home, I see the council have finally started work on replacing the leaking water main in the main street. When the council do something, I always wonder why one guy digs the hole, whilst five others stand leaning on shovels watching him do it. I wonder how you can get a job just leaning on a shovel?

 

[Mike_P]

Is on-site a footpath just out the village ?

Can be in all sorts of strange places. I was told I could note what I needed to from the footpath, which turned out not to be the case.

The only thing that went right this morning was the washer washing and the washing get hung out.

Incredibly all the printers in the office failed at the same time and their I was WAH wondering why everything I was sending to be be printed was being rejected. That was after a painful half a hour trying to tweak a document. The useless main work program is now even dumber as instad of using Word it now uses it own built in doument editing thing and I no way could I get it alter a paragraph from being inset.

Did how however notice the dumb radio controlled analogue clock somehow has corrected itself.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Can be in all sorts of strange places. I was told I could note what I needed to from the footpath, which turned out not to be the case.

It’s dumb to expect a data connection everywhere. The work app you have should work without needing a connection all the time. Then upload when it has a connection again.

 

[classic33]

Anyone else seeing the strawberry moon this morning?

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[classic33]

A dry but horribly humid day today. I am so looking forward to to Friday and being off work for a whole two weeks. I'm fed up with work at the moment, as our new supervisor constantly micro-manages us. I thought it was just me, but others have been saying it too. I seem to spend so much time replying to the emails to tell me to do the things that I was going to do anyway that it is difficult to actually do what I need to do!

I had my Wednesday night dance class. So hot in the upstairs room.

As I was walking home, I see the council have finally started work on replacing the leaking water main in the main street. When the council do something, I always wonder why one guy digs the hole, whilst five others stand leaning on shovels watching him do it. I wonder how you can get a job just leaning on a shovel?

Ask them the next time you walk past.
We'd similar in the town centre, one person with a pressure sprayer to keep the dust down when(if) they started cutting, the other six or seven stood around or sat down . I asked who the supervisor was.
If looks could kill!

 

[classic33]

Trapped finger at work,it's swollen a d the nail is black and ruddy hurts

Having done similar, I sympathise with your current predicament.