The Retirement Thread

[Sterlo]

Morning peeps. In reflective mood today, it's a anniversary of my accident (see profile pic). Still haven't been able to ride since but I'm hoping to give it another go in the coming weeks. In better news, Wordle in 5 after first 2 rows of nothing.

 

[BoldonLad]

If you don't mind me commenting, and I don't mean this unkindly, you've always struck me as a bit of a perfectionist. You've been working on this project for a very long time. Years?

Perhaps it would be worthwhile unleashing your game/puzzle on a wider audience. Look at Wordle, wonderfully simple, played by millions and quite probably full of technical holes and flaws. Ordinary folk like me don't notice or care and just enjoy it.

A valid point.

In the dark days when I worked, I worked on a project where it was necessary to implement a temporary accounting system, until the the new, "all singing all dancing" system was ready. An inexpensive, but, popular and much used Accounting Software Package was selected by the then Account. This worked beautifully, until the transaction volume built up (the package was meant for small companies, we were attempting to use it in a large ship-repair facility), at which point the speed dropped off rapidly. Some analysis reports were taking hours and hours to produce. Further investigation showed that the sorting algorithms were not very sophisticated, but, this was not a problem, when volumes were small (as intended), but, rapidly became a problem, as volumes increased.

 

[numbnuts]

morning, nothing to report so far

 

[Chief Broom]

Morning folks i seem to be having a week of learning by mistakes...damn it I saw a small pine chest of drawers and got the seller to deliver £25. So guy comes out and its fffing chipboard i didnt quibble as it was my fault and it wasnt described as made of pine [or even wood].... will check next time. Todays lesson for me is---if it quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it might not be a ******* duck!

 

[Mo1959]

Morning folks i seem to be having a week of learning by mistakes...damn it I saw a small pine chest of drawers and got the seller to deliver £25. So guy comes out and its fffing chipboard i didnt quibble as it was my fault and it wasnt described as made of pine [or even wood].... will check next time. Todays lesson for me is---if it quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it might not be a ******* duck!

Expensive firewood? Or try and resell if it's worth the hassle.


Saw this on Facebook and found it amusing.

 

[Chief Broom]

Expensive firewood? Or try and resell if it's worth the hassle.
Chipboard imitation real chest of drawers for sale comes with free cycle chain splitter

 

[welsh dragon]

I have once again been throwing things out that Mr WD put aside then forgot about. He does that a lot.


One or 2 things here, and there and he never notices (or remembers) them gone and if he does I can always say I have no idea where he put them.

 

[welsh dragon]

This came up on my Facebook page. The difference between men and women's toilets

 

[rustybolts]

I have once again been throwing things out that Mr WD put aside then forgot about. He does that a lot.


One or 2 things here, and there and he never notices (or remembers) them gone and if he does I can always say I have no idea where he put them.

Don't be surprised if you wake up one morning and find all your bloomers gone ! Mr WD might donate them to Chipperfields Circus as raw material to manufacture a tent while you were sleeping

 

[welsh dragon]

Don't be surprised if you wake up one morning and find all your bloomers gone ! Mr WD might donate them to Chipperfields Circus as raw material to manufacture a tent while you were sleeping

He wouldn't dare. It's more than his life is worth to do that.

 

[Mo1959]

This came up on my Facebook page. The difference between men and women's toilets

Would Brian use the one on the right?

 

[welsh dragon]

Would Brian use the one on the right?

Would Brian use the one on the right?

That would scare him to death

Yacking to people on his travels, now that's a different story. He will be gone for hours

 

[ColinJ]

If you don't mind me commenting, and I don't mean this unkindly, you've always struck me as a bit of a perfectionist. You've been working on this project for a very long time. Years?

Perhaps it would be worthwhile unleashing your game/puzzle on a wider audience. Look at Wordle, wonderfully simple, played by millions and quite probably full of technical holes and flaws. Ordinary folk like me don't notice or care and just enjoy it.

I think it was the highly negative reactions of my niece and a couple of other people that got to me.

I should have concentrated on making the game good for the 1% who might be interested rather than worrying about the 99% who never will be!

The other problem is that I know that a really good programmer could have written this in a weekend of hard work. I could probably have done it myself in about a week once I had finished learning how the development system works. It is embarrassing how long I have been fiddling about with this thing!

Not sleeping well doesn't help either...

Excuses, excuses... You are right!

 

[Paulus]

In order,
Dog walked,
Friend to the hospital appointment, and back.
Grass cut in the back garden, just to tidy it up.
Now watching yesterday's highlights of the Paris-Nice.
Yet another busy day.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Good afternoon folks,
Just finished a Zoom meeting for our Patient Support group. It is the Bournemouth regional group yet we had people joining in from all over, including one chap from the Edinburgh area. A few tales of woe, but many positives👍
Off to collect our granddaughter from school. We're taking the bus part way and then getting off early and walking through the gardens to Branksome Chine then along the Prom to Westbourne. It's a bit blowy so we'll dress up warm.