View from the office
My printer finally arrived today and I was allowed to have it.
On Thursday Amazon delivered some display cases and sent me an email with a one time pass code that I would need to take delivery of my new printer. In the evening I had another email telling me that there was a problem with my delivery. It was, to say the least, short on detail.
So, my free next day delivery was not “next day”.
Garden harvest – yes, baby carrots
On Friday the printer arrived whilst I was on the phone to the company that delivers my drugs. I call them that because it sounds more exciting than “the company that delivers my medication” and it’s easier than learning to spell Imunimulab. I have found over the years that if I put any effort into learning spellings they change my medication. It’s like when I finally learned to spell eczema: they changed the diagnosis to psoriasis.
They asked for the OTP. I gave it to them. It didn’t work so they took the printer away again. At that point I checked my emails and found they had sent a new OTP. They hadn’t told me I’d need another one.
Finally, today, I received the printer and managed to give them a correct code. I haven’t tried to set the printer up yet as I feel it is bound to be a disaster after all that has already happened. Maybe tomorrow . . .
Wasp exploring a knife smeared with jam
Meanwhile, I finished my piece on Nottingham Transport Tokens for the NSN Facebook page and added the finishing touches to the one of the medallions commemorating the opening of the carillon in Loughborough. I will probably add a few extra bits and post it on the blog. It’s much more interesting than you think once you start researching.
Nettle Soup
Pictures are from August 2015. Time flies.
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I told Derrick you were old enough to remember when we spoke Latin in England! Thinking of it, this would make a good title for a blog, as delay and procrastination are my two main themes.
Time does fly faster and faster with age, I have noted. I am sorry for all the problems with getting the printer. Things in general seem to move so fast and “efficiently” these days they have to be done over several times before they are right.
There is, as they say, never time to do it properly, but there is always time to do it again. 🙂
I am so glad I have Clif to take care of computer things. I am not sure I could manage on my own. Good luck!
🙂 I’m sure computers were simpler before they “improved” them. 🙂
Oh the angst of taking the first step of setting up a new device. Like putting the first mark on the page
Glad it’s not just me that suffers like this. 🙂
It sometimes takes me months
:-)There must be a Latin or Greek word for this. we will have to ask Tootlepedal, he’s old enough to remember . . . 🙂
Amazon, Google, Post Office. They are getting much to big and might soon implode.
I think our post office is well on the way to destruction. It’s more efficient than the others (whilst still not being great), but it costs too much to offer this level of service.
I think that may translate to not enough taxes are being collected from the right income brackets to cover the costs of running basic infrastructure in a country. That is a problem here, too.
W guarantee daily delivery six days a week (often with next day delivery) to most of our population. In one case a friend of mine made a 40 mile round trip to deliver a single parcel because it had to meet a delivery guarantee. No amount of taxes can realistically support this sort of service. Same goes for the NHS – the more they do, the more people want. No amount of money will ever keep up with demand.
The state of our roads, and social care, on the other hand, are the victims of low funding.
It’s difficult running a country. 🙂