Mundane facts about your day...

photography_bloke said:

Trying to find the source of a repeating ringing noise I keep hearing...

It's been doing it all night - no rhythm to it, short rings, sometimes a few seconds apart, sometimes a few minutes

Can't figure out what on earth it is

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You could probably hear my phone going off!

Luckily had a feeling it wouldn't all go plain sailing (with us , nothing ever does ) when son came to do his on-line check-in over in Japan, so had the laptop on ready for that early morning call...

Put his money in the hotels lobby PC & Printer for so many minutes, came to enter his booking code and the screen kept going off . I tried it on ours at home, and got past that point. Then he had a thought, we use Chrome and hotels was on Firefox...I tried it on firefox & no go... Result! He changed theirs to Chrome and now all sorted . Phew! ( Had to get in quick , the flight was overbooked on the way there and asking for volunteers to be off-loaded)

And I realise that if it was just me & hubby we would have been screwed....

Now I'm so tired, thumping headache, but polishing and ironing just been done and veg prepared for later . Had to refrain from hoovering at 5.30am , hubby already Mr Grumpy

Have you tried meditation or yoga @staffordjas, or some light reading when you go to bed ? You can't be feeling your best if you keep waking up during the night. They say to avoid alcohol as it can sometimes stop you from sleeping and stick to caffeine free drinks like herbal teas or warm milky drinks. (I expect you've probably tried everything) I do know people who work nights for this very reason as that is when they are wide awake.

tried my new folding bike on my commute this morning, have to say it felt odd, those small wheels make you put a shift in too. Does mean I can take it on the train without incurring the raised eyebrows of my fellow passengers.

Floss67 said:

Have you tried meditation or yoga @staffordjas, or some light reading when you go to bed ? You can't be feeling your best if you keep waking up during the night. They say to avoid alcohol as it can sometimes stop you from sleeping and stick to caffeine free drinks like herbal teas or warm milky drinks. (I expect you've probably tried everything) I do know people who work nights for this very reason as that is when they are wide awake.

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I've tried everything in the past , yoga, self hypnosis , hot milk, medication... Just a constant worrier, so my mind is always whirling. Not helped this last month with teenage son touring around Japan on his own and I've been working on both UK and Japanese time ( but don't mind the messages coming through in the early hours as long as I know he's safe ! ) . Should be back to just UK time after tomorrow night.

Was having a lovely dream about bulls biting peoples bums as they tried walking over Queenville Bridge just before I got up earlier though. Strange things going on in this mind of mine

Went back to bed at 7am and set the clock for 9.30am for an appointment, but hubby moaned at me for being up for hours and going back to bed just as he was getting up for work, so....got up again.

staffordjas said:

Went back to bed at 7am and set the clock for 9.30am for an appointment, but hubby moaned at me for being up for hours and going back to bed just as he was getting up for work, so....got up again.

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Must be exhausting, however I'd be telling hubby talk to the hand the face ain't listening, if you don't make time to look after yourself there's not many others who will and you clearly worry about others, sometimes you just have to take back control and think of yourself.

Thinking I might have actually gone to sleep, and this is all a dream...

Either I'm going loopy today, or everyone else is!

About to pay sons flat rent and deposit by bank transfer, printed off the latest document received yesterday from the letting agents....wrong address for his accommodation. Rang them up. "Oh yes, that was the house they looked at last year before they decided on this flat. Someones just copy and pasted something wrong. It doesn't matter, it's Janet, I'll tell her tomorrow that she's made another mistake. We know which property they are actually going into ...." Dozy gits!

Then, just received a most odd e-mail.

We are going on holiday this year, but in our new car and from Manchester Airport and not on 16th Sept!

Received a booking reminder by e-mail from Edinburgh NCP, thanking me , by name, for booking our forthcoming holiday in 2 days time parking at Birmingham NCP, on 16th Sept 2014 for our forthcoming holiday from Edinburgh Airport and also giving the registration plate of our old car , which we no longer have. Then proceed to give us directions and entry procedures entry for Edinburgh Airport Carpark.

And now I can't get the 'Bold ' to go off

Its wedding rehearsal. day today, I'm soooooooooo excited! I've never been to one before!

As a follow on to the maintenance worker / floating head posts from last week:

The painters are back this week, this time they have scaffolding up along with the cherry picker on Wogan Street. Setting the scene: at the end of Shepherds Bush Street there's a man who runs a mobile tyre company (not named in case they google their name and see this...) and he has a very big, very long van. The painters have barriers up across the road (Wogan Street) to protect their scaffolding/cherry picker, this forces cars to go in single file on the left side of the road, and greatly reduces the turning distance available.

The man in the tyre van came down Shepherds Bush Street and drove onto Wogan Street, from what I can tell he ignored the barriers completely and his van pushed the barriers into the cherry picker, this caused the cherry picker to almost tip while one of the painters was 3 floors up in it. The painter in the cherry picker FLIPPED, there was so much shouting. "How dare you do that! I thought I was a goner!".

If that wasn't bad enough, the tyre van guy is a grade A idiot who continued trying to squeeze his van through after he'd done that. It took a lot more shouting from the painters to get him to go the other way. A bunch of different people heard the commotion and have been out astounded by the van drivers idiocy. At least he made my day slightly more interesting I guess.

Surely that goes against the ethos of mundane. To add a little mundanity I shall be cycling past your place at approx 6.15.

Have spent a few hours, this afternoon, looking for a cheap garden trolley.

To add to the mundane - and disgusting -

I cleaned out the U-bend in my bathroom sink today

Bonus points!

I found out today Spawn3 has part of a chromosome missing. Blood tests for the rest of us now in case more of us do.

Plan was to stay awake til son's plane took off at 4.20am our time, then trying to sleep for a couple of hours so I don't doze off driving to the airport late tomorrow night....but from the sound of the snoring coming from upstairs , looks like another completely sleepless night

staffordjas said:

Plan was to stay awake til son's plane took off at 4.20am our time, then trying to sleep for a couple of hours so I don't doze off driving to the airport late tomorrow night....but from the sound of the snoring coming from upstairs , looks like another completely sleepless night

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Genuinely feel your pain. Will wake at 3 and wonder if I should get up. Never had a lie in in the past 20 or so years. If I make it to 6 that's considered a win. People say to me oh but you are up early anyway as if its a choice.

Gadget said:

I found out today Spawn3 has part of a chromosome missing. Blood tests for the rest of us now in case more of us do.

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Sounds serious

Well, hubby went off to work, and there was me thinking I could finally get a few hours kip....Wrong! The phone went just after 8am, bloody hairdressers confirming hubbys appointment Then the builders were making so much racket next door, so in the end thought sod it, might as well get up

And decided no way could I face sitting on a plane for 14 hrs , seems like an eternity since he took off and he isn't even half way yet. .Then hanging around nearly 5 hrs on the layover ... I'm fed up enough catching a short 2 hr flight to Spain .Would have to break the bank and fly British Airways first class on a non-stop route if I ever did long haul (and that ain't going to happen , so looks like I won't be seeing much of son if his plans to live and work in Japan in the future materialise )

On the bright side- If his case makes it back ok, we don't have to worry about making a disney costume now, he got that all sorted when visiting Disneyland

If you know the flight numbers - https://planefinder.net/

Gramaisc said:

If you know the flight numbers - https://planefinder.net/

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Apparently his flight hasn't got a tracker ...Got it all set up to watch him flying across the globe on Flight Tracker as well Got flight alerts set up from Flight Tracker for current departure and arrivals info, but says no tracking en-route will be available.
Planefinder just said the same so looks like doing some housework instead ...

staffordjas said:

Apparently his flight hasn't got a tracker ...

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Mmm, what sort of plane is he in.......?

A big double decker...