Whiny whine whine.

[reddragdiva]

Yesterday we discovered that the stack of prepared Tesco meals that were delivered on Friday were all just a few days off their use-by date, and had gone off. We are NOT PLEASED.

I have been troubleshooting (with an insufficiently large cannon) Liz's Win98 install. (You can buy Partition Magic, or you can use GNU Parted and a Linux boot disk for free and deal with a command line.) Bringing it back from the terminally fucked-up as well. Then trying to talk the shiny new DSL into not only working, but giving us our household network back so my machine can see hers. I have had to amend the phrase "No, that would be ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE" to "No, that would only be possible if things were COMPLETELY AND TERMINALLY FUCKED UP BEYOND ALL SANITY." Which, of course, is far too often the case.

Life is good in other ways. Looks like we're being guested to B-Movie by ali_anarres (mate! maaate!), and redcountess just got back from the doctor in better health than she thought and had a good wander around Walthamstow on this beautiful spring day. (This will be a good time to have a digital camera.) arkady is back from St. Albans today after a particularly awful week or so. I love and am loved. Even with the crap bits, the good bits are still damn fine.

Update: Just got the word from Liz: D-S-L! D-S-L! RAH RAH RAH!! We may be po', but we've got our INTERCRACK!

Comments

[perverse-idol.livejournal.com]

Is it B-movie this friday?

[reddragdiva]

Yep. Too many underdressed old people dancing to dodgy '80s stuff. I shall be in a miniskirt.

[perverse-idol.livejournal.com]

**sniggers**

Excellent, I might even be in attendance. Though wearing pretentious sunglasses, of course, don't want to see your hairy arse in a mini skirt!

[reddragdiva]

How dare you imply that there is hair on my arse!

[daneel-olivaw.livejournal.com]

Don't even think of out-cute-ing me!

*kiss*

[reddragdiva]

And remember that I shall probably be both blind and stupid, so hit me over the head and say 'hi' if I'm not that aware of my surroundings!

[daneel-olivaw.livejournal.com]

I shall probably be both blind and stupid

No change there then... ;)

say 'hi'

Of course I will darling! *mwah*

[jozafeen.livejournal.com]

Ooh - are you going to don the mighty cape of Captain Consumer again? Aw go on - it's been ages!

Actually, it seems supermarket staff seem to always pick short-dated stuff for the delivery service, I had the same trouble with Sainsbury.

[reddragdiva]

We chucked it, but really I should have documented all. "No, this is not up to the high standard on the pack." There will be a Stern Note with the next order. (Not ordering is not an option, unless we want to meet the Saturday crowds in all their ... glory.)

[girfan.livejournal.com]

We haven't had that problem here (Bristol) with Tesco-maybe it's your local one that does this?

The past few deliveries have been close to spot on-today's was perfect!

I would complain, but you should have kept at least the box with the date.

[juliann.livejournal.com]

Tesco is well known for that and your complaint to them will likely only get their standard reply, which is that you should specify long sell-by date for the items (there's a place for special instructions by item on the order form if you click through to that). If you don't say, they don't give you more than a few days. In their defense, it's still the common practice here to shop at least once a week, and to freeze ready meals that you don't plan on eating very soon. So for most of their customers it's no problem at all.

BTW you don't have to brave the Saturday crowds -- or rather you can pick an off Friday or Saturday night and go when everyone is out at pubs and clubs. It's rather empty then and shopping is a breeze.

[wintrmute.livejournal.com]

Umm.. ICK! Just re-install windows, it's always so much faster afterwards. Win98 was just ick; support for firewire, usb, and really anything modern, seems to suck. Why aren't you running the DSL thru your BSD box?

[reddragdiva]

I fixed it because the install was about a week old! And we didn't have the Win98 CD to hand, just the CAB files, so attempting to fix it was suitable passing entertainment.

We're not running the DSL through either PC - the DSL modem (an Alcatel SpeedTouch 510) does the dialing and connection itself, and acts as a router and NAT box to four Ethernet ports. The 'Windows software' is just a monitoring tool, which in fact does not work at all. You can actually do the entire modem setup, into quite geeky detail, through a webpage it serves to the intranet. So it was actually easier to get intarweb working on my FreeBSD box (could you grab DHCP please. Thank you.) than it was on the Windows box!