Mild frustration

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So, the very nice people where I used to work gave me rather a nice gift card from HMV to spend money. So today, after listening to more Lucky Soul and feeing faintly Meh I decided to collar that gift card, log on to HMV.com and spend spend speee… oh.

It turns out that you can’t *actually* spend money from the HMV Gift Card at the HMV online store. This is frustrating because the CD I want is probably not going to be available in Slough’s shonky little HMV, so I’ll probably have to order it. And I bet they won’t have the DVD’s I was going to nab. Grr.

If they’re separate companies it’s bloody cheeky to run them both with the same name, and if they’re not then how hard is it to link the systems together? Not very? The card has clearly got an individual number and you can bet they don’t store the amount left on the card (otherwise it’d be dead easy to defraud them) so…. uh. Staggering lack of competence.

Course it doesn’t say that anywhere *obvious*.

I shouldn’t whine. It’s free money. I’ve also got a tenner to spend in M&S courtesy of a rather nice patient. I may go and buy a new bra. I’d like lots of new bras, but one’s a start.

I have had one of those faintly meh days. That pretty much describes it perfectly; despite variously being quite happy and quite down during the day, overall I just feel very meh. I have no idea why, probably hormones playing stupid buggers again. I have, however, been bad. I spent 8 quid on myself. I don’t really *have* 8 quid to spend on myself, but I’m fed up of the car and the house getting all the lovin’; so I bought myself Megatokyo 5, and pre-ordered the fourth Scott Pilgrim book. Especially since it seems I shan’t be off spending money at the VVOC this weekend. Still, Brick needs a new clutch cable, so driving bloody miles in ‘im’s not really the best plan.

I shall be exercising my right to not work on the car again, and he’ll be off to the garage. Hopefully I can find someone to steam clean the engine bay ‘fore he goes, then I can sort out that leak. Uh, get them to sort out that leak.

I am slowly accepting that there’s one of me. One of me that needs to spend some time doing Emergency Dept skills, and renovating the house. The car can be looked after by this garage for a bit, and the bike just needs two bolts putting in (if we ignore the top speed of 50, at least for the moment).

Anyway, I fear tomorrow’s going to be another long day. I hope to:

– Finally finish off internal bathroom plumbing; I know I keep saying it’s more or less finished, and it is, it’s just fiddly jobs left. That’s the problem though; they’re fiddly, like, the pipework for the bath taps – I need to know the height of the taps… And the cistern valve. It won’t be completely finished, ‘cos I can’t fit the shower plumbing until the shower’s tiled. And I can’t fit the bath taps until the floor’s tiled. And I can’t fit the sink taps until the sink’s attached to the wall…
– Finish screwing down the floor boards.
– Obtain and put up the last baton for the faux end wall in the shower.
– Put up the Cement-board wall (Aquaboard) that makes up the faux wall.
– Screw down the wood (on the floor) which marks out the section that’ll be boxed off (with plumbing inside it).
– Start and hopefully finish putting up the shower door.

The shower door is a bit of a project in and of itself. The instructions are deeply insane; on side A it lists each item and gives it a number; then on side B it says things like “Attach (7) using (14) and (23) ensuring that (9) and (1) are parallel and located firmly in (42) and (24). Locate (7) at 90 degrees to a perpendicular surface and press home (29)”. It also shows the thing arriving completely disassembled, which it ain’t. Ah well, I’m sure it will all make sense. I’m slightly unnerved because I have to screw it in to the lath and plaster wall; and I’m really not sure how strong that wall is, but hey; I guess I’ll find out. The problem with lath and plaster is that it’s not like plasterboard where there’s special huge-n-chunky screws that you can put in to support stuff; no, instead there’s nothing. No one talks about Lath and Plaster anymore… *sigh*.

With a bit of luck I might even get to commence the tile-a-thon this weekend. That would be really nice… Because again, it’s an ‘end in sight’ moment.

As a side point; today I took blood for the first time; apart from having the sharps bin too far away and touching the area I’d just cleaned it really went rather well. :)

KateWE

Kate's a human mostly built out of spite and overcoming transphobia-racism-and-other-bullshit. Although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise. So she's either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity. Either way, it's all good.