It's Always More Complicated

Including being gaslit by the Royal Mail, like, I know they sent me a text yesterday and a text this am saying they were delivering A Parcel, but when I went to look as the window was drawing to a close, could not find, while online tracking said something entirely different (parcel still in transit to local sorting office).

In fact, Parcel has just turned up, several hours after indicated.

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Phone doing Weird Stuff - well, part of this is not phone per se, it was O2, as in, when I was out and about in the world the other day my web data allowance ran out and they send this message about texting 'WEBDAILY' to get a top-up, so I did, and did it? not until yesterday, which was totally pointless.

Plus, in relation to niggle this morning about Downstairs Flat having an electricity thing doing which involved turning off the Main Meter deep in the cellar which affects both flats, was trying to use phone as a hotspot with my laptop and it wanted some network authorisation code? With old phone this used to come up on the actual phone? Though I was also having issues with bluetooth and this may be down to ageing laptop....

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So there was also that thing of morning routine being disrupted by electricity being turned off. (Though now this thing has been done maybe we too can get a Smart Meter set up, because as I recall having to get at that was the issue.)

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Have actually, this week, started on outstanding overdue essay review, as well as putting it some more effort on keynote presentation for end of month (this is still a goer and is actually up on their site that I am speaking).

Moderate yay me?

Have just been contacted by A Young Scholar who I feel has imprinted on me like a gosling about an article of theirs currently going through the submission process....

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GP has requested to make appointment re routine medication review, which I have done, but am a bit anxious about (but perhaps I can get them put sumatriptan back on the routine medications list????).

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However, in better news, the grocery delivery came early enough that I have been able to get a sardegnera on the go for supper!

Honestly, renowned department store that I will not name:

If you send me an email saying that, having approved the estimate, I need to pay for the new carpet (and the various appurtenances thereunto) by phone, I naively expect that there will be somebody answering the phone before I've been waiting listening to it ring for over 20 minutes. (Not even a ghastly robo-voice telling me to hold the line over maddening tinny music.)

What is this that this thing is? Could you not have some secure website link?

Aaaargh.

Another bit of personal life admin today didn't get done, because looking more closely at the letter, this was the financial institution that has nothing relevant to the matter on its website, suggests you call them to discuss the options, and this brought back the memory of last year when I was holding the line for 40+ minutes. As I was in the process of baking bread and needed to break off to put loaf in oven, turn oven down after a short period, remove loaf and turn over to bake for a final 10 minutes, I decided that I wasn't even going to start the process and would just have to put it off.