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Got a desperate text late yesterday evening from my father “boohoo I can’t use internet on my phone anymore”. Lucky of him he was around town so he drove to my flat early and as usual this old bugger managed to inadvertently put his phone on airplane mode.

I love taking care of my Luddite boomer parents.

I'm an iPhone guy and both my parents use Android phones. So it really is the blind leading the blind when I am trying to talk them through fixes....
 
I'm an iPhone guy and both my parents use Android phones. So it really is the blind leading the blind when I am trying to talk them through fixes....

Roger that, I use iPhone since 2018, before that Windows phone and probably owned the Galaxy 2 at some point ages ago. Not familiar with Huawei or Redmi phones but to put the airplane mode off doesn’t require some MENSA IQ so it’s within my abilities.
In all fairness to my luddite boomer parents … I've noticed that I've started to become annoyed with modern technology.

Yeah, if you mean AI or TikTok I am with you.
 
Heading off tomorrow night with my wife for a 2 week trip to Cambodia and Thailand (Bangkok). never been to Cambodia and last time in BKK was in 1975 so it will have changed a bit 😂
 
Today was the final surgeons appointment for that knee and we decided together for a date in mid July. Surgery it is then to remove a bone fragment from it, 33x27mm no less!

I’m getting very close to knee replacement too, especially if this operation and procedure doesn’t give a satisfying outcome. Total knee replacement is a last resort but I’m willing to if no other viable options.
 
Looked at the new rota , Am put on 6 days again ...

Ironically a lass who has returned from a 10 day holiday is off Fri / Sat ..and every other person in the kitchen has 2 days off
 
Such a simple looking device caused about a kilo of plastic prototypes,.. and I can still think of modifications
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Got up this morning and went out at 9:30 to put trash out and the neighbor living behind me came out all bent out of shape complaining about one of the cats I feed walking on his truck and also he says the cat has been peeing and doing his dirty on the other side of his place. I wouldn't have thought much of it had he not acted like an idiot and started threatening to kill cats. After two visits from the local police the chief says I need to stop feeding the cats. The state has no programs to pick up these poor strays but they have time to tell people you can't feed an animal. Not wanting a confrontation with an idiot I went along with the remedy to stop feeding the cats out my window each morning. I did draw the line that I would continue to put out water in the front. No one is going to tell me I can't have water out for any animal when it is 100 with 100 humidity. This guy is a real case and I know for a fact he has been wanting to buy this property but little he knows this property will be my little piece of heaven until I croak. My land owner told me this morning that if he truly wants to ever buy this property he needs to change his tune a little. Now the chief said the city could issue a summons and even tell the property owner that I cannot have any pets. That is also a crock, they don't have any authority to tell any property owner what the bounds of a rental are. Every time we get a new mayor they try to outdo one another but just screw things up even worse than the last.

I still have 8 little ones that I will have to find a shelter for and I will continue to feed them indoors, and one of the Mothers of the group also comes in to eat but she doesn't go over to that property. I don't want one of these cats to damage anyone's property but the way the guy came out and raised his voice at me don't sit too well with me. I have seen people all my life that hate animals and he's one of them, he and his wife were both morticians until recently he retired. When you start threatening to drag out your guns over a little cat it gets a bit too much for me to have any dealings with the idiot. As the chief was over talking to me he mentioned that the guy was already at city hall talking about suing. I just ask him what to hell they gonna do take my 44 year old truck. Now if he thinks he's going to push the land owners around he better dig real deep because they aren't too fond of him either. No matter how hard you try to do right these days there will always be one of these ass holes who have nothing better to do than kill some starving little animal. I hope every snake in the area nest at his place and also the skunks will return. He has a wood line at his back door so maybe he'll get what he wishes for. On a good note or hopefully a good note I did find a no kill shelter about 15 miles from me and I left a message to see if they will take these 8 little ones. I would like to see them get a good home, they are really sweet little cats. They stay near the front and never venture to the back but they are too young to go over to his place. So this nice day started well but turned into ugly. I guess all of us have to turn into haters and just polish our silver.
 
@Jake84

The time is come! The league of cantankerous old farts shall assemble to whinge about the weather!
I'm an old fart! Can I play, too? It's supposed to hit 40C here today. (104F) I just mowed the front yard while it was a cool 78F.

But it's a dry heat - only 13% humidity.

I informed wifey that is IT for any work from me today!!
 
So decided to stay the night over in Dunoon as i finally had 2 days off Sun/Mon , At the same hotel as last time ( Argyle ) took the bnb option room cost £89 .

Apart from the usual chat they tell when checkin in .. Was given a normal key and a passcode for the front door ( 1925 ) . And a wifi code which i never bothered with !.

Ditched the stuff i didn't need left and headed down to Toward .. stopped at a shop at Innellan for some munchies .

Apart from a couple of folk at the boat club . It was pretty much quiet . That much so you could hear the cars over on Bute drive by .

Left around 10pm ... got back to the hotel around 11pm .
Not a soul at reception all shut down .. there was a take away open .. Utter garbage it was ....waste of money !!

Got up after 5.30am to catch the incomin cruise ship . Went back to bed then left after 10am ... never had breakfast . couldn't be bothered .
Staff were dancing in the lobby as i exited the lift never seen folks move that fast lol.

Went for a brekkie roll at the same place i was at last time .. Saw a policewoman stop her car on a 1 way street to tell a pensioner in her 70s to cycle on the road .

Then took my time going to the ferry back across .. spent the rest of the day doin the usual .
Even got a Naval Flotilla heading out Estonian , German ,Ukranian minesweepers , Auxillary
 
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