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Post by rfan8312 on Dec 24, 2022 14:31:29 GMT
Thanks Paul, will do. Lets all have a good Christmas guys.
Woke up today with power. As pathetic as it is it was not being able to charge the phone that had the most potential consequences.
Phone charger in the car had a severed wire, couldn't charge at home without power, need GPS in the morning to drive to Connecticut, need to text people about arrival times and phone was at 5% at 3am this morning.
Kind of an eye opener that if you end up being dependant on your phone how quickly that can turn to poop if not careful.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jan 27, 2023 18:37:02 GMT
People who live on their own planet.
Woman pulled in front of me at the bank atm drive through to use the teller shoot to make a deposit, even though there are 2 lanes one with an ATM machine and one just for the teller chute/speaker.
The one without the ATM was unoccupied. She pulls in, and just hangs out on her phone then finally reaches for her purse and calls the teller on the speaker.
She could have just used the other one and not caused a line of people waiting to make a quick transaction on the ATM.
Serenity now!
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Post by MartinT on Jan 27, 2023 19:22:31 GMT
There are a lot of rude and ignorant people, but I notice, too, those who are simply not spatially or people aware, who inconvenience others while remaining completely oblivious to their surroundings.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jan 27, 2023 19:36:39 GMT
Yes I actually think it's not an FU to the world but literally a lack of awareness. Or at least sometimes that could be the case.
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Post by julesd68 on Feb 21, 2023 12:53:57 GMT
Frikkin' Sky have just upped my Broadband by 5 quid a month. They should be arrested for daylight robbery. Of course I only took out a new contract recently so locked in ...
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Post by Slinger on Feb 21, 2023 13:09:33 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Feb 21, 2023 14:15:13 GMT
BT are trying it on with me for mobile contract renewals for three of us + music room. I can get cheaper from EE and it's the same mobile infrastructure and service!
EDIT: ah, I see they are finally acknowledging that BT and EE are the same company. They are trying to wean us off to EE and are not accepting new customers under BT.
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Post by Slinger on Feb 21, 2023 18:42:02 GMT
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Post by Slinger on Feb 22, 2023 15:52:37 GMT
I got my prescription delivered on Saturday, and there was a note attached asking that I contact my Surgery, as the pharmacy can no longer source what is, to me, probably the most important item on my repeat prescription.
I emailed the surgery, as it was Saturday, and I didn't want to waste any time.
Tuesday the surgery rang to say they'd received the email and were on the case. They'd passed the ball to their "Clinical Pharmacist".
Today, Wednesday, the Clinical Pharmacist rang, to tell me... #1 - She had rung other local pharmacies, and the one that answered said that they have no problem sourcing the drug. #2 - There is an alternative (which I'd already researched) but it's not "licensed", just "recommended".
We agreed that she would recommend it to the surgery anyway because without my medication I am back to square one of a problem that took 20+ years of worsening health and many, many Gastroenterologists to find an answer to. She suggested I ring the pharmacy again and double-check with them they definitely couldn't source the drug.
I rang the pharmacy and went through everything that the Clinical Pharmacist had told me (including the other pharmacy being able to source it) with the Pharmacist there.
"Well", says she, "I will double check, but it was definitely unobtainable".
Eventually, she came back on the phone to say she'd "seen what the problem was" and that my drug had changed from being a "trade name," to a "generic". Yes, she can order the generic, and I'm to ring them on Friday to double-check that it's arrived for delivery next Saturday.
I've now been on the phone for (looks at phone) 18 minutes and 54 seconds, waiting for my surgery to answer their phone, so I can tell them to ignore the message they'll be getting from their Clinical Pharmacist. Finally, I'm "caller number one in the queue".
The call has just cut off before being answered.
I've redialled, and apparently, I'mnow "caller number seven in the queue".
15-ish minutes later and I finally got through to the surgery and told them to ignore their clinical pharmacist, whose message actually arrived while I was on the phone with them.
How much simpler would life be if my surgery could talk directly to my pharmacy - and I can't think of a decent reason why that shouldn't be - instead of me being the ball in a game of phone f*ck*ng ping-pong?
Actually, how much easier would it have been if my bloody pharmacy had done its job, spotted the change from trade name to generic, and hadn't bothered me at all?
Sorry, I just needed to vent.
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 22, 2023 16:24:50 GMT
Might work better with Pharmacy2U (or not)
Seems the problem is the swap to generic. The original licence holder won't compete with the generic producers I assume
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Post by MartinT on Feb 22, 2023 17:30:47 GMT
I've had this problem before with brand versus generic meds.
I asked the pharmacy why they couldn't just switch. "Oh, we can't do that without the doctor's say-so".
So what, then, is the function of a pharmacist?
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Post by Slinger on Feb 22, 2023 18:12:42 GMT
I have, I think, finally worked out what's happened, no thanks to the bloody medical professinals involved. The generic drug is Colesevelam Hydrochloride, marketed as Cholestagel 625mg. Consequently, my local pharmacist was looking for Cholestagel which is what the repeat prescription says, despite her referring to it as Colesevelam all through our conversations. Had she looked for Colsevelam... under the generic heading, after seeing that Cholestagel was not available, the problem wouldn't have arisen, and she could have substituted the generic tablets without involving me, or my GP's surgery, or their clinical pharmacist.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 17, 2023 18:24:17 GMT
What a crap day. First I overslept, not disastrous, but annoying. Had my first diabetic eye check this afternoon and got a bolocking for not visitng the optician for an eye test and (new) glasses, and just for laughs I got told I have the beginnings of cataracts forming in both eyes. Not enough to worry about, YET, apparently. On top of that the PC has decided to eat large portions of Windows, and render it virtualy unusable. I downloaded the Media Creation Tool and installed a new copy of Windoze so at the moment I have an OS, a web browser, a fekkin headache, and very little else.
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Post by nicholas on Apr 17, 2023 18:37:11 GMT
What a crap day. First I overslept, not disastrous, but annoying. Had my first diabetic eye check this afternoon and got a bolocking for not visitng the optician for an eye test and (new) glasses, and just for laughs I got told I have the beginnings of cataracts forming in both eyes. Not enough to worry about, YET, apparently. On top of that the PC has decided to eat large portions of Windows, and render it virtualy unusable. I downloaded the Media Creation Tool and installed a new copy of Windoze so at the moment I have an OS, a web browser, a fekkin headache, and very little else. As a friend of mine used to say "Some mornings it don't pay to get outta bed".
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 17, 2023 18:52:27 GMT
But good apart from that ?
Look forward to better tomorrow !
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Post by MartinT on Apr 17, 2023 18:56:33 GMT
Best get back into bed and hope you wake up having dreamed it all.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 18, 2023 1:36:23 GMT
Damn man that is a crappy day. It's like a movie sometimes how one day can pack a months worth of sh/t into one day. Not happy to hear this.
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Post by petea on Apr 22, 2023 15:25:02 GMT
A fairly specific annoyance from me. X-Rite colour management systems!
I have just spent several hours removing all of the instances that their bloody software leaves in MacOS. I started using Gretag-Macbeth (GM) spectrometers some years ago to calibrate monitors, scanners and printers. Generally that was fine although the software was a bit quirky here and there. Then X-Rite bought them and both altered the software and started trying to control the hardware cycle with updates and upgrades. This is fine if you use the spectrometers daily, but if you only use them every few months or so, as we do, then they tend to last in calibration for a lot longer. All was Okay until I switched my MacPros to Mac Studios. The old software would install using Rosetta, but would not run. The new software, designed for the M-series chips, installs, but considered the device 'out of service' and to use it you are advised to install an earlier version of the software: this of course does not exist on their website anywhere.
Uninstalling their software leaves bits and pieces all over the place, mainly associated with updater agents and calibration reminders (which would be fine if I'd actually been able to do a calibration). I eventually tracked down and deleted the last plist and rid the system or every vestige of their software using Terminal, but it took the best part of 3 hours!
I had been considering trading in my spectrometer etc in for their latest device which no doubt would have cost well over £1K (and we have two), but I was so pissed off with them that I decided to check out the alternatives. And, as a result, on Monday will arrive Datacolor's top system (SpyderX Studio) which will replicate what my old GM unit could do and a bit more, but instead of costing 2600 Euros it costs 400 Euros! If that all goes well, the UK system will be going the same way.
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 22, 2023 15:47:06 GMT
Can often be the case if you look around Great feeling to get that price
You don't always get what you pay for
When I ran my company I would get someone to look around for a competitor for our current supplier every few months Often it confirmed we had the best. Sometimes we improved everything and reduced the price as well Think our record was a 50% saving - not as good as your saving but well worth having
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Post by MartinT on Apr 22, 2023 15:49:36 GMT
We have a Fluke LinkRunner AT2000 network ethernet tester, a wonderful bit of kit but ours is from circa 2015 and was bought used, so it urgently needs a firmware update to keep up with new switch protocols. Firmware is not available unless you have a service contract, so I contacted the US wholesaler NetAlly and ask them for the price of a service contract.
Not so fast, Martin, this is the USA with bureaucracy unheard of in other countries. Firstly, I needed to register the device from its interface, which I do. Then we will have to pay all the missing years of support contract to bring it up to date. Fine, just give me the price! By now the e-mails have been flying and I just want it done, but they will not be hurried. The price comes through at around $800 and I tell them to go ahead and bill us. But hang on, now they want proof of purchase. I just can't find anything but a purchase order showing the company we bought it from, after a little research showing that it's our CCTV vendor so I ask them if they have proof of sale but neither can find the paperwork from 2015. Oh no, we can't proceed without proof of purchase, says the jobsworth at NetAlly. I hit stalemate and give up at this point as they will not be moved, despite my appealing to them that we are an upstanding independent British school, it clearly wasn't stolen and I am trying to pay them a great deal of money for their service. Nope.
Now for the weird shit. I'm contacted by the British agent for Fluke, completely unconnected and trying to sell me their latest wazzy wi-fi analyser. I tell him our story and assure him that I will never buy another Fluke tester unless he can help us with our existing one. He takes it well and undertakes to sort it out. A week later, he calls me and says he has got to the bottom of the mystery. Our Fluke flagged up a connection with Russia on their system so they wouldn't touch it, but they wouldn't tell me either.
Russia? Seriously? I have difficulty believing that in the two years prior to us acquiring it, it had been anywhere near Russia. So it's stalemate again and I'm beginning to think that buying another one used on eBay at about £2,000 will lower my blood pressure somewhat. Until I want to upgrade its firmware.
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