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My CAFCAS office is off on maturity leave

That sucks, K

However:

KovacsC wrote:

My CAFCAS office is off on maturity leave

Isn't that "retirement"?

Sorry to hear that Kov.

At least now you have the cash to throw at these lawyer types though.

So my recent pay rise yay has just been mostly wiped out by a hike in interest rates on the mortage for the house I can't sell oop north.

Yay.

>:(

So my recent pay rise yay has just been mostly wiped out by a hike in interest rates on the mortage for the house I can't sell oop north.

Yay.

>:(

Trooper wrote:

So my recent pay rise yay has just been mostly wiped out by a hike in interest rates on the mortage for the house I can't sell oop north.

Yay.

>:(

But if you hadn't had the pay rise you'd be quids out, so it's not all bad.

Trooper wrote:

So my recent pay rise yay has just been mostly wiped out by a hike in interest rates on the mortage for the house I can't sell oop north.

Yay.

>:(

Swings n roundabouts dude. Mostly isn't completely and you'll sell it eventually...

Still shit right now though! :DD

I'm over £200 a month worse off than I was only 6 months ago due to tax and pension stuff

Stupid bloody economy.

Gah!

At work yesterday someone emailed me a new file, which I then spent the day populating with data and doing general work on.

In a tired, dazed state at the end of the day, I closed the file and saved it. A few minutes later I shut down the PC, and in doing so closed Outlook. This popped up a brief mesage saying the attachment to an email had changed, and did I want to save these changes? I automatically clicked on 'No'.

That's lost a day of work, then!

Anyway, I have sent them a very embarrassed apology in the hope they might still be interested.

Curiosity wrote:

I assume you've searched for files on the machine updated yesterday in case there was an auto-saved version somewhere in a temp folder ? (and you know you can have most programs do an auto-save every X number of minutes in case you do that again)

I had it open as an attachment from an email

It's awkward because I connect via Citrix, so there's nothing actually stored on my machine. I've checked my personal drive on the network, and there's nothing that would match to what I did. Excel autosaves all the time, and I sepcifically saved that document several times, but because I had it open as an attachment from an email, it must have been saving it as some sort of temporary file, so no matter how many times I saved it, until I used 'Save As...' and threw it into another folder, it was able to be completely wiped by closing the initial email I opened it from, and clicking "Don't save changes". Which seems awfully lame.

There should be a copy somewhere in the Outlook Temp folder, but whether Citrix clears that out or not, I'm not sure.

Even worse, no more beer.

BikNorton wrote:

Even worse, no more beer.

What about wine?

Wine's better than beer anyway.

nickachu wrote:

BikNorton wrote:

Even worse, no more beer.

INO, RITE?!

Curiosity wrote:

What about wine?

Wine's better than beer anyway.

It really isn't, but "beer" means "alcohol" anyway.

Second blood results are in - ferrin still high, so yet more blood is going to be taken, to test specifically for haemochromatosis.

My 360 power pack is fucked

Have ordered new one.

That is a bit shit. On the plus side though, you now won't be dicking around with trying to move house with a newborn.

Craster wrote:

That is a bit shit. On the plus side though, you now won't be dicking around with trying to move house with a newborn.

That bit didn't actually concern us. We were always going to use full packers and movers, and in the past 6 months we've cleared all the shit out of our house - the exercise of moving itself was going to be relatively straightforward. In fact, moving with a child that is unable to move is a shit ton less daunting than one who is learning how to walk.

I am now very seriously having regrets about spending £40 on a laptop battery for my old PowerBook G4, just so I can eBay it. The existing battery was flashing up the 'Warning: Running on reserve power' thing the second you unplugged it from the mains, and pushing the charge level button on the battery itself showed how it was going from full to one single flashing LED in about 3 minutes.

However, I've now been running it off that battery, with the LED flashing away and with the battery meter in Mac OS X showing 0% remaining and 0 minutes of charge left, for about 45 minutes now.

Bollocks.

Author:	Grim... [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:22 ]
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That sucks, K However: KovacsC wrote: My CAFCAS office is off on maturity leave Isn't that "retirement"?

Author:	KovacsC [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:24 ]
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Grim... wrote: That sucks, K However: KovacsC wrote: My CAFCAS office is off on maturity leave Isn't that "retirement"? It really sucks. I don;t know if I can formally complain about CAFCAS, but I don;t want to piss them off, as they now need to do another report!! Bad spelling, maternity leave...

Author:	Zardoz [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:28 ]
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Sorry to hear that Kov. At least now you have the cash to throw at these lawyer types though.

Author:	KovacsC [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:29 ]
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Zardoz wrote: Sorry to hear that Kov. At least now you have the cash to throw at these lawyer types though. yes this should be the last bit...

Author:	Zardoz [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:30 ]
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Best of luck mate.

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Author:	KovacsC [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:31 ]
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Roll on the end of August...

Author:	Trooper [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 13:06 ]
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So my recent pay rise yay has just been mostly wiped out by a hike in interest rates on the mortage for the house I can't sell oop north. Yay.

Author:	Warhead [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 13:08 ]
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Trooper wrote: So my recent pay rise yay has just been mostly wiped out by a hike in interest rates on the mortage for the house I can't sell oop north. Yay. But if you hadn't had the pay rise you'd be quids out, so it's not all bad.

Author:	flis [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 13:12 ]
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Trooper wrote: So my recent pay rise yay has just been mostly wiped out by a hike in interest rates on the mortage for the house I can't sell oop north. Yay. Swings n roundabouts dude. Mostly isn't completely and you'll sell it eventually...Still shit right now though! I'm over £200 a month worse off than I was only 6 months ago due to tax and pension stuff Stupid bloody economy.

Author:	Trooper [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 13:18 ]
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Warhead wrote: Trooper wrote: So my recent pay rise yay has just been mostly wiped out by a hike in interest rates on the mortage for the house I can't sell oop north. Yay. But if you hadn't had the pay rise you'd be quids out, so it's not all bad. Indeed, but if I hadn't had the interest rate rise i'd be quids in! It's more annoying that the house is in negative equity so I can't do anything to fix it, I just have to go with one of the two options they give me. My only consolation is that i've moved on to a fixed rate for the next 3 years (5.49%) instead of the SVR I was on before (3.49%) so while it is a fair bit more expensive, at least I no longer have the stress of the rates rocketing in the next few years and spiking the SVR. If I could shop around I would, but I certainly don't have the deposit cash to be able to switch to another lender! Bloody houses, more trouble than they are worth.

Author:	Trooper [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 13:25 ]
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flis wrote: Trooper wrote: So my recent pay rise yay has just been mostly wiped out by a hike in interest rates on the mortage for the house I can't sell oop north. Yay. Swings n roundabouts dude. Mostly isn't completely and you'll sell it eventually... There will come a point where the rental income exceeds the mortgage, hopefully at some point in the next 10 years! When that happens i'll probably want to keep the house! I'm currently ploughing £400 a month into it due to the difference between the mortgage payments and rent I can get, but my only other option is to flog the house for £30k under what I currently owe, which for obvious reasons isn't an option! flis wrote: Still shit right now though! I'm over £200 a month worse off than I was only 6 months ago due to tax and pension stuff Stupid bloody economy. Indeed, I get screwed over at every budget. In the whole and in context I can't complain as i'm hardly starving and get paid a fair whack, but today is not the day to be thinking like that, today is the day to be raging against the machine

Author:	Goddess Jasmine [ Mon Jun 20, 2011 23:19 ]
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Kovacs that's crap. Lisa is messing Darryl about again too, but his solicitor has advised him to wait until he has finished his training to see how it goes, he's not available for CAFCAS meetings during the week you see. This means I'm on Chloe duty on Fridays, which I don't mind obviously, but it's not a practical permanent arrangement by any means.

Author:	Zio [ Tue Jun 21, 2011 22:40 ]
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So then, today I decided, for whatever reason, to dust off my old Apple Powerbook and see if it still works. And aside from a fucked battery and fucked PRAM battery (not too surprising considering this laptop is nearly 8 years old), it's still working a treat! I'm typing this up on it now! In fact, so pleased am I that it's working so well that I've just spent £40 on a new battery (I can probably live with the fuxx0red PRAM battery for the time being). So far, so yay! Until I decided to set up my Gmail with Apple's Mail program, and noticed an unread message in my Drafts folder. "Bit strange", thinks I. "I don't remember saving any incomplete messages. I wonder how long that's been sitting there?" Turns out it's been sitting there a week. Remember from the 'selling a car on eBay' thread that I'd received an offer for my car? Well I replied to it a little later in the evening with a counter offer and have been stewing ever since because I never received any kind of reply. Well, this will be why. They never received my reply in the first place. Seriously, seriously, FFS! Anyway, I have sent them a very embarrassed apology in the hope they might still be interested.

Author:	Curiosity [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:09 ]
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Gah! At work yesterday someone emailed me a new file, which I then spent the day populating with data and doing general work on. In a tired, dazed state at the end of the day, I closed the file and saved it. A few minutes later I shut down the PC, and in doing so closed Outlook. This popped up a brief mesage saying the attachment to an email had changed, and did I want to save these changes? I automatically clicked on 'No'. That's lost a day of work, then!

Author:	ApplePieOfDestiny [ Mon Jun 27, 2011 13:20 ]
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Looks like we're not going to be selling our flat this year. Have two people apparently interested, both of whom are fucking around, and our threat of put up or shut up hasn't ellicited any action. Comes off the market on Thursday, and we won't be putting it back on until spring. Still, next time around the money may not be so much of an issue. Over four months of fucking around to no end result sucks though.

Author:	zaphod79 [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:31 ]
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Curiosity wrote: Gah! At work yesterday someone emailed me a new file, which I then spent the day populating with data and doing general work on. In a tired, dazed state at the end of the day, I closed the file and saved it. A few minutes later I shut down the PC, and in doing so closed Outlook. This popped up a brief mesage saying the attachment to an email had changed, and did I want to save these changes? I automatically clicked on 'No'. That's lost a day of work, then! I assume you've searched for files on the machine updated yesterday in case there was an auto-saved version somewhere in a temp folder ? (and you know you can have most programs do an auto-save every X number of minutes in case you do that again)

Author:	Trooper [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:44 ]
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Zio wrote: Anyway, I have sent them a very embarrassed apology in the hope they might still be interested. Doh! I may be wrong, but I think your have weakened your bargaining position, somewhat

Author:	Curiosity [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:29 ]
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zaphod79 wrote: Curiosity wrote: Gah! At work yesterday someone emailed me a new file, which I then spent the day populating with data and doing general work on. In a tired, dazed state at the end of the day, I closed the file and saved it. A few minutes later I shut down the PC, and in doing so closed Outlook. This popped up a brief mesage saying the attachment to an email had changed, and did I want to save these changes? I automatically clicked on 'No'. That's lost a day of work, then! I assume you've searched for files on the machine updated yesterday in case there was an auto-saved version somewhere in a temp folder ? (and you know you can have most programs do an auto-save every X number of minutes in case you do that again) It's awkward because I connect via Citrix, so there's nothing actually stored on my machine. I've checked my personal drive on the network, and there's nothing that would match to what I did. Excel autosaves all the time, and I sepcifically saved that document several times, but because I had it open as an attachment from an email, it must have been saving it as some sort of temporary file, so no matter how many times I saved it, until I used 'Save As...' and threw it into another folder, it was able to be completely wiped by closing the initial email I opened it from, and clicking "Don't save changes". Which seems awfully lame. If anyone knows a way to salvage it, that would be great, but I'm not very hopeful right now. Gah!

Author:	Curiosity [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:43 ]
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And in any other normal year this wouldn't be a problem as I'd right now be sat in a field in Somerset drinking with my friends!

Author:	DavPaz [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:45 ]
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Curiosity wrote: I had it open as an attachment from an email DANGER, DANGER!

Author:	devilman [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:47 ]
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Curiosity wrote: It's awkward because I connect via Citrix, so there's nothing actually stored on my machine. I've checked my personal drive on the network, and there's nothing that would match to what I did. Excel autosaves all the time, and I sepcifically saved that document several times, but because I had it open as an attachment from an email, it must have been saving it as some sort of temporary file, so no matter how many times I saved it, until I used 'Save As...' and threw it into another folder, it was able to be completely wiped by closing the initial email I opened it from, and clicking "Don't save changes". Which seems awfully lame. There should be a copy somewhere in the Outlook Temp folder, but whether Citrix clears that out or not, I'm not sure.

Author:	flis [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:56 ]
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devilman wrote: There should be a copy somewhere in the Outlook Temp folder, but whether Citrix clears that out or not, I'm not sure. Or maybe your downloads folder? I would have thought everything you did up until what you did between the last save you made and telling it not to save the changes, would be on your machine somewhere? If it was excel, can't you just hover over the excel programme icon in the start menu and get to your file that way? It keeps track of your recent files for easy access, I assume. Also: You are a numpty.

Author:	BikNorton [ Thu Jun 23, 2011 13:35 ]
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Second blood results are in - ferrin still high, so yet more blood is going to be taken, to test specifically for haemochromatosis. I am - quite literally - (slightly more) Iron (than a normal) Man.

Author:	Trooper [ Thu Jun 23, 2011 13:43 ]
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Will that mean no more red meat?

Author:	BikNorton [ Thu Jun 23, 2011 13:44 ]
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Even worse, no more beer. But there are a couple of treatments - ritual prescribed bloodletting, or a chelating drug that binds to iron the blood allowing it to be pissed/shat out.

Author:	nickachu [ Thu Jun 23, 2011 13:44 ]
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BikNorton wrote: Even worse, no more beer.

Author:	Curiosity [ Thu Jun 23, 2011 13:45 ]
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What about wine? Wine's better than beer anyway.

Author:	BikNorton [ Thu Jun 23, 2011 13:45 ]
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nickachu wrote: BikNorton wrote: Even worse, no more beer. INO, RITE?! Curiosity wrote: What about wine? Wine's better than beer anyway. It really isn't, but "beer" means "alcohol" anyway.

Author:	NervousPete [ Thu Jun 23, 2011 17:13 ]
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BikNorton wrote: nickachu wrote: BikNorton wrote: Even worse, no more beer. INO, RITE?! Curiosity wrote: What about wine? Wine's better than beer anyway. It really isn't, but "beer" means "alcohol" anyway. Bad luck there, man. Can you still enjoy these guys, Bik? 'Iron & Wine'

Author:	Bobbyaro [ Thu Jun 23, 2011 20:18 ]
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Are you still allowed to visit Magneto?

Author:	Doctor Glyndwr [ Thu Jun 23, 2011 20:20 ]
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BikNorton wrote: Second blood results are in - ferrin still high, so yet more blood is going to be taken, to test specifically for haemochromatosis. Danielle has this, as do a number of her family.

Author:	Decca [ Sun Jun 26, 2011 16:53 ]
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My 360 power pack is fucked Have ordered new one.

Author:	sinister agent [ Sun Jun 26, 2011 17:20 ]
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Decca wrote: My 360 power pack is fucked Have ordered new one. You wally! I have a spare one, you could have had it.

Author:	Decca [ Sun Jun 26, 2011 17:53 ]
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Fanx you and I did think about asking on here but I found a very cheap one on ebay and without testing I'm not sure if it's my 360 finally giving up the ghost. I've had it from the first month of release and this is the first time anything has ever gone wrong, which must be some sort of record. I've noticed that the fan on it is now nearly unusably loud so it could go one way or the other.

Author:	sinister agent [ Sun Jun 26, 2011 18:09 ]
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Well if it is the machine, I have one going for postage cost only. The only catch is that it was taken apart about four years ago and hasn't been touched since, so you'd have to install the new DVD drive (included), flash the firmware, and put it back together. I'm probably going to end up just chucking it otherwise.