My previous rant do you donate?, Seemed to get some people thinking. I received several emails speculating that it's not always obvious just how much we do actually take for granted. This is until someone, or something opens our eyes.
Rant 1 : After a productive day at work and listening to a variety of different tunes for my upcoming Summer Mini Mix series and my next funky house podcast I come home to find that my boiler has decided to pack in. Lucky enough for me I have home care 400 which is a maintenance contract from Scottish Gas. Upon phoning them to say "look it's cold, I have no hot water or heating when can you come out", "well we can give you an all day appointment tomorrow or we can give you an afternoon or morning on Monday?". For me the weekend is my time. I'm not going to sit in all day waiting on an engineer while I could be out doing what I need to do, seeing people I need to see, so I decided to bit the bullet and say Monday. Just hoping it's a repair job and not a new boiler..... This morning, I am so glad I made that choice as it's such a beautiful day. Today see's me visiting my unwell gran, going to the gym ( they have awesome showers) and visiting my mum.
Rant 2 : Yesterday afternoon I have discovered that moving banks isn't as straight forward as I hoped. Would seem that my current bank who will not be named is just useless. Some standing orders and direct debit details haven't been sent over to my new bank even though my new bank requested this information 6 weeks ago. I started to panic as I wasn't sure where my mortgage payment was coming out from? Luckily a nice woman on the "switching team" for my new bank talked me through what has come across and what hasn't. Today will see my current bank getting an ear full even though it will probably be a non uk call centre, which can bring more frustration depending on who I am speaking to. As of next week, all direct debits etc will be over to my new accounts and I can actually walk into or call my local branch, winner. :)
Rant 3 : What next you may ask? Well I am not sure how long this has been going on but a couple of blogs I comment on have removed "my url" on there comment form, so when you go to comment all you see is your email address, your name and the comment textbox, what is the point in that? For me it's a turn off. Why would I want to join in a discussion and not being able to link back to my own personal website? Is same with trackbacks, why not accept a trackback? Is it because they see other bloggers as "the enemy" and that uniting and sharing links/resources/common interests is bad? Who knows?
There would have been a 4th rant in relation to losing a lot of personal documents and photographs but as luck stands I have learned from my mistakes and keep backups of everything.
Well, that's it. Am off out now to enjoy my weekend rather than "the system" keeping me in.Peace out and stay safe...
