Change of plans
Sep. 11th, 2012 08:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pyoor_excuseI was going to be good. I really was. After my one-off night shift (the worst kind of night shift) I was going to go and extract data from notes. That was the plan (batman). However… it turns out that the person who I spoke to before who said ‘same day, possibly’ was talking out of his hat, or misunderstood my request.
Next day probably is the way it works with the notes request. So hopefully tomorrow I’ll be able to do the data extraction. Today, in my tired and disorientated state I’ll dink with non work things. Hopefully the bit will arrive so I can try out my repaired fountain pen. The ink’s been sat on my desk taunting me for days….
I’ll do some work on Kathryn’s present…
Dunno what else. We shall see.
I have ordered some better locks for the motorcycle (this combined with the GPS tracker should make it less interesting to thieves. That and being a D-reg, but Kawasaki GT-550s are still quite popular motorbikes).
But essentially, the day is mine. I shall relax, poke the internet with sticks and attempt to come up with an answer to the water ingress problem. Thing is I don’t want to call a roofer, and have them go ‘Oh yeah, your roof is the problem’ when it might just be the cladding which is a bit weird and letting water run in. And I don’t want to call someone up who does cladding and say ‘our cladding is hinky, please fix it’ when it’s the roof that’s letting in water. Who do I call? That’s the question.
Originally published at Kates Journal. You can comment here or there.
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Date: 2012-09-11 11:26 am (UTC)Dunno, do the Ghostbusters do building work? ;)
Interested to hear more about the GPS tracker. Is it visible (and obvious what it is) to an opportunist thief? If so what prevents them disabling it before they make off with the bike?
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Date: 2012-09-11 11:35 am (UTC)And no, the tracker will be hidden. The hope is that I can recover the bike, rather than it prevents them stealing it. I have come to the opinion that nothing stops people stealing, apart from a conscience. However, it's also come to my attention that people who are criminals are often not the brightest candles. Not to tar every criminal with that brush, but life-of-crime, not such a wise career pick, in general. Doesn't inspire confidence in other choices.
And given that they tried, so far as I can tell to hot-wire my old ETZ (kickstart only) and indeed did the same to Lauren's old ETZ years ago, my assumption is they are moronic. My hope is it won't occur to them that a D-reg bike'd have a tracker on it, and so I can just turn up, with the cops, and go "I think you'll find that's mine". Basically it's a GPS and a mobile-phone-sans-speech-stuff. It'd be cheaper to buy a phone and stick it on the bike, I suppose. But less saleable when I move to Caaaaaanada. (Oh Canada).
Oh, and also, this one alledgedly, if it goes out to an area that's signalless will store up locations and times and then send them to you when it's in a less signal deficient zone. It's probably a pile of cack for the price, but hey.
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Date: 2012-09-11 11:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-11 12:16 pm (UTC)There's lots of these cheap/nasty GPS trackers on ebay, but this one happened to come with marginally more alledged features. At the end of the day it was 30 quid, so I'm not sure how much to expect. Hopefully 'enough'.
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Date: 2012-09-11 02:17 pm (UTC)