Where’s Lancpudin?

[Lancpudn]

We went over to my Mams yesterday with flowers & a card as it was Mothers day yesterday here. When we got back the other seed potatoes had arrived so I ended up planting a lot of those in 35 ltr buckets.

Not much on today as it's wet wet wet out there so I'll go & do some shopping. Most of the bedding plant seeds I sowed in February still haven't germinated My local Aldi have got some trays of bedding plants so I'll be buying some , I've got all my hanging baskets made up ready to go. It will be nice to see some colour for a change, Most of the daffodils & tulips are only just breaklng surface so it will be a couple of weeks before they're in bloom.

 

[Digger]

I had to stay inside while the cleaner was here yesterday and Gael was in town holding a meeting at the art society, so the duty fell to me. This is a requirement of the organisation that employs her, not our mistrust.

Before she got here I’d hand poisoned some emergent weeds that were coming up again after the garden bed was cleaned out. I used a wick wiper as I didn’t want to poison the ground, just the weeds. I’d carted one tractor bucket load of mulch over when she arrived and went back to it as she left just before 12.

It was finished by 1PM when Gael got home and I used a blower to clean up. It wasn’t a big job, just 3 bucketloads. Me and a shovel are only occasional acquaintances these days so I took it easy all arvo to rest my back.

 

[Digger]

I’ll just mention that since resuming Vitamin B12 injections on a 3 weekly basis, my energy levels are greatly improved and my mind is heaps better than it was before the resumption.

The oxygen levels in my system prior to that must have been very low and I was forcing myself to do things, now I cant wait!

 

[Lancpudn]

I got most of the seed potatoes planted up yesterday & was potting on seedlings into bigger pots in the greenhouse after I did some shopping, I think it's safe to switch the heat mats off under the trays now.

I bought three trays of bedding/hanging basket plants at Aldi that were very dry & looked a bit worse for wear, They were discounted so I bought them. I left them out over night in the rain & they've perked up when I looked at them this morning.

 

[Digger]

I was out at 8AM to try and get ready for our fortnightly helper Shawn but he arrived as I came out so I got him to check the fluids on the splitter and start to split a load of wood for Roz. I’ll probably need to get her about 4 trailer loads to do through winter and this first one is a start. I prepped my mower and spent the next 2 hours mowing and was finished by 10.30. I went like a cut cat!

We met friends in at a club in town for lunch and spent a couple hours catching up...nice food too!

So that was a pretty satisfactory day all in all!

 

[Raiyn]

Today is a paperwork day. Amongst the festivities I get to look over / edit legal forms for a trust fund I'm setting up for my sister (a case that the lawyer has been dragging ass for nearly a year on) and a few more adulting paperwork tasks that are sure to put me in the absolute bestest of moods. Hooray!

Oh, and yeah, any perceived sarcasm in that prior statement was intentional, and downplayed. I'd rather do a gut job clean and reorganization of my garage followed by the same in my clean shop while listening to half speed polka than have to grind on forms.

 

[Lancpudn]

Missus was asking about those flatpack wheelie bin surround kits she bought last year They're still in the garage but the boxes they came in are all soggy with the damp & have burst open.

I was hoping she 'd forgotten about them, Fat chance.

Lots of standing water from overnight rains out there so apart from a docs appointment at the local clinic for a pneumonia jab I shall be driving trains.

TSW3 are having a Spring sale so I picked up a BR Class 37 on Rail operations duties towing DMU's to workshops & paint workshops around the rail network for a fiver.

 

[Raiyn]

Today is a paperwork day. Amongst the festivities I get to look over / edit legal forms for a trust fund I'm setting up for my sister (a case that the lawyer has been dragging ass for nearly a year on) and a few more adulting paperwork tasks that are sure to put me in the absolute bestest of moods. Hooray!

The jeezless liar lawyer botched the financial statement so bloody bad... I'm not going to get into details, but the absolute levels of stupidity from someone who supposedly passed enough classes to get a law degree just blows my mind.

I have an express desire to fly up there and raise Hell on an absolutely biblical scale.

 

[Digger]

Chuckle....I have a number of legal subjects under my belt but it doesn’t mean I know sh!t about law~

 

[Digger]

Arthritis has developed in the first two fingers in my right hand and is making working pretty painful these last few days. Guess I just have to get used to it!

Trimmed weeds around the house yesterday and assembled a new spray tank for Gael, but that was all I managed before my silly bloody back called a halt to things. Later in town for an appointment I picked up a pack of accessory bits or my new Dremel and a small JBL Go 3 B/T speaker to replace a couple I’ve given to family members I judged needed them more than I did. I’ll try and hold onto this one as they are great for travelling to stick in my backpack for music of an evening where ever we are staying.

6 nights in Hobart without music is a bit too much to contemplate.

 

[Lancpudn]

I got a few more treays of bedding plants after the docs appointment & got some of them planted out, Strong winds & rain stopped play & the weather is the same today so the rest will have to wait.
All the shallot sets I planted a month or so ago have all sprouted & are doing well.

My missus has bad joint pain with rheumatoid arthritis to the point where the stairs are becoming a real problem getting up & down them. It's getting so bad in the cold damp Winter months that she only comes downstairs a couple of times a week We've been asking the local council if there are any secondhand ones avaiable as they install & remove them from their properties when the person goes into a OAP home.

 

[Raiyn]

We've been asking the local council if there are any secondhand ones avaiable as they install & remove them from their properties when the person goes into a OAP home.

I gather you mean a stair lift?

 

[soulman969]

The jeezless liar lawyer botched the financial statement so bloody bad... I'm not going to get into details, but the absolute levels of stupidity from someone who supposedly passed enough classes to get a law degree just blows my mind.

I have an express desire to fly up there and raise Hell on an absolutely biblical scale.

If attorneys knew anything about finance I'd have made far less $$$ over my career. I got paid quite well doing number crunching for them. But you know who was even worse? The judge in my divorce case. It was pretty much like since this is so complex I'm just gonna divide this in half. She can have all the money you can have all the debt. Court adjourned.

 

[soulman969]

My week day off has arrived. Now I need to figure out what to do with it.

Living in a small rental surrounded by an asphalt parking lot and a shelter for bicycles doesn't permit much in the way of agrarian activity. Besides it day two of a cycle of cold wet overcast weather that would do Lancashire proud. For the second day temps have parked right at 32F and we've had a mixture of snow and rain since yesterday morning.

We don't get weather with a solid gloomy overcast like this very often compared to how many sunny days we have so I shouldn't complain too much but it does kill off any thoughts I had of doing a spring cleaning on my car. Guess I'll spend some time working on my guitars today and getting some gear prepared for sale. Time to move on from some.

 

[Raiyn]

If attorneys knew anything about finance I'd have made far less $$$ over my career.

I had typed out a whole explanation, but deleted it out of privacy concerns. Suffice to say, that I'm unhappy with my representation, and if it wasn't going to be a complete flustercuck to fire them and FIND someone else local up there to do this I'd have done it a long time ago.

 

[soulman969]

I had typed out a whole explanation, but deleted it out of privacy concerns. Suffice to say, that I'm unhappy with my representation, and if it wasn't going to be a complete flustercuck to fire them and FIND someone else local up there to do this I'd have done it a long time ago.

Law school has no courses in advanced finance and by and large many law firms are run very inefficiently which of course is why they over charge as much as they do. What some really good at though is calculating the percentage they'll earn from a PI case or handling trust and estate issues for a percentage of the value of such. That they do understand quite well and (over) charge for it accordingly.

It's a good thing those I did work for never read guitar forums but I can tell you that what ever hourly rate I charged them for work I did was typically tripled or quadrupled when billed to their client under a heading like outside contract work performed. But they do the same with their own paralegals. He or she may be paid $25 per hour but billed out at $75 to $100 per hour while the attorney bills time at $200-$300 per hr.

If I can help with anything let me know.

 

[Raiyn]

It's not even advanced finance. She gets Gov't benefits which are adjusted according to how much she works. She has two jobs totalling maybe four hours per week (the social interaction and "purpose" is the goal).

All they had to do was take the information I gave them (which was for the quarter after her most recent COLA to present) and multiply by four. Instead, I've got the annual and the monthly numbers equal to each other and COMPLETELY wrong.
What's worse is the fact that I had done all the math for the pre COLA period for them and provided it months in advance.

They dragged ass until it was no longer valid post COLA as her rent and other benefits changed at that point.

Here's what really frosts me:
If I provide documentation that I eat a cheeseburger once a week for thirteen weeks (representing a quarter year), and I tell you that this is my normal pattern you (a normal person) would extrapolate that I would eat about 52 cheeseburgers in a year. These fathermuckers would tell you that I only ate 7 cheeseburgers to date and wouldn't eat any more this year.

They also ignore emails unless I call the senior partner in a different office. If I do that, I magically get a response within 48 hours.

 

[Lancpudn]

I gather you mean a stair lift?

LOL Yes The grey matter is disappearing at an alarming rate these days.
I'm hoping to mow the lawns today if that wind dries them out enough, I noticed yesterday that one variety of potato I planted about three weeks ago is already breaking surface

 

[Raiyn]

LOL Yes The grey matter is disappearing at an alarming rate these days.

Well, it was either that or a second hand wife. One for upstairs and one for downstairs. Could be quite practical, or you know, not so much.

 

[Digger]

Second wife? Hmmmm? Interesting idea....Chuckle~