Alarm 4:50 Awake 4:48 Left home 5:00 At work 5:40
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My wife's alarm is set for 06:30, so I set mine for 06:31. Thus I hear her alarm go off, roll over and know that I've got another minute before I need to get up. And that minute is the joy of the morning.
Leave the house at 07:30 after a Shower, Turdle and extended coffee. Brunch at work at 11am, which I enjoy nearly as much as the minute extra in bed.
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Went to the dentist for my regular check up (I go about every 6 years given my manly policy of normally only going when I'm on the verge of getting the pilers out) and needed a small filling. He said he could do it now or I could do it another day. I said crack on and it didn't take long.
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Amazon use a delivery service in Canada called Intelcom, who are generally pretty good. They've just added a returns service whereby if you want to return something you can have them pick it up at your door next day at no cost and without any need to print labels etc. This is a huge leap forward from their previous model, which involved printing labels and driving to the post office or parcel depot.
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Over here we have Evri/Hermes doing the returns, they’re often dreadful at deliveries (depending in your local driver) but the return system is usually painless.
Usually at a petrol station you scan QR it prints the label and you pop it on the box, leave it there and fuck off - once scanned it’s their fucking problem if the driver nicks it.
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In a previous life, the now (might not be anymore, leys say 'recent') CEO of Evri was my line manager's line manager. Nice bloke. Very Dutch. Quite charismatic and responsible for a few raucous evenings when staying over in leafy Marlow. Looked a bit like Michael Hutchence, before the asphyxi death-wank. Well, I assume so anyway. I mean, I imagine probably not at his Kylie tupping best after that moment of unfortunate desicion making.
Anyway, the laydeez loved him.
True story.
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Possibly the most Sean post of the day.
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Thinking of swapping one of our ageing diesel cars for an electric. Spending some time now understanding the prep we need to do in terms of switching energy tariffs and installing a charging box outside.
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It'd dead easy really. We are on the octopus tariff and just set the box to charge the cars between 00:30 and 04:00.
Some manufacturers used to do deals on chargers.
What car are you looking at?
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It would be more environmentally friendly, more convenient and more cost effective to keep the old diesel going.
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Maybe environmentally friendly but for my use electric is far more convenient. I only need to use public chargers 5-10 times a year always been fine.
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I am in favour of electric cars. I cannot imagine for a moment that battery electric cars are in any way a practicable, scalable, solution for the level of mass transport that the world needs. It's a stopgap...and they know they will be selling everyone something else in ten years.
I'll have your ageing diesel off you. You seem to be the sort to look after things. When your electric proves useless for long unplanned journeys (and you are sick of sitting in hours long queues, waiting to recharge at extortionate prices, to go further), or catches uncontrollably on fire as a result of battery cell thermal runaway, I can sell it you back to you.
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Certainly not cost-effective. It's nearly 15 years old and needs more money spent on it than the car is worth.
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I don't think I've ever queued to charge in 3 years. My car tells me if chargers are free.
It's relatively expensive, but it’s not regular for me
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E-Golf. They stopped making them in 2020 so there are some decent deals to be had currently. Our thought is to lease one for three or four years to see how we get on with the switch to electric and go from there. No interest in owning one of that age.
It would be replacing Mrs BW's old diesel hatchback, so we'll hopefully be able to keep mine running alongside. At the end of the lease term, I feel we could then go down to one car given the way our working lives have moved more towards WFH. Mrs BW disagrees.
