So What’s Been Happening Recently? #27

Year 2

So another year is over. And I am another year closer to death. So as my second year ends and my third year as a blogger begins. The world is in chaos. The politicians have fucked us over and every man/woman or helicopter can’t control themselves for five minutes because they think they might run out of bog roll or hand wash. We have been asked to do simple things to help the world and our fellow humans. And our selfishness has us unable to stay at home and twiddle our thumbs.

There is one thing I have been wondering about that I’m not sure anybody else has. Now that we are a nation of hermits. Has anyone considered that in nine months there may be a baby boom? All that alone time people are going to be a bit bored.

Or the opposite may happen. All that alone time may end in divorce, serious injury or death. There could also be an increase of deafness from all the other halves constant screeching in the earhole. And yes, before anyone starts, men can be annoying bitches as well.

I myself, welcome it. The air is getting cleaner and the water is cleaning itself up. The Earth is allowing itself to breathe for a little while. So stay the fuck home!

I don’t have that much luck. I have recently finished my annual birthday holiday and have returned to work. And work has changed. Attempts at social distancing is not always completely possible but we are doing the best we can to make sure the shelves are full. Work stations are placed around the warehouse so everyone has access to keep our equipment and ourselves clean. The vulnerable have been told to stay home for twelve weeks.

My Birthday was nice. I had planned a meal with my family. But a couple of days before, under the government’s new rules, the restaurant closed its doors. So instead myself and the missus stayed in and got the last takeaway from the New World Chinese, before they shut down.

The wife had bought me some presents: The librarian movie trilogy, bluray. Zombieland 2: Double Tap, bluray. And to help a new hobby some tools. My brother bought me a battery charger for my motorbike. We also purchased a large, butterscotch chocolate cake from Tescos. It was very nice.

The monthly shop was different. Normally we would meet up at six in the morning and be finished up a couple of hours later. This time around, due to time changes, we had to leave for the new opening times at eight. And luckily the weather was with us. As we queued up for a couple of hours to get in.

It was quite a pleasant time. An old bloke queued up behind us. And was offered the opportunity to go straight in. But told them it wasn’t the old codger times of the week and he was happy where he was. Good for him.

A couple of Indian blokes were told to leave as they jumped the closed barrier to get into the car park by moving the cones. The security guard told them in the nicest possible way that there business was not welcome and to go shop somewhere else.

During my time off we had been waiting to get our air filtration system fixed. It hadn’t been working since November. All we needed was a new circuit board and some filters. The problem was that we couldn’t get them until February as they were out of stock. February comes and we only get the filters. The wife contacts them and has a moan and they end up sending us a completely new system. £700 – £1200 value for the 80 odd pound item we originally wanted. Thank you very much.

So it was time to install and I hit a snag. I was unable remove the screws from inside the box to take it off the wall. So after some Ummimg and Ahrging, contacting some people for help. They didn’t. I decided that the best thing to do was to cut the screws off. They were security screws and when sealed they won’t budge.

So the father in law took this as a cue to add a new tool to his collection and bought an angle grinder and loaned it to me. I’ve never used one before and so had fun trying to work this out.

So I got to work, being all manly, grinding those evil screws off… And then only to find out, afterwards. That all I needed to do was unscrew the box above the air filter, remove it and then lift the unit out. My manliness shrunk a bit. But the wife enjoyed seeing me work. Nudge Nudge. So that helped.

So my first proper real home fix job and I unlocked that achievement. It’s working and we have filtered air again.