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Money for nothing

Plumbers. It’s been said before, and it will be said again, but plumbers (and builders) are the most unreliable, work-shy, useless bunch of overpaid scumbags known to man. Why they can’t keep an appointment is beyond me. Yes, work can take longer than you expect, or things can go wrong, but why when Mark from ProPlumb said he would be with us at 9am on Thursday did we get a call at 10am saying his first job that day(!) had over-run and that he would be a bit late? Why then did we have to contact him ourselves at 2pm to find out where he was only to be told he would come Friday morning instead? Why at 1.30pm was there still no sign of him forcing us to call him again, only to be told he had passed the job to someone else who would come Friday evening when we will not be in?!

I wouldn’t mind if this was a one off, but it seems that every, single, bloody time we try to employ the services of one of these characters the same thing happens. ‘Yes, we’ll be there at X o’clock on Xday.’ ‘Sorry, unexpected delays.’ ‘Sorry, we can’t make it until next week now.’ It’s not like plumbing is even chuffing difficult!!

I fitted a bath, sink and toilet myself this summer just to avoid having to deal with these charlatans, and it was easier than tiling the wall! I even rerouted the plumbing to do it!! If I thought I could figure out the boiler by reading a few websites I’d do it myself. As it is I now need to find another plumber who can come in an evening or a weekend as the wife has wasted the last two days of her holiday waiting in for this guy.

I”M AS MAD AS HELL!

2 comments February 16th, 2007

Compile

In the dark days at the end of 2006 I promised Jay a compilation CD of music that had graced my ears recently. We used to work together, and I guess I used to introduce her to a bit of new music occasionally. I have a tendency to be a bit of a music fascist, so I thought I’d update her.

The actual music was the easy bit. I got that all sorted (2 CDs worth) back in December, but since then I have been trying to find time to produce the cover art. This is a common problem for me. I get hung up on pointless details, leading to procrastination on a grand scale, and eventually the scrapping of whatever it was I was doing.

This is a particular problem with a compilation of recent music as it’s out of date already. I’m just going to sit down and do it tonight. No farting around. No slaving over details. Just get it in the post so I can begin work on the next one. I’ll post the track listing once she has it. Don’t want to ruin the surprise now.

4 comments February 5th, 2007