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Call first thing in the morning:

"There's an HGV outside, 28 pallets of stuff to unload".

See... KM closed, right? Well, we bought some of the stuff left behind. Several thousand items, including 8 boxes of OEM Energizer AA batteries (i.e. OEM packaged for bulk, not OEM branded) - each box containing 319 AA batteries recent enough to be :"Best Before 2010", hundreds of bags (anyone with a Dimage Z or X series, or a 7Hi/A1 type?), some tiny tripods, 3 SCSI PCMCIA card readers and PCI controller cards, 4 Adaptec ISA SCSI cards (do what? What use are they to anyone..), and 8 Sandisk Parallel port CF card readers.

And lots of filters. LOTS of filters.

A bloke from the tractor place unloaded from the HGV with a forklift, I loaded up the garage with a trolley thing.

This means that I can probably get away tomorrow if I need to, though Thursday is still more likely - need to plan routes first anyway.

Back to work. And, I demand INSTANT bank trasnsfers, dammit.

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Meh.

I'm sick of rain. So, I decide to bring the Scorpio back into the yard because it has a flat tyre and the battery went flat - I want to plug it in to charge for a few hours.

It rains.

Whilst I am in the middle of trying to hoover it out, it rains.

Whilst I am investigating the broken sunroof, it rains.

In between these tasks, it does not rain.

The Scorpio actually looks worryingly pleasant when cleaned inside; also the ABS light was off again. I think I will be sticking an MOT on it, since no-one has taken it away, and it can maybe get one last hurrah for a couple of months doing Practical Stuff (TM) before the ink is dry on the MOT and I can sell it [1]

It isn't worth much even with an MOT [2]. It's insane. It's insane that at some point around 1990, madness took over the car industry. VW started turning out shite, Ford (after a few hiccups) stopped, Japanese cars forgot they were supposed to rust to compensate for their obscene reliability, and everyone got it into their heads that they needed some sort of complex vehicle to get around in - the 2CV, Fiat 126 BIS and so forth all died off, with the cheap 'n' nasty (but still perfectly good as a new car) Renault 5 Campus and Fiat Panda followed soon after.

Siani's 2CV was still on sale in 1990; decades after launch (and nearly half a century after conception), as was the Sera. A greater contrast is hard to find.

Now, everything is much the same.

[1] It'll be a proper MOT, with new tyres and stuff, but I'm counting on the ABS light behaving and the handbrake-being-freed-off holding up long enough to pass. And if I sold it, and one of those items went again within a certain period, the tester might get in trouble. So, it either gets fixed, or hangs around a while. With an MOT on the car, I have more options.

[2] A grand, tops, for an 8 year old, £30,000 car on which nearly every toy still works and still provides comfortable, practical transport. And that's optimistic; it's more likely to be £6-700 really. If I had more space and a fleet insurance policy, I would keep it and repair it just to go against the grain of throwing away perfectly good cars.

[3] This is not the footnote you are looking for. *waves hand*

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Hmm, despite several "friends culls", I'm still sitting at the same numbers of friend ofs.

What, am I not offensive enough anymore? Dammit. I mean, c'mon. I'm like, a dodgy moustach and an irrational hatred of religious and cultural minorities away from being Hitler according to some. Except, my boots are nicer.

At least tell me that you've read my journal from seeing a comment and decided NOT to friend me.
It can even be because I am deeply boring...

What do I have to do to be less popular!

(I am full of Chineefoo. Very full. Tried a new place and it wasn't bad at all. Also, the girl urged me to visit China. I suppose at least there I might be able to buy an MG ZT 260 one day...).