Week 2

So, here I am, only on Week 2 of the year, and already posting two days late. 

Not the best start, but I’m going to chalk this one up to the joy of shift work, and just general life stuff.

Anyway it’s been a week, like most of them, that just seems to have flown by, yet filled with not much of note at all.

What I did have was a surprisingly good experience with a public utility, which was a really pleasant surprise. I’m having an EV charging point fitted stop the house soon, ahead of leasing a new EV (more on that another day).

As part of that installation I needed to have the main fuse to the house upgraded from 60A to 80A. The EV company have been arranging that with the National Grid, but I needed to do the final liaison with them to arrange a time for their installers to visit, and to check on the location etc of the fuse and meter.

I received a letter from the National Grid on Sunday asking me to make contact to arrange the installations and called them midday on Monday. They asked for me to send them some photos of the fusebox by email, which I duly did. They phoned me back an hour later to arrange the installation date. Which was … the very next day!

As promised they turned up the next morning at 08:30am, and were all done in an hour, after removing what appeared to be the original fuse in our 1920’s house. 

Really smooth process that just leaves me asking – why can’t all public services be this efficient?

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In other words bits, I caught up with watching the new Predator franchise movie, Predator: Badlands and…..it’s really pretty good.

It makes some interesting choices in expanding the inner emotional life of the Yautja – do we need our Predator to have a rich emotional and personal life? I don’t know.  But, It’s a fun action movie, with some humour from Elle Fanning’s synth character, and some interesting ties into the wider Alien/Predator universe. 

That’s it, Week 2 done.