u/Advanced_Heat_2610

We need to buy firewood for the winter, and the most cost effective way is to buy a bulk lot of logs, which are usually either done by tipping a trailer onto the driveway, unbagged, or buying a stack of wood contained in a crate and you unload it yourself.

We moved into this house last year, and had to spend a lot of our initial budget on unexpected repairs to the plumbing. Unfortunately, we do not have enough of a budget to buy a woodshed this year, and will have to do it next year when we have the budget to buy a secure woodshed and fill it. Therefore, we have to buy pre-bagged wood by the pallet which is anywhere from a 20% to 50% mark up.

It is galling to pay so much for a mark up.

I know the other sort is cheaper, by a lot in some cases, but we just cannot store it well! It is so annoying!

It will be stored in the open air and we don't have anywhere available to store much of it inside so it has to be waterproof and easy to distribute under the only outdoor shelter we have available so bagged is the only alternative.

And the price of oil is just ridiculous. I am this close to just installing a battery and throwing the oil tank away.

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Putting this here because I am unable to keep repeating myself.

- I am in the UK.

- I live in a small UK house with a small UK property. There is not an abundance of room here to store a large quantity of wood to buy in bulk.

- There is no wood in my area that is available for free that also has delivery. I do not drive a vehicle that has capacity for meaningful amounts of wood.

I went to my branch of David Lloyd, yesterday, and went swimming. Afterwards, I used the sauna and showers. When I came out of the shower area, wrapped in a towel, there was a staff member/cleaner in there taking selfies in the mirror. She definitely got me in the frame of one of her pictures, but I am not sure if she actually took the photo.

I feel quite violated now.

I understand that the concerts are performed in two sets of back to back days, so they have to be broadcasted at those times.

But I am baffled by the replays all being on the same weekend and so close to the main concert. The replays do not have to be broadcasted live so they do not have to keep them so strictly regimented but they are literally

- Saturday 19th at 11am or 7pm.

- Sunday 20th at 11am or 7pm.

We could not... do it on two different weekends? We could not divide it up into more variety? Not maximising the possibility that people will want to attend more than one concert, or have work on the weekend or just... have a choice here? I am confused because they have not done this before as far as I know and it seems so restrictive whereas the one beauty of the online concert is that you are not bound to specific times and weekends.

What story are you working on?

How is your muse today?

What are you stuck on?

What tag did you find that now follows you around like a lost kitten?

How is that word count looking?

Literally anything that is not doomerism. Please.

It is 39 degrees in my office. It is so hot that my wooden desk is too hot to touch and my mouse is uncomfortable to hold it is that warm. My mobile phone has to be on an ice block to prevent it from overheating. We cannot afford £200 plus on an airconditioning unit but I cannot sleep more than 2 hours a night and I am on the edge of my sanity here.

Please help me to not fall into the routine of buy now pay later because I am sure there is a catch here in my heat addled state I cannot see.

Okay, so you only believe that you should be charged €4 for your service? Because that is all you use? And you do not think it is fair that you should pay more? So you are going to seek legal advice and then we will be ordered by the law to accept your offer of €4?

Sure, you go ahead and do that. You do not pay us anyway, so I guess you have plenty of money put aside to pay for a legal adviser to tell you that if you use it, you are required to pay for it, and just because you are a liar does not mean that you do not have to pay. Maybe if you pay someone money, you will listen to them because you do not pay us and you are not listening to me.

I hope you need eight root canals and they do not give you aesthetic for any of them. May your toenails all fall off, too.

I just wrote a line about someone buying a brand new car and turning on the air conditioning. I wanted them to set up their music so I had them put a CD in.

A brand new car probably will not come with a CD player. It will come with an aux cord outlet and a charge pad. I had to delete that whole section because in brand new cars, they do not turn a key in the ignition, they press the start button and then set it to drive. And then they use the center console to find the air conditioning.

And then they plug their phone in to get their music started.

Just.

Small things like that remind me that times have moved on and in my head, I am still remembering what it was like ten or fifteen years ago.

I just wrote a line about someone buying a brand new car and turning on the air conditioning. I wanted them to set up their music so I had them put a CD in.

A brand new car probably will not come with a CD player. It will come with an aux cord outlet and a charge pad. I had to delete that whole section because in brand new cars, they do not turn a key in the ignition, they press the start button and then set it to drive. And then they use the center console to find the air conditioning.

And then they plug their phone in to get their music started.

Just.

Small things like that remind me that times have moved on and in my head, I am still remembering what it was like ten or fifteen years ago.

I am wanting to do it but I always feel like in the kpop spaces I am in, there is a love hate relationship to this particular kind of fest.

Lots of people start out on Wattpad and move to the Archive, out of interest, or because of content policies or to get more readership. Have you ever gone the other way or stayed posting on both sites? Is that a worthwhile use of time?

I am particular interested in k-pop writers or adjacent fandoms, if that makes any difference, because I am interested in your thought processes and whether you think it is a good thing for an author.

Can I please, for the love of all that is sanity, get rid of the stupid chat? I do not need to see 650 iterations of BABY MONGMONG SO CUTE! Or "What did they say? I do not speak Korean!" or "HYUNLIX IS REAL, GUYS, HE TOUCHED HIS EYEBROW!"

Or hearts.

I do not care and frankly, it would improve my internet fantastically. It is already so very laggy this time.