Sort of winning...

We had some equipment removed over a month ago... We have the engineer's paperwork. I even took some pictures "just to be sure"... (And to mark the start of a long overdue upgrade...)

Lo and behold, we are still being charged for it!

I've since wasted far too long with their admin, even sending the pictures to them of them taking away the bits... And the result is...?

We'll hear back from them again once their admin team has caught up with the world...

Hey ho!!

... Is this where we need laws/regulations imposing a minimum of standards of business interactions? There's a LOT of needlessly wasted time here at our expense for their extra profit...

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Here in the tablelands we got off to a foggy and frosty -2C (felt like -6C) as the sun rose with 15C being expected today.

Once this fog clears we should have a fairly sunny day and I've got some things to do today outside (and maybe tomorrow morning) before days of forecasted rain hits.

Anyhow it's time for another coffee.

Cheers.

Instead of poles have you looked into a trencher to put the power underground Vic? It's certainly a cheaper alternative in most cases here to have done.

Well I'm thinking about a spot of lunch after a few beers, washing clothes and putting veggie seeds in today.

Cheers.

Any thoughts?

My daughter would definitely want to have her own horse there.

A cloudy friday morning win.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Winning as I finally get around to preparing a feed.

Hopefully I'll get a chance in the morning to finish a couple of those outside jobs before the due wet gets here.

Cheers.

The horse would not like desert temps as high as 115F, all summer long we get 100-112 temps and very low humidity like 8%.

Ahhh, you are destroying my imaginations of the "Wild West" which I have seen in so many movies...

Just making a winning post,

Enjoying a healthy mix of sunshine and clouds. A pleasant breeze is included for free!

All with a busy Friday...

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Any thoughts?

Lots.....
Actual costs of moving - forget the "free" one, knowing the USA there will be all sorts of "not included" costs.
Building permit - depending on the exact zoning and situation of your current location there could be a cost there. And of course the price for the new location will have gone up in the last 20 or so years, I'd guess at least a four-fold increase, so probably nearer $1000.
Abstraction license for a well - annual or one off?
Environmental charges for a septic tank system - I know that in some places these are pretty high while in others they very low - you need to check.
Pumping the septic tank - a lot of more remote properties over here have them, and generally they have them pumped out every couple of years (normally due to the smell they make if the tank's ecosystem fails due to flood or drought)
Do the local stores deliver to the area?
How do the local shops fit your needs (parking lots, EV charging etc.)
How close are you to a doctor?
That bridge that down - would it be your total or partial responsibility to get it fixed?
Any "public transport" along the side road?

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Bob Smith
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Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

You missed one Rob. He lives in a medium to heavy seismic area.
The area my dad lives in has buried electrical service.

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Winning early on a Saturday morning.

Cheers.

Escaped! For healthy food and beer. And it's a beautiful sunny evening and it's... Friday!!

Had a worrying equipment failure during the afternoon... Something more than a spasm that a restart didn't clear... An hour later saw a bank of four connections cleaned up to restore power and data... That's a little worrying in that there should be no way for corrosion/oxidation to get in there...

Hey ho! I've been meaning to leapfrog away from that unit to something we have ready as a spare that has much more recent specs. And that is an awful lot cleaner!!!

The ongoing problem is when is least disruptive for the down-time...

All good fun!

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We got off the a foggy and slightly frosty 1C (felt like -1C) start here today with 15C being expected before things get damp again.

Anyhow I'll finish this coffee before I throw some firewood into Robbie the Robot and light him up to take the chill out of the air downstairs.

Cheers.

Almost 8 and still over 85f.
Not looking forward to next week. Sacramento is expecting 115f on Wednesday. And they have high humidity.

5:30 and 58f. on the road again.

Well the rain hasn't made it this far as yet, but we did reach 15C (felt like 11C) here today just as it clouded over.

Anyhow I think it's now time to prepare for tomorrow.

Cheers.

We have a turn of weather here also...

Still tropical warm so all good still!

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Winning on a blowy Sunday morning in the highlands.

Well that rain is on the radars now, it's just a day late in getting here.

Time for a coffee.

Cheers.

I fixed my bike's tires before lunch. Used rear tire off and swapped as front one. I took the time to scrape out the old, cheap self-adhesive rim tapes that they put on in bike repair shop; annoying glue crumbs. I replaced them with fitting high-pressure rim tapes from Continental, good stuff. Finally a new tire for the rear wheel; Specialized RoadSport, fits perfectly and mounts really well. First-class tire.

After lunch we picked up our daughter by car from a small village near the Polish border; she went there for a school friend's birthday party yesterday.

Then we drove half an hour to the lake district in the North of neighboring Saxony. All the lakes are leftovers from a century of lignite mining in open-cast mines. Sunshine, 30°C/86F, a few clouds at a weekend means: crowded beaches. Telling from car's license plates, a third of them came from Poland. So, we chilled on the beach with our kids all afternoon into the evening. The water was already fairly warm for the early summer... 20°C/68F, You could jump right in without fearing a cold shock.