Jan 22

 Slightly better today, although it still looks like I've been in a fist fight.

Yesterday we had high winds and I threw open the windows to let the place air out. I seem to do better in the fresh air. Cold or not. So maybe that helped some. The window banged shut a few times during the wind, and marvellously I discovered that the window in question was slowly pushing itself out of the wall to eventually just flop on the ground, complete with crumbling mortar and plaster.

Wonderful.

Honestly. This house has so many structural bits wrong with it. We wont get into the enormous crack in the loft, the sagging rooves or the slow bending joist over the kitchen. I try not to think about it. It is anxiety inducing.

I pushed the window back in with a crunch. It seems ok enough. The window fitters all those years ago clearly did an excellent job with it. On that particular window they were more interested in the lead weights they had found in the existing window frame, and perhaps less interested in securing the new window to the wall properly.

Ho hum.

I do think the dude who sold me this house oh so many years ago, did a bit of a number on me. I think he covered up a lot of its problems and ran. That would explain why the back room at the time was curiously empty. Nothing in it. At all. An oddity in an otherwise filled house. The reason ? Dodgy joist. Which he had freshly decorated up.

Thanks for that buddy.

Eh well. It hasn't fallen over in 20 years so far. Perhaps it wont for another 20 and I will be dead by then.

It does however leave me with a sour taste in my mouth, that people, life, companies, in general, are happy to fuck you over and eat you alive if you let them. And me, being a happy go lucky laid back kind of person, is more than willing to let them do so. Our shitty world will devour you to your bones if you let it.

It's depressing. How about. Just. Do the goddamn right thing ? No ? No. Sigh.

Today I have spent half the day catching up with digital chores. Checking out domain names. Registrations et al. It's a shit show.

Google domains in the year since I kicked that all off have now decided to pack it all in and have sold all their shit over to squarespace.

Thanks for that Google.

This is why you can't trust any of the companies to actually stick with doing something. Microsoft. Apple. Google. You name it. Whenever they are trying to sell you tech, or tech related, be fully aware they have a habit of ditching stuff and running if it suits them. But they are never shy of selling you new shit. Caveat emptor. It's what makes planning strategically for IT stuff hard. You have to constantly filter the bullshit. You're selling me this, but, are you going to stick with it ? Rather stupidly I had thought google would stick around with domain services. It's up their street. Easy to do. And fits in nicely with their other bits of business gubbins. Stupid me. They've ditched it. Which does call into question why I'm bothering to pay for the rest of their business gubbins now, if it's no longer tightly integrated with the domain. Fuck it. I don't need it.

Well done business boys at Google. Another masterful plan.

I've also discovered today that one of my longer held domains quietly expired last year - due to bullshit transferral of domain from one company to another ( they sold up, got out ). And someone has now cybersquatted on the domain. It's of no interest to anyone else. But there is money to be made buying up domains and parking them. Fuckers.

So I've sorted that out today. Just ditched all referral to the old one. Got a new one. Made sure its auto renewing. But then. They all have been. But all this stuff start to go tits up when companies decide to stop what they're doing sell bits off, transfer responsibility. Shit like auto renewals get dumped.

It's a cluster fuck of ducking and diving, absolutely not what you want for something that you maybe want to interact with once a year at the very most, and in reality, probably once every few years.

Fucking useless.

And whilst we're there. Another domain is due for renewal in 5 days. With the new shitty company that lost me my old domain.

Yeah. No thank you.

To add insult to injury they want my payment details in order to renew. Like. Credit card details. Uh. Do I trust this butthole company with my financial details ? No I do not. I'd like to dump you as a manager please.

Ok they say.

That will be £12 in "admin fees". Fucking criminal. And more expensive than the renewal. So I'd be better off just renewing.

But I didn't. Fuck them. Fuck their shitty practices. So at more expense I have transferred out, and closed all my accounts with them.

Assholes.

This is why I hate doing paperwork. And bureaucracy. And bullshit. And this is digital stuff which by and large is wayyy better than non digital. Non digital just makes me want to throw myself off a bridge. Do you have this number ? That paperwork ? Where is your X certificate. No. No. And no fucking clue. I need them less than once every 10 years. Why on earth do you think I'd have that archaic wank ass bullshit piece of paper to prove to your shitty fucking dinosaur system I am who I say I am.

Sigh.

I can't wait for the AI takeover. I think I could tolerate being a slave, so long as you don't make me do shitty ass anachronistic paperwork. Somehow I can't see an AI doing that. Tattoo a QR code on your forehead maybe. Give you a dumb ass piece of paper to treasure like a dragon hoarding gold, not so much.