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#2625205 22-Dec-2020 07:44

Last day of real work for the year.

I say real work as I'll still be checking emails and firing up the laptop as required over the break. Would love to have a proper disconnected holiday some day.

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#2625215 22-Dec-2020 08:27

Being able to release the ID verification without causing too much trouble.

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#2625223 22-Dec-2020 08:39

freitasm: Being able to release the ID verification without causing too much trouble.

Release it from what?!

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#2625271 22-Dec-2020 08:51

Geektastic:
freitasm: Being able to release the ID verification without causing too much trouble.

Release it from what?!

Self Isolation?

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#2625344 22-Dec-2020 10:06

freitasm: Being able to release the ID verification without causing too much trouble.

We'll be the judge of that! :)

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#2625466 22-Dec-2020 13:25

Amazon US who managed to get my new PC mouse to me in record time, Ordered it Thursday night and it just arrived now, 5 days later. I have had things from The Warehouse which have taken longer to arrive.

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#2625491 22-Dec-2020 14:29

vexxxboy:
Amazon US who managed to get my new PC mouse to me in record time, Ordered it Thursday night and it just arrived now, 5 days later. I have had things from The Warehouse which have taken longer to arrive.

I’ve had things take twice that long just to get here from Auckland!

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#2625624 22-Dec-2020 20:01

What The Macquarie Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms said a "geek" is.
Gee whiz.

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#2625720 23-Dec-2020 09:21

Fred99:

What The Macquarie Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms said a "geek" is.
Gee whiz.

Tell 'em they're dreamin'

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#2625881 23-Dec-2020 12:21

Who'da thought Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, and Marilyn Manson were geeks?

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#2626050 23-Dec-2020 21:45

Geektastic: Paying off the mortgage tomorrow.

Update: Just got the confirmation from the solicitors. It’s a bit of a state of normlessness not to have to pay rent or mortgage payments, which I’ve been doing for 30+ years.

Very strange. Nice. But strange.

I had a similar experience today. Renewed my mortgage, accepted the lowest fixed rate and dragged the repayment slider all the way to the right for the quickest result. What was supposed to be a 30 year mortgage could be paid off in a total of 20. Was originally split 50/50 floating+fixed but the floating balance is already very positive so no interest there.

That'll all change when we build a new garage however.

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#2626120 23-Dec-2020 22:56

MadEngineer:

Geektastic: Paying off the mortgage tomorrow.

Update: Just got the confirmation from the solicitors. It’s a bit of a state of normlessness not to have to pay rent or mortgage payments, which I’ve been doing for 30+ years.

Very strange. Nice. But strange.

I had a similar experience today. Renewed my mortgage, accepted the lowest fixed rate and dragged the repayment slider all the way to the right for the quickest result. What was supposed to be a 30 year mortgage could be paid off in a total of 20. Was originally split 50/50 floating+fixed but the floating balance is already very positive so no interest there.

That'll all change when we build a new garage however.

Yes; that is always the issue. We could use a large American barn type building but I suspect there would be little change from $100,000 by the time we finished doing that and having just repaid a prodigiously large sum to the bank I am enjoying not having to think about doing that again - for now, at least!