Honestly, I do get concerned about my partner’s drinking sometimes. I’d be a lot more worried if it happened more often, but he really doesn’t seem to have a lot of brakes once he does get started.

(And, as I have commented before, that also seems to be a major socially acceptable pressure release valve to the point that he can even talk much about what’s been bothering him. I have plenty of my own shit going on, but being wound that tight can’t be good for a person even without overdoing the booze to cope.)

And pub culture here really does not help with that. Thinking again with the extended pub crawl with people from work. After several hours with an open bar at that work dinner 😱

I don’t even want to bring it up unless it should turn into a more frequent thing. Which it hasn’t since we got together. But, he was in quite a shape getting home tonight.

spartanlocke:

justcuzelephants:

kremlint:

kremlint:

railroadsoftware:

railroadsoftware:

this was such a moment in time captured

an underrated part of this video is at 1:00 when someone off camera speaks complete gibberish

there are a billion things I love about this video. the kiss on the lips. the guy that picks up the cigarette immediately. fuck

the fact they’re all dressed like something that could be called prog slav

it’s back

iamnotlanuk:

pressxtodavid:

imaginedsoldier:

kremlint:

kremlint:

railroadsoftware:

railroadsoftware:

this was such a moment in time captured

an underrated part of this video is at 1:00 when someone off camera speaks complete gibberish

there are a billion things I love about this video. the kiss on the lips. the guy that picks up the cigarette immediately. fuck

the fact they’re all dressed like something that could be called prog slav

Every time I see this video I forget that they’re speaking English until the “come on then” partway through

This is real England

British Strong Style

clatterbane:

The good news: I finally figured out why the doorbell has been going off randomly multiple times a day and driving me up the wall. I forgot that Mr. C had accidentally unplugged the receiver Sunday, and that apparently messed up the pairing. Who knows what it was picking up on before I unplugged it, but it wasn’t our button unit which wasn’t ringing it at all when I tested. (Or any of the close neighbors’ bells, or I would have seen somebody outside another door at some point.)

The not so great news: Fixing that will have to wait until after Mr. C gets home after some office Christmas dinner thing. I’m hoping just pairing them again will do the trick, without having to yank the battery out of the button unit. (Which the manual wasn’t helping me get open…) But, that receiver is far enough from the front door that I need to either grow Plastic Man’s arms, or get someone else to push one of the buttons within the 10 second pairing window 😬

(I purposely got this new doorbell unit with multiple receivers, so I could put another one in the bedroom. That one kept picking up interference and going off inappropriately even with it paired properly, with no obvious way of choosing a different frequency. Which was aggravating enough. Now hoping we can at least get Receiver #1 up and running again, without it doing the same thing 😧)

The “after some office Christmas dinner thing” turned into “…and also an extended pub crawl afterwards with some people from work”. (On a Tuesday 🙄)

I kinda figured the delay was something like that, but I was starting to get a little impatient.

But anyway, he finally got home and that did fix the problem.

The good news: I finally figured out why the doorbell has been going off randomly multiple times a day and driving me up the wall. I forgot that Mr. C had accidentally unplugged the receiver Sunday, and that apparently messed up the pairing. Who knows what it was picking up on before I unplugged it, but it wasn’t our button unit which wasn’t ringing it at all when I tested. (Or any of the close neighbors’ bells, or I would have seen somebody outside another door at some point.)

The not so great news: Fixing that will have to wait until after Mr. C gets home after some office Christmas dinner thing. I’m hoping just pairing them again will do the trick, without having to yank the battery out of the button unit. (Which the manual wasn’t helping me get open…) But, that receiver is far enough from the front door that I need to either grow Plastic Man’s arms, or get someone else to push one of the buttons within the 10 second pairing window 😬

(I purposely got this new doorbell unit with multiple receivers, so I could put another one in the bedroom. That one kept picking up interference and going off inappropriately even with it paired properly, with no obvious way of choosing a different frequency. Which was aggravating enough. Now hoping we can at least get Receiver #1 up and running again, without it doing the same thing 😧)