Right … it’s officially Saturday: and I’m bored and frustrated!
Bored … as it’s the weekend.
I’ve been persistently trying to contact BT: to re-arrange my broadband connection.
I managed to contact them, yesterday.
To find that my original request hadn’t gone through, as they had me listed at the wrong address: Number one, instead of number two.
And that they would be contacting me this coming Friday, to give me a date for the upgrade.
That’s …
Frustrating.
Especially as it’s now the weekend: which means I have to wait until Monday, before I can chase this up!
Arrrgh!
~≈🛜≈~
The other frustrating thing … ?
My Mac’s seems to be stuck in a permanent bout of overheating: something seemingly caused — according to the bundled Activity Monitor app — by a process called corespotlightd.
As per suggestions on Apple’s Community Support pages, installing Macs Fan Controls seems to help deal with the temperature.
But is dealing with a symptom — the overheating — rather than the problem: which, as far as I can see, is how the Mac’s Spotlight feature deals with the location of Pages files.
I get the impression this is going to take a long time to solve …
~≈🥵≈~
Yesterday was sad: as the death of actor, Anthony Stewart Head: best remembered as Giles, in Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, as Uther Pendragon in Merlin, and from a series of coffee adverts, back in the day.
Apparently?
He died of complications of pneumonia, at the age of seventy-two.
It’s sad … especially as — from the little I know — the condition is eminently treatable … !
Which was Tuesday … and a day I had to make a couple of very long phone calls!
One … ?
Was to my electricity supplier: my smart meter’s having issues connect to the network, and to what’s called the in-home display, the little gadget that tells me how much money I’ve got left on the system.
An engineer’s turning up on Thursday: to have a look at the thing.
Hopefully, that will solve any issues: even though it means turning off the electricity for about twenty minutes.
The other call … ?
Was to my internet service provider.
I’m on a cheap tariff, as I’m in receipt of benefits.
But wanted to upgrade my tariff to the full fibre version.
I’ve still not got a definite date for that … but know I have to give them a call tomorrow afternoon: when the meter engineer is here.
And also found out the company had my correct address as my billing address … but had the flat next door listed as my residential address.
