WC 1M Post Challenge - You Ready?!

[worldspy99]

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Happy New Year everyone!
Hope you have a great day today.

 

[Swapy]

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Happy new year everyone

 

[N_LaRUE]

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So I'm watching the Nokia 9 news and having a feeling that it'll be like the 8 Sirocco. I really hope they do expandable storage as companies are getting lazy with the 128GB fixed storage and nosebleed pricing.

Until it's released it's all up in the air though.

Still don't think I'd buy it anyway. Especially if it has that weird camera...

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Ok... So... I mentioned weren't planning to live in Versailles... Well we are for the first month. We were able to negotiate a good price on a nice place. We're still waiting to hear back about the house which we won't move into until March. That's if we get the place.

We just found out you can get a year pass for the palace and gardens, etc for 80 Euros for two people. That's pretty amazing.

Also the gardens are free from November to March. Looks like I'll be doing a lot of walking!

9 days until the move...

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Until it's released it's all up in the air though.

Still don't think I'd buy it anyway. Especially if it has that weird camera...

I'm not so much worried about the look of the camera. On the one hand, being an Android One program means HMD can talk about two years of OS updates and three year's worth security patches. On the other hand, it would have been more ballsy of them to do a 3+3 by keeping a small portfolio and offering the updates themselves. Outside of Essential (which offered crazy support for one phone for 18 months so far), no one is keeping pace with Pixels in terms of software updates.

While it's nice to see the things they've done, you're looking at a company that for three OS (Symbian, WP, and Android) have done the strategy of having a phone at every price point. If it didn't work the first two times, why is it going to work now?

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Ok... So... I mentioned weren't planning to live in Versailles... Well we are for the first month. We were able to negotiate a good price on a nice place. We're still waiting to hear back about the house which we won't move into until March. That's if we get the place.

We just found out you can get a year pass for the palace and gardens, etc for 80 Euros for two people. That's pretty amazing.

Also the gardens are free from November to March. Looks like I'll be doing a lot of walking!

9 days until the move...

Good luck with the living situation. Hopefully it all works out for you.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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I'm semi fishing for a Mate 10 (non pro version). We will see what happens.

 

[fatclue_98]

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Fired up the Touchpad for auld lang syne. Amazing this thing still works and fetches my email.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Fired up the Touchpad for auld lang syne. Amazing this thing still works and fetches my email.

Yeah, I miss mine as well. Especially when I got it to dual boot Android ICS and WebOS. I really liked WebOS. SMH.

 

[Laura Knotek]

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Ok... So... I mentioned weren't planning to live in Versailles... Well we are for the first month. We were able to negotiate a good price on a nice place. We're still waiting to hear back about the house which we won't move into until March. That's if we get the place.

We just found out you can get a year pass for the palace and gardens, etc for 80 Euros for two people. That's pretty amazing.

Also the gardens are free from November to March. Looks like I'll be doing a lot of walking!

9 days until the move...

Awesome! Good luck with the move and enjoy Versailles.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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I'm not so much worried about the look of the camera. On the one hand, being an Android One program means HMD can talk about two years of OS updates and three year's worth security patches. On the other hand, it would have been more ballsy of them to do a 3+3 by keeping a small portfolio and offering the updates themselves. Outside of Essential (which offered crazy support for one phone for 18 months so far), no one is keeping pace with Pixels in terms of software updates.

While it's nice to see the things they've done, you're looking at a company that for three OS (Symbian, WP, and Android) have done the strategy of having a phone at every price point. If it didn't work the first two times, why is it going to work now?

Nokia/HMD have the same problem that Sony has. They're just stuck in their ways.

Not sure why that keeps happening but it does and makes little sense.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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So just received an email. It appears we got the house!. The email is worded funny so we're confirming things but it looks like it's ours.

So that's a relief.

We don't get it until the beginning of March though.

Just need to sort out everything in between. Crazy times.

I'm thinking of getting small car to drive to work from the house. Thinking of a Smart car, reasonably cheap to buy and run. Won't need that until March though. I can get a bus to work from Versailles.

The people we're renting the house from told us it's better to drive into Paris than take the train. Not sure about that...

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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So just received an email. It appears we got the house!. The email is worded funny so we're confirming things but it looks like it's ours.

So that's a relief.

We don't get it until the beginning of March though.

Just need to sort out everything in between. Crazy times.

I'm thinking of getting small car to drive to work from the house. Thinking of a Smart car, reasonably cheap to buy and run. Won't need that until March though. I can get a bus to work from Versailles.

The people we're renting the house from told us it's better to drive into Paris than take the train. Not sure about that...

Congratulations. Hope it is a good fit for you and your commute is manageable.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Congratulations. Hope it is a good fit for you and your commute is manageable.

Thanks. The commute will be fine.

It suits us because of our cat. She likes having space and has gotten used to being outdoors on her own terms.

The house we're rent has a quarter acre so should be fine.

 

[libra89]

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Thanks. The commute will be fine.

It suits us because of our cat. She likes having space and has gotten used to being outdoors on her own terms.

The house we're rent has a quarter acre so should be fine.

Congrats!

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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There are a lot of people on edge here in NYC. One has to keep a sharp eye out for EDPs (emotionally disturbed person). It's such a fine line between an EDP and a regular angry person.

#citylife .

 

[fatclue_98]

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There are a lot of people on edge here in NYC. One has to keep a sharp eye out for EDPs (emotionally disturbed person). It's such a fine line between an EDP and a regular angry person.

#citylife .

I hear ya, all of a sudden raising Alpacas doesn't seem as crazy as it did the first time the missus mentioned it. I done told her not to twist my arm while holding out my pinkie.

 

[Sport Driver]

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A bit late but happy new year everyone

 

[N_LaRUE]

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So yeah, just to confirm. House is ours and we're meeting them once we move to the area to do the paperwork.

We have a small gap in our plans but we'll decide what to do about that once we're there.

Plans are to return to our house and do a trip to the house with a bunch of our stuff. Might as well make it ours as much as possible.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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So here's my schedule...

Cut lawn (approximately 2 acres)
Clear roof tiles off ground
Empty house for builders
Take up floor tiles
Fix drain
Fix guttering on shed

Get pants hemmed (this could be harder than you think)

On 7 Jan get residency
On 9 Jan take washing machine to storage
On 10 Jan drive to Versailles
On 11 Jan go food shopping/clothes shopping
On 12 Jan meet up with owners of house

On 13 Jan have a break from the madness

On 14 Jan start job

Beginning of March get house
First weekend return to house and get stuff
22nd March renew Aussie passport

So some time in there for some fun...

Not sure when we'll get the builders in but we plan to do that in the somewhere.