And I have an estimate for the building work I need (and that which I want as well) doing to the house. I feel a bounce coming on. The main trouble will be when it can be done... what with being on call and holiday and Christmas etc.
So I have a man booked to start on the drive next week. The council will be giving me a quote to drop the kerb outside and charged me £35 for doing the quote!
So the second quote for a new driveway was £500 more than the first! Sadly the third guy isn't able to help me at all until after Christmas. I guess I'm going to go with the first guy then.
And might I say again how good I think is my current dentist? He is. I got a posh new pair of fillings yesterday; fluorosilicate glass in a mono/polymer matrix. Cool stuff. And white :o)
OK, I got a quote for a driveway last night. And I rather think it is way over the odds. Another bloke is coming tonight for another quote.
I'm getting a quote tonight for a drive being put in. *excited*
I'm trying not to get _too_ excited, but it looks like I may have a builder/plasterer/chippy. And maybe even as soon as the beginning of December!
I'll wait for a letter from the bloke who runs the business to see what's happening before I get too bouncy about it.
There's only so much SQL and associated Oracle gumph you need to know as a DBA in training, but this [0] course on CD takes it far enough for database programmers.
My braaane hurts. Remembering all the different silly date functions is merely irritating, but it'd be nice if I could get a proper explanation of when to use CASE and when to use DECODE. From the course notes, they appear to have pretty much the exact same IF-THEN-ELSE functionality. Oh and don't get me started on GROUPING. I think I need a break and a review of the earlier, easier stuff before I go over GROUPING again. And I'm not sure that I dare tackle iSQLPlus reporting until I'm happy I can score well into the 90%s on _all_ of what I've done so far and not just a reasonable amount of it.
[0] - really really badly put together course with testing modules that wig out on various key combinations and think you're done answering when you're still in the middle of typing something, and thus marks the answer wrong. And the _voice_. Gnngh.
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Well. That was pretty untraumatic. I'm still a bit shaky, but that's 'cause the adrenaline is still pumping a bit. However, it wouldn't even register on the scale of horridness of wisdom teeth extraction. Not even a blip.
Tomorrow, I go for root canal work at the dentist. Nothing too scary there in this day and age, you might think. But given what happened last time I had more than just a filling at the dentist... almost 2 weeks off work and a trip to A&E in excruciating pain with an infection that was eating away at my jaw bone, blood pressure through the roof and my pulse on overdrive. I ended up with 2 different sorts of painkiller and 2 lots of anti-biotics. Reckon I have good cause to fear the dentist? To be honest, I'm scared shitless. Pass the gas, nurse!
