Things you've recently failed at (a "let's be humble thread"!)

Life

Parenting...apparently all normal and standard, but I'm not convinced of that...

Gym was closed,I hadn't read the email.

I've just installed a bathroom, so the list is extensive, including:

*Accurate measuring
*Wiring
*Plumbing
*Design

I've just built a modest row of houses in Macclesfield, but I think I got the layout wrong.

Getting half of my bike wheels to hold air tubeless.

I’ve just built a modest row of houses in Macclesfield, but I think I got the layout wrong.

I think you got the price wrong too 😉

Getting half of my bike wheels to hold air tubeless.

Top or bottom half of the wheel? Not as useful as getting the left or right side to hold air...

Failed to patch a latex inner tube effectively. By which it would be nice if it still held rather than leaked air.

Not gaining weight across the months coming into Christmas (~5kg up) 🙁
Not catching Covid just before Christmas, may/may not be well enough to see people this weekend.
Training reactivity out of my dog, she seems to be going backwards at the moment.
I'm sure there are plenty of others.

Triple ladder storage idea; it worked in my wildest imagination

Adopting a puppy 🙁

@toby1 are you me?

Plan to be at a weight starting with 12st.....in Dec and weighed in at 13st10. Plan not to catch Covid for Christmas and wife tested positive yesterday so it is only a matter of time.

Things you’ve recently failed at (a “let’s be humble brag thread”!)

lmftfy

I failed at getting my testicles checked at GP. Was so worried that they would migrate north prior to inspection that I drove to GP with hot water bottle between my legs. When I dropped my pants for inspection, GP was more concerned about the red rash / burn on my inner thighs than he was about my balls.

Things you’ve recently failed at (a “let’s be humble brag thread”!)

eh.....

DrP

The exercise 100 days to Christmas challenge 😔. I started full of enthusiasm and determination, lasted about a fortnight. Pathetic, I am ashamed. I am still exercising, 3 or 4 days a week, so I haven't completely vegged out, but going from that to every single day is tough when life and circumstances conspire against you.

Tumble dryer packed in. I took the lid off, saw how much space there wasn't inside and how much I'd have to disassemble, went "yeah... no" and put it away again.

Chess.

Started playing this year thinking I'd be OK at it (to be fair with absolutely no justification at all other than having played a few games with my granddad 35ish years ago), and a few months in am starting to realise I'm one of the 400/500 ELO players they make "let's laugh at the noobs" videos about on that there Youtube.

Things you’ve recently failed at

I'm not sure we've got that kind of time.... 

I even used a spirit level. FFS.
I am going to have to straighten that this weekend.

Gym was closed,I hadn’t read the email

Bastards, the lot of you.

Not gaining weight across the months coming into Christmas (~5kg up)

Oh yes - genuinely had a plan in September to lose 10kg, and only 11.8kg to go as of this morning.

Things you’ve recently failed at (a “let’s be humble thread”!)

Things you’ve recently failed at (a “let’s be humble brag thread”!)

lmftfy

Understanding the thread title?

Edit: For me, losing weight instead of gaining weight. Riding my bike more. Need to have a think, there's a lot more!

I even used a spirit level. FFS.
I am going to have to straighten that this weekend.

Careful now, it might turn out the house is on the wonk, and then you'll have a big job on and no mistake.

Sometimes it's better just not to know.

Fitting a garage door
Now , I'm not a garage door fitter by trade but in my usual going off half cocked with a laisse fairre attitude to health and safety I thought I'd give it a go.
Woodwork purchase and painted , fitting purchased and enough knowledge to secure wood to garage opening.
Removed old garage door without removing my eyes from their sockets, or being trapped under a big white square of metal like an unturned ladybird unable to extracate myself
Fitted new wooden frame, all good , square and everything
Got new to me door and runners
Fitted runners , fitted spring assembly bar.
Then it all started to fall apart.

My free garage door is designed for electric opening. I don't have an electric opener.

The runners are different , so I sorta bodged it in.

Watching YouTube videos taught me how to tension the cables , again , without removing my eyes from their sockets. Except I had one cable running in the other direction which took me a considerable bit of head scratching to figure out

eh…..

the humble

Things you’ve recently failed at

and the brag

I’ve been doing up a VW beetle (got it free..MOT failure) and got the roof/locks/suspension working, and it’s passed the MOT just fine.

We're getting rid of our static van. Thought about dismantling the veranda and re-using at home. Had a good look underneath at the construction and its all nailed together by nail guns. Nope. Leaving it.

I didn't see it as a humble brag. He did do a bloody awful job of those wing mirrors!

100 days of exercise, last week life just got in the way

losing weight - lost a bit but still eating and drinking like Henry VIII

Finishing the holiday let- 3 years in, totally skint, still the outside to do

parenting

riding bikes

running

Being good at my job

keeping the shed tidy

owning a boat (about to sink, not sure how im going to get it off the water)

other than that things are going swimmingly - except swimming

Ok
So the door is in the hole , more tension on the spring to aid lifting. The runners are square , the top bar is square. The door isn't square in the opening.
Bullocks.
Door still won't open or stay open so I wind more and more tension into the spring being accutely aware of the kinetic energy involved and my liking for my eyes being operational.
After many attempts the door opens halfway but as the runners don't have reventments to hold it open it drops down stealthy, so you walk into it and smash your forehead into the lip.

And when it's closed it doesn't sit vertically.
It's an inch further out and the bottom. And this makes me cross , mostly because I can't for the life of me figure out why it's hanging on an angle.

The runners I cam bodge With a wafer head screw , which should offer enough resistance to the nylon rollers , and maybe more spring tension .

2 full days it took me to not fit an opening garage door correctly. Winner.

Bought new XT brake levers. Fitted them. Filled them. Forgot to remove pads and push pistons back first.

Its a 2 min job to fix but, well , you know. Schoolboy error.

Getting a baby to sleep somewhere that isn’t attached to me at all times.

Getting said baby to swallow milk without litres of air which are then expelled out of both ends with force, clearing north and south passages of any previous milk meals as they go…

Recent actual failures:

1) Replacing a spoke on one of my own wheels. A double failure really as I'm very proud of my wheel building and use good quality parts, so have taken it quite personally that a spoke snapped with no outward intervention. Oh yeah, and made a pig's ear of replacing it which has effectively required me to undo all spokes and re-tension whole wheel, which is still sitting on the kitchen table half finished, much to wife's annoyance 😂

2) Home made pizzas. Blood boiling levels of frustration trying to get dough at right consistency just so I can roll it out into a semblance of a pizza shape. Wife manages fine but only by coating them in what feels like half a centimetre of flour on either side. Would rather just go to the Co-op and buy one every time.

3) General life. Heavier, weaker and stressier. But that's probably not specific nor recent enough 🙄

tubeless is a fail for me, and i keep getting punctures in the front
also tinted the car windows, it does the job but looks s**t

Feeding the hedgehog/s, i stopped feeding them in the house, so left food outside, but the cats and rat eat it, so built a thing to put food in. Cat could get it though, some baffles stopped that but a rat got in. So I put swinging door, like a catflap on.Still the food is eaten but no sign of the hedgehogs.
Last night I got 40 videos of a mouse going in and out, it must be stashing it somewhere and selling to the local cats.And one of the local cat prowling
No idea what to do next

As with @13thfloormonk above, I failed the middle-class test of heroic pizza ovening. Massive fire of dough and bunt cheese.

Failed to tie dye a shirt effectively because I ignored the warnings on polyester. Would have been spectacular had it not all washed out.

Laying a patio. It's not bad, it just doesn't exist yet. All the flags are stacked up at the side of the house and have been since about May.

Being foster carers - he's leaving us in mid-January and we need to take a break to re-evaluate whether we can do it again.

I needed to replace the cable on the dropper, and I thought I'd fit the seat-post mounted mudguard at the same time. Cable installed, all neat; seat post back in, all works fine, turned around to start tidying up...There's the mudguard waiting to be fitted.

All the flags are stacked up at the side of the house and have been since about May

Amateur - been 10yrs since I purchased some garage floor paint..

Thought I would check I'd tightened the rear rotor properly whilst out on a ride, stopping at the bottom of a steep hill.

I've now got blisters on three fingertips.

Fitted new brake hose to internally routed frame. Managed the routing but failed in getting it back through the foam tube which prevents rattling. Given how soft it is, I struggle to see how it's doable, but it must be.

My gear cable gorilla tape bodge obviously wasn't precise enough. First world problems of course.

Got back from my Daughter's football training last Friday with armfuls of kit & shopping that we stopped on the way home to get.
Sort everything out. Fine.

Get up on Sat morning to take her to a game. Cannot find the car key. Look everywhere that it could possible & impossibly be. No sign anywhere. Check all the ridiculous locations. Nope. Ask Wife & Daughter about 100 times whether they have seen it anywhere. Go through bins. Nope.

It's just gone. Vanished. The car was locked, so I know we had it when I got home. But where that key is now!? No idea.
Luckily I have a spare, but buying a replacement is looking like it will be a pricey affair, which will inevitably lead to me finding the lost one.

I failed to let my pizza cool sufficiently before ramming it in my greedy face.  You would think by my late 40s I know hot cheese straight out of the oven will burn.  But apparently not.

so I can roll it out into a semblance of a pizza shape

Roll?

That's the biggest fail on here so far 😉

😂

Got back from my Daughter’s football training last Friday with armfuls of kit & shopping that we stopped on the way home to get.
Sort everything out. Fine.

Get up on Sat morning to take her to a game. Cannot find the car key. Look everywhere that it could possible & impossibly be. No sign anywhere. Check all the ridiculous locations. Nope. Ask Wife & Daughter about 100 times whether they have seen it anywhere. Go through bins. Nope.

It’s just gone. Vanished. The car was locked, so I know we had it when I got home. But where that key is now!? No idea.
Luckily I have a spare, but buying a replacement is looking like it will be a pricey affair, which will inevitably lead to me finding the lost one.

I was fully expecting you to say that it was found in the washing machine.

Motivation for anything

Indexing my gears after fitting a new inner cable. In fact, I fail every time I do it.

The APM PMQ (Project Management) exam back in April. The passmark was 55%, I got 45%

Fitting tubeless tyres. Recently had to replace tubeless tyres on both my mountain bike and my road bike.
I actually tried the mountain bike but the bead wouldn't pop into place and I don't have a compressor with high enough flow. Had to get my LBS to do it for me using their compressor.
Then, when my road bike needed a new tyre, I just took the wheel into the LBS and got them to fit it cos my road wheels must be ever so slightly too large a diameter (every single tyre on these rims is a MAJOR fight to fit). Anyway, even the LBS struggled so I'm kinda justified getting them to do it. Of course, if I do puncture, that's gonna be a taxi ride to get me home cos there's no way that tyre is coming off at the side of the road.

Fixing the leaking tap in the kitchen. It is leaking from a different spot now. Does that count as a win?

I’ve just built a modest row of houses in Macclesfield, but I think I got the layout wrong.

Lawn needs more lawn too

My job. Spent a year not really achieving anything, then resigned.

Ditto job, took 18 months to realise though.....I'm a slow learner. 😀

I have failed once again at sorting my paperwo0rk out.  Two letters need to be replied to to give me some money.  I just keep on putting it off

My job. Had a chat with my boss last week and I'm not up to scratch. I had a double promotion into a completely new field 2.5 years ago. I'm good managing people, headcount turnover is nonexistent and no one is asking for more cash. I'm good with clients, always positive feedback. I'm good with the tech team and and ok at delivering on time & in budget (I'm ex-tech staff).

But I'm bloody shit at the next level, transform the business stuff. I'm always on the back foot, struggling to keep up. And that's the main part of my job.

So I'm moving sideways back into tech to support a failing department with the skills I do have.

Feel kinda blue, and also relieved tbh. The stress has been tough at times, so will be nice to be back in a relative comfort zone.

Oh yes – genuinely had a plan in September to lose 10kg, and only 11.8kg to go as of this morning.

Think positive.

You'll really get your moneys worth in the crematorium oven.

Selling specialist screws.

And taking my family on holiday…

We’ve just returned from a week long camping holiday that involved half a day packing, half a day driving, blowing up the turbo on our car 30 minutes from the campground. Getting trailered to the nearest town, a motel for the night in a room next to a Würth representative (IFYKYK), waiting half a day for another tow truck, getting rained on and then spending the other half of the day being trailered home.

I mean it was an adventure I guess…

IdleJon

I was fully expecting you to say that it was found in the washing machine.

Unbelievable.
It's bin day tomorrow so decided to through the bin bag from top to bottom and found it!!
Woohoo! That's £250 at least saved!!!

My spare PS4 controller had a bit of "drift" in the left thumbstick (it thinks you're pushing forward when you're not).  I gave it a bit of a clean/lube but it still did it, so I thought I'd take it apart to have a better look at it, and better access for cleaning (I'm fairly techy so didn't think it'd be a problem).

There was a ribbon cable to remove which came off easily, however when reassembling I just couldn't get it to reattach, I eventually ham-fistedly bent some of the incredibly delicate pins.

After watching a vid, it seems the plug should stay attached to the pins and the cable pulls out of the plug - I've never seen that before... D'oh!

It does beg the question, if it's supposed to work that way, why isn't the plug glued to the pins...

Ah well, a controller that didn't work very well, now doesn't work at all - not the end of the world.

EDIT: Shown here at about 2m20s, the white plug stays attached to the board, not the cable...

Cracking nuts over the bin I’ve just let a good chunk of walnut slip through my fingers 😭