UK Watercooler Conversation 5: TOmorrow Sometimes Knows

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Happy New Year!

Hi all! I figured a new thread for 2006 would be the way forward - I assume you're all back to work today? I am, it's rubbish - I think it'll take a day or two to get back into the swing of things.

Did Santa bring you what you wanted, or did you wake up christmas mornign covered in coal? Or did you WANT coal for christmas?

And how was your new year - did you have a good one? Quiet gathering at my place for new year - we chilled out, played Mario kart, then at midnight watched the mad fireworks from London on the telly while sipping cheap fizzy wine.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

Typo in the title - terrific. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

back to 22,000 unread emails... feeling sleepy...

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

right now I'm glad I came in work last week, as it's pretty much as I left it from Friday, ie quiet and not busy.

spent my christmas in nyc, it was marvellous. a truly excellent city. i want to go back sometime this year as there was so much i never got around to doing and i want to do it all while its all so fresh in my mind.

happy new year too!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

MArio Kart is the best thing in the world ever. Christmas was good - New Years was not - one of my uncles eloped to Scotland to get married to somebody he's known for about two months and let's just say that both of them like a drink or sixteen (plus, I think it's bad form to disappear to get married without telling your children). Then my sister got all upset because her 2006 is going to suck as much as 2005 (she has an incurable condition which leaves her arm feeling like it's got red-hot knives poking into it. All the time. Fuck Intelligent Design in the eye).

But! We're happier now, and I'm back at work, hiding in the office on my first day as The Guy In Charge (eeek!). I haven't actually seen anybody today, so I might get away with fiddling with Active Directory Perl scripts all day if I'm lucky...

― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hello all, I'm back at work now! What a wonderful and relaxing two weeks I had off, and now I am counting down the hours until I get all wound up again. I've barely glanced at my inbox, ooh, errr.

My newest discovery is... the Streatham Lidl! What on EARTH is that shop about? It is either terrifying or the best thing ever. I've got weird Greek herbal toothpaste and sicilian lemon juice and a map of Europe for £2.49 and SAINT CLAIR port which I had to have, even though I don't like port, just for its name. Ooh, and a big book of Steam Engines (Captain Anderson would sooo disapprove).

My New Year was great - the transport strike provided me with a convenient excuse NOT TO DO A BLOODY THING, so I stayed in my lovely new flat (with my orange table and my fuchsia cushions) and made a giant curry (Saag Paneer actually works really well with Sprussels Brouts instead of spinach), drank my Tio Nico sherry and watched ALL SIX HOURS of To The Ends Of The Earth. My mania for Captain Anderson is very much restored, oh joy. On New Year's Day, I wrote 10,000 words more of my story. Oh yes.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, what sort of Steam Engines is it a Big Book of?

My New Year was rubbish - I was asleep in bed with an awful cold. Which, of course, disappears as soon as it's time to come back to work.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

(but, Kate, you'll be pleased to hear that I've finally started reading To The Ends Of The Earth, about three months after buying a copy.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

It is the AA Big Book of Steam Engines, which actually proposes working steam engine routes which you can go and visit and ride on! Hurrah! But this needs a new thread, which I will start now.

I am glad to hear you finished TTEOTE. I speed-read most of it again over the past week, trying to fact-check bits for my ha-HEM story.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Only started, not finished. I am up to Chapter ? in Rites Of Passage, I think.

(for people who have not read the book: yes, I know where I am: it really does have a Chapter ?)

A ha-HEM story? You're not writing Captain Anderson slashfic, are you?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I misread. Blimey, get with it, Forest! I think it does indeed have a chapter ? and a chapter X - it has lots of chapters but Talbot cannot be bothered to number all of them.

And no, it is not slash. It is just a continuation of the story. I was so desperate to know what happened to the Captain after he left Sidney Cove and returned to England, that I ended up having to write it myself.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

The Lidl Shop Of Horrors

Ha ha ha why haven't I thought of this pun myself?? :D

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

I am becoming obsessed with Lidl.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

i live right next to a lidl, I hate it. the vacuum cleaner i bought from there broke within a few months.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

They built a new lidl near us just before christmas. Presumably connected with it was the new traffic light they pout just outside it, that I didn't notice & went through on red between xmas & new year argh.

I haven't been in. We are loyal to Aldi.

(x-post a vacuum cleaner writes - they always do break within a few months, or most usually just out of warranty)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

I would most certainly not get a hoover at Lidl! I'm not even sure I trust the food for eating. But the book was great, as was my map of Europe (I'm not sure how accurate it is, but all of the names of all of the cities are in their native tongue, which is a bit confusing.)

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Well hello guys & gals!

Lidl is just awful!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

No it's not, it's bizarrely great.

How does it work? Is it bin ends and rejects and buyouts of stuff that has gone bad, like Crazy Eddie? Or is it just bizarre European brands that I've never seen before becuase I've not been to Greece.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry to break the lidl love in, but they seem a nasty crew to me:

The super-low prices of Europe’s answer to Wal-Mart come at a cost: the rights, wages and dignity of the company’s workforce. . . .

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/KYE/x-kye-Mar2005.htm

(I wouldn't shop there cos I can only imagine the rubbish that goes into things from there, but some of you lefty-types might want to know stuff like this.)

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

JB, it was you who alerted me to its very existence!

(Or, actually, maybe that was Ed and Rob.)

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

actually they do great bargains on sea fishing lures and tackle combo boxes. shame i stopped fishing two years ago mind.

i've never had the food myself but my sister says its dreadful.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

I wasn't tempted by the food AT. ALL. Unless it was stuff they couldn't ruin, like honey and nuts and things in tins. Their coleslaw gave me TEH PH34R!!!

MMM, nummy sag paneer for lunch today, leftovers from New Years. Except I ran out of Sag so I used Sprussels Brouts instead, and they are v. v. v. nummy.

Apparently the MD hates the smell of curry, but you know what? I hate the smell of cigar smoke, so we're even. Hah!

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

I can't imagine why anyone would dislike the smell of curry. Aparently our house always smells of curry from me and my cooking.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

God, I want sherry.

This is the first day in weeks I haven't had any and I'm really craving it.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Hello! Happy new year.

I've been reading my past 3 weeks' emails all morning and I still haven't finished. Came back to work to a new boss, which is interesting. He's only in part time. Apart from that, hardly seems like I've had a holiday at all.

How's everyone? I can't be bothered reading old threads to find out, so what's news?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hello, Beanz, glad you're back!

How far back do you want us to go with the new, though? I mean, you know I've bought a house and Pink is having a baby, right? ;-)

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hey I wasn't away that long. Um... I dunno, I 'll pick it up I guess :)

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think much happened over the past two weeks, to be honest. Or, at least, well, I wasn't here for them either. Would you like a glass of sherry?

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yes I would, very much.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

I've got Harveys Bristol Creme Sherry and Tio Nico dry sherry waiting for me at home.

::drools::

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

I've got sod all waiting for me as I'm on my January diet. I reckon if I can keep it up properly it needn't last longer than 6 weeks.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

::shrieks with horror::

NEVER SAY DIET!!!

Ok, I'm trying to avoid obvious things like chocolate because the were a fright yesterday, but I hate the very idea of dieting.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, why can I find pages of interweb about what Regency ladies wore under their gowns, but next to nothing about what Regency gents wore under their Unmentionables? It just isn't fair. Sigh.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I think Kate's got the right idea - the "No Cakes, Chocolate or Pie Diet" (copyright Johnny B) seems to work remarkably well for a lot of people. xpost

BECAUSE REGENCY GENTS DIDN'T WEAR ANYTHING OMGLOL!!!1111!!ROFFLE

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it works for you BECAUSE YOU ARE NATURALLY HOLLOW LEGGED AND BEANPOLED!!! However, I've just accepted that I'm plump and given up.

Actually, you are wrong! Drawers were invented during the Regency Period! So hah! However, because Captain Anderson was an old fashioned type (as evidenced by the fact that he wore his hair long, rather than in the short style, and because his uniform was somewhat out of date) he probably WENT COMMANDO!!!

Though I suspect he'd be cold, down by Antarctica...

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently i should be putting on a pound a week! It's so hard to get out of the !freaking out about my weight! mindset!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Pink, it's the best excuse in the world. Indulge all your cravings.

Except the sherry, of course.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, there's a scene in TTEOTE where Captain Anderson drinks a glass of sherry, and I think that is just about my idea of perfect heaven right now... mmmmmm...

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

I started off doing that Kate, know I'm slightly concerned about how much weight I will gain! I will try to take a picture of my growing belly!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

I should start another thead for this, but I can't be bothered:

Mentally ill to be sent to short breaks in hotels on the NHS, according the Guardian

Hurrah! yes! This is the best idea, ever! Make mine the Dorchester, please!

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Cool! I'll have a week in New York please :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

liek, hi n stuf

― snowkitten (g-kit), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

morning

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. I'm going to the world cup in June! England v Paraguay in Frankfurt.

[This isn't a post about sport, in case Kate objects, it's a post about Travel.]

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

My housemate's going to the world cup in June (in his ambulance, for those who are aware of such things). There's him and 3 mates going (I wasn't invited, sob) and according to routemaster it'll cost £640 travel assuming that England reach the finals - which divided by 4 is an awful lot cheaper than flying+accomodation.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea how I'm going to afford it.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Grrrrrr....

Except I don't feel like growling this morning, because I'm in too good a mood. So instead I'll have Captain Anderson shout at you:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/JaredHarrisPhotoGallery/TV%20Series/The%20Ends%20of%20the%20Earth/bvgold02.jpg
"BY CHRIST!!! NO FOOTBALL ON THE QUARTERDECK OR I'LL HAVE YOU ALL FLOGGED AT THE GRATING IF I CHOOSE, SIR, OR PUT IN IRONS IF I CHOOSE, SIR, SOD YOU, YOU SODDING BY-BLOWS!!!"

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

TRAVEL NOT FOOTBALL TRAVEL TRAVEL TRAVEL TRAVEL TRAVEL so ner.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/JaredHarrisPhotoGallery/TV%20Series/The%20Ends%20of%20the%20Earth/bvgold02.jpg

DO YOU NOT KNOW THE POWERS OF A CAPTAIN UPON HIS OWN THREAD?!?!??! IF I SAY IT'S FOOTBALL, IT'S FOOTBALL, BY CHRIST, YOU IGNORANT FOOL, DO YOU THINK A CAPTAIN OF THE LINE KNOWS NOT TRAVEL WHEN HE HEARS IT? STUFF AND NONSENSE, I SAY, SIR, STUFF AND NONSENSE!!!

― Captain Anderson's Infamous Roar (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

Happy new year everyone! I had an extra day off because the university likes to stay closed as long as humanly possible, woo.

My new year was the most dismal yet I think - I was at the in-laws, Matt fell asleep at 10pm to the badly hidden dismay of his mother, then I got violently ill all of a sudden and spent midnight throwing up. Lovely.

Moving on Saturday!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, I am sorry for your horrible New Year. But moving? Hurrah! New flat!! Garden! I'm so excited for you.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ok it's a fair cop xxpost

Archel, a shitty new year's eve = a good year. It's the rules.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Unless of course you travel to the World Cup by SHIP or STEAM ENGINE in which case, you are perfectly on topic. ;-)

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like it WILL be a good year, come to think of it. Last year was so great and also so awful, I'm ready to just be quiet and contented. I couldn't even think of any new year resolutions, I'm so happy with the way things are going! (I gave up making health/fitness-related ones a long time ago since I know I will never keep them and it only adds to the ever present guilt.)

I'm going to Germany in June but to be a cuckoo-clock-buying tourist in Bavaria, not for the World Cup.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

Urgh - I had a really good NYE (an unusual event). 2006 had better not let me down!

Archel, you're not going at the same time as the footie, are you? That could be unpleasant.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

I could hardly imagine anything more unpleasant.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, first week of June. We're hiding out in a log cabin in the forest.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, that sounds lovely, actually.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

My mother has gone insane - she's trying to convince me to buy a house to let in Chapel Hill, NC.And this satsuma is looking a little manky. But! I fixed a big networking problem this morning and I still haven't blown anything up. So today is going fairly well, even with pesky kids running around the place again...

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning all. I have forgotten everything I was doing before Christmas, and now I have absolutely no recollection or idea of what I should be working on. Oops. The beauty of the situation is that I thought I had been very clever and written down everything I needed to know for when I came back to work, but it turns out I actually only *thought* about doing this.

Also, the air conditioning is broken and I am dehydrating rapidly.

Good news though, I am finally moving to a desk with a window seat! Hurrah!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah for TISSP!'s return!

A window seat, though? What use have you for the interweb with the wide world of WINDOW before you? Of what is your magnificent new view?

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

I have come back to workmen in the office. I don't know what they're doing but it involves lots of copper piping and is very distracting. So I can't remember what I have to do either, except enormous amounts of photocopying which I am doing on PINK paper and it's making me happy.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps the workmen are watercooling your office? That's the only thing my drink-addled brain can think of involving copper pipes at the moment...

My view, admittedly, is largely of the car park. But I feel so much better when there is natural light. Stops me getting moody and hitting people.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

I had to change my hours to get some natural light in the morning. Bah.

However, my Godmum was telling me about natural light things you can get to stick on your desk to relieve the SAD.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

I was up last night playing w/my synthesisers. I looked at the little clock display in the corner of the computer screen, and it said 2.30! I'm fucked, urgh. I was in "the zone".

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey. I did that on Monday night, but I was writing smut.

The story has reached its climax (heh heh, I said climax)! All secrets are unmasked! Including the Captain's Deep Dark Secret!!! (oh no!)

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

I've looked into the SAD lamps, but they are very expensive, and also, I don't want to admit I am weak and have a problem ;)

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Well, personally I find smut better than SAD lamps, but still.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hard to get away with pinning smut all over your desk at work, though...

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

I am lucky in that my smut is perfectly safe for work! I have smut on my Oracle machine desktop.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Er, how so?

(I'm going to regret this, I'm sure)

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's just a picture of Captain Anderson looking all brooding and sullen, projecting his minatory jaw. It makes me very happy to look at, as the smut is all in my head.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

Why, this is the very one:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/totheendsoftheearth/images/photogallery/340x255/anderson.jpg

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

Is it time for some coffee yet?

I'd practically got out of the habit while I was off work. I was down to a mere two cups of tea a day. But now I find myself craving it because of the situation. It's hard to program without coffee.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's too hot in here for coffee! Do you know how that makes me feel?? DO YOU?!?!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's never too hot for coffee.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

I have a similar problem with tea+ programming, although I would never want to give up tea. I bought some tasty organic Darjeeling from Oxfam yesterday - super-yum!

If only Tea++ was a programming language. It would be super-complex, great fun, but practicly useless.

It's very hot in here as well. I've got my fan on my desk keeping me cool tho, so I'm not in such a dire predicament, obv.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

If only Tea++ was a programming language. It would be super-complex, great fun, but practicly useless.

[Insert your own programming language joke here]

I also have a fan on my desk, but it is beat up and useless, and sounds like a rattling jet engine even on the lowest setting.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

I bought Lord Nelson Grunner Tea from Lidl the other day. :-)

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

I bought Tetley Decaf yesterday.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

DECAFF?!??!?! An abomination, truly.

What were you thinking, sir??!?

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

I don't trust decaf. I always imagine it being either tea minus taste or not tea at all.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Tea? It's lunchtime!

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Why should one not drink tea at luncheon?

Though I have not had mine luncheon yet, and am drinking chococcino, mmmmmm.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

See, I wasn't hungry before, but I am now. I need to go to tescos and buy bits for the curry anyway.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Soup for me I think. From pret, so it'll be overpriced but tasty. I am struggling with the moral and nutritional value of a hunk of white baguette with said soup.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Bloody dieters! ;-)

I am really now wrestling with the idea of putting my bills in the name of a fictional character. You know, as an experiment. Not like it would be proper identity theft or anything, as Captain Anderson is not a real person.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

iirc, Howard Marks got a driving license in the name of Elvis Presley at the height of his 'career'.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, £421.75 that I am chasing furiously, WHY WILL YOU NOT RECCONCILE?!?!?

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Snatch probe! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4579842.stm

My lunch was icky. Weird mushroom risotto from a sandwich shop on Lower Regent St. Eurgh.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, I will thank you NOT to remind me of PAP smears and the like.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I had FINALLY got my data to balance, and then it moved again. BAH!

I'm not rerunning it. It just has to stay like that.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

The decaf was for my laydee, not me. I will stick with my coffee I think.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Now I'm going to have tea. Just so you know. Thought you should be kept up to speed.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to have lunch now. Just so you know! The last of the gorgeous New Years brout paneer. I may be taking my life in my hands, but curry is a preservative, is it not?

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I have just had lunch, so y'all know. It was a bizarre fish pie thing. It was too hot. I nuked the fuck out of it.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Aha! I have fixed my fan! I am cool again (ho ho)!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

My curry is now warmed and in the process of being devoured.

However, I came out of the kitchen carrying a stinky, steamy pile of curry and walked straight into the hott Boris Johnson lookylike. Oh no!

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

At least you have an excuse, rather than just smelling of curry anyway...

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe he will think I am a good cook, which he might consider attractive, seeing as how he's a banker and they all have big bellies, or are working on them.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

I feel left out now so: I had red pepper and sweetcorn soup for lunch.

Still haven't finished the pink photocopying.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey, how much do you have to photocopy?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

That's a lot of pink photocopying!

Soon, all of the papers on my desk will be Goldenrod, as I've been spilling curry everywhere and the turmeric is staining it.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Though why you need to photocopy Pink, seeing as she is currently replicating herself, I do not know!

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

300 course leaflets! I would rather have 300 Pinks, of course.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Technically I have finished copying them and am now folding them in half. I love my job.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

An Army of Pink... I wish I had photoshop here... ;-)

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I'm going to do this rec ONE MORE TIME...

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Urgh. Afternoon lull. I really wish I could just go and take a nap.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, what's so gruesome? The data here is rubbish (seeing as we're looking after people's electric, that's really not a good thing) but at least it doesn't dart around like a salamander.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

i am teh bored.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I feel sleeeeepy.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Yo! What up dudes? An army of me is indeed a scary thought! I am soooooooooooooooo busy today, (as you can see) that my lunch consisted of 2 pieces of toast at 3 o/c! :-(
My stupid car is broken AGAIN!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

There was a whole bunch of data which was imported into our new system from Querix, and it was just a mess. There were all kinds of records with null dates, or 01/01/1900 dates, and records were assigned to the wrong consultant, or this fresh hell, the wrong team, which threw off the subtotals (and also the subreports) and it was just awful.

Fortunately, I have now amended them all, by hand, and I have rerun the report and it still matches the data dump. Phew!

I only have to do this once a month. (And hopefully I shall never have to do it again, since there will be no more Oracle records being imported.) But still. I'm glad I didn't just decide to leave it, as I thought I might do last night at 7pm!

Things move because it's live data, and (apart from the gruesomeness described above) every time a case completes, it adds to the totals. And things can complete retrospectively, as they often do in mortgages - we can find out today that a case completed last week, which means that the December totals are now off again.

x-post, HOLA, PINK!

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, Querix (yes, that really is its name) is the old Oracle system with more holes than a pair of fishnet stockings.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no Pink! What is wrong with your car now?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Sam problem as before except this morning, every single time I stopped at a junction (or braked as it was) the car stalled. It's going back to the garage as they obviously didn't fix it last time, but if I want a courtesy car, I have to wait until next Tuesday. Not really sure what I'm meant to do in the meantime! :-(

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Bummer. Which garage did you take it to?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Barhill Motors cos they're close to me & they're VW specialists!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

can one of you clever london types please answer a quick question:

do Harrods still use the horse & carriage delivery service under the store?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I know nothing of them. I will be interested in knowing if it all turns out to be a positive experience in the end as I am looking for a VW place for my car.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

they're part of cowley road garage tissp, have you heard of them?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

It rings a bell but nothing definite...

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh. I just got some tea out of the machine because I'm trying to cut down on coffee and it's REVOLTING. It only brews for 15 seconds, what's up with that?

(Damn, I nearly posted that in the wrong thread)

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all. Does your drinks machine/watercooler (ooh on topic!) dispense hot water Kate? If so, take your own teabags to work and brew at your leisure :)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

Morning Arch! Congrats on your moving date btw.
We have a kettle & a vending machine. It's all free too, which is nice. I'm having to drink decaff tea, it's not too bad.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 5 January 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

the water from our cooler tastes like milk this morning, yuuuuuuuuuuuk

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 5 January 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

We're not allowed kettles, so I have to sneak over to the other building every hour to make tea with their kettle. You can't make a decent cuppa with water from vending machines anyway, it's not boiling, so how can it brew properly?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 5 January 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

Rockist :)

Guess what I'm doing this morning? More photocopying. Where are the work experience monkeys when you need them eh?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

every hour!?

watercooler here does hot water and i use that rather than kettle (or mark lamarr might get angry) unfortunately it doesn't heat much hot water so if someone's used it recently you get a warm cup rather than a hot cup. luckily, nobody else does.

it also flows a lot slower than it did when it was first installed - now feels like i stand there for over a minute for the mug to fill.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 5 January 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, the machine does hot water, and we have a kettle. I'm just too lazy to bring tea, milk, sugar, etc. from home, because then I'd have to have two lots on the go. And I feel guilty taking the stuff in the kitchen because there's multiple packets of each and I don't know who what belongs to.

Gah, I'm not at my best this morning. I nearly got stranded last night after rehearsal. Left Archway in time to get the Northern Line, but when I got to Stockwell, the Victoria had stopped running. I missed the bus to Streatham by a matter of moments, and had to wait half an hour for another. Bah. Didn't get home until 1am. And now I feel quite blasted.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no! I went to see Narnia last night. It was awful.

I would like to bring my own coffee in because it would be nicer, but I get all the free coffee I want so it would seem like a waste, even if it can be a bit nasty.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, I have to dive back into Oracle today, better get my Oracle head back on. OH, I HATE QUERIX SO MUCH!!! ARRRGGGHHHH!!! But there is no more putting it off. Ah well, at least I have my brave Captain as wallpaper on that machine, he will guide me...

First coffee of the day. It's impossible to program without coffee.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Bah. I program with a nice cup of tea.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

I tried programming on red bull once - I kept getting emotional and taking it personally when it didn't do what I wanted it to do. Never agin.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

You should try it on Gin & Tonic

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, I want a glass of sherry...

It's funny, tea just doesn't work for programming for me. It has to be coffee. Preferably strong and flavoured.

Code compiling for a minute, one more query to write, hang on...

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh boy, now it's running. Let's see if it works, or if this all goes horribly wrong...

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Miraculously, all my code it working perfectly this morning, and I got extra brownie points by modifying some code that department performance super-quickly. Dammit I'm good!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having a nightmare today. If only my incredible programming genius wasn't marred by my incredibly short attention span.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

BLARGH BLARGH BLARGGGGHHHH!!!

My query worked, but it told us things we didn't want to know - i.e. that the bloody consultants are still closing cases in the old system that they are NOT SUPPOSED TO BE USING.

Kill them. Kill them all! Bloody users. BY CHRIST!!! I've been swearing like Captain Anderson and my colleagues have been laughing at me.

― The Lidl Shop Of Horrors (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

You should try it on Gin & Tonic

melton mowbray to thread!

― snowkitten (g-kit), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

num num cake and tea tea and cake num num. i just went to the ost office and it was NOWING on the way back! also i haf now sold FOUR of the 50 cds i put on amazon yeeha! (inc one i thought NO ONE would want.)

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 5 January 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah! It's always the ones that you think no one at all could want that are the ones that someone really really really is looking for.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey. Just when I have succeeded in convincing myself that boys are all rub and a massive FEH to them all, some boy starts writing me saying that he's a pirate and quoting Eroll Flynn films at me. What a nusiance.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, reconsidering, I bet it's an ILX person taking the piss out of me. >:-(

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hello

Meetings all morning. I feel numb. Then curry for lunch, which rules. Now I'm numb, warm and sleepy, which isn't good for being productive. So I guess I'll hang out here this afternoon.

Emsk what CDs are you selling?

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 5 January 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I've just had nummy nummy stilton soup for lunch - the ordinary looking roll I got at Sainsburys to dip in it turned out to be some lovely nubbly grainy seedy sort of a thing, so it was extra num.

However, I am having a great deal of trouble trying to stay awake as I wake through the notes for the meeting we are supposed to be having this afternoon.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

these ones, beanz:

http://s1.amazon.co.uk/exec/varzea/ts/customer-open-marketplace-items/A341O3I78BR8EW/ref=fb_comi_spgl/202-2203026-7855050

um i hope that works.

i am just about to go pick up the organic veg bag so i am having a surprise for lunch!

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 5 January 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I want organic veg. I even bought Surrey Life last week because they promised to tell me where to get organic veg boxes, but alas, it was about *proper* Surrey, not, like Croydon Surrey that might deliver to my neck of the woods. :-(

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Kate - what's your postcode?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

SW16. Is there somewhere I can look up where I can get a Veg Box?

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.whyorganic.org are good, but there doesn't seem to be anything in your area. :-(

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Bored.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

bored irl, that is.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

I've found one for you!!! http://www.farmaround.co.uk/ Your delivery will be on a Friday & your driver will be Mark! :-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, excellent! I will have to sign up for that! Hurrah!

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

also abel & cole deliver in brixton and herne hill so they may well do st reatham too. i haven't examined my bag yet... lord it is cold out there, i LOVE it.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I did not wear a sweater this morning, so I am VERY VERY COLD and I am now regretting that decision. I don't like it when it's this cold because I have to wear a sweatshirt, a cardigan, socks, and a HAT in bed and still shiver. Bah.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

That was freaky. The guy who was semi-stalking me at work a couple of years ago (I started a thread about it) just came in with one of our Japanese students, to whom he is now - I overheard - ENGAGED. I wanted to shout RUN AWAY, but then maybe it's just me who thinks he's a creepy weirdo. Where is the line between trying to get a date and stalking, after all?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Eurgh, I had that Archel & it's horrible! Getting hassled at work is so hard to deal with, as you'd usually just say "f**k off", but you can't really do that.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Working at an enquiry/reception desk is particularly tough because anyone can come into your 'office' and you can't get away!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Your delivery will be on a Friday & your driver will be Mark! :-)

Right - better get digging! Oo-arrrrr etc.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't been able to follow this thread in 2006. i keep reading it, but i just can't figure it out. 2006 broke my brain.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

num num sweet potato and a couple of onions roasting in oven num num. also i have some stocktaking work tomorrow night hurrah! fifty squids for 6 hrs sounds ok to me... it is in st albans but they will get my train ticket.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

ALSO we have a room in our house free again from the start of feb if anyone knows any excellent people with excellent record collections, a working definition of "clean" and £110 a week to spend on rent. couples more than welcome, girls/guys/gay/straight/whatever. the belgian is going back to paris.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Haha apparently some people just looked round our flat and the agent told them it had gas central heating. In your dreams, I'm afraid! What should you do in that situation - pipe up and say 'if by gas central heating you mean one clapped out storage heater and one electric wall heater, then that's true'? Or just leave them to their lies?

Well, I'm off now and probably won't be online again until Monday when I'll be all moved and stuff, yay! Wish me luck!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Good luck moving, Arch! Hurrah! (I don't know about estate agents though... I kind of think "well, I'd want to know, but..." it's hard to do that without sabotaguing the sale or rental or whatever.)

Oh no, Emsk, the Belgian is going home?

Oh no, g-kit, what do you not understand?

Mmm, sweet potatoes and nonions, can't wait till you bring them round, Mark! (Which reminds me, I need to start planning my housewarming, which I have decided to have on Burns Night. I have decided to *curry* mine Neeps and Tatties to celebrate my tri-continental heritage.)

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Good luck Archel!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

arch, do as you would be done by.

kate yeah, she doesn't like london - it's too big and cold and wet. aaargh burns night isn't the 28th, is it?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

How do, everyone. I've been away. But I've been feeding my inner Anglophile by watching the DVD sets of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes from Granada that I got for Xmas.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

January 25th, I think? Don't know what day of the week it is.

Can you curry a haggis? I see no reason why not to, but where can I get a vegetarian haggis?

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

hello ned! phew, you haven't been killed by warp records then. that's good.

kate if you google "vegetarian haggis" + recipe loads of stuff comes up. and hurrah don't let it be the 28th cos i am meant to be going to hackney cyclists burns night thingy although we have not got tix yet.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

hello ned! phew, you haven't been killed by warp records then. that's good.

No indeed, no death! Hey wait, did yer not get my last e-mail? I did finally read A Child's Christmas in Wales, you see. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

It is the 25th and it is a Wednesday. Or maybe I should do it on the Sunday 29th, which is Chinese New Year?

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

i did ned! and it made me do a sappy smile. but i am imposing a strict new email-answering system on myself and before i answer anyone else's email i must answer my mum's and, er, as hers is mammoth, that means no one's got any answers yet. perhaps i will do it tonight.

but kate you can't have a housewarming on a school night!

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Why not? Is it bad luck? Or is it just because I will get too drunk? I'd quite like to do it while Kaliflwr is here from NYC but she won't tell me when she's arriving... possibly because I'm trying to persuade her to abandon her cat for a whole week.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

because everyone will get too drunk, or they will not get as drunk as they want to because they have school the next day! now i am going for a shower.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

But I don't want people getting drunk in/passing out and throwing up in my new house!

Actually, I might have it on a Sunday afternoon with lots of curried neeps and tatties and reading the papers and things, kind of like that day that my back was out. Actually, that would be good!

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yay getting drunk! Wait, I'm not there to help get drunk, that's no fun. Boo!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Well, grab yourself a weekend flight to see Bauhaus (which is when Kaliflwr will be here) and come down!

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Bauhaus are playing in newcastle early this year, hooray.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

I haf seen the Bauhaus twice over the last months and can confirm they are of the rock still.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

I am very excited. It has been nearly a decade since I saw them last, thought Kali saw them in NYC and said they were amazing. Maybe I should have a Bauhaus themed housewarming instead of a Burns themed housewarming. Everyone can wear their best fishnets and sunglasses indoors and all the boys in makeup...

But what food could I serve, that wasn't fishcakes (FISHCAKES!)?

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

great! I saw them back when they toured for "the sky's gone out", it was an off-night, though, I think. IIRC they split at the end of that tour.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

I think it will all depend on their mood on the night, as the LA show was good but the OC show was great. But I've seen 'em via reunions six times total and they've never stunk or anything.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Quiet today, then?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 6 January 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

would seem so, ile in general seems rather subdued today.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 6 January 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so bored at work this week, I really don't want to be here at all. :-(

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 January 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

My boss has apparently been having a mardy all week. Every five minutes: "What are you up to? Well don't do that, go and sort ... out instead."

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 6 January 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

I've been really tired all week, and today I keep getting dizzy spells. I think I might be dehydrated, so I'm supping back the water as we speak. I was SOOO tired last night tho - I came home from work at about 5 and tried to make tea, but everything was really loud and nasty - it was like having a hangover but without the headache or nausea, if that makes sense.

And today I've been v. busy again - it's been hectic all week. *mental slump*

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 6 January 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, argh, argh, super busy today. Got into work late because I missed the one Thameslinnk that was ON TIME this week. And had an hour in a stupid meeting, now I've got tons and tons of stuff that HAS TO HAS TO be done by 3.30 today because the stupid manager wants to leave them, bah. Sorry for lack of communication!

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I think for everyone - post-xmas rush + SAD + month end reports + year end reports = WHAT A RUBBISH WEEK

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 6 January 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Totally agree. I could barely function last night for tiredness. Today seems to be the same.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 January 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

I got a call from Sarah at Pink earlier today - guess who it made me think of :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Um, was it me?!!! :-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm lurking, not through design. Every time I'm about to post something the phone rings

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

I've had the worst lunch, two tiny meat pies. The pie shop had sold out of big pies and this was all i could afford. So I've returned to work with a shed load of shrapnel and intend to indulge on junk from the vending machines. I have a toffee crisp fondness at the moment.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

> I have a toffee crisp fondness at the moment.

my current chocolate fave, fwiw, is the cadburys dairy milk turkish delight things. in fact i think i'll go and buy one now.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Ste, maybe it's just me, but yur lunch sounds great.
I have lettuce, cucumber, carrots, coleslaw, winter vegetable quiche & some quorn ham.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

It's all about after eights for me at the moment. They have to be straight from the fridge though. Alternatively, I'd opt for a kit kat.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

In order to try and shake my rubbishness and onset of illness, I've just eaten a duck salad, a bottle of orange juice, a strawberry yoghurt and a banana. If I don't get any better I'm gonna crawl off to bed in an hour or so.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 6 January 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

pink, no your lunch sounds far more interesting. believe me when i say these pies were small, and there may not be any interesting junk left in the machine.

feeling yer pain john, i have just come out of the illness thank god for the weekend. shame i intend to spend it by staying indoors. at least i won't be coughing my head off and annoying my house mate.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Ten minute break for lunch because I've reached an unanswerable question and the person who can answer it is in a meeting.

So... hallumi and carrot cake for me! Mmmmmm!

I'm sorry you are ill, JB! It's rubbish being ill at the weekend.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

christ, do you guys only buy chocolate bars made by the most evil companies you can find, or what?

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yes I try to, whilst wearing Nikes mostly!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

what do you recommend emsk?

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Quorn ham – is this nice? I'm not a fan of fake meat generally. 2 exceptions – good veggie sausages that aren't made with meat substitute and 'mock chopped liver' which is just aubergine

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

The cauldron veggie lincolnshire sausages are amazing. I like quorn ham & the beef flavour too. If you are a big meat eater then you will not like it, but as a vegetarian, it suits me.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 January 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

I like the taste of cauldron's sausages but they made me really ill once. The ones I like most are at the S&M Cafe on Essex Rd but it's a bit pretentious in an inverted-snobbery sort of way and there's meat everywhere, so I have mixed feelings about the place.

I am vegetarian, but I was brought up in a kosher household so I never ate ham and can't compare.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Aren't Quorn the most evail of companies? Didn't I read somewhere that everything's made from GM stuff and their union policies are a little suspect? Or am I remembering wrong?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I thought that said 'unicorn policies'

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

They grind up unicorns to put in the Quorn burgers.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

You bastard. I *roast* my unicorns whole.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/JaredHarrisPhotoGallery/TV%20Series/The%20Ends%20of%20the%20Earth/bvgold02.jpg

BY CHRIST, WHO ALLOWED MONKEYS TO UPDATE RECORDS ON MRS CAPTAIN ANDERSON'S DATABASE?!??! EVEN THE FRENCHIES COULD HAVE DONE A BETTER JOB THAN ADMIN!!! I SHOULD HAVE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM FLOGGED AT THE YARDARM IF IT WERE IN MY POWER OF COMMAND!!!!

― Captain Anderson's Infamour Roar (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh right I'm with you. So in your case, you might like it in a sammich or the like, as it's a nice substitute for cheese.
x-post

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Can anyone actually find a picture of a monkey and/or ape operating a computer? I want to send it to the admin department to indicate their handling of data entry. I cannot BELIEVE the mess they have made of my beautiful new database, incorrectly entering and doubling various records.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yes I try to, whilst wearing Nikes mostly!

yeah, i noticed :(

what do you recommend emsk?

none of 'em are perfect afaik but really, nestle are some of the most evil fuckers on earth, up there with the us government for sheer contempt of humang life. and it's not like there isn't a shitload of choice of nummy chocolate bars.

Quorn ham – is this nice?

it's... a bit weird... a bit pointless. it's not unpleasant, sort of addictive in a strange way - "hm, must try another piece to try and work out wtf i think of it...". it is DEFINITELY horrendously overpriced! i haven't bought this for like 3 yrs. or any other quorn product, which i'm v glad of given jb's recent revelations.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

it's... a bit weird... a bit pointless. it's not unpleasant, sort of addictive in a strange way - "hm, must try another piece to try and work out wtf i think of it..."

I had exactly the same problem with Irish-style Black Russians

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.kittenrecords.co.uk/slypics/sailor_moon01.jpg

― snowkitten (g-kit), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

I have just been told that I underestimate monkeys, and the typing chimpanzees would have done a better job. Sigh.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Irish-style Black Russians

what is in this? i am all for cultural cross-pollination, esp when alcomahol is involved. and russians and irish are both very good at drinks.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

snowkitty: worst attention-seeker ever

― snowkitten (g-kit), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Irish Style Black Russian (Pitcher Size):

- Normal Black Russian
- Half a pint of Guiness

It's wacky.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

i don't even get points for trying ;_;

― snowkitten (g-kit), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

ah right, guinness got fish in :(

g i think no one knows what you're trying to do?

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

GUINESS HAS FISH WTF

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

get some attention

― snowkitten (g-kit), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

ok it hasn't got fish IN it but it's strained thru fish scales to get the texture. yum, scaly.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

It's not like anyone posted a picture of a monkey on a computer for me, either!

http://www.research.usf.edu/cm/pics/computer_monkey.gif

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Really? I'm not quite sure what to think about this

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost)

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no I'm a terrible person!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

i guess it's not year of the cat.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

You people. And yet I love you all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

ok it hasn't got fish IN it but it's strained thru fish scales to get the texture.

Doesn't ALL bouze (wines and beers at least) not explicitly marked vegetarian use isinglass?

(actually, no it doesn't according to google - you can use gelatine instead and lots of people use that)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

You people. And yet I love you all.

what about me, does that include me?

― snowkitten (g-kit), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

. . . i'm v glad of given jb's recent revelations.

I was only joking about the unicorns.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno. i do know grolsch is the only vegan lager.

xpost har har jb :)

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Argh. I am now a fifth of the way through my horrible herculean monkey-taming task.

::beats head against desk::

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone seen g-kit recently?

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

He got roasted with the unicorns. Sad, really.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 January 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm the only person left here, am I not?

Sigh. Monkeys, I tell you. MONKEYS!!!

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

4/5's done, which means 45 more records of hell to go, before I can leave. Sigh.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

My bankers:

http://www.maximonline.com/sports/mud_and_blood_2005/blogimages/computer_ape.jpg

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm here, but time zones, y'know.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

I am finally going home. They are sending me in a cab. I just wanted to note what time I was leavning work so you can marvel at it on Monday morning. Bloody end of year bloody consultants bloody users, happy blooming bonus commissions to you, too.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, that's late.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. Yes, it is.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know whether to get a pizza when I get home, or just climb into bed. Garg, I be burned.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

Go to bed, that's what I'd do.

Mind you, have just had an enormous feed, drank loads of beer, and just about to watch Mighty Boosh, so maybe i'm not in the same place as you.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

I'll see how I feel when I get back to Sizzlers.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Step AWAY from the computer. I am turning the laptop off before I merge with it. I swear...

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

i just got home from work and they sent me in a cab too!

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk - you are in UK time, aren't you? FFS, you got home from work at 1:00 am??? Whatever they are paying you it isn't enough!!

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

uk time yeh, but i only started work at 5.30pm and it was in another town so... but in my old job i would very regularly get home from work at 1 and not get paid any extra! that was good times though.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

Any chance a typewriter could do in place of a computer, Kate? (The reasoning being, them monkeys bothering you probably don't even understand the difference.)

Also, it's my favourite record-title pun ever. (Never actually heard it, though.)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc300/c370/c37087393sm.jpg

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

(OK not exactly a pun, more a Learnèd Reference, or something.)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

Straying into ILM territory but... You must hear that album, Vintner! Its a bona fide 100% 24 carat gold classic!

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

I am regarding Emsk's work hours with horror. But this is probably because I'm having a relaxed Friday night.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, I am trying not to think of Emsk's working hours. Far too sad.

My relaxed Friday night is now a fairly comatose Saturday morning, but what the hey....

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

i was workin in a BOOK SHOP but only while it was shut. it was nice being surrounded by books (though they kept me well away from the bits i would have got most distracted by! i wonder if they did it on purpose? most of the time i was in How To Teach Children and How To Revise For Your AS Levels and How To Improve Yourself In Eighty Ways In Eighty Days type books, they nearly sent me to sci-fi but they musta seen my eyes light up so they didn't) AND i was the lucky one who got to do the bit behind the sales desk where all the ordered books are which was the most fascinating bit of the whole lot because you get to see the sort of stuff people order for themselves. well, i liked it anyway. now i am drinking white russians and debating whether to open a tin of soup. probably best not.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

Open that soup, emsk! What flavour? I have a carton of Thai Chicken in the fridge that keeps calling to emto open it...

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

Obviously it is calling me to open it, not 'emto'.

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

No, it is calling you to emto, because it is an alien.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

Straying into ILM territory but... You must hear that album, Vintner!

OK I shall Guilty! Don't have it at the moment, and eMusic doesn't either, so I'll just put on Fear and Whiskey instead, OK?

(emsk working in book shops but not really is Very Nice Indeed. Did it abt 16 years ago)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

no, it's calling me to open it obviously as i am an em.

it's tomato flavour. but it's 2.43am here! not souptime. bouzetime. and we have ppl coming to see the belgian's room tomorrow. and none of my housemates cleaned the floor, the fuckers, even though i spent an hour making the bathroom SPARKLE before i went to work and left them a lovely note asking them to do it.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

yo yes vintner's person. it was an odd selection of people working with me too, and i always enjoy that, the way no one can think of anything to say to each other that'll mean anything to each other but no one really needs to anyway.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

none of my housemates cleaned the floor

What punks. Mock them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

but it's 2.43am here!
Pah, it's 3:50 here! One must eat regardless! (Ned knows everything, he works in a book shop, but not really. But he doesn't, really.)

xpost I think I see what you mean.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

xpost It's 2:52am here (I'm in Kent), emsk, and my Thai Chicken still calls to me...

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, where are you tvl?

yeh i ate some crisps when i came in, and my white russians have got milk in them which is calcium and vodka the sixth food group. i think if i eat now i'll be scoobied for the whole weekend. maybe one more drink? if i stay in bed long enough perhaps the fuckers will do the floor before i get up (huh, fat chance).

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

wow it is 2.55 in london! we are three mins ahead of you jeff!

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, where are you tvl?

We've gone into resonance as to thread fluctuations don't you see oh no! Or maybe you meant geographically? Norway (I am OleM of old etc).

Anyway, eating is always sound strategy when drunqxing (he said as much to himself as to emsk, hmmm, can I get G's thai chicken perchance if its beckoning calls to him prove fruitless? I mean, I've seen les cookies telechargés on these threads...)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

(The watercooler SCREAMS use me you idiots but do we listen at this hour? We do not.)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

aaaaah norway! where? i never went to norway then i went to oslo twice last year. both times were brilliant but the second time was the best. k i am gettin 1 more drinq.

the watercooler can suck my dick. last office i worked in had pow wow water, i was gonna have some at some point (rather than just filling my bottle at kitchen tap like always) but then saw a delivery box and POW WOW IS NESTLE! fuckers get everywhere.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

Ah hah Norway has (with exceptions) excellent drinking water in the taps themselves! That is so great, not having to worry abt carrying your own weight in liquid loss from the grocery thingy. Never heard of pow wow even.

Oslo twice, woah! I'm always afeared of ilxors (well mainly ilmers) asking me what is cool here etc, being totally out of all loops and mainly going to PUB QUIZZES in FOOTBALL PUBS. Nice to hear you liked it though (yes I live here).

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

Pow Wow is indeed Nestle. You can almost taste the powdered baby milk direct from the cooler.

TVL - If I could pour the Thai Chicken down the line to Norway I would! However, I think it's probably going to be tomorrow's lunch instead.

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

well yeh, i always drink from taps in the uk. those people who buy water in shops are teh crazy. i was gonna have the watercooler water bcs i thought it would make me cool. and watery.

oslo RULED and it ROCKED :) january i was there for 4 days with a friend, we mostly wandered around getting lost and drinking things and being impressed with the freebie ice-rink in the city centre and OH we went to see the olympic ski-jump :) and the statue of the angry boy. august i was there for oya and i had the BEST time, a proper like lost... five... days... how... time except with no memory loss, met shitloads of friendly natives and omg the scenery. i mean, ahem, "scenery". i barely slept or ate. it was awesome.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

Argh I live like 4 minutes busride or 15 minutes walk from øya, and STILL haven't made time for it. It is idiotic it is. Me + wife must go there next year! (esp since she listens to teh pop music radio and all, while I'm always behind, sitting here rubbidgeing on ilx!)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

ha you really seriously MUST go! there's a shitload us britishers could learn from oya. also i hear it may change site? they are building a new opera house or something? go now while it's still where it is, because it is PERFECT site for a festival.

um. i don't think they should search one so enthusiastically on one's way in, though. it wasn't that one wanted to bring in anything dodgy (though they took my UMBRELLA off me!), but when one is being charged five quid for a beer one should really be allowed to smuggle a mini or two of scotch, surely.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

I R looking forward to two fests over these next few months -- ArthurBall in late Feb, Terrastock in April. Rah! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

bah, no fests here. but i might be coming to ameriker! if i can find a cheapo courier flight or sth! but only to nu england though (i want to see what b bragg was on aboot).

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:50 (nineteen years ago)

one should really be allowed to smuggle a mini or two of scotch, surely.

Unauthorized alcohol is like the main licencekillah scarecrow whatever around here. Your umbrella probably looked a lot more like a clever flask than a weapon of assault, hence it is taken off you.

(Heh heh never thought of b bragg in context of the actual real nu england, good one)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

nah, they took everyone's umbrellas off them! it was like a bond villain weapon amnesty. it was because the people behind you wouldn't be able to see. i applaud their motives but ffs, they could've said something beforehand.

and next time i go, i am going to hide scotch in unsavoury places. just for the frisson.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

but i might be coming to ameriker! if i can find a cheapo courier flight or sth! but only to nu england though

Oh neat! Hey I'll be in New England for Terrastock in April -- will yer be there then? Last time a Terrastock happened was in Boston and both Gareth and Alan T were there for FAPpage!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

next time i go, i am going to hide scotch in unsavoury places. just for the frisson.

I hypothesize this tactic will be successful, in the one sense or in the other.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno when, or even really if. what i do know is i REALLY want to visit t&i in their valley paradise hut, after i was here for nu year and i realised how much i miss her (er, sometimes the letter 'i' stands for someone's name, i'm not just being a crap rastafari). and ideally i want to be there when it's still snowing properly but i dunno what my chances of that are.

xpost :)

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 January 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

i'm g-kit!

― snowkitten (g-kit), Saturday, 7 January 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

If I want water at work, I drink it from the watercooler. Mind you, this is because all water round here is very hard and tastes strongly of lime. At home, I'll only ever use water from the filter-jug, apart from for washing in.

The other benefit of the watercooler is that you can blend water from the cooled and non-cooled taps to get a cup of just the right temperature.

(I don't think our watercooler water is by Nestlé - it's Celtic Something-Or-Other, from a spring in the heart of the Black Mountains, or somewhere like that)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 7 January 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

all water round here is very hard and tastes strongly of lime

http://shopuncleharrys.dukestores.duke.edu/images/cooler%202%20059.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 7 January 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Happy Monday everyone. (Everyone? Are you there?)

I totally moved! And I love my new flat to bits!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 January 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yay Archel! Have you unpacked yet?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 9 January 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Everything except books and clothes (quite a large proportion of our stuff then!) because we have neither bookshelves nor wardrobe yet. I am just pretending I'm on holiday and living out of a suitcase, it's fun!

And the central heating is divine.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 January 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Aww so happy for you! How;s the garden?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 9 January 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey! Poor Emsk, I did not realise that you were working later than I was, or I would invited you round for nummy asparagus and sherry. (I have got some Amontillado this week!)

I am back at work, after a weekend of sleeping and eating and lusting over my Captain. Oh, and I organised my bills. But ARGH! Now the stove has gone out. I don't really know what to do - I spent ages looking for the fuse and broke one of the wall sockets doing it. But when I located it, I realised I didn't have any replacements. Argh. I hope that's all it is, and it does not require an electrician. I can't afford one right now.

Argh, I can't get my head around work this morning, I am too tired and spent, and just frustrated as hell with having to deal with the old system, and how it is f*cking up the new system.

And I'm annoying because I finally broke down and bought the next of the Aubrey/Maturin novels, hoping for some good sea action, creaking timbers and topgallants and all that - AND PEACE HAS BEEN DECLARED and the sodding thing has turned into some Jane Austen drawing room drama. Blargh! If I wanted Jane Austen, I would read Jane Austen, not a crap writer imitating her when he should be painting scenes of dashing high seas adventure. By christ!

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Why do I always kill this thread? Sigh.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning

Happy new home Archel! How are you going about furnishing?

Went to a mediocre play and a mediocre restaurant on Saturday. I can watch not-very-good films quite happily but I'm really intolerant of bad plays. And mediocre restaurants are ok as long as they don't think they're great. This one had delusions of competence. But I kind of like it, cos it's quite fun being critical afterwards.

Kate do you like CS Forester?

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

At first I didn't know who you meant, then googled and found he was the author of the Hornblower series. Which I haven't read yet, but very nearly picked up the box set of DVDs over Christmas. The funny thing is, according to Wikipedia:

Interestingly, both Hornblower and Aubrey are based in part on the historical figure, Admiral Lord Dundonald of Great Britain (known as Lord Cochrane during the period when the novels are set).

Lord Cochrane is mentioned in TTEOTE as being Captain Anderson's superior at the Battle of the Basque Roads, where Anderson captained (can that be used as a verb?) a fireboat! Which gives me terrible ideas for crossovers... hrmmmm...

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

Reckon you'd like Hornblower. A bit too much drawing room nonsense in later books but most of it's probably your thing. Pretend the TV series didn't exist. (OTOH it might be better than the books, which I read when I was young.)

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

We have less garden than we originally thought because the lawned part belongs to the owner (though I think he will let us use it sometimes) but the patio is pretty nice anyway - though hard to tell at the moment because it's pissing and cold :(

We own lots of furniture already beanz, but because there was a built-in wardrobe at our old place and we'd put loads of bookshelves up, we no longer have those bits. Hopefully the landlord will let us put up shelves again. Or we will get stuff from Freecycle I expect.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

What is Freecycle and how do you get bookshelves from it? I am being swamped by mine own books at the moment.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, a FireSHIP, not a Fireboat. Very different beasts. Fireboats prevent fires. A fireship is a superannuated vessel which is set on fire and then driven into the line of the enemy to cause panic and confusion, and hopefully even set the enemy's ships on fire. Much more dangerous and exciting:

http://www.paracay.com/Merchant2/graphics/products/MCB027.jpg

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.freecycle.org/

It's great!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH ARGH ARGH I am pissed off at the moment. I've just lost half my lunchbreak due to a wittering, stupid old bint who keeps phoning me and whining about stupid problems that she should KNOW how to fucking fix even though it's my fucking lunch break.

GRRRRRRR

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

Grr! Just don't pick up the phone during your lunch?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

I shouldn't. But, if I did that, and people found out I wasn't actually out of the building, I'd no doubt get moaned at by the people concerned. "Never mind about your lunch, we've got a problem and it needs fixing now!" they would say.

(their main problem is their complete lack of any useful skills or intelligence at all, as far as I can tell)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

morning! please come round my house and watch doctor who. i am working tonight in Glamorous Chelmsford!

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Chelmsford? What the blazes are you doing there, Emsk?

Yes, I will come round and watch Dr. Who. So long as it is not the same weekend as my housewarming.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

counting BOOKS! it won't be the same weekend as your houswarming, the date is to be discussed. i haven't got a diary yet so i don't know what i'm doing apart from a cyclist piss-up on the 28th and your housewarming whenever and um something on feb 4th? and a meeting on thursday. oh, herman dune done an awesome gig on sat and asked me to work for them again hurrah! made my weekend, that did.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah for Herman Dune!

My housewarming, I think, shall be the 29th. It shall be an afternoon pissup, with Cape Malay style curried neeps and tatties, to honour my mongrel heritage.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Good afternoon!

I am delaying my lunch break today as I have a desire to cause it to rain taking the car to the car wash, but have no desire to have to queue for an hour as all the other fools wait in line to wash their metal boxes.

Sorry to hear about yer late nights, people. I cooked a big Sunday roast for GUESTS yesterday which left me exhausted, so was early night for me! Also turns out that a) according to regulations we need some kind of actual fireplace in the living room, rather than the ramshackle one I am constructing and b) the owners of the house we rent may be returning to claim back their property and kick us out at any moment WTF?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I am considering saying "does anyone in London fancy a pint on Feb 17th?", as I have to be around for a ~~wedding~~ civil partnership reception the next day.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

maybe you should say it then!

kate there are cheap and free tvs on gumtree.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure. For one thing, I will probably be with my friend M, who might object to meeting a crowd of interweb mentalists.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, you should say it, FP. x-post tell him we're harmless.

I don't actually want a TV, as it's not the box that is the cost, but the paying of the license fee.

Plus, I am quite enjoying the creative spur of not having a telly. I've been writing an incredible amount, since I have to create mine own entertainment. Plus, I've been listening to loads of music, and rediscovering my record collection, which is always good.

I shall just pester my friends to invite me round whenever it is on. Tee hee hee.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, M would probably be impressed if she met *you* - she seems to think I have lots of famous friends, because I know one person who's been in a band that's released albums (you) and one who's acted in a Crimewatch reconstruction (and that's whose wedding it is)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, I'm famous. Huzzah!

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, just avoid paying the license if you can deal with THE MORAL OUTRAGE:

http://www.tvlicensing.biz/

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

No, I believe in paying license fees if you have a television. Otherwise, who will pay for more Dr. Who to be made? However, I don't actually want one any more.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

If it wasn't for telly, you'd never have found Captain Anderson!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Exactly!

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, I have to sit in on a training-session-by-conference-call this afternoon - in a few minutes, actually. Just enough time to make myself a cup of tea before it starts, I think.

I will start a FAP thread when I get back, even though six weeks in advance strikes me as a little early.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think so, I started a Cambridge FAP thread about six months ago, and that still hasn't happened.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

It might be a little early, yes, but remember to start one closer to the time.

Swoon... I've just been looking at pictures of Captain Anderson again. I had noticed in the book that he had two uniforms - a somewhat shabby every day uniform, and a more splendid dress uniform, and was delighted to find this duplicated in the film, though I had not noticed before.

Dress uniform:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/JaredHarrisPhotoGallery/TV%20Series/The%20Ends%20of%20the%20Earth/25450692.jpg

Standard uniform:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/JaredHarrisPhotoGallery/TV%20Series/The%20Ends%20of%20the%20Earth/e1ddba50.jpg

There is also a shot, as they await "the French" where he has pistols stuck in his belt, as well as his sword! Swoon!

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

If you did have a Cambridge FAP, I'd be tempted to come - it's more or less within day-trip distance.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think I actually prefer the slightly plainer one. Which reminds me, I need to get gold buttons (preferably with anchors on them) for my new navy blue velvet jacket.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh you should so read Hornblower. In one of the books he needs to dress up (to meet the King iirc, might be wrong) and is so embarrassed about his weedy-looking calf muscles he gets a workman from his ship to make him some calf-shaped inserts for his stockings. Not sure why that scene sticks in my head.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

BWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!

That is one of the funniest things I've read in ages. I need to read this now. Of course, Captain Anderson has no need of calf inserts, he has such shapely legs. Rowr.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, I could have sworn there was a picture of his shapely legs on the site, but now I cannot find it. Bah.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

how do you captain a fireship without being toasted?

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

my house is full or girls' stuff.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

It is extremely dangerous, apparently, so no one ever wanted to do it. I would assume that it would involve either jumping in the water and swimming for it, or else getting out of there in a dinghy.

Either way, it was brought up as an example of Anderson's *extreme* bravery and courage. Though it didn't say how he got out without being toasted.

Now I *know* I have posted those legs on ILX, but cannot find them.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that's my afternoon training session cancelled. Now I've got to find some *work* to do.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

knickers and bras and stuff.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed? Tell us more, greg...

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yes!!! yesyesyesyesyes!!! I have found the legs in question:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/images/bank/programmes_tv/drama/ends/300_rites.jpg

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Who's the dude looking admiringly at his arse?

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

That is the ultimate in weediness, Mr. Edmund Talbot.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning everyone.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning/afternoon
How was your weekend?

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Morning? Good god, man, I've only just heated my lunch.

Mmmm, reheated Sag Paneer left over from yesterday's feast.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

My weekend? Part of it is here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey! Big ships indeed!

I wonder what Captain A. would have made of those!

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Meanwhile, the Englishe pubbe nearby served such traditional Englishe fare as nachos.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Were they rubbish? For then they would be authentic English pubbe food!

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Good pics. 'Plugs and muffs' – heheh (I'm such a child)

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Thank ya. And yes, double entendre oddities abound!

I did not try the nachos and could not confirm their rubbishness.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

cos liek, my girlfriend moved in n stuf.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder what a sea captain would leave lying about the place.

(Though I will start to worry about living on my own, if I actually develop an Imaginary Boyfriend of Captain Anderson.)

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Hey g-kit that's very cool

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

I thought your GF moved in last year!

Should I have some more coffee? I'm really having trouble focusing on this task, but it could just be because it's noisy in here.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Nice one G-Kit! How are you finding it? (By it I mean your new living arrangement of course!) :-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 9 January 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Woo, we're getting broadband in our new flat. ILX 24/7 oh no!

Congrats G :)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 January 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, RAGE RAGE RAGE RAGE RAGE!!!

So much for my New Year's Resolution.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking it had been far too long since I had a genuine attack of the screaming angries. It scares me sometimes how much anger I still carry around with me, and if a person presses on a bruise, up it swells like an underground river, carrying away everything in its path.

I just took a walk around the block and tried to calm myself, and I suppose if it wasn't so busy here, I'd do a little CBT on it, but gah.

It was a nice long stretch of uninterrupted good mood while it lasted.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a headache and am considering going home early.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Monday, 9 January 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

I had a fun conversation before I left for home: a branch manager phoned up complaining that the IT work over Christmas hadn't made his computer any faster, that his computer is so slow he's unable to do any work (this isn't true), and asked me what he should do next. Should he just do what [unrelated department] do and go on strike until his computer is working as fast as he would like?

"As far as I'm aware," I said, "[other department] have never ever gone on strike."

"That's what they do," he continued, "if they don't get what they want, they just down tools." I've checked, and this seems to be completely imaginary.

(and of course, checking up on this meant that I had to *tell* Other Department just what these mad allegations were. Hah)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 9 January 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

(I am tempted to tell Higher Management that I really don't appreciate threats along the lines of "unless you fulfil my impossible dreams, I'm going to tell all my staff to stop working, because of [imaginary precedent]")

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 9 January 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning
I'm half asleep

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

have you seen that advert on the tv for technology courses? it features someone getting increasingly annoyed at their alarm going off and suggesting they get training so they can find a better job. 'the average salary for IT sector is 37 thousand pounds' it says. sigh.

what really makes me laugh is how the person is angry at being woken up when the alarm clock clearly says 7:45 - that's a lie-in if anything.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. Maybe they're just saying they'll be able to buy a nicer, more expensive alarm clock?

I totally don't want to be at work today. I want to be prettifying my flat instead.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

I had an idea for an alarm clock today: The only way I can wake up with an alarm is when I've got a few making different noises going off at intervals. If they make the same noise I just turn it off and ignore it. So I have a clock which beeps and my phone, which makes beeps for calendar reminders and plays a tune for the alarm. And it's a pain cos I have to set all the reminders every night and so on. So why not make an alarm that makes different (random) noises, all in one convenient clock? [I doubt I'll make any money from this marvellous invention but if any alarm clock designers are reading, this idea is ©.]

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, I realise if you wake up to the radio this is unnecessary.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

'the average salary for IT sector is 37 thousand pounds' it says

Ha bloody ha.

Today, my boss is in meetings for most of the day, and the other IT staffer has phoned in sick. So, I'm all on my own.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm getting there, I'm getting there...

7:45? Ha bloody ha. OK, I'm on flexitime now, and don't get out of bed until 9, but still.

Still just feeling quite depressed. I changed the fuse for the oven and it is STILL broken which fucks me off as it's brand new. That's the third thing in this house to go wrong.

Tried on two pairs of riding boots on the way to work this morning, and one would not zip over my bloody calves, and the other... well, when they were on, they made me look like the bloody Prince Regent, my legs looked so squeezed and fat. So I abandonned the idea entirely.

Just in a rubbish mood. Bah.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

Don't be down Kate, teething problems are what makes moving into a new house fun!

Out of bed post 9am REPRAZENT. I have never seen 7.45am.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

beanz that is a GREBT idea, i would get one. actually i would get GIVEN one by people who know me. i have to have the radio on my alarm thing come on first, then alarm 1 on one of my alarm clocks, then the alarm on my phone, then the alarm 2 on that alarm clock, then a reminder on my phone, then another couple of reminders on my phone, and somewhere in the middle i will have hit snooze a couple of times on the radio so that will have woken me up once or twice too. um, i need to wake up slowly.

this morning i had another post-environmental-apocalypse dream. but this was quite a positive one, everyone just went swimming (like in the postal service song) except my auntie who was worried she wouldn't be able to get a train.

xpost oh no kate, what was the second one?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hmph. I got up at 7.20 today because I now get the speedy train to work instead of the lethragic bus, and I felt downright decadent.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

The washing machine, the boiler (which I managed to fix myself, since it came with a manual) and now the stove. :-(

I have decided, though, that I need to get a radio. I keep seeing interesting things advertised on Radio 4.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

Kate that's not your problem, it's the shop's problem for not having the right boots. Somewhere, someone sells boots for you.

As for the oven - um, hot food's overrated. (xposts)

So glad I'm not alone, Emsk. Lazy fuckers support group, yay. I get up at about 6.45 and my first alarm goes off just after 6.00. I'm so weak.

Radio 4 is one of the greatest things about living in the UK.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Kate - what is wrong with your oven?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

They do not sell boots for me, I will have to have them made. Like my mum did, when she was my age. Actually, I should ask her who her bootmaker was, because chances are, knowing London, they are still around. And those boots lasted so long that *I* was still wearing them into my 20s.

The only thing I really need my oven for is pizza, but without that, I could not survive. Sigh. It just doesn't work. The electricity does not seem to reach it. The clock doesn't even come on. If you turn the temperature dial, a dim light comes on, but it goes off again when you turn the oven selector on, and there's no heat, no fan, not nothing. Bah.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, I forgot, my digital radio picks up loads more stations in my new location (only BBC7 and 1Xtra were reliable before, but they're my favourite anyway luckily). But there's a whole new strange world opening up to me now - entire stations devoted to kids' music! Gaydar Radio!??

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, all you people and your lie-ins every day. 6.30 is where it's at.

After reading the numismatics thread, I'm tempted to start "IKB - C/D?".

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Do I dare even ask what Gaydar Radio is?

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't actually listened to it, but their website says 'something for everybody!' Um, if you're gay.

http://www.gaydarradio.com/

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Bizarrely, I was reading about Gaydar Radio in the Guardian the other day.

(it was only a brief mention - it didn't actually explain the point of it)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'd love to think that Gaydar Radio is just a repeating 'beep' that speeds up when gay people walk near yr radio.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Kate that's not your problem, it's the shop's problem for not having the right boots. Somewhere, someone sells boots for you.

otm.

So glad I'm not alone, Emsk. Lazy fuckers support group, yay. I get up at about 6.45 and my first alarm goes off just after 6.00. I'm so weak.

haha um, oh, that's not the same after all. in order to get out of bed at (ahem) 9, to be at work for (coff) 11, i would have to set the alarm for 7. or even 6.45.

kate is there a little picture of a hand on your oven? we couldn't work out htf to switch on the one we had in the last flat so we just used to press everything every time we wanted to use it then eventually started trying to work out what was actually making it work, and it turned out you had to press the button with the hand on. but you have to turn the dials first otherwise nothing happens.

i sold some more stuff on amazon! i am going to start calling it AMAZIN.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

No, I worked all that out before, and it was all fine. I had the little hand set up and all. The WHOLE THING has stopped working - not even the clock lights up! (Which is bloody annoying as I'm consistently late for work now, as I dawdle over Country Life at breakfast.)

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Grrr, the woman who pissed me off yesterday by phoning up with problems throughout my lunch break has started doing it AGAIN today.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

Try saying "I'm just in the middle of something, can I call you back at 1.30?" maybe?

xxpost Emsk you're right, I don't think there's any help for you at all :) At least you don't have to start work until it's almost lunchtime

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I think that "Somewhere, someone sells boots for you." is the new "Every pot finds its cover" which, as we all know, if rubbish.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

I did (xpost).

"Is it urgent?"

"Yes. Where's [your co-worker]?"

"He's off sick, and I'm on my lunch break again"

"Oh. When do you finish your lunch?"

"One."

"Oh. Well, this needs doing now."

GRRRRRR.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, "every pot finds its cover" is only true if you once had the cover and lost it down the back of a cupboard full of other pots, in my experience. Good luck with the boots though.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

THREADKILLAAHHHH

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

What? Who?

No, I thought it was because we all disappeared into other threads about steam trains and metro maps and Brunel.

Damn, that blokey from our CC handling firm is persistent - he's just asked me out AGAIN. I suppose at this point I'll have to go out with him. Sigh.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

You could pickle him in brine if he proves useless.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

He keeps talking like a pirate at me.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

So what's the problem?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Men are rubbish and I can't be bothered with them!

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. Or should I say, 'aarrgghh'? Ho ho.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Why do men persist in talking like pirates at me in order to attract me? I am quite quite flummoxed by this. I am enamoured of a REGENCY ERA SEA CAPTAIN, not a PIRATE. Captain Anderson doth not "arrrrr".

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of pirates. i watched the maltese falcon the other day and the preamble that came up at the beginning of that went, ahem, a little something like this:

"In 1539, the Knights Templar of Malta, paid tribute to Charles V of Spain, by sending him a Golden Falcon encrusted from beak to claw with rarest jewels- - - - - but pirates seized the galley carrying this priceless token and the fate of the Maltese Falcon remains a mystery to this day."

which made me think of kate.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

And AARRRGGGHHH, this email has just gone round requesting - nay, DEMANDING - our presence at a "gala dinner". With each table of a 3 course dinner hosted by one of our lenders. ARGH. Nothing fills me with TEH PH34R like banking industry events. This will be worse than the Xmas party (which I managed to avoid) as it is company wide.

If No – please explain reason for non-attendance

Because it seems like a steaming pile of poo, and I would rather have mine own eyeballs toasted and served to me on skewers than have to deal with every single colleague from every single branch across the country who has ever pestered me.

x-post... Pirates *and* Knights Templar? I may have to watch this again.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Arrrghhh, and it's BLACK TIE. Then again, it might be amusing to see all the bankers dressed as penguins.

And I suppose it would provide an excuse to get one of those magnificent ballgowns from the shop down the street.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

...and a disco... oh dear lord...

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

That's ridiculous, asking for reasons for non-attendance. Down with organised fun! But, ooh ballgown.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

And I used to laugh at Magnus when he had to go to such things. Bah.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

the maltese falcon contains 0 pirates and 0 knights templar except in that spiel at the beginning. it's more your hard-boiled private eye thing.

we have day set aside for something on monday "to discuss company strategy and some significant key developments for 2006". will be as dull as fuck but at least it doesn't involve dressing up.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, forget it then. I can't be bothered with hard boiled detectives, they are nowhere near as good as pirates. I'll just have to get Captain Blood on DVD and watch it again.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Surely 'and it doesn't even involve dressing up'? :)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if I can dress up as a sea captain to the gala dinner. I mean, dress uniform and everything.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

one of these jobs i just applied for, they emailed me back and asked for a cv (which i had sent already, but anyway) and a photo. is it dodgy to ask for a photo? (job is assistant to film producer.) and has anyone here got any of me? someone must. i don't seem to have any... except ones where i am in my cups... which i don't want to send... s sent me a couple but they're from summer and i am very sunburned.

xpost kate DO IT!!

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

i feel ill. i am all cold n flakey.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Er, I don't think it's particularly dodgy to ask for a photo - though usually it's been when I've been going through agencies and they need a photo to tell all their candidates apart.

The only photos I think I have of you are on country walks and stuff, but I'll look.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

ok cool. no one ever asked me for one before! not since i was 15 anyway and applying for school. and thanks!

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

"the maltese falcon" is great!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

I thought I'd posted but it must have got lost - Bogart isn't just any old hard boiled detective! Can't be bothered to retype but take it from me, Kate, he'd be a new obsession for you if you watched it. Maybe.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

What are "cups"?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

"in one's cups" = THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND!!! i.e. drunkened.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Ah! And it turns out that even THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND is nautical terminology! Ha ha, I did not know.

http://www.themariner.net/Lindsey-NT-Three_Sheets_to_the_Wind.jpg

http://www.themariner.net/Nautical%20Terms%20Part%202.htm

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! Where is everyone?

I'm in a somewhat slightly improved mood today. Finally my nautical novel has got OUT OF THE BLOODY DRAWING ROOM and back where it belongs - fighting the French. Hurrah! Or, rather, crossing the Pyraneese disguised as a dancing bear. I actually burst out laughing so hard I cried tears of joy on the train this morning.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning. Is this the novel you're reading or writing?

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

Reading. Ha ha.

The one I'm fighting, ha, I mean, WRITING, Boney has escaped Elba and they are back at war and about to engage the Enemy. I've never written a battle scene before. I may wimp out and spend the entire engagement down in the Orlop Deck.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

I was in a meeting most of the morning. A very boring meeting. One of my colleagues was wearing rather nice-looking boots and fishnets, which distracted me rather. Note to self: really must stop perving over women in nice-looking boots.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

Waaah, I will never find nice-looking boots.

Argh, I have so much stupid catch-up to do today and can't seem to get focused.

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

Well, when you do, I apologise in advance for perving.

(an ex of mine had a similar problem to you - she couldn't find any knee-length boots that were wide enough for her calves, that weren't far too big for her feet)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

steamboats

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

RJG, are you trying to provoke me, or Captain Anderson?

FP, I mind not if you perve, if I could FIND good boots. Clothes are always misfitted on me, as I am tall as well as plump. A bad combination. :-(

I'm still flabbergasted at the idea that my LBD no longer fits. I do NOT want to have to look for a new one, as this one has been perfectly servicable for all formal occasions for nearly 10 years now! Ah well, good thing I've been lifting weights for my back problems, perhaps they will do something about my logarm, as well.

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Broadband arrives today... mattress tomorrow. Wow, how great my life will be once I have a bed AND an internet connection again.

I wish you could get stretchy boots that don't LOOK stretchy. Ie elasticated somehow but not in an obvious fat-person-flange way.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

not at all

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

LBD?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

bed *and* internet? You need nothing else! (I've got the bed but still don't have the internet.)

RJG, you know that Captain Anderson thinks Steamboats are a nonsense. They would require more coal than they would carry, for a start. Plus, the huge paddles would reduce the ship's broadside intolerably, and if that's not enough, if either of the flimsy paddles were damaged by the Enemy's fire, the entire ship would become uncontrollable! Stuff and nonsense, steamboats.

(Though I'm sure The Teardrop Explodes song might set him right.)

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, x-post

LBD = Little Black Dress, that staple of every woman's wardrobe when something formal is required.

My LBD:

http://www.underexposed.org.uk/kissingtime/kissingtime5.jpg

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Kate - I have a pair of Camper boots which seem to be wider than the average pair of boots on the highstreet.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

ha, I never pictured you as strat wuhmmun, somehow. (x-post) rocking pic, nevertheless.

Am busy fixing front suspension on 2 Moulton small-wheeled bicycles. Tiresome & very messy job.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

(It is not my guitar, it was borrowed for the gig, as my Jazzmaster was misbehaving. It was, however, purple and lovely. But trust you to notice the guitar when I was trying to illustrate the dress!)

What is Camper, Pink, is that a shop or a brand?

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

Camper = yummy shoes. The only shoes I get properly drooly over.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

steam·boats (sthttp://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/emacr.gifmhttp://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/prime.gifbhttp://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/omacr.gifthttp://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/lprime.gifs)
adj. slang

drunk

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Good lord, Gillanders! You are drunk, at this time of day? That's excessive, even for a Glaswegian!

(I still prefer "three sheets to the wind" though.)

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, is that a velvet LBD?

(ever since I was small, I've always loved to stroke velvety material)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

FP - are you hitting on Kate?
Camper is just a make Kate, you can get them from most shoe shops.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

No! It's true! I just like the feel of velvet and stuff.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, it's velvet. I love to wear velvet. Especially as people seem to like to stroke me when I do. In fact, I'm wearing a navy blue velvet nautical style jacket today! I wore it to rehearsal last week, and two separate Shimuras stroked it!

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Kate - just to give you an idea...
http://www.wildlifeonline.com/acatalog/ww_camper.html

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad I'm not the only one there.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha, these are very cute:

http://www.wildlifeonline.com/acatalog/aw05-136-45728-2-wf_m.jpg

But not exactly very Regency, are they?

Sigh. I want Talbot's boots.

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

*These* are the type of boots I want. You can order them in wide, as well! I wonder if they ship to the UK...

http://www.epicadventures.com/Reviews/pull-up-riding-boots-large.jpg

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Grr, I just lost a quarter of my lunch time because my boss came to discuss server upgrades. I really should start going out of the office for lunch more.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

Bored now. Where is everyone? Talking about Big Brother? Sigh.

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Just back from lunch. Veggie lasagne and a chocolate bar (which was EIGHTY PENCE! I nearly had to break into tomorrow's train fare!)

I would sometimes like to stay in the office at lunchtime (rather than descending to mingle amongst the student rabble...) but there it literally no way I could avoid being badgered in an FP style, so I don't.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

It's funny, I used to love the ILE television threads, probably contributed to them more than any other kind. But I don't miss tv at all.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

I am tempted to disguise myself as a badger now.

My mum just called me. "[your Office Manager] says the IT department are rubbish!" She'd just been down our local shop, where the office manager was covering for the shop manager's holiday. It is unclear whether he knew who she was when he said we were rubbish.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

I never watched BB, even when I had TV, so I'm just perplexed by the sheer volume and the speed of the threads. They seem to be the only things that move when it's on. :-/

x-post, blimey.

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

kate that cbb thread is 487983276 better and cleverer and funnier than the actual programme is. do you want that amp from the shop round the corner?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Argh! I'd forgotten about the amp in the shop around the corner. I want it, but I can't afford it at the moment. If they still have it on the 25th, I might come round and get it after I get paid but right now I'm so broke. Which reminds me, I owe you money, don't I?

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, a bit. but after you've been paid is fine.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot effing believe that this cold has come back to me, I had it all over new year and it kindly left my head late last week. I've awoken today with the sore throat again and now I'm starting to feel achey. It takes the piss it really does.

anyway, hi everyone.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, poor Ste. Colds are rubbish.

I can bring you money when we get together for the Who thing, Emsk. I just can't go making any HUGE purchases like an amp.

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

k cool. yay who thing i am excited by!

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and we had lots of REALLY GREAT people round to see the belgian's room last night :)

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

That's good news. I hope you find someone nice!

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - running away at lunch is an essential part of sysadmin survival, FP! :). Although I have been feeling guilty and only been taking half-hour breaks instead of the full hour I'm supposed to have.

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

I just started writing a post about contact lenses but it was so boring I gave up. I hate wearing my glasses though :(

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Why? Glasses are great! They automatically make one look more intelligent! I love glasses. I love wearing them, and I love boys what wear them.

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. I am sweepy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't a bit early for spring cleaning?

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Granted.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

I am very proud of myself, because I have just booked someone to come and fix my stove. Hurrah!

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning! I am eating lunch. In the afternoon.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Morning Ned

Kate I don't like them cos they make me look square (they really aren't cool) but mainly cos they make the world distorted at the edges. I miss my peripheral vision :(

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot to mention how I am eating lunch whilst wearing glasses.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

And nothing else.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Well, Beanz, get new glasses, don't get contacts! Honestly, I'm not flirting (unlike TISSP there! hush you!) but I do honestly think that most people look better with glasses. More intelligent, more knowledgeable, all that kind of thing.

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

I concur, obviously :)

Ooh ooh I know what I wanted to ask! I'm sure at least one of you is practical enough to know this:

You know on a washing machine, the corrugated pipe bit at the back? Ours is too short to reach the outlet (inlet?) pipe under the sink, so we need to buy an extension. Is there a name for such an extension? And where do we get one?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

I was flirting purely with Ned, I assure you

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

I need both. I've been given new contacts but they aren't the right prescription so I have to go back. And they're soft lenses and before I wore gas-permeable and they take me 20 mins to put in anyway... I told you it was boring. Anyway, are you saying I look unintelligent?
xxpost

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

No, I'm just saying that you - and everyone else - looks even MORE intelligent with glasses.

And Archel, argh, you just reminded me that I still have to ring the washing machine people. I anticipate more trouble with them because I've not got a receipt.

I need coffee.

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Washing machines are evil - if I'd known a) that we'd have trouble plumbing ours in and b) the old tenant would be a slackster and not get HIS washing machine taken away, then I would have just tried to buy his off him and left ours at our old flat.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

I was flirting purely with Ned, I assure you

You shameless hussy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

i never liked glasses until i got the ones i'm wearing right now. this pic is crap but they're these ones:

http://www.specsavers.co.uk/specsavers/frames/images/thumb/1001261.jpg

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

but contacts are GREBT because of no loss of peripheral vision. and they don't get steamed up when you open the oven door (omg i made the BEST soup last night, practising for the who weekend) or wet when it rains. you do notice the wind in your eyes, though.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Captain Anderson never cared about wind or rain in his eyes... he is a real seaman...

Actually, that there is one exception to the rule. Jared Harris in glasses, much less attractive.

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk, my glasses look like yours. I expect they suit you better. OTM re steam and rain. But at least with glasses you can rub your eyes and it doesn't matter if a microscopic piece of dust gets in

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

He's got these horrible ambervision glasses which DO NOT suit him at all.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/JaredHarrisPhotoGallery/As%20himself/Events/JaredHarris_MrDeeds_premiere2.jpg

Note to gingers: Do NOT wear ambervision glasses. You will look like an orange bug.

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

I definitely look better than that. If only I had a big old boat too :)

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

If you had a big old SHIP (not boat!) you would be almost irresistable!

Dang, my colleague just made me hot chocolate, yum. Plus, I have just found out that this big, massive fuckoff project I thought I would have to do, I now don't have to do. After I'd already started it. Sigh.

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

so when are you going out with the cc pirate guy?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Huh? Oh, next week - either Tuesday or Friday. I guess. I sent him a link to the Shimuras Myspace, but then he complained there wasn't a picture of me on it. Maybe I should just send him a photo of me, and that will put him off from pestering me for drinks again.

God, why do I feel so awful about going on a date, like it's going to be such a chore?

I've just decided ahead of time that it's going to be a total failure, and he will reject me and it will just make me feel more rubbish and fat and ugly than I already do. :-(

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

kate stoppit! it sounds like you already have him tied round your little finger, to the extent that he can only make pirate noises at you to express his feelings. mebbe it'll be good and mebbe it'll be crap, but you're starting out pretty good.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

And also, he likes SPORT. Like, skiing and jumping out of aeroplanes and extreme type sports. That just makes me think we won't get on. Bah.

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

stuff like that is kind of beyond sport though, it's come full-circle and is back into FUN. and at least he DOES it rather than just WATCHES it... i dunno why that makes a difference but it does...

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Oh well, I suppose I should at least meet him and see how pointy his nose is.

(Yes, I am shallow, I know, but right now, alls I really want is a snog from an agreeably pointy-nosed pirate/captain.)

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I had an extreme sports bf once. It didn't seem to make him too much of a twat (although he did dump me in the pub for someone he met in Gran Canaria so maybe...)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

oh, ha - that magazine thingy - i decided to do it and i'd said no animal-tested stuff and they've decided they don't want to put me in that section after all, instead they want to do a whole feature on cruelty-free make up an ting. and they still want me to be in it. hurrah!

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, that's really really cool! Excellent! Bring on Emsk, the cruelty free model! (We can now boast about how we are all models now, what with the iD thing and all.)

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yowsa! I can say me I know international supermodels or somesuch.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry to butt in like this, but Archel - are you going to do the quiz at the Robin Hood again sometime soon? I should revive the Brighton thread to ask, I know... but oh no, didn't you say it's on Tuesdays? Emsk, I dare say your locks'll look lovely after some cruelty-free treatments, which ain't to say they look lank normally. And on the subject of soup, I made a fine yellow split-pea soup for a speed-addled rockstar this weekend, he needed a bit of proper protein I thought. I won't be tipping any into the Dalston Tardis though, don't worry.

― angle of d... (tingo), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

worry?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

it was a very thick soup.

― angle of d... (tingo), Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh quiz. Gone a bit quiet, I haven't heard when the next one is yet. Will see some BPEC folk tonight though so will ask.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 January 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there. Bah, why do I have to work with good-looking co-workers? It puts me right off my concentration.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 12 January 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

I like gazing admiringly at good looking people all day. It's a very pleasant way to pass the time :)

― C J (C J), Thursday, 12 January 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what's the matter with me today, I feel like I've been hit by a freight train. I didn't go out last night, went to bed early, had a nice sleep, but I'm sat in work and I feel I'm gonna pass out any second!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 January 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

There are some nasty 'flu-like bugs going around. Can you just go home sick and tuck yourself up in bed?

I spent yesterday being very cold and shivery, for no reason (i.e. the heating was on full-bore, but I was frozen anyway)

― C J (C J), Thursday, 12 January 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning
Went to the pub quiz yesterday but it was too busy for us to sit down – despite one of us turning up about an hour early – so we left for another (quizless) pub :( Now my life feels empty.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 12 January 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

I heart pub quizzes, except our team was always getting soundly thrashed by a team of Civil Servants. Bah.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 12 January 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

I heart pub quizzes too. Haven't been to one since August, though. (and not regularly for a couple of years)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 12 January 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

I despise pub quizzes, the only questions i can answer are some of the ones everyone knows anyway. I always come out feeling really dumb because my mates are so much smarter.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 January 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning all! I am sat in my kitchen eating breakfast and surfing the information superhighway. It makes me feel like I'm in a posh furniture advert.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 12 January 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

I like pub quizzes, because I am a big trivia geek.

I like gazing admiringly at good looking people all day. It's a very pleasant way to pass the time :)

Well yes, but you don't get much work done when you're admiring someone's hott boots all day.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 12 January 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

My new broadband has made my laptop basically fall over :(

Looks like I'll have to buy more memory. Now if only I could do that for my own memory...

On the plus side, our mattress arrived at 7.30 this morning and it's lovely.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 January 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

Have you christened it yet?

― C J (C J), Thursday, 12 January 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

I don't see why broadband itself should cause a problem?

(unless you're using one of those things that has to have PC-based drivers to work)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 12 January 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

Urgh, I feel awful today. I spent yesterday evening throwing up & now this morning I feel like I've swallowed a pot of pins & needles & they are all sticking in my throat. :-(

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 12 January 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

and you're in work? you sound worse than me

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 January 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, for some stupid reason! It's going to be fun being ill & not being allowed to take anything other than regular paracetamol to help.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 12 January 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

i'm on beechams for my cold and it's doing exactly fuck all.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 January 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

It's making Beechams rich...

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 12 January 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

Beechams Cold n Flu = exactly the same as normal paracetamol! (According to my doctor.)

Sorry you're feeling rough, PP and Ste.

Well, I don't know exactly what it is FP but the thing is running terribly slowly and crashing programs since we installed broadband, so... and we needed more memory anyway really.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 January 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

sorry to hear dat pink :(

i swear i just heard on the radio (half-listening, again, curses) that the japanese have made a glow-in-the-dark pig, but i can't find anything on the interweb. is it just wishful thinking on the part of my bored inner babelfish?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 12 January 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Glow-in-the-dark pig? I'll take a dozen

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 12 January 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

i know, i want PICTURES!

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 12 January 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

I am in the same boat as Ste and Pink, and Ste managed to describe my symptoms to a tee! Hence I am at home feeling sorry for myself today.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 12 January 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Would they make glowing bacon, I wonder. Thank god I'm veggie
xpost

I'm over my new year cold but I have every sympathy. Funny how it's hard to imagine feeling ill when you're well, though. Like you can't imagine being hot when you're cold or hungry when your belly's full

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 12 January 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Would they make glowing bacon, I wonder. Thank god I'm veggie

heheh me too, but there are prob enough suspicious chemicals in most pigs that it would already be dodgy to eat them. wot a great pet though! you would never fall over it in the night! apparently a pig has the same intelligence/consciousness level as a 3-year-old child.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

Bored inner babelfish? I need to get me one of those.

Good morning, folks! No Thameslink this morning, bah, so I had to come in on the bus. However, nautical novels are good for keeping out bus distractions.

AREGH! got immediately waylayed by the Admiralty upon sitting down at my desk and dragged into a meeting. More crap I have to do with the old Oracle system. Bah. I want to dump the whole thing over the side already but they insist they still have Pipeline due out of it.

I am so confused now, mixing and matching my nautical, programming and accounting metaphors, I don't know where I am! What century is this, anyway?

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

I know that they crossed the fishy glow in the dark gene with something... but I thought it was mice, not pigs. Glow in the dark mice would be horrible. But at least you would be able to catch the blighters more effectively.

All of the Kissing Time were ill last night, but I think ::knocks on wood:: that my hermitlike ways have made me avoid it. (I will get horrible sick now having said that.)

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

an advert appeared on telly last night for a new magazine, think it was called the 'Napoleonic Wars' or something, which included little figureens of soldiers. anyway, immediately thought of this thread when i saw it, ha ha

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

This is the sort of thing that makes me glad I don't have a telly, because had I seen it, I would have to have it. But I have not, so I don't.

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

yeh i found the mice but that was a few years ago. i listened intently to the midday news (or i tried, i am very easily distracted today) and there was no mention of it.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

yo kate you're really getting into not having a telly! i like it. is your housewarming on sunday?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

No, my housewarming is not until the 29th January. I will at some point send out an email and/or text messages about it, or maybe not becaues I'm lazy like that.

Are you around tonight? I think we're going to be having a band meeting to discuss, like, our demo and stuffs.

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

BTW - to all of my friends. If you think that you should have been invited to my housewarming, and you have not, it is because I'm lazy, not because I HAAAAAAAAAATE you. Especially if I don't have your email/phone number.

It is on the 29th and it shall be Scottish themed, for Burns night.

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

29th? ok, cool. good. tonight yeah i'm trying to be - it's at your hoose, right?

oh and also, on saturday it is russian new year in trafalgar square! wodka! dancing! hats! rrrussians! a russian "hard rock" band! chaos! fake snow! dry salty fish!

http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/russian_festival/

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Russian New Year? Is that like Canadian Christmas? Or did they never do the Julian/Gregorian Calendar switch?

yes, it's at my house. We are going to have to get takeaway (from next door, I think) as my stove is till brokkened.

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

yeh it's for the old calendar. the russian and the english went last year and had a whale of a time, so i'm going with them this year. they've got some russian stars - music/dancing/guards doing something/special russki beer - and last year they had fake snow. it is 11.30-6.30. we're taking our own wodka, apparently last year all the shops in a 1mile radius of trafalgar square sold out that day...

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

what is canadian christmas?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

You know - they have Thanksgiving a month before American Thanksgiving, so my cousins used to torture me with the idea that they also had Christmas a month before we did, and they got BETTER GIFTS and things cause our grannies loved them more. etc. etc.

I think I shall come to Russian New Year, it sounds like fun.

Also, we shall be DJing the V-Day special of Lovelife. Hurrah! I suppose I should post about that on either the Shimuras thread or the Pimp Yer Club thread.

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

Glowing pigs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4605202.stm

― Greig (treefell), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Ha me too

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Chronicling tissp!s immense lunch:

http://static.flickr.com/40/85609822_557b887e20.jpg

There are three identically sized baguettes, there, in case you can't see the third.

I may possibly live to regret this.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

That is a lot of baguette! I have two to go with my soup, but they are very very small.

Sigh. I wonder if there are little tiny Captain Anderson figurines. Anyway, I don't care about soldiers - what do you take me for, Kitty Bennett? It is the SAILORS I be wanting.

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Doesn't G-kit work with little soldier models? I know I've already pestered for photos of Napoleonic sailors.

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I am awake. Just.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hello Ned :)

― C J (C J), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning/afternoon Ned!

I am two thirds of the way through my sandwich. I'm starting to feel the pressure.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

hello ned!

thanks for the piggies greig! bloomin' 'eck. i know it is wrong, but i really want one (for a friend, not a meal).

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Hi dere Ms. CJ. Still rockin' the shires?

Oh yes, tissp. I have heard of you and your sandwich. It is an unnatural lust. (Depending on what you do with it.)

I shall check in again when I am settled at work.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, are you early? Not used to seeing you around these parts at this time of the day.

I have eaten one bowl of soup and one of my baguettes and still think I'm hungry. I may have to gobble up the second, as well.

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

(I have, however, solved the missing moneys problem in my database! Ha ha!)

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Post lunch sleepiness... I want to go home to bed. Spent all morning in meetings and it's sapped what little motivation there was to begin with

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Meetings. Bah! I've just had my boss in the kitchen complaining about meetings, and how they go round and round instead of getting any work done.

And it turns out, I haven't solved the mystery of the missing moneys. Bah.

I'm wondering if I *dare* look for Patrick O'Neil fanfict on the web but OHMIGOD, how much would I love to read some Aubrey/Maturin slash? It simply HAS to exist.

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

The missing chronicle: Brokeback Ocean. tee hee hee.

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I've just been given a doughnut. Things are looking up.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

OH MY LORD, MINE EYES!!!

Why did I look?

Of course there is. There's even Aubrey/Hornblower crossover slash. Erm, if anyone needs me, I'll be in the server room for the rest of the afternoon. Ha-hEM.

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey, we was on the radio, and I didn't even know.

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

209 Radio? I was going to go for a slot on that!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Today 209 Radio, tomorrow the world!

Grr, why do I always have the busiest sodding days when my coworker is chucking a sickie? Ah, to be at home and asleep on my dreamy new mattress...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

If you have a really busy day though, you'll be really ready for a great night's sleep on yer new mattress...

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

True, but since I'm going out for a friend's birthday later I might just pass out drunk on it and not feel the benefit :(

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

TAKE THE MATRESS

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Kate - do you have music on your site that I can download at home? (forgot to mention I'm all sparkly new PCed up at home now!)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Archel, you should celebrate tomorrow with pizza & a bottle of wine in bed!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

"Bring me your pillows... the ones that you dream on..."

So long as you don't throw up on your dreamy new mattress, you should be OK.

Sigh. I had forgotten that this was the problem with writing songs about boyfriends, is that after you wish them to go away and never be thought of again, the song lives on, and takes off and gets played on the radio and HANGS AROUND to always remind you of the sodding ex it was about.

This is good when it's a nasty horrible song about how nasty and horrible the boy was, but unfortunately it's a nice song and now I wish I could take it all back. Should have renamed it. Bah.

x-x-x-post you can download music off the MySpace site, I think, Pink! (No, I still haven't sent you off your CD because, well, I am a monkey.)

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

It's cool, I like monkeys!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 12 January 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I is back again or something. And hello Emsk, who I forgot to say hello to earlier, shame on me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 January 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

no shame necessary!

i am making pretend pizza for lunch. toast, with tomato puree (we have no tomatoes) and melted feta and pepper and basil on it. num.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 12 January 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yay no shame! Yay pretend pizza! Actually I really must have a bagel right about now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 January 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah! I just got tickets to see SLOOOOOOOO-AN!!! at the Underworld in Camden! Blimey!

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Good lord, they're still around?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 January 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

In Canadia, they are like gods to us peons of mortal men.

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

No, you're thinking of Rush.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 January 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

I feel sick. I, as promised, am living to regret the monstrous baguette.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 12 January 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

I do not regret the soup.

In fact, I am wishing for a quiet moment wherein to gobble up mine oranges!

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Thursday, 12 January 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning. Day's going very slowly so far

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 January 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

My day hasn't been bad so far. I've been left alone, and I've been busy programming Perl scripts to tidy up data in our Lotus Notes databases.

I was supposed to be having a conference call with a supplier at 10am, but it hasn't happened yet.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 13 January 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

it's really cold here.

I am fixing a cylinder vacuum cleaner. It needs a new flex, and it's one of those ones where the flex retracts into the machine with a big flat coil spring providing the motive power for this. I have managed to unravel the coil spring ARGH

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 13 January 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds like a total pain in the arse

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 January 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! ILX is very quiet today.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 13 January 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

The "easy" way to fix it is to just buy a whole new cable reel, and drop it in, but it's an electrolux, and electrolux parts are extortionately priced - the reel would cost me over 40 quid, plus vat, trade. So, I, argh bah, fuck it, I'm a mug.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 13 January 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

How about sellotaping a hook to the cleaner and winding the flex round it, and pretending that's how it was before?

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 January 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my lord, I'm hungover. Have any of the other Shimuras made it in to work yet? We rather tied one on last night, inaugurating first rehearsal in my new flat. Shimuras rehearsals have become like a host of booze-loving locusts descending on a place! We went through 4 bottles of pink wine, 1 bottle of red wine, half of bottle of Brandy and half a cask of Amontillado.

Blimey!

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Kate I'm surprised you can open your eyes let alone type.

i feel much better today actually. *look away if you think it's freaky* Plus, I think I just felt my baby move!! :-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 13 January 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

morning
well i managed 4 pints last night before i was feeling the full force of illness+alcohol, this weekend is not looking too good.

xpost, yay pink

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 13 January 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

Moving baby! Hurrah! Watch out, you may have a budding disco dancer in there!

It's not even the hangover that's the worst (all that damage was between 5 of us) but the lack of sleep. No one even left my flat until 2am. Gargh.

― Beauty and the Beastliness (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

I kida of had a milk hangover the other day, in that I drunk so much I threw it all back up again! Rock & roll, huh? Guys?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 13 January 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't there a sci fi series (Alien Nation?) where the aliens got drunk by drinking sour milk? Maybe your bump is really AN ALIEN!!!

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

Milk pukes are fun! Well, about as much fun as puking can be, I suppose

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 January 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's an alien that force feeds me! It makes me eat chocolate & carrot cake even if I'm full. Which incidentally I am ALL of the time! I'm not sure if it was that much fun Beanz, maybe I just wasn't in the right place! ;-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 13 January 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Plus it's forcing me to like really bad music!!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 13 January 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Forcing you? It's in your tummy, not your ears! I can understand how it would demand you eat, but demanding you listen to terrible music?

And how bad are we talking, anyway? I mean, like Kenny G or what?

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

was alien nation, yes. all the aliens had names assigned to them by the customs people when they arrived on the planet so they were all called things like George Washington and Albert Einstein. was funny.

am trying to think of a Poe-related joke to describe the rehearsal last night. am failing.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 13 January 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

...we bricked Anna up in the loo... that sort of thing?

However, Anna managed to escape from the loo (and the lure of the Country Lifes) so it will proove no good for capturing and holding hott Scots boys. :-(

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, was my halloumi squeaky today! Excellent!

However, I cannot keep my mind on my job. Sigh.

Plus, I went out to get my lunch, and as I came back, the Hott Boris Johnson Lookylike was SMOKING A CIGARETTE with one of the bosses out in front of the building. Which instantly cuts his attractiveness rating in half. Sigh. What a shame.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I felt similarly the other day when I noticed that the attractive co-worker who often wears Boots Of Sex has started smoking again.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ah hello. It's still too early over here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

(However, a very tiny, tiny, tiny piece of me wished that I smoked, so that I might go up to him and ask him for a light, big boy.)

x-post hello, Ned! up early again!

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Morning Ned!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

I must awake early, for I open the library and all. But that requires I get up at 5:30 am. :-/

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, Ned, you become more like a character from a Brautigan novel every day.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, but what is yer opinion on CIGARS, Kate?

Morning Ned! You have my respect and pity in equal amounts, as always!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I fixed it. I charged her £30. She was delighted.

Would that the rest of the day had been so productive. We ordered a set of wheel rims for someones bike. I was very specific - 36 spoke holes. They have sent me a pair of 28-hole rims. Fuckers.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I used to like cigars, until I started working in this office and our Tax Exile owner SMOKES THEM LIKE A CHIMNEY ALL OVER THE OFFICE, UGH!

It's funny, they're one of those things I don't mind smoking myself occasionally, but I do NOT want in the office.

Oh wait, you're asking me because you've seen me smoke a cigar, ha ha.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I wasn't. I was asking because I smoke them!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

And I am always concerned about what other people think of me, oh yes!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

You already know I think you're hott. :-P

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, I need to join a DVD rental thing, because I now have a desperate need to watch Igby Goes Down right now.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what TISSP looks like - but I think that nearly everyone is hott anyway. So, TISSP, if you're worried about your looks, ask me what I think!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I use www.screenselect.co.uk Kate, and I think they are pretty swish!

What do you think, FP?

(Sorry, too easy to miss)

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

TISSP is definitely hott. (Post the picture of you and Chris in the shopping cart!!!)

But my mind is on Jeff Goldblum and Jared Harris right now, sorry.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, aaaiiiy, that's expensive. I want one that charges me by the disc, not an unlimited thing, because I tend not to watch that many movies.

Maybe I'll stop by HMV or Virgin and buy it on the way home, but my god, I'm broke right now. :-(

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

libraries kate!

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, you cannot see me properly in the shopping cart one though!

Maybe it will be in HMV's sale (Withnail & I, £2.99, thankyou v much)?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Streatham Public Library has an apalling selection of videos. :-(

Plus, I have decided that I want to own it. perhaps after I have watched it a few times, I will send it to my brother, ha ha.

Is it wrong to fancy Kieran Culkin in it, too, considering he's, like, 12?

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

I went to the National Gallery this lunchtime and wandered around feeling very bourgeois. It's great but I think I wanted to be outdoors instead. The best bit was watching a gang of kids link arms and rush the pigeons in Trafalgar Square. Quite a cool little exhibition (free) of photos based on some famous paintings: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/tom_hunter

Kate you know that's wrong

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I read about that exhibit and thought it might be interesting.

Actually, I don't know how old he is. His character is definitely underage, but he's just so cute, and looks like a pubescent Julian Casablancas.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

I mean... he's *pretty*

http://www.wabson.org/trash/archives/igby.jpg

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

kate, you should rent the secret life of altar boys. he's cuter and younger in it. i know, i know... totally gross and wrong. still.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

plus it's a much better film.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

oh beanz i saw that exhibition too. and got a postcard of the buddhist and fox one. kate it's really cool, go see it!

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Lauren, you boycrush *pusher* you!

x-post but I *love* Igby Goes Down! For purely nostalgic reasons, it just reminds me of my own family and all the cnuts I went to school with.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

God no, that's too young, even for me... blimey!

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/thinkfilm/the_dangerous_lives_of_altar_boys/_group_photos/jodie_foster1.jpg

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Besides, no Jeff Goldblum, or indeed Jared Harris in bad drag.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Buddhist/fox was good. I think I liked the boyfriend on fire best, or the old woman surrounded by fag ash and pizza debris, although it was a bit clichéd maybe
xxxxxxxxxpost

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

i saw igd during bad turbulence on a plane. it reminds me of fearing for my life.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Joe rented it, thinking "oh, it's got pervey teenage boysex, it will turn Kate on like a pr0no" and I ended up totally engrossed, and just crying and crying and crying, but it was beautiful and sad and so familiar, and he just didn't understand my reaction.

It reminded me of Brideshead Revisited in a way, but without all the Slash.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

What do you think, FP?

I think you're hott! :-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

WUV.

Ah, Ned, you become more like a character from a Brautigan novel every day.

Surely I am far too genteel (when not destroying the world).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 January 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

omg i am totally posting from home (probably breaking some sort of unwritten watercooler rule there aren't I?). But, broadband agogo! Yay!

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 13 January 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Still waiting for my new memory to be delivered (in every sense...) but at least switching to Firefox instead of IE seems to have helped get SOME functioning.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 13 January 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Posting from home, oh my?

It's OK, Emsk also posts from home. But still. I think there is some mild frisson there.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

I post to this thread from home too.

I'm not now though.

(do you ever catch yourself thinking "right, time to go home" when you *mean* "time to go back to my office"? That's a bad sign, I think)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 13 January 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Back to the office from home??? Or from the outside world in general? No if the former, yes if the latter. Suppose it IS a bad sign, though it could also mean we feel comfortable at work...

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 13 January 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I spend more time at work than I do at home - well, waking time at least. Or maybe time, fullstop. I'm here an awful lot.

But the internet being my window on the world, I feel more comfortable when I have access to it, and I've not got it at home. I tend to think of home as "not the real world" but rather my paisley partition of paradise/fantasy ship land.

Sorry, I'm not making sense. I'm getting that post lunch energy lag.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I've spent the last half an hour reading the awful boss thread. I'm surprised it isn't the longest thread on ilx.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 January 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

WTF? My life insurance has been referred to a doctors questionnaire or something. Why? Argh.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm suddenly in a bad mood and feeling very misanthropic. Bah. This can't still be a hangover, can it?

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hangovers make me horny.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

When was the last time you looked at a pic of Capt Anderson?

xpost

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure we had a thread about the hangover-horn not that long ago.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

A few minutes ago. I found a messageboard about TTEOTE. It did not help. Sigh.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

OK, now I've got the shifting sense of panic to add to everything else. I sent CC Pirate a link to a photo of me, and basically said "here's my ugly mug, you can back out of meeting for drinks if you like" and he wrote back and was all "hey good-looking, see you Tuesday!"

So now, on top of everything else, I have to go on a date. Argh!

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Eeek. Good luck.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, you're going on a date, it must be so terrible for you!!!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

It's scary. I'm just not very good at it. Maybe he sees Kate-dating as another kind of eXtreme sport.

Ha ha, the Finn is teaching one of my colleagues how to pick up girls in Finnish.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Oh.

My.

God.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

What? What??

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

He just sent me his picture.

He's HOTT!!!! Very, very, very cute.

Long messy blond hair and a pointy nose.

I've gone from mildy panicked to VERY panicked.

He is, however, nearly a decade younger than me.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck teh age gap!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh Ooh Kate, is it possible for me to have a copy of the acapella of Stronger that you and the other Shimuras did? It is gorgeous and I would like to utilise it as a sample!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Having seen those photos, oh yeah, I bloody well hope to!

Errrr... blimey! It's like... I've been flirting with him for about 6 months now, thinking he was some fat, bald, middle aged computer geek like me (OK, apart from the bald bit) and instead he's ... errr, like SysAdmin Busted.

x-post, don't know... actually, yeah, I have it on a CD somewhere.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Cheers! Can I get it as a WAV or MP3 to save on postage?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'll bring the CD on Monday and email it to your gmail.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

If we're asking for Shimuras songs, would anyone be kind enough to email me an mp3 at this address? Thank you!

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Marvellous thankyou!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

It's only a snippet of a Shimuras song, Mark. I don't think my email will let me mail the whole thing!

Sorry, I'm going to go back and look at the CC Pirate's photo some more.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh me too please! Or happy to pay for a cd if you prefer
xxpost

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oi! I'm only sending it to TISSP because he wants to sample it. The rest of you are going to have to wait until the EP comes out, and get it from us at a gig.

(We are going to be recording this weekend, so we should have an ACTUAL cd soon.)

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Good!

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, a Shimuras CD!!! :-)

I just received a cute message from a good-looking stranger on OKCupid, so I am feeling a little strange.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 13 January 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, everyone. I think I've got another cold.

Nice weekend? I spent most of mine scanning photos. I've posted some up on the British Steam Power thread, and linked another on WDYLL.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 16 January 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

Hi all. I had a very productive weekend thanks. I made a bread and butter pudding and custard at the weekend - two things I've never made before, so that was an achievemtn. I also listed 30 cds on Amazon, and I've sold five of them already!

My goal for this week is to test my shiny new application, and to write this sodding tech. document for it. God, I hate documenting.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 16 January 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

article in the very first observer woman magazine

Fat calves and the great boot conspiracy:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/woman/story/0,16929,1683999,00.html

do you ever get the feeling you're being watched?

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 16 January 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

Waiting patiently for a piece in there commissioned on the basis that the editor remembers one of her writers has a gnarley littlest toe.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 16 January 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! Sleepy as usual. Saw Brokeback Mountain yesterday, which made everything slow down a bit somehow.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 16 January 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

do you ever get the feeling you're being watched?

Hah, yes, I thought of this thread when I read that article.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 16 January 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Likewise!

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 16 January 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

Newspapers in using internet as a zeitgeist measure and nicking all the ideas shockah!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 16 January 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!! Not only has she nicked my idea, but she's nicked a mispelled and chopped down version of my real name. Kathryn Flett a nonsense. Humph!

Anyway. I've spent the entire weekend recording and still kind of have studio goggles on. However, I'm not sending old mixes to anyone now as the new mixes... wow, they're sounding even better, if I may say so myself. I have double and triple tracked everything, step delay like a chorus of angels and I browbeat and bullied AMPy into giving the performances of her life.

However, I'm a bit bummed as Emsk asked me to go on a country walk on Sunday and I said no because I was recording, and in the end we ended up not recording on Sunday. Ah well, I got to do my laundry and make a curry at least.

Ooh, yay, can't wait to see your photos on the BSP thread, Forest.

Feeling very nervous about tomorrow, because I was trying to scare the CC Pirate off by sending him the link to my blog, thinking that would put him off. And then there was this sweet note in my inbox this morning saying that he had become completely addicted to it and had read the whole thing. ARRRGGHHH!

How am I going to avoid being such a terrible disapointment to someone who has such a blatant and obvious crush on me?

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

My immediate answer is by assuming control. He is basically ceding it to you with all his flattery etc., so grasp it with both hands. You set the rules, the tempo, etc., and assuming it goes well, this should give you the confidence to be what you want to be.

I don't mean control in a bad, manipulative way - I just mean in a "not giving too much of yourself or appearing over eager or under-confident" kind of way)

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Incidentally, Kate, just to let you know: today, I will be blogging about Boris Johnson.

Some fun office politics going down here. There's lots of building work going on, and we've known for a while that the IT Office - with several servers in it - will be moving to a new room. Today, the Office Manager has told me that he wants us to move next week, at a point where the new room will have:

a) no carpet. Which will be fitted *after* the move.
b) no ceiling. Which will be fitted... you get the idea.
c) no power supply. Because that can't be done until we have a ceiling. Ahahahah.
(it doesn't have any network cabling either as yet, but that's down to us anyway)

We have asked our boss to go and have a quiet word, regarding the importance of servers, and that running them off tens of metres of extension lead is a Bad Idea. Not to mention moving them, then having to move them again twice more to fit the carpet.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

(I read your blog most days, FP, so I would have commented when I saw it!)

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

What? This means I have to wait for my sample? Or I do not get it at all? Curses!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Well, you're not getting it today because I forgot to bring it. But I've got much *better* pretty lots of voices Beach Boys harmonies samples if you want them now.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

I've already written it - it just needs switching out of draft mode.

(I often don't have much time for blogging on Mondays, so I try to pre-write an entry the day before)

Incidentally, rereading above, I hope the CD will be easily available for those of us who can't make it to Shimuras gigs :-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I neglected to mention... YAAAAYYYY!!! Did anyone see us in the Guardian?!?! (My work, that is, not the band.) "Scrapping the £5 fee for the month of January" a nonsense - we are scrapping it PERMANENTLY because it is a bloody thorn in my side and I hate it. However, the £5 fee was the project that introduced CC Pirate and I, so it might not be a total waste...

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I still want it, especially if it's even prettier now!

What's the Guardian thing about? Have you already mentioned this and I've just missed it completely?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

No, it was on Saturday. My company are often in the Money section, my colleague is always being quoted on Mortgages, but they had a whole section on Financial Advisors, in which they were specifically talking about one of my projects.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm currently weighing up whether to huddle up in a corner and cry, or take a mallet to a Cisco router.

Highlight of the weekend was introducing my sister to Animal Crossing. She's been taking the piss all week because I've been playing it so much, but now it's all "you are going to leave the DS out before you go to work, aren't you?" Muahaha. Revenge is mine.

― carson dial (carson dial), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm currently weighing up whether to huddle up in a corner and cry, or take a mallet to a Cisco router.

I know which I'd choose.

Here, borrow my mallet.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

IT'S HAMMER TIME

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

morning! i haf spent saturday in a haze of wodka at russian nu year in trafalgar square, and sunday expunging said wodka from my system via a healthgiving walk in the kent countryside. we had MUD! PONIES! local ALE! a flask of SOUP! ONE STEEP INCLINE! VITA SACKVILLE-WEST'S CHILDHOOD HOME! where there were very friendly and chilled out DEER! a PEACOCK! a frightened HOSS! and an opportunity to catchup with friends i hadn't seen for far too long. then i came home and watched INVASION! is anyone else watching this? yesterday was the third and fourth episodes, i think. awesome rubbish crudely-done don't-go-near-the-water alium schtick, i loved it and will be watching again.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

I have Boris-blogged now.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Awwww, now I am really sad that I missed this walk. It sounds ACE.

However, I must console myself with the fact that I was a very good girl to do the recording, and that it is all sounding very good.

Even if it doesn't quite make up for tame deer and a PEATOCK!!!

x-post, hurrah, are there pictures? :-)

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hehehe, no.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Damn.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

I was meant to do some recording all weekend. But the band all had carbon monoxide poisoning from a dodgy heater at practice on Friday!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'm excited cos American Idol's back this week

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

yebbut we are doing another one (dependent on the belgian's friends visiting from the homeland wanting to do it, though if they don't and there are a few of us that do we can do it anyway), last weekend of jan, in sussex with a ruined manor, japanese pagoda, river, three roman columns and an arch in a field in the middle of nowhere.

and this date is EXCITING! sometimes boys are nice, and he is already into you so he must be on the side of good. i seem to be seeing this luke person.

also obv i cannot WAIT to hear the new recordings! hurrah hurrah. when can i?

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Last weekend of January... why do I think I am doing something that weekend?

DUH, EMSK, that is my housewarming party! Oh no! We cannot have both.

Seem to be seeing this Luke person? Oh, that sounds nice. However, I must meet him, so I can check out that he is good enough for you.

I don't know. I'm just getting Teh PH34r. You know, that he will be expecting someone younger, skinnier, prettier, less mad, more glamourous. I suppose that it's good that he appears this into me, based solely on email and conversation. But I can't help but think that I will be a disappointment, physically.

Anyway, that reminds me, I must email the other Shimuras and round them up for the next batch of recording.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

> last weekend of jan, in sussex with a ruined manor, japanese pagoda, river, three roman columns and an arch in a field in the middle of nowhere.

this and the peacock and dear makes it sound like kew gardens.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

New recordings are a GOOD thing. I guess I'm gonna have to wait in line for a copy, but I'm intrigued and excited by it, I must admit. And yes, boys can be nice, we're not all rubbish. Trust you to spin hott boy fancying you into a disaster!

I'm kinda sad I missed the walk now, even if I did make yummy bread and butter pudding instead, and got a shout-out on 6music! Emsk, have you got photos of deer/peacocks/ponies/etc? And there's another walk later this month? Cool!

And emsk has found a boy? See, we all TOLD you that you were teh hottness - do you believe us yet? ;)

Incidentally, what's happening with the Dr Soup marathon? Is this still on this weekend? (I should ask on the thread, I suppose) If so, I'm excited by this as well!

Oooooh, and it's the Royal Rumble this weekend, which excites me! And no, it's not sport, so Kate can't touch me! Ha ha ha!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 16 January 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

I've just realised I ended every paragraph there with an exclamation mark, except one, which I ended with a smiley. I do apologise - I'll try to keep my marks to a minimum in the future.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 16 January 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, I'm an idiot. There was this bloke hiding behind a column, like he was pretending not to be there. I was so distracted by him, (and said "everyone can see you!" as I walked by him) that I managed to collide with someone else. Argh. And spilled coffee all over him.

I hate myself right now. :-(

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

DOn't hate yourself - although in fairness, I hate myself whenever I spill stuff over.

Did you spill coffee over anyone important/funny/hott?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 16 January 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

I think it was one of the Directors. ARRRGGGHHHH!!!

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

One of those things. Everyone's done worse. I never spill stuff, ever ever ever... and then I tipped half a pint over you.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 16 January 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

At least he was nice about it. I still feel like a total klutz.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

DUH, EMSK, that is my housewarming party! Oh no! We cannot have both.

lawks, i am a fule. perhaps we can make the walk be on the saturday. your party is an afternoon thing, yes?

Seem to be seeing this Luke person? Oh, that sounds nice. However, I must meet him, so I can check out that he is good enough for you.

aw! i'm a bit confused by it all. he's y'know clever and funny and lefty and tall and wears a hat and it was him i was talking about when i said tennant-as-who reminds me of friend l.

I suppose that it's good that he appears this into me, based solely on email and conversation. But I can't help but think that I will be a disappointment, physically.

kate dude stop being so down on yrself! there is nuthin' wrong with you, and you should stop thinking there is. (and even if there was, anyone who would then turn you down based on that ain't worth shit, so either way you win.)

(btw i meant to say, i saw the beautiful black man on beautiful white horse on kennington park road on friday!)

no, i have no camera. the belgian had a camera and took some pics, but she doesn't hold with this modern high-falutin techy jiggery-pokery, so they're on, you know, photographic film.

And emsk has found a boy? See, we all TOLD you that you were teh hottness - do you believe us yet? ;)

um, no, not really! but that's ok.

Incidentally, what's happening with the Dr Soup marathon? Is this still on this weekend? (I should ask on the thread, I suppose) If so, I'm excited by this as well!

yes it is! other emma is working on getting the projector from work for the weekend. i think i am gonna make 2 soups. an tomato one and an blue one. and go and buy all the whoops! bread from sainsbury's at 9pm on thursday.

Oooooh, and it's the Royal Rumble this weekend, which excites me! And no, it's not sport, so Kate can't touch me! Ha ha ha!

i have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. and i think i am probably happier that way.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

lawks, i am a fule. perhaps we can make the walk be on the saturday. your party is an afternoon thing, yes?

But I thought you were doing something bicycle and Burns related on the Saturday, which is why my party is on the Sunday in the first place!

(btw i meant to say, i saw the beautiful black man on beautiful white horse on kennington park road on friday!)

::swoon:: Isn't he lovely?

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

please tell me that there are horse riding black cowboys in london, like there are in brooklyn!

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

But I thought you were doing something bicycle and Burns related on the Saturday, which is why my party is on the Sunday in the first place!

yep, but that's on the saturday night, not daytime. i think it starts around 7 or 8, so we'd have time to get to sussex, do a 10 mile walk, come home, shower and head up to the bicycle party.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, OK, that sounds like a very good idea. Maybe we should revive the Rolling London Walking Thread 2?

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

revived it v briefly on saturday... let me talk to the belgian (she has just hooked us up w tix for the shortwave set tonight woo!).

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 16 January 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

help please!

i finally got an email about some of that clinical research stuff (this is for a BRANE SCAN wow! and i get a picture of it to take home with me) and one of the stipulations is that i mustn't have metal piercings etc bc it makes it not work. i emailed back and said i do wear them but would be happy to take them out and they said that's fine, which is great except that i have never been able to get my labret (just below lower lip) piercing out ever since i got it (1997/8?). it's just a round stud one, the inside part is a disc with a stem on it, and the stud screws on to the top of the stem. it's screwed on really tightly and i've tried a few times to take it off with - gah, forgotten what it's called, but that grabby tool which is good for unscrewing tight things - but it's impossible to get enough purchase on the inside bit to unscrew the outside bit, and i'm not sure what i could use instead of teeth.

suggestions on how to accomplish same (preferably without ripping my face apart)?

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

owowowowowow oOOOw.

I'm sorry, I don't know. I've only ever had boring piercings like ears and nose.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

you might need to go to a piercer (who shouldn't charge for this). i've had a similar problem, and if the jewelry is stuck then it's stuck and you're probably not going to be able to get it out yourself without pain/damage.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

pliers

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

On a completely different subject, sorry to keep banging on about this, but I'm nervous - what the HECK should I wear on this date tomorrow?

I mean, should I dress up and make an effort, or should I just wear what I wear to work every day, or should I just wear a slightly more attractive version of what I wear to work every day.

AARRRRGGGGHHHH, he just emailed me again. I wish he would stop calling me "cutie".

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Stretch your hole?

(xpost)

Kate - the middle one - don't try to be too glam as it'll look out of place. Wear your nicest/smartest/newest work outfit.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm wondering if I might put on a skirt. I don't usually wear a skirt to work unless I've got a meeting. But this is, technically, a meeting. Of sorts.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Wear what you'd normally wear to work if you knew you were going somewhere nice afterward and were not going home to change. Skirt good.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

OK, that's it. It's all set up, can't back out now.

I'm just freaking out because it's been a long time since I was... well, *pursued*.

Since I met Joe, basically my lovelife has consisted of me chasing after and/or crushing hopelessly on basically uninterested guys. In fact, that's most of my adult life. So it's just a bit weird and backwards for me to be the object of crushing, rather than the crusher.

I will try to just relax and enjoy it.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Monday, 16 January 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

big xpost

thanks for the mallet, FP! I think you might need it to slap your Office Manager with, though :)

I hope it goes well tomorrow, Kate! (I would offer constructive advice, but I've only ever been on one actual date, and she ended up taking me to a frat moat party...so probably not too helpful :))

― carson dial (carson dial), Monday, 16 January 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all. Ah I love long weekends (even though I did just spend it plumbing in our recalcitrant washing machine, unpacking boxes and working on my dissertation).

How are you feeling about the Date this morning Kate? I hope you're nice and relaxed. Be yourself - that's who he's crushing on after all.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

hello, i'm back!

i've been off sick for a whole fucking week, see.
yah.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

This is what happens when you cohabit, g. You get GURL GERMS.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

Eeeewwww, GURL GERMS!!! Watch out, G-kit!

I am feeling sick and nervous about the date this morning. I have dressed carefully and got myself to the point where I almost think I look nice - or would, if I weren't so bloody fat, and didn't have so many chins. Except now I'm sweating. Great.

I just wish I didn't have to do it. There's a part of me that's all "let's get this over with, and disabuse him of this notion that I am 'cute' already" contrasted with "actually, it's kind of *nice* and flattering to be crushed on, I don't want to have to destroy it with the harsh wind of reality."

Bleurgh. At least there's finally been some bloody ACTION in my nautical novel. Blowing holes in privateers and all that, oh yes!

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! I've got Madonna songs in my head :(

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

will i turn into a gurl?

― snowkitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

"What it feels like... for a GURL..."

(answer to both of you.)

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Good luck with the date, Kate.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

Good luck with the date! I'm sure you'll be fine.

I did some recording over the weekend as well, I'll try and get an mp3 made, maybe tonight.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

grr, I was just sitting at my desk working away at an urgent programming job - so urgent, The Boss has asked for Daily Progress Reports on it, which is unusual - when The Co-Worker (who is technically my line manager but doesn't normally pull rank) came and said: "you need to start getting the network cables in office 23 sorted out."

"Well, I'm in the middle of..."

"Yeah, but that's not important. We need to sort office 23, because the way the rebuilding plans keep changing the next thing you know they'll be blaming us for it being late."

So, now it's on with the overalls and poking wires through walls. Except, I can't start yet because the carpenter is still in the way anyway. Grrrr.

I hate it when people come and say "you must do X, now." Especially as The Co-Worker is *always* moaning about people who come and say the same to him. And even more especially as: if our boss finds out, he'll say: "Forget that, you should be working on [what I was doing originally]". Grrrr.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

co-worker needs to clear this with The Boss obviously. i did read somewhere about someone who'd set up a work order system where other people could see what he had to do and add new things to it but where everyone could see who had assigned the work. meaning that they had to settle the arguments, not him.

big company meeting yesterday. last 18 months work abandoned. starting something new, more interesting to me but riskier. (no details unfortunately, not until the prototype is done). of course the first thing they did was to think up a project name only to choose something already used by big, ligitious, american media company. oh um.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

God, FP, where is your boss/line manager in all this? When I have conflicts, or pushy people trying to jump the queue and get their demands taken care of, I have been just about *ordered* to tell them to check it with my line manager or the FD.

That way, they have to make the case that their project is important with someone who is *their* superior, rather than you having to juggle egos.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

A Cock and Bull Story is sold out at the NFT tonight :(

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

see it another night.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god, all three of my coworkers are going to a conference tomorrow and I'm stuck here on my own for the rest of the week and I KNOW there are loads of problems brewing which won't erupt until I'm the only one here. While they're all in Belfast getting pissed.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Just start drinking on the job, in solidarity.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

'start'...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah! I am very pleased, as I have *finally* solved the Mystery of the Missing Half Million Pounds.

Some... IDIOTS continued writing cases in the old Oracle system right up through August. When we did our open pipeline, I excluded July cases, but did not think to exclude August, as there were not supposed to *be* any August cases. That's the missing half a million pounds. Not Value Variance, not cases being deaded without telling the MD's. Cases where there shouldn't be!

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Right, lunch time.

Our boss, if I'd asked him about it, would have probably said. "mmm. it needs doing. do it this afternoon." - thus balancing a) his own priorities as to what I should be doing b) the co-worker's ego c) his need to constantly look Decisive and Pro-Active.

When the carpenter had finished, I called up the co-worker and said: "right, are you going to come down and give me a hand?" "Sure." He turned up half an hour later, after I had accidentally strewn a load of important live network cables across the room and was struggling to get them back in the conduit.

Still, he had a good excuse. He'd been on the phone to the manager of the other office for half an hour, trying to diagnose why none of their printers were working. Because someone had turned them off at the wall. It took them both HALF AN HOUR to work that out. Fucking hell.

Oh, and, when all our cable conduits were put in, noone bothered to clean them after drilling the holes. So, I am now covered in brick dust that should have been swept up ten years ago.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

Woo! £10 on the lottery! I am a gambling god!!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

i am a golden god. let's do lunch n stuf.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

And people were bemoaning the lack of Gambling in the English that Orwell had decried these days...

These days... ha ha ha, Boris Johnson made me cackle like a sick duck taking James Cunt and the Kaiser Chefs to task for not being LOUTISH enough to be Proper Rock Stars. Oh, how I love him.

― Disciplining And Controlling My Mind (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Another day, another broken piece of shit cheap mountain bike. Why do ppl pay money for this junk? Argh. At leastI have the part in stock to fix it with, I suppose.

We (ie the covers band) played at this pub in Gateshead on Sat night, and afterwards the barman played this great music, chunky-sounding '70's-sounding rock w/lots of moogy-sounding synthesiser. The drummer asked him what it was, and he named this local band. He took my address, and the band sent me their 3-track CD EP. It's OK, but it's a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BAND. According to our old bass player, he of the 17k bass rig, a later track on the tape the barman was playing was by uriah heep. wtf, am I going to have to trawl through the heep's (not 100% great, to put it mildly) '70's catalogue, in the hope of finding this track? I think I'll wait 'till we play at that pub again.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

I think the musical folks on here need to write me a song: lalala I work with idiots and megalomaniacs lalala, I'm going slowly meeeennnnntttalll lalalala.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot keep my mind on work today. I'm getting nothing done. Except updating my blog and reading others' blogs. Argh.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm mostly reading ilx and sending people pictures of hedgehogs. I'm not one of those people who emails 'amusing' things all day, but there's something about hedgehogs...

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

There were some bloody good photos of hedgehogs on that site that you linked to on the other thread.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

What's all this about pliers? I fear strange operations are afoot. Hello all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

RJG has been after Emsk's labrette with a pair of pliers? That sounds dirty.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

But it is RJG, and he is a man of love, so I would trust him.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

i've been going through the thread looking for the posts that say "oh gee, where is g-kit he hasn't bin here 4 liek a week n stuf i hoep he's ok!! lol" i can't find them though! where should i be looking?

― snowkitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

(Perhaps I am merely jealous. ::little swoony sigh:: )

x-post OH NO, WHERE IS G-KIT, OH WAIT, THERE HE IS POSTING RIGHT ABOVE ME, EVERYTHING IS OK!!!

Speaking of missing Watercoolers, where's JB gone lately?

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

sarcasm detected!

― snowkitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

What sarcasm? If RJG were to go after me with pliers, I'm sure he'd either be trying to remove my bathroom window or else kill me. ::another swoony sigh::

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

what the fuck

― snowkitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Have a cookie, sweetie. I think I'm going to have some chocaccino now.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

should i feel patronised?

― snowkitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

No, I am making jokes. You know, ha ha, a funny?

I'm sorry, I'm just not very good at them.

(I have, however, just got my chococcino, and the bloke who made me spill the other bloke's coffee was in there, oh no.)

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

people usually call me sweetie when they are patronising me. sorry sorry sorry.

sorry

― snowkitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

No, no, not at all! I was calling you sweetie as in "sweets for the sweet" type affection! If I could have written it on a candy heart, I would have.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

okies. that's very heartwarming, thanks.

i'm eating these hella-menthol Lockets. it's like my head is made of mint. it's quite good.

― snowkitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

You inspired my food-that-hurts thread

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Argh! I've just had a HUGE project dumped on my desk. No way I'm going to be able to finish it before I'm due to leave. Maybe I should just cancel the date. I'm being really slack with work lately.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Tell your boss to fuck off, you've got a date. Or words to that effect.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really want to go on the date. :-(

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

I think we got that impression. Tell us how it goes!

(Haha advice I approve of but am rubbish at taking: Do one thing every day that terrifies you)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

I actually feel slightly physically ill.

I'm not sure if this is nerves, or hunger. Either way, it isn't pleasant. :-(

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Well, good luck anyway.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

good luck kate!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

...so, dare we ask how it went?

Ugh, I feel like cack this morning. Too much wine last night, my dodgy shoulder is playing up again, everything is in chaos at work and it looks like I have no cover arranged while I'm on my own so I won't get to even go to the bloody toilet between 9 and 6 tomorrow, lovely.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

I thought about Kate last night as I was putting together a mix cd, and I sent her good vibes.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

where bloody is she? she is usually in at 10, right? or is it 10.30?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

in the meantime, did everyone hear about kevin shields joining a noise reduction group campaigning against pubs near him getting later licences?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHA

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

...and if they don't comply, he will SCRAMBLE THEIR INNARDS WITH HIS ARSEQUAKING NOISE MACHINE.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

's true!

http://playlouder.com/news/~brook-no-more-sh/?key=2248d2-207784

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

According to that article, it's not late music he's disagreeing with, it's rubbish music.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

the Abbey are robbing me blind! CUNTS!!!

― the kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was 10:30 emsk, yeh. She has to get coffee and - shock horror - DO SOME WORK - before coming on here and entertaining us lot.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

but - unlike bryan sodding adams - he was willing to put up with the rubbish music that he knew would be playing until 11 when he moved into the house. now they're threatening to play the rubbish music two hours later, he's come out fightin'.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! At home at the moment – bit of a plumbing problem so I have to hang around for a while. Started the day by being sprayed with cold water :( Going into work soon though, which is worse

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hello! I saw an article Doomie posted on ILM about Kevin Shields and his NOIZE fite. He's trying to stop afterhours music - rubbish music. And he was actually saying, quite sensibly, that when he build his studio, he spent £70,000 on soundproofing because he knew about the effects of loud music - and just wants the club to show the same consideration.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

the abbey? g, are you a rich monk?

and in that case, i nearly got run over again yesterday by some prick in a car! (am completely fine, didn't even fall off this time.) he was stopped to check traffic coming into the street i was on from a side-street, but he only looked to his left before suddenly pulling sharp right and i was coming from his right. bargh! i thought it was gonna be even worse than just some divvy messing my bike up a bit because it was lunchtime on old street and all the cool east london teenage boys were on their lunch break hanging around the street eating their chips and i thought they were going to rip the piss out of me, but HURRAH they all came out on my side! "kick his car in!" "yeah, look where you're going!" (in agreement to me yelling at the driver) &c &c. the driver wouldn't even open his window to talk to me, har har. he did something weird to the front wheel so i had to spend 20 minutes with the bike upside down fiddling with the wheel and brake blocks and stuff, but then i got a "yay" when i fixed it and rode off, and one of them even offered me help! f'some reason this whole thing gave me a massive ego-boost, hm.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

kate! how'd it go?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

Man, two of my colleagues have told me they're pregnant today. I feel broody :/

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

Stupid drivers, bah, but hurrah for cool East London boyz.

How'd what go? The date. Oh, yeah, it was a bit rubbish. Kinda boring... we didn't really have much in common, no chemistry, didn't really hit it off...

Oh, who am I kidding? It was freaking AWESOME!!!

We had such a blast! I'm just fabbergasted that we had such a good time. He's just the same as he is in email, really funny and charming and flirty, we totally hit it off, bitching about our users and talking about computers. Had a few drinks, then went for Mexican, (it was perfect, we were just walking down the street, going "hrmmm, I quite fancy Mexican and this woman appeared out of nowhere and handed us a flyer for a 2 for 1 deal, and he was all "did you hear us?" and apparently she didn't, it was just fate) and then the restaurant turned into a club, and there was dancing. But we were too busy drinking pitchers of Long Island Iced Tea and talking and laughing and then we had a big snog.

Oh my god. What have I done to deserve this? Whatever it is, please let me know so I can carry on doing it. It's been AGES since anyone, fullstop, made me feel attractive and sexy, like they fancied me or anything. And now this totally HOTTTTTTTTTT boy is acting, for all intents and purposes, like he's really into me. I mean, he's *lovely* - he's got jaw-length slightly gingery-strawberry-golden-blond hair that makes me go weak in the knees, pointy nose and cheekbones like dinnerplates. And he's clever! And funny! And I can't believe I get to touch him, let alone snog him!

I didn't take him home through sheer force of willpower because I knew I had to get up early to let the repairman in. But oh! my! god!

How did that happen?

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

!!! Brilliant!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

wow!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

He lives in South London, too! On the same train line as me! So convenient!

He was messaging me at 8.30 this morning! ::swoon:: Going to see him again this weekend. :-)

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Yay!

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

YEAH! YEAH YEAH YEAH!

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent news darl! x

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray, love is blossoming at the watercooler!

Perhaps I should turn off Waits and listen to something more cheery to reflect the mood.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

Must. Concentrate. On. Work.

Must NOT spend the morning emailing him. I sent him a picture of the Monkeys to make him laugh, though.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck that

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

monkeys or monkees?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yay to Kate and nice things happening!

Sending him pictures of monkees U&K.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

Monkeys! Typing on computers!

Also, should I be mean and point him to where there are photos of my knickers on the interweb?

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

Are they good knickers or bad knickers?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Sexy knickers. And fishnets. It's a Lollies photo where I'm doing a high kick. Hang on...

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

I fear he might explode if he saw this! Or have to spend some ... ha-HEM quiet time in the server room by himself. ;-)

http://home.freeuk.net/rattail2/pic18/lol705.jpg

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

In fairness, that's GOOOOD photo of you. That's the artillery, I'd save that link for a rainy day!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

It's raining today! ;-)

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

it's ok now, i got my broker to bust some heads.

― the kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, nice legs! Send it to him at once.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad it went well, congratulations!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

They ARE good legs, and cute face as well - send it to him now, or save it a fortnight for maximum effect, is my point.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't had band practice for like two weeks what with being ill n stuff.

― the kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, no rehearsal? You must be missing your jag. We have rehearsal tomorrow. (Yes, I was offered a date tomorrow, but I turned down sex to go practise. See how dedicated I am?)

Also, I neglected to mention because I was so excited by the snogging, that my stove is fine, but my electrics are totally buggered. Need to get an electrician to come in and sort out the wiring. ARRGGGHHH!!!

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

I need to start a covers band, my guitar skilz0rz are being wasted. We'll start by covering "I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major General" in a punk stylee.

Turned down sex for the band? That's hardcore prioritising, fair play.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

Well, actually, the main reason that I was going to send him the picture with the legs is because he was all "why are you so self depreciating on your blog? you're not fat at all!" (aw, bless) and I was trying to explain, "yeah, sure, I'm not HUUUGE or anything, but I used to be about 2 stone lighter and I'm a bit self conscious about it."

So part of me is all, ha ha, I think he'll get a kick (heh) out of it, but part of it is... well, see I *used* to look like this. I'm not ugly, but compared with what I used to look like, I just don't look as good any more. :-(

But I am trying NOT to do the self depreciating thing, and just be all yeah, I am a seX0r godde$$ ph34r my mad seXine$$ and all.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

all the cool east london teenage boys were on their lunch break hanging around the street eating their chips

they're from the boys' school opposite us. you're lucky they didn't yell "get your tits out!".

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

I know what you mean Kate. I always say "I'm not massively fat, I just used to be a lot slimmer & it kind of gets to me." That's totally understandable.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Argh Lauren I know EXACTLY the boys you mean.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's exactly it, Pink.

However, what's really nice, and makes me feel like a million pounds, is the idea that he does, actually fancy me *now*, the way I am now, extra weight and all. That's kind of a relief. Like, it would be nice if I could lose a bit of weight, but I don't feel pressure like I *have* to look like that skinny thing I used to be. Does that make any kind of sense?

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

it makes perfect sense & it certainly shows that he's a good sort!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

I prohibit all the members of my band from having sex. The frustration brings out the best in them.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

they're from the boys' school opposite us. you're lucky they didn't yell "get your tits out!".

well that was almost what i was expecting! i got one gentle heckle while was fixing the bike ("give up, it ain't gonna work! just buy a new bike!") but no jibes or hur-hur-ing at all. and boys' school - ah, that explains why there were no cool east london teenage girls eating their chips. i was wondering about that. actually maybe they would have given me a much harder time.

finally, she gets it! that makes all the sense in the world.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

I keep wanting to say "he does actually (apparently - or - allegedly) fancy me"

God, I'm only just realising now what a job I had done on my sexual/self esteem. I mean, first Joe, and then M*gn*s with his whole "ooh, I *like* you, but I couldn't *possibly* have sex with you..." schtick... I honestly thought there was something *wrong* with me, like I had to be totally unfanciable.

But there's nothing for your sexual self esteem like having a totally hotttt boy just about humping you. No mistaking that for neurotic maybe-I-like-you-maybe-I-don't. Like, OK, I guess that still works. Phew! I'm trying very hard not to think "errr... you fancy *me*? What's wrong with you?"

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Why is it other ppl's issues affect us so much? It's terrible. I'm glad this seems to be working out hon, really I am. You deserve only good things. *hugs*

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

woo i just got me some work. just a bit, mind, but still :)

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

yay! What will you be doing?

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

freelance press releases for some good shit :)

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Coo! And thanks for reminding me that I still had yet to send out invites to my housewarming. I've forgotten to invite all kinds of people, bah... still need to send out more. Especially to people whose email I don't have or can't find - guess I'll just text them.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I am SOOO HUNGRY today. What is up with this? I'm not supposed to get hungry until 2pm or later. And my stomach started rumbling at 1.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

I broke my mobile at the w/e & have subsequently lost all of my numbers & photos. :-( Duh!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no! How did you break it?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, oh no! That is the worst! Cause then you have to email all your friends and ask them for their phone numbers again.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

oh no! this isn't much help now but you could get one of these -

http://paramountzone.com/redo/simbig.jpg

i have one of the old-skool ones. my bro gave it me because i kept losing my phone. actually maybe i should re-do it, i have lots of new numbers.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently I can buy a cable to get all of the info from my old phone to my new phone, but I've already spent £50!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

I think the carphone warehouse offer this service--not sure how much it is though. Alternatively you can always try asking the people in yer network's shop if they can do it for you (for gratis).

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

What phones are you transferring from/to?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Samsung d500 to the same. I think 02 (my network) offer it, but it sure aint free!!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm. I may be able to do this for you... let me check.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Nice one Tissp!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Right, I think you can do this using the Bluetooth on the phone. I'm not entirely sure whether you will be able to do a straight phone to phone transfer through it, which may not work if both phones need a SIM.. alternatively, you could get the software for a bluetooth enabled computer and use that as a middle man--I have a bluetooth laptop but I'm not sure if there is a Mac version of the software... finally I've put some feelers out for a data cable you can borrow....

Sorry that I can't give a definite answer, but if you want to try anything then shout up and I'm willing to give it a go...

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently I should be able to download some software from the samsung site so that i can transfer the bluetooth info on the broken phone to the pc & then to the new phone. I hope ti works! Thanks Tissp!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

No probs! Like I say, shout up if you want a hand :)

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Last night, CC Pirate was laughing at my superannuated phone, and I was all defensive about it. But hearing about all these complications, and the things you can do with them, Bluetooth and all that, now I'm not so sure. Bah.

Hope it all gets sorted out, Pink!

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Cheers both of you! Tissp are you on msn if i have any probs?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations on the grate date, Kate!

I am so sleepy and bored this afternoon. On the other hand, I did get another message from a nice-sounding person on OKCupid at lunchtime.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Not on MSN I'm afraid. I have an AIM account though if you can get that?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, messages from OKCupid always good! Something like that can cheer up an entire miserably rainy afternoon.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

weex! i am gettin my BRANE SCANNED on monday! and thursday! i must not drink lots and lots on sunday. i better go sort this piercing thing out... (thanks for the info btw lauren!)

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Morning you lot. Damn, I'm sleepy today.

Incidentally, the nice OKCupid person looks a bit like Emsk would if she had ginger hair.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

Morning FP. Morning all.

I'm bored out of my mind already and it's only 10.20. Is that too early to start on the chocolate biscuits? Oh, and there is NO cover arranged for me today so I basically can't leave my desk for 8 hours...

Ooh, excitement - my friend was evacuated last night and had to stay at mine:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4626094.stm

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm starving. Chocolate biscuits definitely sound liek a good idea.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, it's the office secretary's birthday, and she's brought in some rather nice looking cake. In fact, she just called me and said: "plain or chocolate?"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

Chocolate biscuits definitely sound liek a good idea.

roffles! was that 'liek' deliberate?

― the kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

A CHOICE of cake! No day with a choice of cake can be all bad.

I'm going to make biscuits tonight I think.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

It was only a very thin slice, but it was tasty. And I got a chocolate biscuit too.

was that 'liek' deliberate?

Um, no.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

Incidentally, the nice OKCupid person looks a bit like Emsk would if she had ginger hair.

er, i do! it isn't me though. i am not on ok cupid.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! Winnie The Pooh quiz, anyone?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4623850.stm

(no cake here, boo!)

― carson dial (carson dial), Thursday, 19 January 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

You *do*? Hang on, you are the person I'm thinking of, aren't you? We have met?

I could have sworn you had dark hair.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk, you have very warm medium brown hair that has coppery/blonde sun-bleaching.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Suzy! How are you?!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

erm, i've had my hair my entire life and i know what colour it is, thanks. i've also had the piss ripped out of me often and nastily enough at school to know it's not brown. however, it is often very dirty.

forest, yeah, in the lyceum...

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

That's it. Where we got cordoned off by the police.

(actually, I think that was just me and Kate)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

suspected murderer caught because he used the victim's oyster card!

http://www.kingstonguardian.co.uk/hpn/display.var.674030.0.suspect_used_murdered_lawyers_oyster_card.php

yep, i got there later - i thought i wasn't gonna be able to get across waterloo bridge cos it was all closed off but it opened up again just as i got there.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

suzy knows everyone's hair, emsk

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, meetings all morning. My brain hurts. I'm so ready for lunch

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk's hair is RED AS COPPER WIRE, RED AS A SUNSET, GINGER AS A TOMCAT, GINGER LIKE GINGERBREAD. If you looked up red hair in the dictionary, there would be a picture of Emsk's fantastical mane. I've never heard such nonsense of Emsk not being a ginger.

Anyway, man, I would like cake. Very much. Or cookies.

Awww, I got in to find a couple of very sweet emails from CC Pirate, going "oh no, where are you my phone is broken?" and there was me wondering why he hadn't responded to my message. Fule. :-) He said that he had been telling all his friends about me. And I was all "oh god, oh no, oh no..." and then realised I'd been doing exactly the same thing. Ha ha! I think this is good.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk's hair is much darker than what I would consider 'ginger' which is a much lighter colour and indeed her hair is darker than Anna's red. It is definitely on the mahogany/auburn/titian end of the red scale.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Anna's natural hair or dyed hair? Anna's dyed and Emsk's red are pretty durn close in tone.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

yo, this is definitely good! hee hee i have shown the belgian pictures of him too :)

xpost suzy i tried for YEARS to get away with saying it was "auburn" to avoid schoolkid hell - no dice... but like i say, it is often very dirty as it only gets washed every 2-3 weeks. are you coming to dr who? i am gonna wash it today so it will be brighter than sometimes. auburn/titian i'll totally go for, but brown? na.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Doesn't matter what way you spin it, emsk's got the bestest gingerest hair in all of christendom. Fair play to you if you're using a different definition of ginger to everyone else, but according to the rest of the planet, her hair's ginger. xpost

And I have decided upon Leek+potato soup, and I'm gonna try carrot+artichoke as well. Emsk, what bus do i need to get on from VIctoria? 22, maybe?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk has gorgeous hair which is darker than either version of Anna's hair. Emsk's hair is a lot like my friend N3lli3's in terms of colour (dark auburn, holds light well). Hilariously there is a c.1850 photo portrait of N's great-grandmother (her dad is 91) where the retoucher has made the hair BRIGHT COPPER visible all these years later. The red gene is very strong in her family.

Yes I will have to see the hair freshly washed but please remind your schoolie self that red hair darkens with age.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Suzy, you know I love you, but it might be time to think about investing in a pair of glasses. ;-P

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Clearly my memory of Emsk's hair has faded. Unlike the hair itself.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

what colour's your hair, suzy?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

Suzy's hair = green with blue stripes and purple spots.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that's what colour I REGARD it to be!

(oh you know you I'm pulling ur leg!)

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Suzy's hair = Brazil Nut, cause it says so on the box!

(I mean, if you want to argue about whether my hair is dark blonde or light brown, that's fair enough.)

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

When I was doing my A-levels my hair went an odd grey colour - eeek!

Does this mean I get to participate in a ha1r dy3 conversation? Yay!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

It was dyed 'Brasilia' (which is my version of Mother Black) for ages but I let it grow out. It's still a dark brown, though I wish it were darker.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

i was just looking at it in the mirror and even before washing, there's no way you could call it brown. seriously. absolutely no way. yes, it's darkened with age. but no way.

mmmm aaahh last night i practised the courgette and blu cheese soup and omg, it is SO. FULL. ON. one tiny dish each and we were sprawled on our backs with our hands behind our heads. we are ALL in for such a treat this w/e by the sound of things! plus i am building up quite the artillery of soups.

johnny, it's the 38 from victoria. what time d'you reckon you'll get into victoria? it might be faster to jump on the tube (vic line) to highbury & islington then get the 30 or 277 to the same bus stop as the 38 stops at... it would be more hassle though... and also - single tube journey, from anywhere in zone 1-4 to anywhere else in zone 1-4 with oyster card- £1. same journey w/o oyster - THREE BASTARD POUNDS! even if you only go ONE STOP! in zone FOUR! this is cuntish behaviour.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oi, TISSP! Are you online today? Is that Gmail account good to send things to, because I've got some samples for you!

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I' leave work at 4, so on the oxford tube by 5 - get into victoria about 6.30-7ish? Mayeb later when you factor in the traffic? Either way, I shouldn't be TOO much later than 8.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

8 is fine then. yay!

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk, did you send out any emails about this? Because I think that Catty and Dazza would probably like to come - because I asked Catty if they were coming and she was all "sniff, I didn't get invited".

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yay indeed - I've never made carrot and artichoke soup before (indeed, I've never to my knowledge eaten artichoke before) so I do apologise if it all goes wrong.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, the shame. I just had to confess to my colleagues (I didn't want to tell them because I knew they wouldn't understand) that I couldn't go out for drinks with them because I was going to a ... Doctor Who Marathon.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha, OK, they all laughed, but now we are debating which was scarier, the daleks or the cybermen!

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk has rockin' hair and that is the key point.

Yay Kate yay date! Yay and all that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

I've done something similar to Kate RE telling people about this weekend. I've bigged it up by saying that it's both geeky (Doctor Who) and super-twee (soup). Just Doctor Who may bring you shame, but Who + soup brings you admiration, although not necessarily of the right type.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Neither were as scary as the theme tune.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I think that they were even more flabbergasted by the soup thing than by the Dr. Who thing.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

I got that too, but I figures it was just odd sorts who thought that a soup tasting was weirder than a who marathon. Everyone likes soup, right? So a soup weekend = a good thing? How does this logic not work?

In other news, I've bought an SAD lamp today, so I'll see if my mood perks up after using it for a bit. I was gonna have it at work, so I tested the waters with my collegues. "So what do you make of this SAD then?" I asked. They then got busy saying how the following were all made up to give people jobs and provide excuses to hyperchondriacs: SAD, ADHD, dyslexia, tourettes and depression.

I think I'll keep my lamp at home.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, for gods sake. People like that, I'd like to break their legs and then tell them it was all in their minds, come on, chop chop, go on a hike with me. Grrrrrr...

I've just had the most awful spontaneous meeting about this SAME CRAP BUDGET that we've been going over with a fine toothed comb. And I've solved this, again and again, but they still keep insisting that the OLD CRAP, TOTALLY WRONG, TOTALLY ESTIMATED old numbers still have to somehow match to the new ones.

Like, dude? What do you want? A pretty spreadsheet that matches your budget? Or an accurate record of what actually happened in the database?

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

i vote today to be worlds most dullest weather day, i really do.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

and by dull i don't just mean literally overcast i mean borrrrrrrring

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

I think I need a little anger management RIGHT NOW.

Or perhaps another cup of coffee.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Doughnut day! Been in meetings all morning and out interviewing all afternoon and then I get a text telling me to come back to the office via the Krispy Kreme counter at Tesco. Guess I should do some work too...

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Give to me your doughnuts. For medicinal purposes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Why, Ned, are you getting cravings already? Send Dan out for donuts!

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

All gone! Too late. And it's no good buttering me up with British spelling either, my colleagues are greedier than you.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I want donuts. My boss bought Chocco Liebnitz, though.

And AMPy is apparently making us a nice dinner for before rehearsal! Hurrah!

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

no kate i didn't! (send out any emails) they are totally invited though!

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

What do you want? A pretty spreadsheet that matches your budget? Or an accurate record of what actually happened in the database?

But of course, they need to get your report matching their budget estimates, because then it will prove that they were right to start with!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

They weren't right. They were SO BLOODY WRONG. They want me to prove that they were using the right numbers, WHICH THEY WEREN'T IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!

And you know why? BECAUSE THEY'RE MONKEYS!!! AARRRGGGHHHHH!!!

(The FD actually said, in the course of the meeting, "yes, becuase they're monkeys, yes, we know." when the head of Operations asked why the numbers were out BEFORE I COULD.)

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Morning everyone.

I amde soup last night. It's not as good as I was hoping actually - it's a little more bland than usual. I think it might need some seasoning. You lot are gonna have to help me season tonight.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 20 January 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

Tonight's season will be: winter.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 20 January 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

2tsp winter
1tsp rainy
1 pinch tornado

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 20 January 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning!

I became so soggy walking to work that I got on a bus half way. I'm weak-willed. And a bit hung over.

American Idol on tv tonight, hooray.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 20 January 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

I swear to god if someone asks me another random, inane question this morning I will walk out. There's this one tutor who... grrr, I was clearly completely occupied with unpacking book boxes this morning, when he wanders over to say 'does the photocopier have to be in that particular position, so far down the wall?' Normally I woud engage in a little pointless conversational ballet about this fascinating subject until he left me alone. Today I decided on a new approach, so I said 'I don't know and I don't care'. Since he carried on talking I stuck my fingers in my ears and went 'lalala I can't HEAR you'. And I felt much better afterwards than I usually do after one of his efforts to destroy my soul in tiny incremental stages. This new childish tactic might actually WORK!

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 20 January 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

*applause*

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 20 January 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

My god Archie, you actually did that? I love you even more than before!!

It actually feels pretty spring-like this morning in London's Trendy Soho. Which is clearly wishful thinking as spring offically starts on my birthday, which is two months away, but it's nice for it to be sort of sunny and sort of warm at the same time.

I went to see "Tintin" in the THEATRE yesterday. It was very good.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, Archel, I like your tactics, heh heh.

Man, I am in bad shape this morning. I have got Marianna's cold, and I gave myself a hamstring running for the bus last night. Plus it took me two hours to get home due to transport nightmares. Argh.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

I was just drunk enough last night to decide to take a taxi home when the victoria line died. Now I'm significantly poorer

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

The thing that really annoyed me is, I forgot that the 30 goes all the way to Kings Cross. I could have just made the last Thameslink if I'd just stayed on it.

I mean, to get to Kings X, find the last Sutton train had gone, and have to transfer to the Northern line, it having taken me AN HOUR to get from Highbury to Angel, that really pissed me off.

And I'm coming down with a cold. I just feel generally rubbish today and not sure I'm going to make it out tonight. We'll see how I feel.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Archel's my new favourite person. Mind you, the only people here who I would want to try that tactic on would lamp me on the spot.

I hope you can make it tonight kate, who else is gonna lead the Newsnight-esque discussions? Or are you just trying to get out of making soup? ;)

My work's been hell this morning. First thing I did was deliver a shiny new piece of software to my boss's boss. It does eveything she wanted it to do. We talked at length about it yesterday, and we decided that a piece of difficult-to-impliment piece of functionality wouldn't be necessary. Well, it transpires that now it IS necessary, and she told me so this mornign, not in sheepsih "oh, we do need this after all", more "sigh, it doesn't work, and this is why, why couldn't you have got it right first time?" When I reacted with peeved-offishness, she glared at me and pointed out that me getting pissed off with other members of the staff would reflect badly on my bonus.

I tell you, sometimes . . . .

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

morning! sunshine! gloriousness! my head is still full of heavenly harmonies. kate perhaps when rehearsal is way up norf you should crash at someone's house... it's not so bad the other way because at least there are 3 people getting transport souf->norf, but when you're on your own it sucks.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, actually, that's a really good idea.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Well admittedly I wouldn't try that tactic with anyone who was actually my boss... (although my boss was present come to think of it, he just laughed approvingly though.)

Mark, my friend took his class of 12 year olds to see Tintin on Tuesday - Captain Haddock is one of the kid's dads. Sounded good!

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Hello folks. Get to spend today packing my desk up.

Thanks for the samples, Kate! Should be able to read them okay, but I'll check this weekend. Sorry I didn't email you back straight away!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Cool, thanks for letting me know. There should be new song(s?) up on our MySpace as well, but it seems to be down right now. :-(

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

yeh it is up, i played it this morning and it made me do that thing dogs do when they roll over so you can tickle their tummy. except myspace is down. but it should be up again in an hour or so, right?

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

There's a whale swimming up the Thames.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4631396.stm

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Think I might wander down to the river and see if I can spot it

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost - Yeah, I heard them (well, I heard 'Mother' and them shorter version of same). They sound fantastic, like Chumbawamba when they're being harmonic.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 January 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

yay, it is back online now! Go and download it, and listen to our shiny new sounds and oooh-oooh-ooooh noises!

http://www.myspace.com/shimuracurves

(And become our friend... if you're not already. Blimey, I don't know who half our friends there even are!)

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Bloody hell, I'm *exhausted* this afternoon. I really really really need to lie down and have a nap.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

That's what the server room is for!

Well, that and wanking, apparently...

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Sadly, our server room is the size of your avergae broom cupboard. If I had a nap in there, it would have to be standing up.

I don't know why I'm so tired. Possibly because earlier I drove to Scunthorpe, ate a large plate of fish and chips, then drove back.

(well, I tweaked some settings on a few computers too)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

morning! good weekends? mine was lovely, i hope everyone else who was at the doctor who soup weekend agrees.

and i got the labret thing out myself in the end, with a pair of rusty pliers like this -

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/505/medium/380tech.jpg

it feels so weird to not have it in! that has been there for 8 years and never been taken out once! i have a BIG HOLE in my face! it's wicked.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh! I hope you cleaned the pliers before you used them! Argh!

Had a wicked weekend. Saturday I went shopping and bought fancy purple smalls. Then it was the big Dr. Who and SOUP thing which was AMAZING as most of you know because you were there. I can't wait to try to make the Sinkahsoup myself at home. Yum.

Sunday was aceness, too. I made a big curry - a bit too hot, oops, as I was distracted while cooking. The CC Pirate and I had a wonderful time. Tee hee hee. I'm grinning like a little girl.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

Brrr, it's a bit chilly today. I am getting all sad because I've not had any messages on OKCupid for a few days.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

for a few days?! try never

yes i'm in a shite mood, might be best if i don't post much today.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry, but I am going to be disgusting and sickeningly happy for most of today, it seems. :-)

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

no i didn't clean them. i am LIVING DANGEROUSLY, get me. the belgian and helen yelled at me so i went into the kitchen where they couldn't see me. i think i might get a ring for it, i really like how they look when they look like they're almost too small for the lip. but which one? i looked on the interweb yesterday and there are all different sizes and i have no idea what i need. might drop by a piercing studio later on today.

heheh so glad your yesterday was great!

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

why's that then?

― the kit! (g-kit), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I am very glad that my soup stuffs were sitting on the counter of my house, not sitting in the dressing room of Liberty! I am a scatterbrain, but not that bad of a scatterbrain.

It means I can make soup for Marianna and Anna tonight and tomorrow.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

hi, why are you going to be disgusting and sickeningly happy for most of today, it seems?

― the kit! (g-kit), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

Because [Grampa Simpson voice]I'VE HAAADDD SSSSEXXXXXXXX!!![/Grampa Simpson voice]

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh.

Thread killah.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

oh right. how long will this last for, then?

― the kit! (g-kit), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

for a few days?! try never

Well, yes, but I had exchanged a couple of messages with someone - but now she hasn't replied. Bah.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

Until Friday, when I see him again... :-)

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

i can't keep up with this stuff these days.

― the kit! (g-kit), Monday, 23 January 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

What's to keep up with? I have a lovely gingery-haired pointy-nosed boy toy!

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

(and, yes, i am jealous ;-P )

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

dunno. i just can't follow stuff. well done, though.

― the kit! (g-kit), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

I firmly believe that Internet dating sites are put on this planet to make us feel truly alone. Either that or they can sense the desperation from my profile ;).

Brrr...bus was thirty minutes late this morning, and I had a weird dream where I kept getting shot at (even my dreams are against me!). Oh, Monday, please keep the users in check, and the routers routing, for it is cold outside and warm in my little office...

― carson dial (carson dial), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, I'm having fun playing with the Surname locator you posted on your blog, FP. I have already discovered that a whole branch of my mum's family that she always insisted were from Edinburgh are actually from West Scotland, concentrated mostly in Ayrshire and Argyll. HAH!

My dad's family don't turn up anywhere, though. Very strange.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes when the site's overloaded, instead of giving an error it will just give you a blank map.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, no, they were under Mc not Mac - they're much further into the Highlands and Islands than I thought! I always thought they were from Stirling.

x-post, oh. I will try again for the ones that gave blank maps.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm, I had trouble with the spelling of one of our family names - it's only listed under its modern spelling.

(putting the old spelling into Google gives you a mailing-list email from five years ago by a random woman in Canada, asking if anyone has any details about an 18th-century Cornish family, who, as it happens, are my direct ancestors)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having much better results with the more uncommon names, of course. It's just funny the way that they say "English name" and then Scotland lights up all purple and red.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

My name only exists in ye olden days, apparently :(

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

ha, I got Fl3tch34 now, it's all in The Northeast - especially Yorkshire and the Peaks. Blimey, lots in the East Riding - no wonder I love Hull so much, ha ha. We have a clock that belonged to my great, great grandfather, from when he was a Wesleyan Minister in Thornaby-on-Tees, so that makes sense.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, yes! That's more like it! I finally got Gordon and the top of Scotland all around Inverness and Aberdeen went bright purple.

Damn, it's down again now.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

I am getting into a chocolate-eating mood.

Our manager gave the department a tin of Roses for Christmas. It was unopened up to last week, when someone upstairs thought: "well, we may as well share them out." So, she divided them up among the department. My share is now sat in the bottom drawer of my desk. I've just started eating one. And another. And another...

It's a rather flaky site - it's been heavily overloaded since I first found it, in the middle of last week.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

God, I wish I had chocolate. I'm so hungry! Sexing really works up an appetite!

I'm going to be so addicted to that site. I have found out that the CC Pirate's family are from the Welsh borders! So that explains his hair! (All Welsh people are ginger, it is the law.)

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, the C@rn3g13s are just where they should be - Angus, Fife and Aberdeen. I just wonder what the Gi11i1ands were doing so far South!

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

This site is far too addictive. I hate you, FP! ;-)

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

It would be addcitive if it wasn't so slow! Also, I don't know enough of my British family's surnames - I have done Hutton and Goodwin, but the only others I know are so common as to be pointless.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 23 January 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

See, I thought Gordon was really common, but the top of Scotland lit up like a Christmas tree. Similarly Fl3tcher - although it was pretty eveningly distributed in the yellows around Britain, certain areas flashed up purple.

I mean, unless you have a "Smith" or "Johnson" branch of your family.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

Hello people! I have moved desks and am now sitting in some ACTUAL DAYLIGHT

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 23 January 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Well, there is an area of north-east Scotland called Gordon, after all.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 23 January 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

oh my god! back from teh brane-scang and it is the COOLEST THING EVER! they gave me some stuff that might have been a tiny dose of an antibiotic whose name i can't remember or might have been a placebo then got me to fill in some questionnaires about my health history and what mood i was in then they gave me electric shocks as high as i could stand it and strapped me to a bench by my head and held me in with cushions and put headphones on me with electrodes on my hand and some measuring stuff on the other hand and slid me into a huge fuckoff machine which made the BEST NOISES EVER and talked to me through the headphones and played me what looked and sounded like really rubbish early pop videos and occasionally gave me electric shocks. needless to say i loved every second. hurrah!

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

holy moly!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Whooaaaa... MRI things apparently make really great noises - wish you could have recorded them.

But electric shocks? Not so sure about that! Blimey!

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/RJG/RJGFAM.jpg

got bored

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

OOoh, pretty! I should do something like that, but I don't think I saved enough of them.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Emma brainscan madness! (And I just had an ultrasound...)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

yeh electric shocks! and it's tricksy cos they keep asking you if you can go higher (and um i quite LIKE stuff like that so i kept saying yes til i was physically flinching a bit every time) and THEN they tell you you might get three in a row! so you go aw, ok, let's try that out. and it's sort of... fun. and then when you're in the machine it doesn't seem to hurt so much.

i tell you, i thought i was in SPACE, it was excellent. i had a little alarm squeezy thing so they would have got me out in a second if i'd panicked at all, but it was totally fine. and not even slightly claustrophobic - when i say it i thought holy fuck, that's a very small tunnel inside a very big machine, but when you're in there there's quite a lot of space. omg i wanna do it again! on thursday i get a pic of the inside of my BRANE! wargh! i think it will just look like my hair.

yeah, the noises were amazing.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

i get a pic of the inside of my BRANE!

This is the COOLEST thing I've ever heard!

Can we use it for our album artwork?

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, i've given up smoking. it's been two weeks.

― the kit! (g-kit), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

um, let's see what it looks like. it might just be all dusty and barren. if it is cool though, of course you can!

YAY g-kit that is awesome keep it up!

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Surely brains are pulsating and all that, not dry as dust.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

well done kit dude!

i'm so effing tired, i awoke early this morning after a series of nightmares involving Conner from Neighbours and a really horrible mazey hotel with furry monsters running around the place.

every time i close my eye lids i keep seeing vivid patterns.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent, g-kit! Keep up the willpower of STEEL!

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

hoorah!

― the kit! (g-kit), Monday, 23 January 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

I get to go in early today! Because I came in early today!

Maybe I should have cute boy sleep over more often, if he gets me out of bed early!

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Monday, 23 January 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

if he gets me out of bed early!

fshyeah right!

Emma brainscan madness! (And I just had an ultrasound...)

and THAT sounded like fun too! WOO cool technology what lets us see inside ourselves woo!

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 23 January 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Aaaah, I am happy this morning! Shimuras recording sessions going really really well and it's all sounding BEEE-YOOO-TII-FUL!!! Marianna and I couldn't stop listening to a capella versions of the new tracks last night. Hurrah!

However, today is teh suck because I have run out of credit on my phone, so no more bootytexts. :-(

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hi all! Yay to Kate and her alarm clock boy! Yay to all the cool bioloscans! Yay to kits willpower! Yayness all round!

Yay to sausage and mash and swede and onion gravy - yummy!

Yay to stuff being sold on Amazon - rubbish CDs being sold to cash money dollar coin easy peasy!

Boo to Haribo starmix - they're sitting on my desk, tempting me to munch them, and I KNOW that if I have any my good mood will disappear as I plunge down the sugar-hole.

Boo to rubbish C++ books. I want to learn C++ .net, so I buy what I THOUGHT was a beginners learning book. Turns out its a Developers Guide - good if you know it, rubbish if you don't. Anyone know of any good cheap "Learn C++ .net" books? Preferably less than £15 on ebay?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

and yay for the SUNSHINE that woke me up at 7.45 (the middle of the night as far as i'm concerned) this morning and put me in a springy mood and made me scare the russian, yay for the COLD that's just arriving here (maybe -6 tonight, which is pretty good for london), but a big BOO to our hot water for deciding to stop working.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yes, also I made the soup last night that I was going to make for the Dr. Who Marathon. It was NUMMY if I may say so myself. I am going to make some more for Anna tonight, it was so good.

x-post ARGH hot water stopping working. Mine did that on Sunday night, but I managed to fix it. I'm getting quite good at fixing the boiler. Tee hee. CC Pirate ph34rs my mad skillz, he says "shouldn't you get a professional to do that?"

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

what I am doing today:

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/efiling/help/mainhelp.htm

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

the layout of the hmrc website is somewhat confusing! where do I log in! It seems to be subtly different everytime I file online. OMG KAFKAESQUE.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

boo pash that does not look like fun.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my lord, that looks difficult. I've got to work out the Home Office website to get my mum's naturalisation papers. Argh.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still just waking up - I'm on late hours today.

For some reason, if I'm on late hours - which means coming in an hour later - the backlog of stuff waiting for me by the time I get to work always takes 2 hours to clear.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I'm in. Am somewhat distracted by Br4nd0n D4niel's N.A.M.M. synthesiser pictures, though:

http://www.fdiskc.com/syn/namm/2006/

must.... focus...

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, why is the Home Office Naturalisation website SOOOOO SLOOOWWW?

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

Pash, that does look difficult, but those sound machines are great - OMG http://www.fdiskc.com/syn/namm/2006/buchla1.html

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. My. God. Pash, you have ruined my day by posting that. How am I supposed to do any work now?

::drools::

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

always reminds me of this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/people/patel.shtml

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

I checked the mailbox at the hmrc site, and I've been given a 250 quid credit for filing online!!

!!!!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

It's done. That's it for another 3 months.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

God, I can't wait to get paid. I've got £5 to my name until tomorrow. And my phone's out of credit. ARGH!

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm bored. Is everyone else working?

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'm reading the Guardian. I just discovered that Jan Mark has died :-(

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

(But when I read your post, I was just about to start reading an article about Boris)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh. I still haven't even caught up on all my newspapers from the weekend! I though on Sunday morning that I'd not read the paper, so I bought the Observer. Forgetting that the Saturday Guardian was still sitting at home waiting for me.

I only just read the magazine today! And only as far as the gardening section. I'm hopeless.

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

but you got DUNE for free with the observer!

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, I forgot about that! Might have to watch that this weekend. Hurrah! Spiceworld!

― Trying To Resonate Concrete (kate), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Also! Emsk! Are we rolling and walking on Saturday? Is the Belgian still up for it?

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

i was gonna ask about rolling and walking saturday too. i am up for it, dunno if the belgian is because it's up to her friends who're in town for the weekend, and they don't get here til friday afternoon. mebbe put it on the rolling walking thread? we can't get a groupsave with just two of us, oh noes!

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

...unless we did a little walk in town.

Actually, I kind of think, after the amount of activity planned this week, it might be best if I did NOTHING AT ALL on Saturday.

I mean, if it all happens, of course I'll go. But I wouldn't be devastated if it didn't happen, as I could do with a whole afternoon to do nothing but sleep. And clean my flat.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Morning!

I made the rest of my soup last night, and it was AWESOME. But Anna didn't turn up to record so I had to eat it ALL myself.

Feeling kind of sleepy today. That boy had me on the phone all hours of the night last night.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! I have finished a record! Finally!

(Though I will probably tweak it some more before I'm completely satisfied).

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

Soup AND boys eh? Can't be bad.

I got my new bookshelves yesterday and spent a happy evening arranging my long-lost books (Matt had unpacked and put them on the shelves earlier but apparently alphabetical order is strictly optional to him, the heathen.) Sadly, I also watched Wimbledon (the film) which is a giant turkey and not half as exciting as just watching a game of tennis would have been.

And I am now bored to buggery at work.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah for finishing records!

Hurrah for new bookshelves!

I'm kind of kicking myself because I instructed the boy DO NOT DISTURB ME WHILE I AM RECORDING, UNDER PAIN OF DEATH. But then I ended up not recording last night, and didn't have any credit on my phone to call him. And he said "I was going to ring you earlier and offer to pop over, but then remembered that you said not to bug you!"

Dammit! I missed a bootie call! Sniff.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

I am now bored to buggery at work

Literally?

I am getting fed up with office politics and sleight-of-hand regarding new equipment. One of our department managers thinks she is getting a new server. What is *actually* happening - and has been approved by one of the directors, who is her husband - is that we are buying a new server for head office, and her office is getting the now-spare one freed up. If noone says anything she won't know the difference - but if she *asks* if this really is the new one, I'm a bit stuck as to what to say.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

What do they say of second hand cars these days? "new pre-owned". Tell her that.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Tell her yes, it is *her* new/"dedicated" server. Ego may win the day in that case.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I have actually resorted to having anal sex on my desk.

Oh someone could write a BOOK about the equipment dance that goes on here. Hidden Hierarchies: the Politics of Printers.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

All of our printers are named after brands of BOOZE. Mine is Carling. I'd rather send my stuff to Absinthe or Moet or Pimms, but we're stuck with rubbish lager. :-(

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha, tell me about it. And see my post on Annoying Cow-orkers!

We have given up on any sort of needs-based equipment supply for this particular manager - instead, her office has to get stuff that's at least as good as the lowest-spec office in the company if not better. Because she's married to a director, if she finds out that someone else has better equipment than her she'll just whine to her husband until she gets it - and she openly admits to doing that.

Talking of naming your equipment: our new server is to be named Circle. The previous one was Central.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Married people should not be allowed to work together. There's rules against that kind of thing. >:-(

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to post more about her, but I should move it to Annoying Co-Workers instead.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I have actually resorted to having anal sex on my desk.

I read that w/o the context of preceding posts, and for a second i was like WHAT!!!!!!!11!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes I wish that were the case but often in small companies (inc ESM) the partner-as-director thing means they strike a zero effort/maximum entitlement balance that really narks off the salaried staff.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

Huzzah. I have also just finished the first in a series of short vidiblips. I am in a finishing mood today.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

Much as I appear to have finished off this thread, haha

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yawn. I'm bored. I'm half-way through my lunch break and there's nothing to do.

No messages for me on OKC either :-(

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

I am still struggling with this damned subreport. :-(

I did, however, go and get a flapjack and a prescription.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

I had a chocolate muffin. I managed to drop crumbs, and without noticing, sit on them. I now have suspicious-looking brown marks on my trousers and chair :-(

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hello! I'm horribly busy! Might not get another chance to post today...

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

errk, FP! Those crumbs are bloody good at hiding themselves until it's far too late (Cadbury's Fruit & Nut bars have a similar effect, but I think I got away with it today).

This afternoon, I will be trying to get a domain name's DNS record changed! Without any records that we own the thing. Oh this should be fun...

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hi busy beanz!

God is it only 1.45? I had a VERY BORING sandwich and crisps for lunch. And a chocolate digestive. I wish I hadn't bought communal biscuits just as half my colleagues went off sick - I have ended up eating nearly all of them :(

One of the solutions in my crossword today: 'Fair fa your honest sonsie face/great chieftain of the pudding race'. Which reminded me: happy Burns Night everyone!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

This afternoon, I will be trying to get a domain name's DNS record changed! Without any records that we own the thing. Oh this should be fun...

I really do pity you there, then.

For a few months we've been trying to persuade our work webhosting people to host a domain that we've registered with another company. We already have domains set up that way with them, but for some reason they're refusing to do any more. Moreover, their first-line support staff refuse to even understand what you want to do:

"Hello, our account name is [...] and we'd like you to set up virtual hosting for another domain which we have already registered."

"What's the domain name?"

"....co.uk"

"*clickyclicky* That's registered with [...] - I'm afraid you'll have to talk to them about it."

"Yes, we have registered it with them, and they have already set it up so that the IP address points to your server, the one that our hosting account is on. We need *you* to set up a virtual domain on your server for it."

"No, you need to talk to [the registration company] about it if it's registered with them."

"Aaargh, can I speak to someone in second-line please?"

Second line support will first say "no, I'm sorry, we don't offer that service." After repeating: "but you have already set this up for us for two other domains, whose names are .... at no charge to our account" about five times, they will say they will get Technical to phone back.

If Technical *do* phone back - it's about a 50/50 success rate - they will try to pass you through to Sales. Sales will then say "Um, no, nothing to do with us, and pass you back to Technical. This circle continues until 5pm, when you give up and go home.

We've been trying to get this sorted for about three months now; we generally try again about once a month. The last time, a couple of weeks ago, we sent a nasty fax that said: "if this is not sorted out by tomorrow, we will be withdrawing all of our business and giving it to a company that cares about customer service". It still isn't working, and they're still hosting all our websites.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

*cries into his keyboard*

They haven't replied to my "well, funnily enough we have no records or usernames, but we're the school and no-one else is allowed to own this type of domain, so pleeease?" email. They're probably still laughing at their end.

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Is this Nominet you're dealing with? I sense an Arbitration Process coming on - have a nice few months!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

i read that as alan partridge.

― the kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

I sense a gleeful cackle there, FP! I'm hoping that the fancy education rules may knock some of that time off, but I'm probably being too optimistic :)

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

i'm having problems with Nominet too at the moment for a re-registering of a domain. but it's all partly my fault anyway.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

We nearly had to go through all that at a company I used to work for, where the IT Director had registered some of the company's domains under his own name (years earlier - they were so old, they dated to when .uk domains were completely free for ever), and then left the company under bad terms. What made it even more fun was that he was a member of Nominet's Policy Committee (or whatever it's called) at the time.

(I'm not sure, but I think he was on the committee that invented the .me.uk subdomain, who allegedly benefited by snatching up a lot of the catchier new names for themselves)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

The 9-year-old in me:

The domain fuck.me.uk has already gone, sorry.

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so tired, I attempted to revive myself with some sugar by buying a can of coke from the machine but in my dazed state i ended up spilling it all over my desk. The only victim in said incdident was 1 quote.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

I got dragged into a sodding meeting (which was very little to do with me, honestly) at 2pm - BEFORE I'd eaten, and was kept there for an hour and a half. I CANNOT do that on an empty stomach.

I am now sitting at my desk scoffing curry but my blood sugar is dire, and I fear the damage has been done in the way of headache and crankiness. :-(

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

I know what you mean about the blood sugar. I made the mistake of having one of those Frijj things. I know I hate them, so why do I always buy them? They are to milkshake what Sunny Delight is to orange juice. Now I'm alternating between tired and bouncy and it's most annoying.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

you said it'd last til next friday.

― the kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

What would last until next Friday?

I honestly feel like utter crap now. I know that it's totally physical, but that doesn't make me feel any better. :-(

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Sleepy today. Hopefully today is going to be the calm before tomorrow's storm.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 26 January 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

'nother head scan today, 'nother head scan!

*bounce bounce bounce*

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 26 January 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

emsk, did you used to touch electric fences for fun and stuff when you were a kid? Just wondered... ;)

I *thought* this was my last day at work for the week and I could spend tomorrow tidying and studying. But I have to take Monday off instead now boo.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

um, yeah, i did! and battery on tongue. and fork on fillings. etc.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 26 January 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all! I am feeling chirpy today, as I have finished another short film.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 26 January 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

do we get to see these short films? (were these those ident things you posted a link to before, the computer generated things? was that even you?)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 26 January 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

They're calling you in again? How many pretty pictures do they need?

Cool tho, indeed.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, don't think that was me.

The two vids (I call them short films, but there not really even films) live here:

http://iff-transponder.co.uk/city_seventeen/video/blip1.mov
http://iff-transponder.co.uk/city_seventeen/video/blip2.mov

They're both about 30 secs long.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

8( can't find H264 decoder. quicktime and mplayer both just play audio only. will look into it.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear!

Hmmm, the latest version of Quicktime should be able to decode them.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

(Although the audio is the crux of the matter. However, they were designed to be both audio and video--so I'd be interested to know how the audio comes across when deprived of he video, and vice versa)

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

ah, videolan to the rescue. nice, abstract, minimal, whatever you want to call it.

audio sounds familiar...

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Bah. Just feel rubbish today. Have been coming down with something for AGES and cannot either shake it nor just get sick enough not to work. So my doctor this morning says YOU SILLY GIRL IT IS STRESS MAKING YOU ILL!!! And gave me handouts about assertivenes and learning to delegate. Bah.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

The audio was written last night and the night before, though I didn't have anything in mind when I wrote it.

Aww Kate! Try kicking the doctor in the shins and telling them that you feel much better now you have relieved some stress. Then get a doctor's note (or make one yerself from headed notepaper, since the doctor will be lying on the floor clutching their knees at this point) claiming that it is of UTMOST IMPORTANCE that you continue kicking shins throughout the day. Then call a meeting, and tell everyone to line up.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

This is *exactly* the sort of thing that I am in therapy to try to *prevent*!

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

No wonder you are so stressed then! ;)

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm wondering if Emsk is going to be slightly glowing tonight...

BTW, I have had to cancel recording tonight, as I'm going to end up working late, but I'll drop by the Betsey to try and see Sande, as it's on the way to the train station from work.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

Kicking people in the shings doesn't relieve stress, it just makes you MORE stressed! Does me, anyway.

Videos no work for me either - I'll check it out when I get home, when I can install thigns and not get shouted at etc.

I had m 1-2-1 this morning, and they said well done, you've done great, here's your full bonus (good news), however, we're not allowed to give out full bonuses too often, so we're gonan make it damn near impossible for you next quarter! Typical. I'll be paid in rubles next month anyway.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 26 January 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, and another thing I forgot I was cross about - I didn't get my bonus as a separate cheque, I got it as part of my normal paycheque. Which meant that it whacked me up into another tax bracket for a month, and was a MAJOR ouchie on the tax. I slmost might as well not have had a bonus!

OK, I know I'll get it back eventually, but it's enough to make you vote Tory. :-(

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 26 January 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh I thought that said *rubies* J and was just thinking how cool, if eccentric, that would be!

There was unidentified Matter in my soup at lunchtime :(
It was supposed to be leek but it also contained quorn lumps and this squishy Matter that looked a bit like a sea anemone/plum/mushroom/internal organ. Thank god I'd ordered some chips as well...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, argh, argh!

Only very rarely do I actually wish that I had a television... anyway! There is going to be a Boris Johnson documentary on Ancient Rome vs. the EU on BBC2 this Sunday. Can someone, anyone, PLEASE tape it/torrent it/whatever the hip kids do with television shows to make them viewable at a later date?

I'll be your best friend, carry your books home from school!

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I have no telly either! Or I would.

I just ate the nicest custard cream. I know the stuff inside them isn't technically even food or whatever, but god it's tasty. Horrible aftertaste though which tea is failing to drown.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

I can tape this for you Kate. Can you text me or something nearer the time? I will try to set myself a reminder but I am notoriously bad at forgetting this kind of thing.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

not glowing but clicking noises are emanating from me!

they did a TWELVE MINUTE scan right at the end and i had to keep TOTALLY STILL and y'know time went stretchy and i couldn't stop thinking about day of the triffids. it made awesome noises and rhythms, was trying to figure out what it reminded me of and it was sort of autechre then i remembered the other thing what reminded me of autechre and that was BATS so clearly mri scanning machines are FULL OF BATS and it's their sonar that takes the pictures of you, not magnets at all. we were looking on the interweb yesterday for how mri works and OMG IT REARRANGES YOUR ATOMS!! the magnetism pushes the nucleii into a different place. i am mike teevee! then they showed me a pic of my brane, it is tiny, my head is mostly full of feathers and fish.

yeh come and see sande! she is on at 9.15.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Do I have your number TISSP? Email me, please, as I'm not sure I do.

Emsk, I will come if I am out of work by then... OK, it's only 15 minutes away from me, so I don't really have an excuse, but I have just had another meeting and had MORE work dumped on me. ARGH!

The FD was joking saying "how much would we have to pay to get Kate working 24 hours a day?" and I just looked at him and said "24 HOUR WORKDAYS = KATE IN HOSPITAL, NO MORE KATE!!!"

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Sent you a mail

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

(through the webmail interface, so no idea where it's gone)

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

I haf been busy. And today I had a blood test GRODY. Or not.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah! I have got it!

(Just realised I have more ILX0rs phone numbers in my phone than non ILX0r people! Weex!)

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

We're that good.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

"grody"?? was this for the same thing as the ultrasound? u ok? was it ok?

ooh they took some of my blood too. only a little bit from my arm because no more would come out because it is COLD in that there place so my blood frozed up, so then they stuck the needle in my HAND to get it out of there! awesome. i never had it in my hand before. i seem to remember having an injection in my hand for something or other...

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Now I expect invites to all the hip and happening parties in London, y'know.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

"grody"?? was this for the same thing as the ultrasound? u ok? was it ok?

Actually not grody at all, but it's always a bit disconcerting to see yer blood bubbling into one of those little tubes. It is related to the ultrasound -- basically there's a small fret over some liver hoohah from my three-day sickness back in August. But I've felt fine since then! Guess we'll see. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Hip and happening parties? Errr... psychogeographical walking tours, more like. Unless you want to come to my housewarming party on Sunday... which will be neither hip nor happening. :-/

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, I could do. What time is it? I could bring the videotape with me.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

But the programme will be after the housewarming, which is in the afternoon!

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

~~I could travel through time~~

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

it's always a bit disconcerting to see yer blood bubbling into one of those little tubes.

disconcerting? it's brilliant! i was gonna go give blood after this today but i forgot, i just went and bought this

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/3832712984.01._AA180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

for half-price instead.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

it's full of pretty pictures.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, today was rubbish. I enjoyed sitting on the floor of my new office wiring up RJ45 sockets - but then we found that the furniture we're getting won't actually fit in how we expected, so all the sockets I'd just fitted were in rather bad places. And *then* we found that the new office door has been ordered. As the new office is windowless, we were expecting a door with a glass panel in. The door we're *getting* is solid. Because it's got to be a fire door.

I know what you're thinking. I asked it too. "But you can have fire doors with windows in." "Yes, but they cost £500 each". Grrr.

We had a lot of lessons on MRI scanning during chemistry A-levels. Its real name is Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging, but dumb people think that something with "nuclear" in the name is automatically scary and dangerous. It's all about the way hydrogen compounds (and some others, but hydrogen ones are the most important) vibrate when in a very strong magnetic field.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

disconcerting? it's brilliant!

Oh, I'm not saying it's not weirdly fascinating. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

cool! nuclear as in to do with the nucleus then? (sorry if i am an dumb person, i didn't do any chemistry after gcse). this had an f before the mri, dunno what that meant...

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

The F was for "Fun" - clearly!

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Either there's a piper around here somewhere, or someone has a really irritating ringtone set at subliminal level...

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Thursday, 26 January 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, there's been a suggestion that the the Shimuras play a club night billed as an "internet free zone". I don't like this idea, as none of us would have even met without the internet!

So what am I doing about it? Bitching about it on a message board!

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

What does that even mean? You're not allowed to access the internet in the club? Or literally there is to be no mention of the internet?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 27 January 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

You're not allowed to talk about the club on the internet - you're not allowed to blog about it, or MySpace it, or Flckr it (in fact, no digital cameras will be allowed.) We won't be allowed to promote it on the interweb - which includes ILX.

In fact, I'm probably even breaking the rules by talking about it here!

But it's just like... I wouldn't even be HERE (meaning, in England) had it not been for the interweb. OK, I might still hvae come back here, but I wouldn't know any of the people I know. I wouldn't have met any of my bandmates.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

That seems like a pretty damn weird setup. What's the rationale behind it?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 27 January 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

sounds like a snobby cunts' club. i wouldn't bother.

― the kit! (g-kit), Friday, 27 January 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

That is an interesting idea. But also a crap one.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 27 January 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

yeah what a pointless concept. fuck em

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 27 January 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

They're still trying to think it out.

OK, it's not like they're Luddites, in fact quite the reverse - quite web savvy nu meeja blogging types with MySpaces and Flckrs and LiveJournals and their own websites and interweb communitites. To the point where you can get obsessed with it, and just sit there hitting refresh and forgetting to leave the house. (Come on, you KNOW you've all done that at one point or another.)

So the idea is, for one night, to just turn all that off, go to a club, play chess, listen to music, talk to your friends, do a reading/poetry slam/play a song/whatever - basically LIVE life, instead of just talking about it on the interweb.

Anyway, talking to them more about it, it seems like an interesing idea - one that has inspired such an extreme reaction in me that perhaps it bares further thinking about.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

er i live life whenever i'm not on the internet, i don't need a club to force me into doing that.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but some of us are so obsessed that we *do*.

I mean, I can't have the interweb at home, because I get too obsessed with it. What does that say about me?

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

i was interested up until the words 'poetry slam' 8)

it does seem to be designed to only attract people that the organisers know personally or friends of the bands. which is fine (friends used to do a similar thing on sunday afternoons, very chilled out).

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

Well, one of the people organising it is a poet/writer, hence the poetry reading aspect of it.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

nu meedja types with blogs and myspaces etc saying no internet == HYPOCRISY MAXIMUS

I would demand that they completely delete all traces of themselves from the internet to prove they are serious. 4REAL.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

(etc etc)

(i am in a strange mood this morning)

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's not a "permanently" or "forever" or "the interweb doesn't exist" but rather "for four hours tonight, we're going to turn off the machine and see if we can still function".

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

...you know, like some people have to be told PUT THE CRACKBERRY AWAY, NOW!!!

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all - I'm with you on the strange mood thing, I'm all buzzy and bouncy, like I've been having too much fun in a field.

Kate, isn't stopping people from talking about stuff on the internet what China is doing?

Playing this club = liking Hitler.

( /hyperbole )

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

But on the plus side, talking about it on the internet is like socking it to the man!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Exactly!

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Did you get the videos to work J?

Kate I think I can make it to yr housewarming if I'm still invited... email me teh details.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

...though it's funny, that one of the girls who is organising this is ALWAYS flckring everything. I check her Flckr every morning to see what she's been up to. But the annoying thing is, even though there's pictures of everything she does, and all her mates, and all the clubs, gigs, etc. she goes to... there's no pictures of me!

Like... "Do I not exist in your world?" or does she just think I'm too ugly to photograph? It's kind of weird.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Coo, have done, TISSP! If anyone else wants to come and doesn't know where I live, email me and I'll forward you directions.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dammit, I forgot to check the vids tissp, I'll try tonight, I promise, unless I forget. I'll check ILE at SOME point over the weekend, when I'll remember and sort it out!

As fun as it'll be, I dunno if I'll be able to come to ur housewarming Kate, but drop me an email so that if I CAN come, I'll know where I'm going. Housewarming party next to a curryhouse - WOW!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

hmph. i just applied for a job that when i started applying for it i wasn't *that* excited by it but by the time i was done i was all "c'mon! you *know* you want me! i will be ACE! c'mon pleeeeease?" about it.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

yeh living next door to curry house = classic, but don't have the jalfrezi, it's rubbish.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Will keep my fingers crossed for you, Emsk... and will forward the email to you, too, JB.

x-post, yeah, have the AUBERGINE, that is godlike.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh noes I may have to deal with London buses (something I am categorically terrible at doing for some reason)!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, I just realised that the Thameslink stops running to Streatham really early on Sunday evenings - like 5pm. So yes, you may have to deal with London busses. But really! it's OK!

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

tissp! you are with the right people. we can help you overcome the buses.

kate i'm taking my bike to st albans and getting the thameslink back down, is london bridge the best stop to get off at to come to yours? i can't remember what it does south of that.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 27 January 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the Thameslink London Bridge bit goes down to Brighton without going near Streatham. You can bike from there? Or you can change to a Southern Train that goes direct to Streatham. (Though I would imagine you'd rather bike.)

You can get a train direct from St.Albans - get on the Sutton Loop (you may have to transfer at Kings X) - bound for Sutton or Wimbledon. But those are the ones that stop about 5pm.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

The last time I had to deal with a London Bus was after the FAP in summer. I was confused and my housemate was WASTED. We ended up in Alexandra Palace.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 27 January 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

In fairness, though, we will dine out on the story of what happened to us after that FAP for years to come.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 27 January 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

That's on the other side of the river from me. And if you end up at Crystal Palace, that's only a short way away from me! You can get the 249 back!

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

yeh i can bike from london bridge, it's only about 20-30 minutes from there. that was kind of what i thought.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 27 January 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

And good morning. I get to go to a seminar all day to learn how to be nice to people, as I lack that quality. (Curious stuff, that.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 January 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Hello Ned!

I think I may have solved the codec problems that stopped people from watching the videos. You can try again if you're interested...

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 27 January 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

I am polluting my nice, formal and exact reports with frivolous and silly BAR CHARTS because that is what exec likes.

Except now I'm having all kinds of fun editing the barcharts and making them pretty colours.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

> I think I may have solved the codec problems that stopped people from watching the videos. You can try again if you're interested...

they look the same to me (ie avc1, h264, can't play them in quicktime (even after update) or mplayer (using links posted above))

vlc worked fine though - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 27 January 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

I get to go to a seminar all day to learn how to be nice to people, as I lack that quality.

-- Ned Raggett (ned@k

wtf of the day, that one.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 27 January 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks 4 the email kate - I'll print it out for me - my London bus use is rubbish, the place is so unfamiliar that I get palpatations when I try and remember where to get off.

I hate making my reports pretty and nice, it seems such a waste of time. You've got the data in front of you, stoopid!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 27 January 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Curses. Back to the drawing board.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 27 January 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh, I tend to feel that way, too, JB. I like looking at numbers and totals and percents and things.

But the monkeys around here like their pretty barcharts, so barcharts they shall have.

Ned, you have the best people skills of anyone in this place! I hate to think what they'd make of the rest of us...

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

wtf of the day, that one.

It's all rather involved. But apparently I can be too sarcastic about the deserving for some people. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 January 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

AARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!

I've been working on a report for ages, and finally got it close to what I wanted... AND THEN THE SYSTEM CRASHED AND TOOK IT OUT. I know I'm an idiot for not saving it, but I've got so used to autosave/recover.

Bah.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

23 seconds on minesweeper, beginner of course. that bored.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

I might have a date for my court case again (after it was postponed from last September). In a couple of weeks :(

The stupid thing is, I barely even care any more about what happens to the guy who mugged me. All I want is to get my lovely winter coat back, which ironically wasn't even stolen but kept by the police as evidence. And they've had it for over a year! That's two winters I've gone without a proper coat, because I refuse to shell out for another one when I have a perfectly good (in fact brand new!) one sitting in a police cupboard somewhere. Grr.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Talking of Banning The Internets, we had a fun email from one of our ISPs this morning. So fun, it made the geek news sites. Essentially, it said:

Hello, All Our Customers

We're shutting down. No more internet from us.

From, like, today. Bye!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning! I'm back in the Land of the Communicating now this month's issue's gone to bed. Tell me about your weekends! Mine involved sitting in the office.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 30 January 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

I went to a concert! For the first time in Oxford since, well, May last year. Admittedly, The Research turned out to be a bit of a disappointment, but we enjoyed the support band (Mono Taxi).

FP - I saw that on your blog. It's wrong of me, but the last place that I worked at used them for their connection, and as they were particulary unpleasant to work for (plus had a habit of making up data that they were selling at a premium), I hope it caused them some troubles ;).

― carson dial (carson dial), Monday, 30 January 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning everyone. Had a fun weekend, I assume?

Speaking of cookies, I've made a batch of chocolate chip cookies with some mega-cocoa chocolate I had left over, so these big cookies have massive slabs of chocciness in them - oh so tasty.

Glad ur in court sometime soon arhcel. I feel your coatpain.

beanz, why in the office all weekend, that's a RUBBISH way to relax!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 30 January 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Cos I've got my comfy Executive Chair of course

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 30 January 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

I have constructed a comfy chair in my bedroom so now i get to watch DVD's on my pc without suffering a horrid wooden chair, which meant an evening of Seinfeld last night.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 30 January 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

Constructed? Nice!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 30 January 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

well, kinda. constructed from pieces of another broken comfy chair.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 30 January 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

You got an old broken chair and superglued it back together?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 30 January 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

no it's a hybrid of an old broken comfy chair and unused cardboard boxes. classy.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 30 January 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

(I'm not the master craftsman I'm making out to be here)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 30 January 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Any chair made from cardboard boxes gets my vote, esp. if it's comfy.

PS The cookies are yum!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 30 January 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all! (Just)

I can't decide if I'm a little hungover this morning or just over tired.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 30 January 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Have a pint for lunch. If you feel better, you were hung over. If you feel more tired, you were tired. And the afternoon will go faster too! Hurrah!

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 30 January 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Interesting, interesting... however I can't go anywhere for lunch as I have to go and look at a new house, having been told to leave mine...

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 30 January 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

Told?!?!?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 30 January 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh well, at least you got pissed last night.

Why leaving?

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 30 January 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

The landlord wants the house back, so we have to get out!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 30 January 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

morning!

eek! i have a job interview on wednesday!

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 30 January 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

that sucks tissp! Did you get much notice?

Emsk does it have anything to do with brain scans? Everything else will seem like an anticlimax I imagine...

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 30 January 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

heh no :( it is with these people www.bentelevision.com but i can't find anything out about them because the site won't work properly for me!

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 30 January 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Doesn't work well for me either but I can C&P bits if you like

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 30 January 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

please! i have managed to get to a list of their programmes without that bloody popup that won't go away getting in the way and none of the links working but if you've seen anything i might need to know let me know! argh!

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 30 January 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like a mysterious TV bunch. Good luck with the interview!

I had a nice full weekend and now I am here. Hmm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 January 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

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― beanz (beanz), Monday, 30 January 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

thanks! i just got it to work properly i think... the job is in their music dept. they seem to feature a lot of stuff i don't know a lot about. could be fun though. i am going to check if i can get the channel on our tv.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 30 January 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Right, I have returned from viewing the first house. Fantastic location, right in the centre of town--looked great from the outside. Shame that it was a) more expensive than we thought and b) a bit scummy and dilapidated inside.

It was a massive house with a lot of potential, but was completely let down by lack of care and overall "student house" feel (wood-chip walls, paint coming off, tiny kitchen and bathroom). Oh and there was no shower!

NO SHOWER!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 30 January 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

No shower?

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 30 January 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

NO SHOWER!! WTF?!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 30 January 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Hello, I feel like shit. Still. Did anyone notice I wasn't in yesterday?

Combination of having Talbotted my head at the weekend (couldn't go to hospital and get it looked at because I had to give a party) and aftereffects of possible concussion, and horrible horrible physical side effects of Morning After Pill (I keep reminding myself that as awful as I feel, it's not as awful as being pregnant) and just general exhaustion.

Bah.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

erk - hope you begin to feel better soon, Kate!

― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

This is nothing to do with anyone on this thread, but I think maybe I should stay off ILX today. Certain c*nts I usually ignore are really bothering me today.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry you're having a shitty day. Maybe you should just stay on this thread

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

don't censor your cunts! i saw it on the telly. not your cunts, obv.

― the kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

I noticed you weren't here yesterday--I thought you were/should be incredibly hungover or something!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear Kate. I am making sympathetic faces at the monitor.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, and my shrink just called to cancel our appointment for Thursday. FOR GODS SAKE THE ONE WEEK I FEEL LIKE SHITE AND I REALLY NEED IT. Bah.

Sorry to be such a downer. At least I know that I feel down because of X, Y and Z, which makes it a bit easier instead of that pervasive "I'm depressed and I don't know why". I'm down because I feel like shite physically.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't realise you had hurt your head quite as badly, Kate! I feel bad for not being more sympathetic now.

Also, OTM regarding being down with a reason >>>> being down without a reason. I hate it when I can't put my finger on it. Mostly because everyone asks, "What's the matter?" and the only response is "I DON'T KNOW!!! AARGH" cf. "I AM ON FIRE"

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

bah kate :( sorry 'bout that...

i won middle prize in the tombola at the shortwave set gig last night!

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

A gig with a tombola? Blimey.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

There was a stall selling jam at the last Venom gig I went to.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

!!! Was it virgin's blood jam, or something?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

No, Damson.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

Surely that was a mistake, and they meant DAMSELS jam.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

It's possible. They also sold Gooseberry.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

it is the pawn shop thing they're doing. the first prize is always rubbish (always babycham and chocolate) but the second and third prizes are always actual cool things or affectionate funny tat. the one what i got it somewhere between the two - a rejected radio edit of repeat to fade which three of them have signed.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry you're feeling crap Kate. I wasn't here yesterday either, I was at home hammering away at my laptop all day trying to produce something I could send my dissertation supervisor to prove how well I'm getting on (I'm not).

Sunday was a hungover write-off after a crap party, although in the evening we recovered enough to go and collect free furniture (garden bench and a bookcase). Also got a wardrobe for £35 and so our house is finally FURNISHED!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray! Thirty-five quid too.

I was reminded of the gulf between myself and one of my best friends last night when he was grumbling to me about how his wife had just spent two and a half grand on a sofa. I made him buy me dinner.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, do you want me to send you that mp3 today, or are you in too rubbish a mood to enjoy (cough) it?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, please do send me that MP3 - I probably won't be able to burn it and listen to it at home, so I will probably be in a good mood (I hope) by the time I hear it.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone notice I wasn't in yesterday?

don't feel bad, i was off sick for a week and nobody noticed.
did nobody else see the Cunt programme last night?

― the kit! (g-kit), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

gmail say, "Your message has been sent"

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah, mail arrived and downloaded.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

I bet noone noticed I wasn't on ILX all morning either.

I've been moving into my new office. Even though I have to share it, it's not really that bad.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, stop complaining. I bet no one notices when I'm here, let alone when I'm not ;p

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

("When I were a lad, we had to get up and lick the motorway clean" etc)

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

Angry, angry, angry, angry.

I wonder if I finish all the little things in my inbox, I can just go home. I shouldn't have come in today. :-(

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

i too saw germaine greer last night. was interesting (as is the whole series). i noticed this morning that someone had emulated her handywork in the alley by ravenscourt tube using purple spray paint rather than red paint from a can.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds like a good move, Kate.

I'm doing lesson plans and it's doing my nut in; I'd love to go home, but I'm already there. perhaps I should just go to bed

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

I just feel really guilty taking off time for "psychological" reasons. Plus, I've looked at the work in my inbox and I'm not going to get it finished any time soon. :-(

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Signs of impending apocalypse number 342: Just burst into tears because someone cut in front of me in the microwave queue. :-(

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Somewhat better now I'm eating. I'm having the leftover curry from the other night and MY GOD IT IS HOT how did we manage to wolf down so much of it?

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

work -> home -> sofa -> bed

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

I stayed away from the hot one. That would've ended in disaster.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

There's a lot more left of the mild cape malay curry than of the superhot one!

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone watch the Perfect Penis on channel 4 last night (this is the typical watercooler conversation topic, after all :))? If so, DID YOU SEE THE GUY'S COCK AND BALLS? The ones that he'd injected with vast amounts of silicon? Oh my fucking christ.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

I can't find the Rolling Gigging thread, but... does anyone want a ticket for Sloan tonight?

I'm not sure I can face going out, the mood I'm in seems to be getting progressively worse and I wouldn't enjoy it. So if anyone wants my ticket, email me before 6.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

yes mark, i did, but only because it was on after ER. had to turn away several times.

was quite an evening for crotch shots on tv.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

What's all this about no shower. Lack of shower facilities = barbarism. (I perhaps exaggerate.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Well, barbarism begins at home...

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

I read a preview in the paper and deliberately avoided that one. Who the hell would take the risk? I guess I should have watched and found out, since I'm asking

xposts

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm actually wondering if I should just go home now. I can't seem to concentrate on anything, and everything is pissing me off more and more to the point where I can't ignore any of it. :-(

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

can you leave early under your flexitime rules?

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Serious question (and I'm sorry to be so sodding emo today, but I really feel like shit):

1) is ILX particularly shit today?
2) am I just noticing it more/affected by it more because I'm feeling shit?
3) is my bad mood actually causing me to be more aggressive today, and thus contributing to the general nastiness of ILX?

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Also, does anyone want that Sloan ticket?

no, I can't leave early under flexitime, but the boss who knows about my illness said that I can leave if I'm feeling really awful. I'm trying to stick it out because having something to do usually makes it better.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Serious question (and I'm sorry to be so sodding emo today, but I really feel like shit):

1) yes
2) I'd guess that doesn't help
3) yes, I think it is a bit. You know by now it's hardly ever worth it - step back, think of other things, and forget about ILE until you're feeling better

I have purposely avoided contributing to the bullies thread because I think it'd be hypocritical for me to post there. But it's pretty clear that a lot of the more shitty people on these boards (including several who should know better) are demonstrating that it very much does take one to know one in this particular case.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh. I feel more horrible because I'm not participating as much in things because I don't get wound up. But then I see someone I really like getting a drubbing from the usual idiots and I feel awful for not jumping in and defending her. :-(

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

1. Some people are intolerant of others and they all seem to be on at the same time.
2. Yes
3. I don't know
4. Thanks but no thanks

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I should just get some chocolate. I ate a Peppermint Crisp but that didn't really help. Want that mad Cote D'or stuff I had at my party on Saturday but it got gobbled up more quickly than I could say "who wants more mulled wine?"

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Fucking hell, I disappear for an hour and come back to find ILX in flames again! Obviously I must be the carbon rod of ILX or something. Or maybe I make the place so dull and mundane that I create a vacuous space of disinterest. Haha, I jest, I jest.

For anyone who cares, the house we just looked at was rub. Again. Sigh. It had NO FUCKING SHOWER. AGAIN. DOES NO ONE IN CAMBRIDGE WASH?!?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

What is the point of a house without a shower? That does indeed sound rubbish. But I guess that STOOOODENTS do not wash.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

When I moved into my flat it had 3 showers – two in the bath (one a proper wall shower, the other rubber-valved on to the taps) and one in the loo. Clearly all Cambridge's showers have migrated to London

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

An interesting theory...

Although actually there wasn't really any space in the bathroom for a shower since the ceiling was so low. Of course this a) doesn't excuse the lack of shower and b) fails to explain the lack of shower in the first place we looked at.

Oh, and one of the bedrooms had no radiator or ELECTRICITY SOCKETS

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

That's not a bedroom, that's a closet.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Right, perhaps the description on the website should be changed to say "1 bedroom and one really big closet". I will email them now! It seems that that particular estate agents have very low standards actually... perhaps a consequence of being the biggest letting agent in Cambridge.

One of the first things we were told was, "before you ask, the landlord has no intentions to do anything up". DANGER WILL ROBINSON. We left shortly afterwards.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Also, ILX is not the place to try out one's new assertive techniques. I try saying "When people do X, I feel like Y" and now my name is being dragged over that damn thread saying that I'm threatening to beat people up for the crime of admitting that certain things make me extremely angry.

(Sorry, that has nothing to do with anything, but this is annoying me.)

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

When did you say you'd beat anyone up? The thread's moving too fast for me to be keeping up with it, but I'm pretty sure you never threatened anyone. Fuck 'em Kate, just ignore it.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Never mind. :-(

I'm really wound up and angry and tense and everything, and it's really hard to separate that from the emotions that the subject produces in me.

When your stress levels are low, little bothers you. When your stress levels are high, everything bothers you.

Anyway, was that "bedroom" bigger than my closet? I bet someone could sleep in there. When I sell my flat, I'll say that it's a two bedroom and see if I get any takers. There's electricity in there, too!

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Which closet was that? Next to your bedroom? I didn't see that!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't that you that was joking about getting locked in it? Or am I getting confused now? Argh!

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

I don't remember saying anything like that, but I don't remember a lot.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Kate, I'm "by far the worst bully" on ILE, if that helps you feel any better.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

No you're not, Mark. I've never read an argument involving you where you didn't actually sit down, if called on ad hominem behaviour, and explain exactly what it was that triggered it/pissed you off.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

There are work drinks for someone's leaving doo tonight. How little do I feel like doing that? How short an appearance can I put in without seeming rude?

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Just lie and say you already have something you need to attend.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

0 mins. If you feel rubbish and you don't want to go out, don't. Just say bye and good luck to them personally instead.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, thanks for saying that, especially since some of them were directed at you. I'm glad you see it that way, and I wish Ally would - I've had a dozen conversations with her where she's just got increasingly vicious without taking in a word I've said. I should have learned my lesson by now.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

I've already decided not to go to the other thing that I was going to do - i.e. the Sloan gig.

I do like the bloke who's leaving, I'm just not sure I can deal with going to a pub in my current state of mind. Sigh. I mean, he's gone to the pub already. I guess I'll just go down and say goodbye and good luck and stuff, but not hang around for a drink.

And Mark, in that situation, I don't know what's going on, but if people are going through phases where they're not being quite rational (and yeah, I go through those phases myself) then it's best just to stay out of their way.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

I think you did well in that thread, Mark. I also think you did well by getting out of that thread, Kate :) I think it went well by the standards of Balkanized ILE, but that's like saying the crash in Lost went well after the nose of the plane hit the ground. There's just this fundamental lack of good faith between those who can't understand why people can't Get Over It, and those who can't understand why people can't understand etc... 150 post later, it settles down nicely.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

ILE strife makes me sad :(.

Fucking February. How can one month be so short and yet so annoying? This morning: huge cold sore that appeared overnight, and a packed bus that has only a few spaces left. One of these spaces is right next to the girl I have a crush on. Do I sit next to her, possibly introduce myself, and try and strike up a conversation? Or do I practically jump out of my skin when I realise that I might have to sit next to her, trip up and fall into a different seat glowing red with embarrassment?

I am starting to remember why crushing is No Good...

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning!
February is a real pain. Not really a proper month, just something you have to endure to get to spring

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

fuck you, my birthday's in february.

― the kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

white rabbit white rabbit white rabbit!

I am starting to remember why crushing is No Good...

aw man :( i'll swap you, i could do with a good crush. there's a little bit of sweetness lingering from last year's arse-over-tit all-consuming megapash, but nothing's gonna happen there i guess, so... and i seem to not be seeing this luke person any more, which is a Good Thing, i thought it was gonna be v difficult but he was v calm about it and said he saw it coming anyway.

also last night i saw the wal-mart-is-evil film at limehouse town hall (for free! courtesy of these brilliant people www.spacehijackers.org) and omg they are total evil irredeemable cunts.

and also the prince charles is showing a streetcar named desire on saturday at 1pm £3 for members £4 for non-members in aid of amnesty. anyone fancy it? i have never seen it.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

Then you're lucky you've got something to sustain you through the otherwise dark days, g

Emsk, Streetcar Named Desire is so so so good. Tell us about walmart!

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! Focussing my sadness into rage against evil megacorps is probably a good idea - should I vandalise the nearest ASDA on my way home?

(I must confess that I occasionally shop in Wal-Mart when I'm in America, but they're all rather depressing places, with shoddy lighting and a rather downtrodden feeling - and that's before thinking about their business practices. In contrast, Target shops seem much warmer and friendlier..)

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

Carson, what did you do on the bus? Normally I'd encourage the bold approach but huge cold sores can be off-putting, especially during a first meeting, so maybe it wasn't the way forward.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

I was in a really good mood this morning until a rude little shit ruined it all. I hate it when people are pissed off with you about something (in this case I didn't let him use the staff water cooler and I didn't know where the nearest water fountain was - CRIME!) and they don't have the nerve to have a go at you but instead walk away muttering and grumbling about you under their breath but perfectly audibly. Just because I'm behind a desk, that does not mean I'm an automaton who is invisible/deaf/impervious when it suits you. Passive aggressive twats. Also, how hard is it to bring a bottle of water out with you?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

*xpost*

Well, not much more than I said - I looked around the bus for somewhere to sit, almost fell over when I realised her seat was one of the few available, and to try and save my shame (and because I'd be highly flustered if I had sat next to her after that), I awkwardly scrambled into one of the other free ones. And cursed myself all the way into Oxford ;)

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

urgh, urgh, urgh. they'll spend £70,000 on flying some highups the company jet out to any of their stores in an "emergency situatuion" - ie when it looks like one of their managers is going native and wanting to not make his/her (more likely his though) workers work a shitload of unpaid overtime so the highups can tell that manager they're not responsible for the store any more - rather than, like, spend the £70,000 on paying the workers adequate wages. there was a black woman who'd been working for them for years and expressed interest in training programmes to get her above worker-drone level - and she was bright, articulate, seemed capable and hard-working, not to mention misguidedly LOYAL to the fuckers, and her superior said "there's no room for someone like you at management level" so she was shocked and gathered herself enough to say "what, because i'm a woman or because i'm black?" and he said "two out of two ain't bad!" (and yes, that is company policy (not the flip comment, the restriction of women and non-whites progressing up the ranks)) they encourage their workers to get on as many state-funded housing/medical/food stamp programmes as poss so they don't have to pay them a living wage. they'll have up to 200 (maybe more, i dunno, they specifically mentioned this one store that had 200) security guys inside one of their stores to stop shoplifters and zero in their car parks to stop muggings, stabbings, rapes, shootings etc, despite them having done studies showing if they have just a few security guys driving around in golf carts it'll reduce it to zero or near-zero (they showed this massive list of bad shit that's happened in wal-mart car parks and it went on forever, then they said all that was just in the first seven months of 2005...) they have security cameras on the roof but no one watching it live - it's to catch people they think may be trying to form a union - and i don't even need to get into that, you can guess what they do there. they'll move into a town, close all the other stores down by undercutting them then decide to move that store to a different location where they'll get better tax breaks or something (i didn't catch that bit, it was a bit echoey) leaving this huge building that no one else can fill and nowhere for anyone to do their shopping except this new wal-mart that's the same wal-mart just a longer journey away. they've got accomplices in this one (which just baffles me, wtf are these people doing giving them money?) but they get huge grants from state/town funding bodies for opening stores which takes that funding away from education/health etc. they don't give a shit about poisoning water supplies and land - this woman who was a riverwarden noticed all these big sacks of pesticide etc piled up in their car parks at a store near a creek that joined the river she was in charge of, and plenty of them were split so every time it rained all this stuff ran into the creek and the river, and that was where the town's water came from. she tried to get in touch with them and was ignored for ages, then passed from pillar to post, then finally got to speak to the guy who said he was in charge of it but that he'd just started the job and had been training for two weeks and didn't know anything about it so she went to the local tv and press and they did stories about it, so that afternoon (they had plenty former employees, some highup-ish, spilling beans everywhere, one of them in particular was pretty heart-breaking, like he couldn't BELIEVE all this crap he'd put people through, he wasn't even trying toi justif it, he was just broken) wal-marts got a call from central office telling them to cover any stuff like that they had lying around up with plastic so no one could see it (rather than, you know, get it somewhere safe). there's a wal-mart worker emergency charity fund thing which workers can pay into to help out other wal-mart workers in crises and in 2004 wal-mart employees paid $5million into it. the walton family which owns wal-mart is worth $102billion (am i remembering that wrong? is that possible? likely? such huge sums of money just start to lose all meaning to me past a certain point, they might as well have said they were worth spforrity-three pillion clandicks, but i think i got the number right) and in 2004 they gave $6000 altogether to charity (they compared that to bill gates giving away 58% of his cash). and believe, you don't even want to know about their factories in china. ugh, ugh, ugh.

i mean, i know many big chains have just as huge a moral deficit (and prob plenty of small ones if they had the chance), but none are as mighty as wal-mart. and it did a really good job of explaining all the knock-on effects that you - or i, anyway - don't even think of.

i DON'T UNDERSTAND why they'll spend such huge amounts on pr exercises and looking good and pretending they're so good to their workers and they care about families and it's a great employment opportunity and whatever, rather than just doing things properly and not having to spend all this money on damage limitation because it would all just be true and it would speak for itself. surely it would cost about
the same? and even if it didn't, when you've got $18.2billion in the bank, what does ten thousand dollars here or there matter to you? what is the POINT of $18.2billion?

my bro and dad are getting all their stuff from asda because that's what they've got near them. i've tried arguing it with them but there genuinely isn't a decent corner shop or greengrocer (which is FUCKING STUPID since they live in the middle of the countryside) or even other supermarket for miles and miles around :( even the asda's like a 15 minute drive away.

some x-posts. archel, why didn't you let him use the staff one? is it cos he was rude to start with?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

holy fuck that was a long post. but thanks for asking me and making me write it all down, bc this is exactly the kind of stuff i always want to remember but always forget the details of, i just retain a kind of simmering impotent indignant rage, which is no use to anyone.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

That was very interesting, emsk. Thanks for writing it down!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I'm going to go back and read that when I'm feeling less depressed and pissed off at the world. Already the book I'm reading is crystalising a lot of my hatred with the modern world... but yeah.

Actually, I like February. Its brevity is a real relief after the relentless pounding that is January.

I went home early last night (stopped by the pub for five minutes and said goodbye) and ate soup and watched Dune. Which was the right thing to do. I cannot BELIEVE that as a child, I missed the whole Spice = Oil metaphor. I thought it was something mystical. It's the kind of film that's mindblowing when you're 14 but seems a bit of a letdown when you're my age. But still, it was fun.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit Emsk. You know they're big and unpleasant and don't treat their workers well, and then the list of unpleasant things gets longer and longer until it's barely conceivable

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

Kate! I have sorted out the Boris thing for you!

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

What's f*cked about WalMart is that if you live in a small American town, there's pretty much nowhere else to shop. That's pretty much all there is in Bennington, where my mum lives. A WalMart, some giant supermarkets, and the overpriced tacky tourist shops.

Argh, it's all too depressing.

Oh, and the bullying thread got "out of hand"? Quelle surprise. Why is it that a thread about bullying is just an excuse for all the bullies of ILX to come out of the closet and say "I reacted to being bullied by BECOMING A BIGGER BULLY so get over it, wimp" if you don't want to act the same way.

God, I'm depressed now. I'm going to go and do some work. One of reports seems to have got lost. Argh.

x-post YAY!!! Hurrah for Boris.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, thanks for that info emsk. Horrific :(

oh and back to my comparitively petty workplace problem! - he asked for cups and I said we didn't have any because it was technically for staff but if he wanted to bring his own cup or fill a bottle I wouldn't mind. I was quite nice!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

I will email you to sort it out proper. I am completely your Boris pimp lately (xpost)

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Certain subjects seem to bring out the worst in interweb fora everywhere, I think.

Boris J is surely the inexplicable kate crush to end all inexplicable kate crushes!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

I never could see the attraction of Dune, even at 14. i remember my dad loving it.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

it was really SAD. it started with this old dude who'd built up his hardware store from nothing somewhere in ohio and been running it for 43 years - FORTY-THREE YEARS, ok, a lifetime's work - sold tools and whatnot to three generations of the same families, taught them how to use them and how to do plumbing and whatever, been proud to have something to hand down to his son. wal-mart comes in, within a few months they're gone, BAM. forty-three years, just like that. nothing. and then there's footage from the wal-mart annual backslapping corporate jolly, and interviews with former employees, and - hengh, actually, you know what it's like? you know that bit in one of the douglas adams books, the one about krikkit, where he's describing exactly what kind of deathly and exactly what kind of cold and exactly what kind of hatred it is that the krikkiters have for the rest of the universe? it's like that; this mechanical, dry, dead, unstoppable march, that just goes on and on relentlessly. i will dig it out and post it if anyone's interested. but now i'm going for a shower.

xpost yeah kate i know there's nowhere else :( it's happening over here too, that's exactly my bro and dad's problem... and plenty of people have no choice other than to work at a place like that, either, as well as shop. you don't wanna be exploited like this? fine, fuck off, there's another sucker right behind you desperate for work and ready to take your place. i suspect asda employees are slightly better off than wal-mart ones in that it's harder to suppress stuff like unions here (tho that might just be wishful thinking on my part, i got that idea from somewhere but don't know for sure). certainly the wal-mart employees in wal-mart germany were horrified by what their american counterparts suffered, bc the germans were already unionised and had proper rights and shit, and they couldn't just come in and bust it all down.

argh. the world is ending.

arch that sounds reasonable enough!

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

The more I read of Boris' book, the more I realise what a total *ideological* Tory he is, and the full extent of his Tory bastardness. It's like reading my brother's articles (but without the mad paranoiac ramblings). But then again, maybe that's the appeal.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Talking of corporate rubbishness, does anyone know if there's a way I can stop receiving weekly spam text messages from fucking Gatecrasher (I'm on Virgin and I assume it's down to them but maybe not?)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

*xpost*

wow, emsk, that's even worse than the stuff I knew about! I know in the town that I visit in America (Carrboro, in North Carolina), Wal-Mart is making noises about setting up a new superstore nearby, but the town leadership is having none of it (it's populated by students and hippies, so Wal-Mart may have picked the wrong battle to fight there!)

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah Asda says its employees are all free to join unions although (suspiciously?) less than 10% do.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

> does anyone know if there's a way I can stop receiving weekly spam text messages from fucking Gatecrasher

replying with STOP is meant to stop all these things (although some places claim it can take a week before it works)

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

yeh, at the end there were some rays of hope, people getting together and persuading whoever's responsible for giving them planning permission or whatever to not give it.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

fuck you, my birthday's in february.

Mine too - Saturday.

Work = hell.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

You doing anything for your birthday? Apart from not baking a cake?

I'm all for February. Short month, same pay. Rock.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think so really. I can't be arsed, and it's not like I have friends that I can't count on the thumbs of one hand.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Argh. I just made the mistake of reading the rest of that Bullying thread. Not something that you should do when you're already feeling depressed. :-(

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

(nearby, I mean. I have plenty of friends who live hundreds of miles away. Well, a few)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

There's something about ILX that turns people who might normally be mostly reasonable and/or decent people into UTTER RAVING COCKS (and yes, I count myself in that) that is really depressing.

― The Late Fear And The Potato Fear (kate), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

i'm going to the pub for my birthday. shocking, eh? also, i am going to see Belle & Seb a couple of days before.

― the kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

make sure you get there early to see BRAKES!

is it time for a new thread? this one's getting rather heavy.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

UK Watercooler Conversation Six: The Private Psychedelic Reel

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

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