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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 6, 2010 8:10:13 GMT
Best suggestion gets in then title of the thread, I'm not feeling inspired this week.
Off for a meeting this morning to see if they've decided if Jonathan has Autism.
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Post by Hero on Sept 6, 2010 8:26:37 GMT
How about "RULES Week!"  All the best with the meeting Phil. ===KEN |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 6, 2010 9:47:46 GMT
Ha! Jonathan's ITV watching has just given me a jem of a Champions episode William Gaunt's character is trapped near a nuclear bomb with a character named Banner.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 6, 2010 15:11:42 GMT
Well 2 of my new shelving units are up in the loft...... and the place looks like a bomb has hit, especially if you're Gojulas giga who fell apart while I was up there when he was hit by a Brave box. Mad Thunder is a tiny bit angry too as pne of his Shield Lige cannons has gone awol.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 6, 2010 16:01:03 GMT
I have to do a task and take print-outs to the job interview this coming Thursday so I've had to bite the bullet and buy a printer (don't want to chance problems with library printers). It's an expense I could do without right now but at the end of the day I'll just make allowances in other areas and spend as little as possible. If I can make allowances for the odd plastic robot then, eh, fair enough.
Printer plus cleaning suit plus haircut plus transport for this interview will come out at round £85: a hell of a lot when I have no income. And it's my mother's birthday this week as well so I'll have that to pay for plus more transport costs. It'll be beans and pasta rest of the month and I'm not joking.
Luckily, Andu was on hand to figure out which magic buttons needed pressed on the computer and the printer to make them talk to each other as I did not have a clue and was fretting. It has a colour function and a scanner function, which are new to Ralph in the world of home printers!
I'll get up early tomorrow and get the task done and printed off asap.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 6, 2010 16:01:31 GMT
Off for a meeting this morning to see if they've decided if Jonathan has Autism. All the best for the little fella. -Ralph |
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Post by blueshift on Sept 6, 2010 16:42:22 GMT
Cous cous is a delicious, cheap meal, as is soup! Better for you than beans and pasta anyway!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 6, 2010 16:55:18 GMT
Off for a meeting this morning to see if they've decided if Jonathan has Autism. All the best for the little fella. -Ralph |
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 6, 2010 17:00:01 GMT
I enjoyed the really cheap noodles (under 10p) with a dash of sweet chilli sauce and any veg I happened to have.
Alternatively learn to stalk your nearest supermarket at clearance time.
Andy
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Post by Hero on Sept 6, 2010 20:10:47 GMT
I have 100s' of cous cous packets. I get mine from www.approvedfood.co.uk amongst lots of other stuff. I've saved a small fortune on food this year thanks to this place. ===KEN |
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 6, 2010 23:17:03 GMT
Sorry again about your bad new, Phil.
I've just finished a hard weekend whizzing around in my Ambulance car. There wasn't an Ambulance car Transformer was there? Mini Ratchet we'll call him.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 6, 2010 23:35:57 GMT
Always happy to assist you Ralph.
Sorry again about the bad news Phil.
Andy
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Post by kayevcee on Sept 7, 2010 5:06:14 GMT
Sorry to hear about the bad news, Phil. You and Liz are great parents though and I'm sure you'll cope well. As you said after the first diagnosis, Jonathan is still Jonathan.
Ralph, I'm sorry I'm not about to help while all this is going on. I'm also sorry I wasn't around as much before I left. Knock 'em dead at the interview, doc!
-Nick
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Post by blueshift on Sept 7, 2010 6:12:07 GMT
I have 100s' of cous cous packets. I get mine from www.approvedfood.co.uk amongst lots of other stuff. I've saved a small fortune on food this year thanks to this place. ===KEN My god Ken, that website is amazing! |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 7, 2010 10:53:31 GMT
Task for Thursday interview has been done and printed off. What used to take me at most an hour in my last job took me somewhat longer. Chalk that one down to being out of practice and paranoia at screwing it up. Now for haircut and lunch.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 7, 2010 12:08:47 GMT
Now behold the terror of Pipkins:
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 7, 2010 15:57:19 GMT
Task for Thursday interview has been done and printed off. What used to take me at most an hour in my last job took me somewhat longer. Chalk that one down to being out of practice and paranoia at screwing it up. Now for haircut and lunch. Not around tomorrow, so good luck for Thursday. Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 7, 2010 18:22:56 GMT
Scouted out the location for the interview but if the rain keeps up it will have to be the expense of a taxi, which I could do without. Though to get in appears to be a case of guess the code on the lock. So I'll take the office phone number with me.
Then a trip out to the outskirts in an entirely different direction to where I thought the only Thornton was to pick up chocolates for a parental unit before heading off in yet another direction to get the suit from the dry cleaners. 4 hours 30 round trip.
It was only a few minutes ago that I remembered there is a Thorntons somewhat nearer. Ah well.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 7, 2010 18:39:07 GMT
Hmmm, Thorntons.....
Decorating mucho grandio. More rough men in leather shorts are comming in six weeks or so to do the bathroom AND kitchen! Oh Dear God! No buying toys for a while for this hansome young TF fan!
Oh and Pipkins scares me.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2010 18:46:42 GMT
An internet connection problem on an initially seemingly massive scale was sorted today. I came home from work on Tuesday last week and found I had no internet connection. Later that night I got a painfully slow connection that took about ten minutes to load up just one webpage. After said webpage had loaded up the connection went down again. No connection was seen the following day also and so I rang up Virgin Media. The first time I rang them up they tried to diagnose the problem over the phone and when they couldn't find a solution they hung up! I phoned them back and they tried to find a solution again but when they couldn't do it a second time they hung up again! A third phone call within one hour was duly made and I demanded an engineer come round to sort out the mess. They arranged to come on Friday afternoon and so I came home from work an hour early on Friday to await their arrival. Late in the afternoon they phoned me up saying that they couldn't come because they were too busy but they agreed to come on Saturday. This time they stuck to their promise and came around. By now I had no connection for five days and the engineer diagnosed the problem as being the wireless router was broken. Because it wasn't his job to supply wireless routers he told me to phone up Virgin and ask for a new one to be delivered. I did just that and I received it today after seven days of no connection. Unfortunately, my wireless set-up wouldn't accept the new router so I rang up Virgin again (the fifth phone call I had made to them in seven days) and they tried to diagnose the problem over the phone which they couldn't. In the end I tried a last chance idea of my own and got it up and running!
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Post by legios on Sept 7, 2010 20:43:22 GMT
Sometimes it is the simplest things that cause these problems. I remember having a couple of weeks where my connection was horrendously slow, and very unstable, whilst using my old modem.
After trying many things I noticed that it was running somewhat warm..... read, almost too hot to touch. So I replaced it with a wired router and resolved all of these problems at a fell swoop.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 7, 2010 21:07:20 GMT
I find connecting the computer to the time vortex sorts the problem out.
-ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 7, 2010 21:10:46 GMT
Hmmm, Thorntons..... Decorating mucho grandio. More rough men in leather shorts are comming in six weeks or so to do the bathroom AND kitchen! Oh Dear God! No buying toys for a while for this hansome young TF fan! Oh and Pipkins scares me. Our bathroom was done in January, my parent and I are going to Ikea tomorrow to order a new kitchen. Walls were replastered yesterday and tiles going on the ground on Saturday. Thankfully its not my money, so it wont affect my transformer buying. Sadly I have no money, so won't be buying any anyway. Andy |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 7, 2010 23:54:43 GMT
I like Martin's revised thread title.
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Post by dinogrrl on Sept 8, 2010 1:43:18 GMT
That Virgin Media sound like a useless bunch. I'd be expecting them to compensate you for the week of no service that you were still paying for.
I am struggling to keep a regular sleep/wake schedule right now. Always been a bit of an insomniac but I'm letting it get out of hand. I have things to get done before I nip down to Indianapolis on Thursday to have dinner with my new boss and then spend Friday peeing in a cup and checking out places to rent. I hope the company can fling me the moving expense monies this Thursday, otherwise I will be right screwed on paying a security deposit. I have $30 to my name till the 15th. Bloody hell.
Good luck with your interview this Thursday, Ralph.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 8, 2010 10:09:29 GMT
A special treat for Phil...muh huh huh...
-Ralph
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Post by Stomski on Sept 8, 2010 10:58:46 GMT
Ralph... just, well, wow. Glad I have two of them now.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 8, 2010 11:31:27 GMT
The only BM Cheetor I want to see is the Nightslash version in the proper yellow colours.
The wardrobe is being removed Friday. Huzzah!
Progress with the loft: We've stuck some old book shelves - the ones that used to be on the far wall - under the front of the house. They've taken all the small boxes off the floor. Along the far wall are four large shelving units with the Brave, GI Joe, Microman and Doctor Who toys on them. The units with the boxed Transformers on them are still along the back of the loft with lot of moved boxes in front of them. The Star Wars stuff is still in the corner, but between that and the water tank we have another new shelving unit with many of the larger boxes of TFs on it.
Get the wardrobe out and I can have a think about what happens next !
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 8, 2010 17:00:20 GMT
Dear people in libraries:
SHUT THE FUCK UP! IT'S MEANT TO BE A QUIET PLACE SO PEOPLE CAN THINK. IF YOU WANT TO TALK A LOT, GO THE FUCK OUTSIDE.
That is all.
-ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 8, 2010 18:35:48 GMT
Execute them.
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