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Post by The Doctor on Jul 7, 2008 11:28:13 GMT
I feel strangely relaxed today, for the first time in a few months. Can't think why, events are as shitty as they have been of late.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 7, 2008 11:43:24 GMT
I think right now I must be absorbing your anxiety. Getting everything done for the AA mag is playing merry hell with me right now. No drinks in a few days and still a multiple bowel movement day and I've not even had lunch yet!!!!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 7, 2008 11:51:15 GMT
Once again the strange symbiosis of Turn and Burn comes into play!
-Ralph
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Post by grahamthomson on Jul 7, 2008 12:36:00 GMT
Once again the strange symbiosis of Turn and Burn comes into play! -Ralph Ouch! Not literally, I hope! |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 7, 2008 16:28:40 GMT
It's ok. I haven't had the 100m toilet dash yet.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2008 16:44:46 GMT
Got caught up in a downpour coming home from work today proving once and for all that summer is officially over.
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Post by legios on Jul 7, 2008 18:40:55 GMT
I wouldn't say that summer is over, after all it is normal for their to be rain at least one day in every two during the average summer. There was only a short shower of rain near me today, and that was when I was safely inside.
I took advantage of the warmth and the sunshine to go and do a couple of hours walk along the canal from Polmont to Linlithgow. It was very pleasant - although I was very glad that I had taken along a bottle of water. Came home and did some clearing up in the house - making a pile of boxes for the attic and a pile for recycling, consigning more comics, books and stuff to the recyling and charity shop piles. Then had myself a nice tea. Very enjoyable way to end the long weekend really.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2008 18:49:22 GMT
It's pissing it down again  I think there's only been about two hours of sunshine today - and about two hours yesterday and about two hours on Saturday as well. My father came out with a good proverb last summer. We had just had our usual Sunday lunch at a pub nearby and went into the beer garden to finish our pints. It was a nice day and we looked across the road to see a load of rooks nesting at the top of some tall trees. My father said that if rooks build their nests high up in trees it means we are going to get a long hot summer. About a week later the rain came which caused floods all across the country. |
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Post by andrewbcalculating on Jul 8, 2008 9:32:04 GMT
My drink leaked in my bag yesterday which got Faculty documents and my phone wet. I had to spread wet paper all over the office to let it dry. The screen on my phone wouldn't light up so I had to consider buying a new phone but time and a hand dryer are wonderful things to the point where the phone now seems to be working fine. I watched the Gadget Show last night and they were testing laptops using hoses. They mentioned that sometimes electrical equipment will return back to normal once it has been dried out.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 8, 2008 9:56:47 GMT
Well it always worked for the Transformers. Galvatron was fine after beating the living shit out of the Seacons under water.
-Ralph
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Post by grahamthomson on Jul 9, 2008 8:49:35 GMT
Maybe the Decepticons had a good hair dryer in their underwater base?
It cost me £60 yesterday to have a dent sucked out of the side of the car. It was all my own fault as I wasn't paying attention in the car park of Waitrose on Sunday morning and the trolley decided to make a dash for the car of its own accord. With the heavy rain, a handful of bags and a dog desperately trying to see what was in said bags, my reactions were too slow.
Still, you'd never know what had happened; the dent guy did a good job.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2008 9:32:37 GMT
If only Ratchet had been there!
-Ralph
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Post by Mark_Stevenson on Jul 9, 2008 21:44:38 GMT
Work has the feel of death row about it this week. I can only imagine how depressing it's gonna get as THE BIG SHUTDOWN approaches. Still, I have already started applying for new jobs.
Mx
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2008 22:58:27 GMT
All the best with it.
With Uni stalled and no paying work on the horizon, I find myself in a strange twilight world of sudden mood swings and shifts of melancholy.
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Jul 9, 2008 23:03:45 GMT
Same here Ralph.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2008 23:06:58 GMT
At times like these I try to remember a saying I once heard: years from now this will be a pinprick on the arsehole of time.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 10, 2008 20:59:59 GMT
Survived my 4 days in a Caravan in Exmouth. Exeter's Newsagents were poo - nothing but Cybermen to be had on their DWMs.
4th Wedding Anniversary today !
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 10, 2008 21:28:16 GMT
Jumped on the scales this evening. Another couple of pounds gained this week. This is really getting me down.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jul 10, 2008 21:38:56 GMT
Survived my 4 days in a Caravan in Exmouth. Exeter's Newsagents were poo - nothing but Cybermen to be had on their DWMs. 4th Wedding Anniversary today ! Happy Wedding Anniversary to you and thy good lady wife in that case! A bit of a mixed week for me - I have achieved quite a bit workwise, but in doing so have eaten into my allotment of free time. Meaning I haven't got as many of the non-work things done as I would have liked. This seems to have been the pattern of the last few weeks in honesty. I am beginning to think that I am in definite need of a proper holiday myself to recharge the batteries. Karl |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 10, 2008 22:01:06 GMT
Happy Wedding Anniversary Phil.
Andy
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Post by grahamthomson on Jul 11, 2008 8:18:17 GMT
Happy anniversary, Phil and Liz!
Wow. You've been married longer that Dreamwave held the Transformers comics license.
Now, apparently, tradition gifts for Year Four are fruit. But I only have sausages, so would you accept a slightly bent sausage painted yellow to resemble a banana?
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 11, 2008 9:45:54 GMT
Four years already? Wow.
-Ralph
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Post by kayevcee on Jul 11, 2008 10:43:45 GMT
Happy anniversary Phil!
This week has contained a double whammy. First I got offered a job at a very impressive company that just happens to be situated in a field in the middle of nowhere on the other side of the country. I decided to use the offer as leverage to get the place ten minutes up the road from home to give me an answer about a job I'd applied for there. They did. No.
I couldn't work at the first place because a) I can't drive and thus would be dependent on taxis to get there at ludicrous expense and b) if I moved to the nearest residential area, a village called Tranent, I'd go completely mad within a month. Also, they do animal testing on a wide enough range of creatures for me to alienate everyone I know by working there.
So, I'm back to square one. Job hunt ahoy!
-Nick
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 11, 2008 10:46:26 GMT
Balls. Sorry to hear that.
-Ralph
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Post by kayevcee on Jul 11, 2008 10:55:51 GMT
Eh. The first place wanted me, and the second place said it was a close run thing and offered me feedback to help at future interviews. This gives me confidence that future interviews should go well and I'll find work accessible by some form of public transport (buying a car to help the environment strikes me as a tad counter-productive) fairly soon. I've already had a text from a coursemate telling me about a good online recruitment service for science graduates. I'll see what they have.
-Nick
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 11, 2008 11:00:07 GMT
'Fancy an insane battle?' says Adbot!
-Ralph
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Post by grahamthomson on Jul 11, 2008 11:29:18 GMT
Hang in there, Nick!
It took me six months to get a job/location I wanted after graduating. And in the mean time I was working night shifts for the local newspaper's design department and going for interviews during the day.
The employment market can be quite cruel at times, but keep at it and treat each setback as gathering more experience.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 11, 2008 16:35:12 GMT
Tough luck on the SEPA front, Nick. if it helps any, I was turned down the first time I applied for a job with the EA, but got accepted the second time, and the second one was a much better job all round. Also, I was temping, as an assistant typist for Coventry Council, for several months, before I got the right job. And I was blooming glad in the end that I'd held out for a job I wanted in a place I wanted to live, rather than settling for something with a long commute. So lose heart ye not! Your time will come!
Had a busy week at work, culminating today in having to give a half-hour talk to about 80 businesspeople. It went OK, I think! And there was a nice lunch.
I unwound afterwards by knocking off at half-three and taking the neighbour's dog (an 11-year-old cross between a Staffordshire terrier and a whippet) for a walk in the woods. Sadly, I learn that the nice old lady who owns her is moving out next Friday and going back to Liverpool. A shame!
Tomorrow I shall put my feet up and read, with maybe a little bit of local food shopping and housework. Then on Sunday - Museum/peregrines. Be nice if it didn't rain.
Martin
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 11, 2008 19:26:53 GMT
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WORK HAVE BLOCKED THE HUB AGAIN!!!!!!!!
Maybe this time FOR GOOD!!!!! I'm gunna sweet talk IT and see what they say. Can't complain too much I suppose, it is a work PC. Dear Mrs Shockprowl is convinced my old PC that's been in storage for three years will be good enough for braodband. Gunna have to buy more cheese to give to the mice that run round inside it.
Don't miss me too much! I'll pop into my M&D's and post when I can 'till we're finally up and running at home. Nuts! I need my Hub!!!!!
Anyway, on a lighter note. I purchoosled G.I. Joe the Movie 1980whatever from Woolies for 1 pound. I've never seen the cartoon before...
Oh... my... Godfathers!!!!
What a load of rubbish! Fun. But rubbish! What the freakity-McFreak is up with Cobra Commander's voice! (must be same bloke that does Starscream!) What's with the laser guns?! How utterly crap is Cobra-La?! Why the sh1t does Serpentor scream Cobra-la-la-la-la-la-la and several points during the final battle?! Ah sweet Lord above... Mrs Shockprowl came into the room whilst I was watching it, took one look, and walked straight back out again! It was kinda fun though. But yet another example of the comic beign far superior to the cartoon. Transformers cartoon is infinately better by the look of this 'Movie'!
Best of look to all job hunters and the like!
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Post by karla on Jul 11, 2008 19:30:11 GMT
just come back from holiday, and it rained every day! we attempted to go to edinburugh as well but....no luck unfortunatley as it looked really nice there, but then I started to think about the accents and got scared. I couldn't drive while I was up there, it would cost £200 for a week to insure me which is a shame  happy 4th anniversary Philip, thats so sweet ^^ |
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