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Post by grahamthomson on Jun 29, 2009 7:29:56 GMT
Hot, eh?
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Post by Hero on Jun 29, 2009 8:21:15 GMT
Unbearably.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jun 29, 2009 9:41:53 GMT
Me is so sweaty.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 29, 2009 17:01:35 GMT
After 3 years of faithful service, my messenger bag has been retired from active duty after I got the side caught on a bench and ripped a hole in it. After much searching for one the right size and weight (I am very particular about bags) I have found a most awesome replacement. It has six million compartments.
In other news, I finished researching learner driver places and so have plumped for BSM's 'Pass Plus' Option where you get all the gubbins you need for the theory and practical tests on the guarantee you pass and if you fail either you get the cost of the test back on condition you do a 2-hour lesson every week (which suits me fine, I could use the extra practice). 10 lessons booked to get me started. Overall, this looked the best option for price, convenience and in persuading my employer that I am serious about acquiring a driving licence in due course. Especially as it's a hell of a lot of cash for someone to spoon out when they're on a 3-month temp contract.
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Post by Hero on Jun 30, 2009 11:03:57 GMT
Poor Zip. Summer is no fun when you are a black cat.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jun 30, 2009 12:54:21 GMT
OH DEAR GOD!!! ROTF has been out for over a week and I still haven't seen it and prob wont see it this week n'all!!!!!! AAAARRRRRGH!!!!!!!!
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Post by Cullen on Jun 30, 2009 13:10:05 GMT
It's bloody cold up here because of some freak low cloud and fog. Starting to warm up again now.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2009 17:58:54 GMT
Its bleeding hot down here. Its like living in a furnace!
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 30, 2009 18:52:37 GMT
Was working late today and did not mind it at all.
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Post by legios on Jun 30, 2009 19:21:44 GMT
A hectic week at work has been had so far. There have been lots of things not proceeding as they should, which has necessitated action to marshal them back into line.
In brighter news however, I have discovered that I do not need to purchase a new vacumn cleaner. I had thought my current one had died, but careful examination and a bit of keyhole surgery revealed that it had inhaled a small polythene bag (probably from a recently purchased Universe toy) which had effectively choked the intake. A quick bit of surgery later and it was back in working order.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2009 19:28:48 GMT
I have logged onto a job agency website today and have requested to be considered for a local job they are listing. Hopefully I can finally get out of the hole I am currently working in and work somewhere better. After the headache I got today (which I won't go into) a new job would be quite welcome.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 30, 2009 20:32:13 GMT
All the best with that.
It might be worth your while researching local agencies who can assist with job searches, putting CV's together and the like. The Job Centre Plus should at least have some leaflets kicking about.
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Post by Dave on Jun 30, 2009 20:48:22 GMT
Got back from Glastonbury yesterday and then spent the day sorting out all my stuff. Realised today I should probably be tired so have spent most of it sleeping. Currently seeing what I've missed out on whilst I've been gone. And yeah, it's kinda hot at the moment 
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Post by Shockprowl on Jun 30, 2009 21:49:02 GMT
Good luck with the job, Zudo. Hope you get outa that hell hole asap.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2009 22:20:34 GMT
I hope I do as well. If not with this attempt maybe with another.
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Post by Hero on Jul 1, 2009 7:04:24 GMT
Certainly. It sounds like you need to leave that sinking ship fast. All the best Zudobug.
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Post by andrewbcalculating on Jul 1, 2009 9:37:22 GMT
Before Monday we had no problems with our hot water. Then on Monday we had a engineer round to supposedly service the boiler. Said engineer in fact creates a problem out of nothing meaning we have no hot water. We only found out about the problem on Tuesday after the engineer had long gone. Now I have to have a day off work to let in one engineer to fix a fault that another engineer created. I am not happy.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2009 13:53:17 GMT
Like my name sake in this thread, Dave, I have just got back from Glastonbury and now back in work, and its uncomfortably hot here in Derbyshire.
I shall have to find a beer garden after work i think.
Hope everyone else is having a good week.
Dave
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Post by karla on Jul 1, 2009 15:09:43 GMT
pizza hut have such good deals on..............must resist
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2009 18:37:19 GMT
Going to attend another gig tomorrow night from the band whom is lead by some one I knew from school. I originally only turned up the first time to see him because I hadn't seen him since I was at school but I quite like his music and have found myself putting in an appearance at all of his gigs so far.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 1, 2009 19:49:02 GMT
Just sipping a mug of cold ginger beer after walking home in the heat from the central museum, after a free public evening lecture on Charles Darwin by Prof. Tony Campbell, Director of the Darwin Centre in Pembrokeshire. Weekend before last, in Torquay I was meeting people who, on hearing I lived in Cardiff, said immediately, "Good museum in Cardiff!" However, in this weather only 30 of the 300,000 citizens of Cardiff thought enough of it to attend said _free_ lecture. Probably ten times that number were paying to see 'Revenge of the Fallen Dave' in Cardiff's cinemas at the time. Their loss, it was a stonking talk.
Also went to a much more informal Darwin talk at the museum at lunchtime by a less experienced speaker, who thought he'd be clever by putting in a Terry Pratchett quote ironically contrasting science with religion. The professor in the evening gave what I thought were much more intelligent views on faith and science. Like me, both speakers consider Darwin to be the best example of a true scientist, and 'On the Origin of Species' to be the model of good science. But of the two, apparently only the evening speaker (Director of the Darwin Centre) believes like me that faith and scientific principles can coexist.
What else? Well, it's been a stuffy hot day. Grateful for the desk fan in the office, and that my workload is not heavy at the moment. Decent, not unusual weekend just past, with a fine live storytelling performance in the WMC Saturday lunchtime (with more ginger beer) and more peregrine-related volunteering with the RSPB on Sunday. Finished Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Montaigne. Now reading Thomas Paine's 'Rights of Man', a compilation of traditional Russian folk tales, and an English interpretation of the Qur'an. Hay-fever season is over, so patio getting much use.
Avoiding the tennis where possible, as like all sport it bores me to tears. Hoping it doesn't over-run tonight so they show the Nasa programme at 9.
Let's see if I can squeeze in Ralph's latest YouTube video first.
Best wishes to you all.
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Post by grahamthomson on Jul 1, 2009 20:06:17 GMT
You're very lucky living where you do, Martin. And shame on all the people who didn't take advantage of what's on on their doorstep!
The only thing that's free and remotely educational around here is the comprehensive choice of expletives etched into the plastic panes of the bus shelters.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 1, 2009 20:45:04 GMT
Not a lot round here. We have a smoking rate above 50% of the local population, around 50% drink excessively, violent crime is above the national average, a high rate of unemployment, there's a fair bit of anti-social behaviour and we have the 3rd lowest life expectancy in Scotland. At night, I stay in.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 1, 2009 22:34:39 GMT
Piglet likes tennis. Not at the expense of Bod the Builder, or Chorlton and the Wheelies, of course, but I got her to tollerated it this afternoon, and she ended up quite interested. Of course, everything that came out of her mouth started with "Why", but what ya gunna do?
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Post by grahamthomson on Jul 2, 2009 8:55:23 GMT
e.g. "Why does tennis exist?"
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Post by andrewbcalculating on Jul 2, 2009 9:36:43 GMT
So that if women wanted to they would have an outlay to dispense with any unwanted grunts? That really puts me off watching women's tennis.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 2, 2009 17:02:24 GMT
Worst day of hayfever for me in years, almost incapacitating. If I wasn't on a temp contract I would have taken a sick day.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 2, 2009 19:07:54 GMT
So that if women wanted to they would have an outlay to dispense with any unwanted grunts? That really puts me off watching women's tennis. |<o>| Depends which woman is doing the grunting for me. But generally, yeah, they get a tad too loud. |
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Post by kayevcee on Jul 2, 2009 20:47:15 GMT
It's like a kettle is boiling with the whistle off right under my chin. Hay fever hasn't been so bad but the heat is killing me. There's a clock/thermometer on the side of a building I pass on the way home from work. 31C it said. I bet it was hotter inside that bloody truck this morning.
In other news, the reason Toys'r'us didn't get its air conditioning system fixed yesterday is that seagulls are nesting in the vent and they attacked the repair man so he couldn't get near it. Yay.
Where's the rain? It was supposed to rain yesterday AND today and it didn't. I want the rain to come back.
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Post by legios on Jul 2, 2009 21:35:34 GMT
Well, that is me finished work for the week. I have Friday and Monday off due to a public holiday in Edinburgh. Four days to do as I will, or more probably to do things that I need to be doing.
I suspect at least one of the mornings is going to be filled with dissassembling furniture. The shelves that I have been using for display in the living room are going, as I become increasingly convinced that I have too much furniture floating around that room. So it will be a case of getting busy with the screwdriver and pulling them apart. (Not that they will take much pulling in the state they are in).
I might spend the rest of the weekend hiding from the heat to be honest. At the moment it remains 28 celsius inside my house.... warm for this time of evening and a little bit too hot for Karls.
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