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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 2, 2007 22:12:57 GMT
Early kick off cos I might not be back for a few days ....
On Monday Liz is going away to Illfracombe for 4 days of well earned rest...... leaving me and Jonathan at home. Together. Nearly alone..... well I've got Liz's Mum staying one night and her sister staying another, and he's got people to go to during the day. Nevertheless I am slightly worried.... I'm not firing on all cylinders at the mo, *something* is up with me and I'm not sure what - may be just the time of year effecting the condition.... lots of odd pains, especially in my arms and hands for some reason !
I can do most things for J now. But nappies are still beyond my coordination. Hence the help !
Gonna be a fun week here at the DFiS.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 3, 2007 11:29:43 GMT
December has found me re-examining the budget. Still burning through too much cash so the ents budget needs slashed again. Stuff like Ratchet/Ironide TF re-issues will have to wait until I'm earning again. Hum ho.
In other news, my 'official' blood donor card turned up today. Irritatingly, the accompanying letter says I must keep it safe as it shows which blood group I am, though neither the card nor letter says what it is! Which is just irritating. It's like being told "your exam results are on that board but in invisible ink".
-Ralph
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Post by panderson on Dec 3, 2007 12:38:15 GMT
maybe its like in CSI and only shows up like blood under the UV lamp
Silly
Plus, is it a security thing they are worried about or just that you get the right blood?
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 3, 2007 12:40:52 GMT
Who knows how it works.
Incidentally, the letter states that only 6% of Scots are registered blood donors.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 3, 2007 12:58:07 GMT
Liz has gone ! Just me and Jonathan in the house !
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 3, 2007 13:47:44 GMT
And so it begins!
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 3, 2007 17:47:47 GMT
Strange. My donor card tells me in two languages that my blood group is "A RH POSITIVE".
They didn't need to add 'positive' - I'd have believed them without that assurance.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 3, 2007 18:40:06 GMT
Wagh. What a crappy day. And the neighbours are causing a racket again. Fine then! I'm going to watch PatDoc V the Cybermen this evening with the volume turned RIGHT UP.
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Dec 3, 2007 19:46:02 GMT
Handed in a big chunk of Uni work this afternoon (a CD of practical work and written assignments). I feel liberated and can start thinking about Christmas despite two more essays that need my attention.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 3, 2007 20:54:30 GMT
Good, good. I've got two weeks left before the Chrimbo break, with a bit of work on the 17th and 24th to do, then two weeks off. Which was kind of nice when I still got paid for holidays!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Dec 3, 2007 21:01:32 GMT
Glad to hear you are starting to see the edge of the term-time forest emerging Ken.
I had an.... interesting day. Got into the office to discover that we were very short of housing officers. So short in fact that our senior housing officer was asking if I could go out with our new recruit to back him up on a lock change at a property (he may be a housing officer, and therefore technically the Primary, but he'd only been in post 381/2 hours). So, I just had time to glug down a cup of tea before I had to leap in the Housing Mobile and head out to the further reaches of Edinburgh. Didn't get back for about two hours, putting my plans for the day somewhat out of whack. They drifted even further out by mid-afternoon. At which point I decided that the plan was clearly now dead as a doornail and improvised the rest of the day.
Hopefully things will be a little more straightforward tomorrow, although from past experiences I fear that is a vain hope.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 3, 2007 21:03:58 GMT
The Housing Mobile? I picture that like the crap slow-moving buggy that turned up in many 80's BBC productions. Fans of the crap BBC buggy can spot it in Doctor Who stories such as Vengeance on Varos and The Happiness Patrol.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Dec 3, 2007 22:12:03 GMT
The Housing Mobile? I picture that like the crap slow-moving buggy that turned up in many 80's BBC productions. Fans of the crap BBC buggy can spot it in Doctor Who stories such as Vengeance on Varos and The Happiness Patrol. -Ralph You are not far from the truth. I think of it as being a sort of cross between the crap BBC buggy, the crap Space 1999 buggy (or the not-crap similar one in Macross) and Green Arrow's Arrow Car. Although the driving experience is more like a tank (a MK1 British tank circa 1917 at that). Karl |
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Post by legios on Dec 3, 2007 22:13:08 GMT
The Housing Mobile? I picture that like the crap slow-moving buggy that turned up in many 80's BBC productions. Fans of the crap BBC buggy can spot it in Doctor Who stories such as Vengeance on Varos and The Happiness Patrol. -Ralph You are not far from the truth. I think of it as being a sort of cross between the crap BBC buggy, the crap Space 1999 buggy (or the not-crap similar one in Macross) and Green Arrow's Arrow Car. Although the driving experience is more like a tank (a MK1 British tank circa 1917 at that). Karl |
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Post by legios on Dec 3, 2007 22:13:33 GMT
The Housing Mobile? I picture that like the crap slow-moving buggy that turned up in many 80's BBC productions. Fans of the crap BBC buggy can spot it in Doctor Who stories such as Vengeance on Varos and The Happiness Patrol. -Ralph You are not far from the truth. I think of it as being a sort of cross between the crap BBC buggy, the crap Space 1999 buggy (or the not-crap similar one in Macross) and Green Arrow's Arrow Car. Although the driving experience is more like a tank (a MK1 British tank circa 1917 at that). Karl |
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Post by kayevcee on Dec 3, 2007 22:41:21 GMT
Hot in there, is it?
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Post by legios on Dec 3, 2007 23:07:01 GMT
Hot in there, is it? -Nick And also visibility is rather limited, and you can forget about taking corners tightly. Unfortunately I don't think it's armoured hide is quite up to snuff... Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 3, 2007 23:21:38 GMT
Perhaps you need alternative transport, like the crap underground train that appeared in 99% of 7O's US sci-fi. Fans of the crap underground train (and accompanying crap underground train station) can spot it in such fare as Genesis II, Planet Earth and Star Trek: The Motion Picture where it is disguised as Admiral Kirk's transport at Starfleet HQ.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 4, 2007 16:48:33 GMT
Oh FFS! After two days of noise from next door (till 1m last night), it appears the folk upstairs have joined in. What a racket. Is it national 'Be inconsiderate to your neighbours' week?
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 4, 2007 18:16:05 GMT
Sound like a bunch of inconsiderate arseholes. Play the menu of Revelation of the Daleks at a loud volume that should sort em out.
Andy
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Post by gloriana on Dec 4, 2007 18:42:48 GMT
Well my week is playing out rather interestingly. I have just finished my reports and I'm working on Session 2 of lesson planning for next week. It means I'm having to think about a week ahead of where I actually am. It also means that I'm dead to the world way before 10pm.
Andy I agree with your sentiments exactly. When I'm like this all I need to do is play something loud (particularly if my neighbours are installing their cooker for the umpteenth time on the weekend at 9am). Oh for the joys of a detached house ...
Karl, it seems as though you're having a fun week. Wanna swap?
Rowan
PS yes that's my real name. Exaltation to the person who spots where I got the handle from.
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Post by legios on Dec 4, 2007 21:09:03 GMT
Karl, it seems as though you're having a fun week. Wanna swap? Rowan PS yes that's my real name. Exaltation to the person who spots where I got the handle from. That is a fine offer, but I think I shall hang on to my week for the moment - it seems to be coming together reasonably well as things stand. (And we will get neared to a full complement tomorrow, which will make life a bit easier). Actually, today went fairly well. Althought I got into the office a bit later I managed to get quite a bit done over the course of the day and left with the desk looking a fair bit clearer than it had done. (Not to the extent of looking at planning a week ahead - my job doesn't allow you to do that. Heck, if makes a mockery of planning two days ahead a lot of the time). Ralph, you have my sympathies for your neighbours. I had a similar problem in my previous abode - a bloke downstairs who tended to get stoned and play brass-band music at high volume in the early hours of the morning. This ceased when I dropped "The Dreaming" into the CD player, selected the last track and jacked the volume up on the high notes. Resonance effects, they are wonderful things. As to Rowan's handle. I'd say that the lower bound of probability would be of it being a reference to the "Quest for Glory" series of computer games. I have a few speculations in the realm of old English poetry and in opera, but no basis for really assessing them. Karl |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 4, 2007 23:06:02 GMT
A bit of a wasted day due to last nights vokda related japery. Managed a bracing walk and my weekly badminton game. Sadly it was just me and Annie (who is very good and I am not) so I got humped. Of course I was worse than normal but I still would have been humped anyway.
Bit of housework, Adam Warlock appearance in the Silver Surfer on jetix which made me smile.
Also an electromagnetograph from the absent Hubmeister - he's doing okay and is glad to hear that there is an Auto Assembly next year and is hoping to be there all going well,
Andy
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Post by panderson on Dec 5, 2007 8:10:25 GMT
Give him all our best
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Post by Bogatan on Dec 5, 2007 9:17:28 GMT
Week started pretty badly with a horrible migraine and sickness on Sunday forcing me off work on Monday. Yesterday went well and today has started brilliantly with the purchase of 2 tickets to see Bruce Springsteen next year. 14th June in Cardiff. Cost me 126gbp which is insane, but their you go. At least its guaranteed to be a good show. Just have to hope nothing courses me to cancel.
Best wishes to Graham.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 5, 2007 16:54:54 GMT
Quiet so far in Burns Close. Generally, my neighbours are pretty decent, I just think they're going through a wanky phase. You expect some degree of noise in communal housing, most times it's acceptable. Most bother I usually have is the lass next door sometimes has the music up loud but not usually for long or too late.
-Ralph
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Post by gloriana on Dec 5, 2007 17:08:01 GMT
Not Quest for Glory, not the poetry and not the opera. Think more literary and relatively recent. Try again?
and if you get it right I will exalt you!
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Post by Dave on Dec 5, 2007 17:17:23 GMT
Rowan PS yes that's my real name. Exaltation to the person who spots where I got the handle from. Wilkos? Erm..Gloriana is a fictional queen. If she was a he, she.. I mean he... would be a fictional king. Another fictional king would be Edmund I - as portrayed by Rowan Atkinson. |
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Post by panderson on Dec 5, 2007 17:46:10 GMT
Is it also the name of the god from lastish season of Buffy?
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Post by gloriana on Dec 5, 2007 18:05:45 GMT
Dave, you've just been Exalted. Well done. Gloriana is indeed the name of a fictional queen, in the book of the same title by Michael Moorcock.
Mr. Anderson, the God you're thinking about is Glory (sometimes worshipped as Glorificus) in Season 5. I've really really got to get a life. Nicely noted about my namesake. I believe that Edmund actually ascended the throne by default (as a regicide) in the last episode of The Black Adder. The perils of having a unisex name ...
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