h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Anyone for cricket?

<with a very heavy Swedish accent*

Björn Borg!
Björn Borg!
Björn Borg!

See... and it's not even moderated!

Wonderful, T!

Morning, Loony. I have to admit that, being a Yank, I've never played cricket. I'll give it a try though.

G7

Ah cricket, top stuff.
I do think the should be with NOT cream!

The only cricket game I know involves sharp pointy things with this round bristly thing and you throw the sharp pointy thing at the round bristly thing. Oh ya Darts.

The arrows game Practice your archery like every Englishman should

whereas the one i know of is from the hhgg book and involves detroying planets. or was that something else?

IIRC that was not a game but a race. As always I could be wrong. It has been years since I last read that book.

IIRC that was not a game but a race. As always I could be wrong. It has been years since I last read that book.

There was also the sofa landing on the pitch in one scene of h2g2 - can't remember which book though.

I've got the Big Blue omnibus edition, so I'm no help -- they all seem like one big book to me!

Goodness, Lil. Why didn't he just help himself to everything?! Some people don't have good boundaries! But I did know a guy who did roofing in Arizona once. He basically worked the school year, and then spent the summer months, when it is far too hot, hanging out with his kids hiking and all that. Got paid pretty well, too, as I recall. But still, Sept and May can be pretty darned hot in Phoenix...

The book in which Arthur, Ford, and the sofa appear at Lords is Life, the universe and everything.

Ooh... I'm sorry to hear about your roofers Lil...

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For all you tennis fans... I have written a piece that discusses why some tennis players prefer playing on clay to grass. Have your say at http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A583157

I wish I could have generated enough interest to watch tennis. I cannot figure out this sport. One would think that people would have a standard as far as surface is concerned. In hockey you have ice (kinda hard to change that if you want to skate) and your rink is a very specific size and configuration. why not the same in tennis? Or is it like the ground rules in Baseball? Some parks have different turf which makes playing on them different. One would think that you caould standardize all the feilds and make it a level playing feild for everyone.

I'm in reconciliation hell. Tomorrow I'll have to print out a report for the past 3 months and figure out why, between the last perfect reconciliation and my attempt to do this month, the beginning balance has mutated by $269.70. There must be a bug in the shortcut tab I used to get over to my savings account. This may involve deleting and re-entering a whole month worth of transactions just to dope-slap Quicken. Or maybe I should just start a new file... Something to while away the hours while I'm hiding from the noonday sun, at the beach.

So, we have more smiley's and they are all to do with food and sports? No philosophical ones?

*suddenly realises she can restore her most recent backup, before everything got snarled up*

Lil, as a former supporter (job wise not advocacy) of quicken I know that it needs a good dope slap now and again. Slap it twice for me will ya?

New smileys, but where are they on the list?

I love having Quicken for the automatic reconciliation and for producing reports at tax-time; it really saves a lot of work. But if you do something with a lot of little subterranean rules attached to it, your bookkeeping can implode without warning. Evidently if you swap over to another account with that little tab down there, your entries somehow impact the one that's already open. Who knew? The idea of automation is to be able to think about accounting as little as possible. I heard on the radio some time back that a frighteningly large number of people have no idea what their bank balance is. And sometimes the reconciliation goes so hopelessly awry that people have been known to abandon the old account, just take everything out and open a new one!

Guilty.
I once found that after diligently balancing my checking account, Quicken had forgotten which checks had cleared for the past six months. So I carefully reentered everything, closed and reopened the file, just to find that it had once again lost all the information about which checks had cleared. So now I only balance it twice a year. It saves time.