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

Not much happening today... I'm inexplicably very tired. Woozy and fuzzy-headed and generally wanting to take a nap, which would be fine if I were at the house. But I'm not, I'm at work!

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I know that haggis has something to do with the stomach of some ruminant or other, so where do you get a veggie one of *those*?

SC

Just got back form the movie ... wow.

I cried.

Don't say anything!

Been a tough time recently. My father passed away after only a three-week bout with cancer. I've not lived up to the standards of progression for my new job as an Assistant Equipment Operator and have been put back into the Plant Helper group.

More details in a bit. I've got plenty of time now to get reacquainted with you all, as I don't have to study every night for the Operator job.

B4ifinishmysoulsearching

Sorry to hear about you father B4!

Sorry B4, that's so tough.

My condolences, B4.
And I'm sorry the promotion didn't work out.

Hyp

I am terribly sorry to hear about both pieces of news B4. We are always here for you.

B4, don't beat yourself up. Losing a loved one so quickly...I'm surprised your work wasn't more understanding!

So sorry, B4

Oh, B4, that's really tough.

Oh good, Ben, glad you are still here

Can't remember the brand name, but there is an organic Aussie soft liquorice that is very good. Lakeland (the cookware people not the leather coats people) stock it.

Sainsbury's don't chain their trollies, they have a nifty radio controlled device that locks the wheels if they go past the boundary of the store. Doesn't stop them being lifted up and carried away though.

I used to play hide and seek in Physics, it soooooo boring. Our Physics Mistress just droned on and on. I think she was probably exceedingly clever, just had no idea how to impart her knowledge to the rest of us.

for B4, I am so sorry to hear of your father's death. Your employers coud have been a little more understanding. But perhaps take the time of less responsiblity to let yourself grieve.

*s B4*

Must dash. Baggie is coming to stay .

Note to self - when unsubscribing from some pointless thread or other, make sure you hit the button for that thread and not the one for the thread marked "7AXth Conversation at Lil's".

I thought it had been a bit quiet. So I went hunting for the thread, and the nearly 800 posts of backlog that came with it! Eeek!

Anyways...


Umbrage. Will Umbria and the Humber Bridge do? I can definately recommend Perugia if you're in the area.


Deconstruction/Post Modernism/etc... zipppp! something just flew straight over the top of my head.


I missed the party. Drat And I was so looking forward to roast Beast.


I believe it was something to do with cheese that lured me out of the shadows and started me posting (or not as it seems recently ) here at the Atelier.


Raises a glass of to useful Dads everywhere. It's a shame that mine was a useless git who wasted his entire life. But hey-ho, it was his choice.


Family war stories. One Grandfather was there on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He came back unscathed. The other Grandfather was in a reserved occupation - a carpenter - so was never called up, and spent WW2 replacing the rooves of London that the Luftwaffe had so carelessly smashed up. An uncle was a pilot who dropped paratroopers at Arnhem, and later coal on Berlin as a part of the Berlin airlift of 1949(?). My father? He guarded POWs somewhere in Wales. See, I told you he was a useless git.


Chemistry. Do not place the jar of magnesium powder anywhere in the vacinity of a naked flame. To do so often requires the attendance of the local fire-brigade to deal with the outcome of the experiment


for B4.

My condolences to B4

My favourite science lesson memory is impersonating electrons. We had to run around the classroom in a circuit, then we had to run in two slightly different circuits at the same time (two paths of equal resistance), then resistors were put in, in the form of tables we had to climb over. Lots of fun. Oh. and then it was demonstrated that you could evacuate the classroom more quickly if you took three different routes out rather than one (this was concerning having things in parallel rather than in series I think). Unfortunately, one of the routes which the teacher instructed some of us to take was straight into the next-door classroom, where the head of science was teaching a lesson. She was not amused.

David

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My condolences B4

B4

I am so sorry, B4.

B4, when you need to talk, we're here.

My regular Saturday workday coming up. Sigh. I vaguely remember thinking I would be able to take early retirement about now. What a joke. I may never be able to retire. I'll be this toothless, bent over, crotchety old librarian whacking kids with her cane. (If I'm toothless, I won't be able to shush as well.)