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

I drive cars with automatic transmissions. Easy!

I drive both kinds. I thought it would be different switching between them, but it isn't.

well, hasn't been so far...

I drive everybody crazy. automatically

and you don't even need a stick for that

Nope not even a little one to shake at it.

So, have pretty much all of the researchers who were having trouble with the changeover managed to pass through the Imaginarium, of Dr. BBC into whatever place we're in now?

Will all those who are not here please raise your hands?

Thank you. That's one.

Do I hear two?

two and a half?

Three?

On the subject of driving and eyesight---Did you know that forty percent of Japanese optometrists have cataracts?

















The rest drive Rexus or Rincolns.

Hi Paulh,

I am totally lost on this thread.....do not know what to say. !1

Have had a difficult week. My valued carer, suddenly got into trouble because she was not declaring what she earned - so she just upped and left. K is away and so I was absolutely on my own. Anyway, all is well, I have a marvellous wonderful African friend who has bome in to be my companion and I am as happy as larry. Even though the weather is very dreary.
also a friend has just come in and fixed my comp;uter so that I can get emails again.

all our plans of hols have gone awry. sometimesI want to skin some of the powers that be. !!

Which reminds me, I must phone and canel the bookings which I made for our holidays.

Went to see the quack this morning and he has sent me off to have my eyes seen to, and has also ordered blood tests which I should have had last year. I am so welll really that it does not matter,
I am loving the Olympic Games. What a marverllous country Canada appears to be. I would love to visit it. My eldest brother, who is a psychiatrist,has lived in Danada for many years, and all of his chioldren are sdttled and living in Canada.

With affecftion and go well,

Christiane.
AR80

24/II/2010 16.15 GMT

I am sorry you can't make it to Torquay Christian, but it will be a little warmer later and you will be able to go then.

"I am totally lost on this thread.....do not know what to say. !1"

You aren't alone, Christiane. I often get lost on threads. I forget what thread I'm on, and I get researchers' names mixed up.

"all our plans of hols have gone awry. sometimes I want to skin some of the powers that be"

I would help you skin them, but I have some powers-to-be of my own that need to be throttled first....

"Went to see the quack this morning and he has sent me off to have my eyes seen to, and has also ordered blood tests which I should have had last year."

Unfortunately, the attitude of too many doctors is that women over 75 really aren't ever going to get well again, so it doesn't pay to work very hard at keeping them healthy. What the medical profession as a whole needs is an infusion of gerontological medicine. Many women live into their 90s. some become centennarians. If a woman of 75 is destined (perhaps) to reach 100 some day, that's a 25-year chunk of precious lifetime that should be cherished. People in some other professions (financial services, perhaps) assume that women clients *might* live to be 100, so they need to plan for it just in case. Why couldn't doctors do that, too?

I took a course in gerontology at a nursing school when I was working on my second master's degree. I have an interest in issues of aging. Stick to your guns, Christiane. You may well have plenty of useful life ahead of you!