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Wasn't Edwyn Collins extremely ill recently?

Have fun at Wallace and Gromit, PC!

Apparently he had surgery for a brain hemmorhage earlier this year, and only just recently was able to resume working. Hope he's okay.

We loved Wallace & Gromit!! Laughed at loud at some parts! I give it two

Just sent you an email PC.

Glad you enjoyed Grimace & Wallet

zdt

Got the email- will respond later today. Thanks!!

Also wanted you to know that there is one parcel on its way to you, the other should go out this coming weekend.

I'm not expecting that I'll be online much from work today, after about 9:00 or so. Our company president returned from surveying property damage and thousands of our residents appear to have lost their homes, so I expect to be pretty busy processing paperwork for insurance claims. Hopefully things will be processed quickly and people will be able to start getting their lives back in order soon.

On a happier note, K called off Tuffy practice today so we can watch horror movies.

So, anyway...last Thursday...One helluva day!

It started with an early flight - not too early, only 7.30. Just before takeoff I started to feel naseous. It got worse and worse until I knew I wasn't going to be able to hold, so I scrabbled frantically in the seat pocket. Luckily after a couple of retches the seatbelt signs came off, so I was able to make a dash for the toilet. Afterwards I felt fine, and the cabin staff were real sweeties.

Then we were held in a holding pattern for an age, while jacques Chirac landed to join 'Our Tony' at Hampton Court. (cue Carry On-ish double entrendres...).

Then the travel compamy had made an arse of my car reservation. Basically, I'm waiting for a new Amex card and had had to book with my boss's...only they'd forgotten to clear it with the car folk...and it took an hour and a half to sort.

So...I arrived late, meaning I wasn't going to be able to get an early flight back. I spent a few hours having acronyms lobbed at me, and opnce my brain was full, I left...to get stuck on the M25.

But I made my flight - even though it cut into my free alcohol time in the business lounge. I noticed that there were plenty of sandwiches available, and that people were grabbing them to stuff unto briefcases...

...and once we were underway, I realised why. Gate Gourmet are still on strike.

Tomorrow it's a really early start - 6.30 flight - after which you can get me on Frozen Tundra 387.

Ugh. I remember now why I hate to fly.

Hope tomorrow's commute goes better. What day will you return home, then?

Glad you made it back safely, albeit without sufficient food or alcohol consumption beforehand/during.

Apparently, K has had as bad a workday as I have. He's just phoned with an idea for a business endeavor... a Jewish tiki bar called "Poi Gewalt".

Glad you survived Ed!

Oooh, i shall once more watching like a hawk!!! How lovely! I got a box of assorted treasures from Snailrind last week too, the posties are beginning to wonder about me!

I may be thick, or possibly it's a cultural thing, but i honestly haven't a clue what a tiki bar is, much less a "Poi Gewalt"; please do enlighten me!

Not huge amounts of exciting stuff going on at this end, it's "end of month" syndrome so us paupers are just concerned with spinning out the pennies. The poor returned from Patrick N's place with NO food, Patrick has obviously overfed him, he had more than enough to get to the end of the month.And i have no money to buy more, so he is getting very bizzare combinations of basically tummy filling stuff. For breakfast today he had rice, leftover veg curry, yogurt & an egg. For supper he had mashed potato & mouldy cheese & quiche crusts. Gawd knows what he will get tomorrow!

Down to last half bottle of too & last few cigs (which i scrounged off someone!) Yes, i know this is ultimately a good thing for my health, but hell, i would rather cut down in my own way than have it forced on me! But even if i had cash it wouldn't do any good right now, it's a two day public holiday here so everything is shut! I asked viking what it's in aid of & he doesn't know, just said "some religious thing" which is France all over, declares itself a secular state then has more bloody religious holidays than anywhere i have ever known.

"Nope, you can't wear a headscarf, cross or skullcap *but* you have to observe Catholic saints days"

I have a miniature washing machine, camping type thing, can cope with jeans, tshirt & that's about it, but is efficient & economical, but labour intensive. Viking said "can i use your machine?" so i said yes. He then proceeded to amaze me by totally stripping off & throwing the lot in! I said "But how are you gonna get home, there are NO drying facilities!" he was quite seriously proposing to drive nekkid under his mac, ye gods, imagine if he got stopped by police in a Dr Zhivago style mac & Doc Martens & nowt else!!!!

I suppose he could claim it was a scary halloween costume!!!

Anyway, he has borrowed my jogging pants & tshirt & some very evil white socks, maybe the original idea was less scary, the pants end halfway up his calves....

His parting remark was "well, i am off to the disco now, are you not worried what i am getting up to with Claudia Schiffer dressed like this?" honestly, i think all that saves this relationship is the fact that we are both mad!

I don't want to tempt fate *but* the Bloody Knee seems to have improved a bit over the last couple of days. Took skankydawg out walkies, he is actually quite good if i can walk beyond a hobble, he pulls ahead on the leash but steadily & actually keeps my momentum up. Getting better toilet wise too, only two pees this last 24 hrs & NO POOS!! (inside that is, plenty outside, but if you will feed a pup curry for breakfast...)

Hope K isn't too knackered after his horrible day; i am sure some TLC from PC will put him right! works wonders!!!

zdt

What a day you had yesterday (and today, by the sounds of it...)

We had a nice, relaxing dinner then came home and watched a really bad DVD. Today will be my turn for the stressed out day. But, it'll be over before I know it.

I saw a spirit last night and one more and the spirit would have got me

I'm really p*ssed off with my downstairs (second floor) neighbors today. Last night, they had an all-out smackdown again. It's not unusual for them to spend a couple of hours screaming at each other, slamming doors and banging things around so it sounds like they're pulling the walls down. Frankly, I could give two sh*ts if they want to beat the living hell out of each other, that's their prerogative. Some people obviously enjoy being misery, and misery sure loves company. But the leas they could do is tone it down at a reasonable hour, instead of keeping it going all night on a weeknight.

Normally, the husband works nights, so it's quiet weekday evenings, but last night he was home, so the screaming and pounding and slamming of doors went on until nearly midnight. We get up for work at 4:30 AM, and it's not nice being kept up all night with that kind of crap.

I'm seriously debating complaining to the landlord. Honestly, those idiots need to cut that crap out.

Speaking of neighbors and such, just for sh*ts and giggles, I'd been perusing the rental ads for apartments in the area I'd like to move to, and today I stumbled across one that made me laugh out loud. It's a two bedroom, two bath duplex just about two miles south of where we live now, and they're asking $18,000 a month!! I might just have to look halfway.

...misery loves company.
Well we can start a company,
And make misery.
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Do not pass GO

Do not collect $200

Do go & whinge & grump & dump anybody who is being a total pain.

Creative torture methods are actively encouraged

zdt

mmmmmh! noisey neighbours, fun time, get or make a cake, and then decorate it with chocolate "laxative" buttons, place in box(xmas wrapped)and leave outside their door at a time you know they come out...Peace for a few hours

Hi Terri, I'd meant to check out the Mardy Island... will do so soon!

As for the idiots downstairs, all was quiet last night, so they must have gotten it all out of their systems the night before. Next time, I'll probably be forced to complain to the landlord, though. They're going to need to put a stop to it.

We got back from grocery shopping and dinner last night and the whole foyer reeked of pine cleaner (we walk past their landing on the way up to ours). (Incidentally, pine cleaner gives me ripping migraines) I joked to K that perhaps one or the other of them had to eliminate some evidence.

Again, if people are stupid or miserable enough to want to stay with someone who screams at and beats on them, that's their prerogative, BUT, they oughtn't force other people to listen to it.

*waves to PC*

Got my car fixed today. Big relief to have that done and over with. *knock on wood*

I can imagine. K's car is missing the passenger side mirror... but that one's not legally required, nor totally necessary. Did you get it fixed at a dealership?

Yup.

hmmm...tricky one this. I do imagine that statistically, people who are living together in apartment blocks, maybe cooped up in a small space & nowhere to stomp off to in the event of a row, would be more likely to vent verbally. And maybe that leads to physically.

If you are living in a vast mansion & have probs with your partner, it's still horrible, but at least you could go scream off the battlements, but if on top of all the tension, you have to stay quiet, it's another pressure, so when you do blow, it's probably a biggie.

Remember that Erin Pizzey book title "Scream quietly or the neighbours will hear"?

I Scream loudly at viking on many occasions & his main concern is that someone will hear. I said to next door neihgbours once "sorry about the noisy rows" & they laughed & said "Don't worry, we can't hear them 'cos we are too busy rowing ourselves!"

The disinfectant may be a blessing, it's possibly masking something much much worse

zdt