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

It didn't - mostly because I was at w*rk.

I had a good day today. Apparently, I'm the prime candidate to run the place in a few months' time when the chap who's doing the job at the moment becomes a father for the first time (at age 51) and takes time off (or maybe faints or something). I feel quite good about this. I don't much care whether I get the job or not, but it's so nice even being considered.

Not too bad, for someone with an 'attitude problem'..

That, and 'poor cognitive skills'. Don't forget the 'poor cognitive skills'.

It's lovely, being vindicated.

On another note - I just tidied up my email address book a bit - does VV have an email address at present? If so, it can be (of course) emailed to me.

VV isn't online as yet.

I will give her your emails, both if you don't mind, then she can contact you when she is able


I don't know.. I never thought cognitive skills developed if you never had them..

Quite. It just shows how badly the old boss wanted to destroy me. The best revenge is living well...

And yes, VV can have both emails.

Mum's made serious enquiries about that house, by the way, and was going to see the bank about it today. She'll need bridging finance, pending the sale of my sister's place.

Good Luck for your Mum. I hope she manages to get this place, she deserves it.

Agreed.

It'll be an interesting arrangement - it's currently a display home, and the builders have a lease on it until Aril with an option to extend until October. That'll give Mum more time to sort her stuff and work out what she'll move and what she'll get rid of. I do hope she gets the place.

Are others after the place?

No idea. My main concern is that Mum will lapse into her old habits and think too much and act too slowly... If she dithers, someone else might turn up.

There is always a danger of that

But still - even if she should miss out on this house, she won't have lost anything. It just means she'll keep looking at houses and get distracted by possibilities and the whole business will drag on and on.

She knows there is no hurry, just yet

That is, in fact, the problem. Mum needs to be fully seized of a sense of urgency before she'll do anything much, and by the time that happens her current house will be beyond repair. It has serious structural problems.

Oh!

Mum's house can be fixed (at a cost of something appallingly large) but the longer she delays moving out, the worse the problems will be. This is why I'm so keen for her to grab the house in question, quite apart from it being a fabulous house with air and space and a fantastic amount of natural light.

Every time I go to Mum's, the disintegration of the house is more and more obvious. There are hardly any right angles left in the place now.

Explain that to her.. in words she can understand.. $$$$$$

I've done that - so has the girl - I think the message is getting through. Basically, every six months in that house without getting the w*rk done could be another $5000 on the bill when she finally does get the w*rk done. The w*rk will be easier to do with the house empty, so the sooner she moves, the better.

But there's no point in having another shot today. It's a public holiday, so she can't do anything remotely useful about moving until Monday.

Aaaahhh!!

I hear it is Australia Day!!

Yeah. 219th anniversary of the establishment of a gulag in the South Pacific. *shrug* Of course, we South Australians are very very smug about not having been a convict settlement, so we tend not to care all that much about 26 January. But it's a day off, and it's over now.

Today would have been my grandmother's 89th birthday. I should probably call Mum sometime today - not to dwell on the fact, but to cheer her up a bit.

Then you do that...