Spread your wings and fly away

Especially for AJ

1:
I am currently out at a job interview and will reply to you if I fail to get the position.

2:
I'm not really out of the office. I'm just ignoring you.

3:
You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn't have received anything at all.

4:
Sorry to have missed you but I am at the doctors having my brain removed so that I may be promoted to management

5:
I will be unable to delete all the unread, worthless emails you send me until I return from vacation on 4/18. Please be patient and your mail will be deleted in the order it was received.

6:
Thank you for your email. Your credit card has been charged $5.99 for the first ten words and $1.99 for each additional word in your message.

7 :
The e-mail server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this message. Please restart your computer and try
sending again.

8: Thank you for your message, which has been added to a queueing system.You are currently in 352nd place, and can expect to receive a reply in approximately 19 weeks.

9:
Hi. I'm thinking about what you've just sent me. Please wait by your PC for my response.

10:
Hi! I'm busy negotiating the salary for my new job. Don't bother to leave me any messages.

11:
I've run away to join a different circus.

12:
I will be out of the office for the next 2 weeks for medical reasons. When I return, please refer to me as 'Loretta ' instead of 'Steve'.

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Put a cd on this morning into the cd drive of my stereo and it played without any problem at all. However, cds 2, 3, 4 didn't play, just skipped to number 5.

So I went over to investigate. According tot he display there are no discs in 2,3, and 4.

Sit a look at it for a moment, can remember putting discs in yesterday. So I investigate by opening the drives - yes discs still in there. So try to play them. No nothing happening then the notice no disc in drives.

hmmmm scratches head, burns eggs she is cooking and overcooks the beans she wants with eggs and toast for breakfast - bugger.

So turn everything off and find instruction booklet.

Open to relevant page.

Symptons : Playback does not start
Ah there we are, thought I, good start.

Possible causes: Is the disc loaded upside down?
Err no of course not do you think I am an idiot (but goes to check just in case one did have a mad moment) no everything is ok there.

Does the disc satisfy the standards? What standards? BSI, is there a standard disc? Hmm, looks at case, everything is fine there, oh look parental advisory notice,perhaps it is objecting to the swearing like someone on BCUK is? Hmm, should be ok, got all of these from Amazon.co.uk so cannot see why it shouldn't meet standards.

Will class that as a yes then.

Is the disc distorted or scratched? Better not be, new discs, just arrived yesterday morning! So I take them out, give them a wipe over, give the disc drivers a clean just in case and put them all back in.

pressed play button and voila - disc 1 working, hopefully the others will too so fingers crossed?

got this from another forum

Relaxing day at home or a day at a theme park? home

Take away or home made food? home made

Cat or dog? dog

Whats your best meal ever? honeydew melon with raspberry coulis, steak with mustard and honey sauce served with fresh salad and grilled tomatoes and mushrooms.

Whats your hair color? brown with blonde streaks

Smell nice or look good? smell nice

Can you dance? I try to but don't think so

Whats your best smell? freshly baked bread

Do you like cleaning? Once I get started, just give me the motivation to do it

Whats your fav film? There are just far too many I like to pick a favourite, depends on my mood

Do you tan or burn? burn even with factor 50 on

What do you hate about people? People who are two faced

Whats your best song and who is it by? And nothing else matters by Metallica

Whats your best album and who is it by? Foo Fighters in your honour which I am currently listening to

Your best ride in the whole world and where is it? haven't got one, don't do rides

What do you get stressed out at? People who think they know what they are doing so make my job a lot harder than is should be

What are you afraid of? Losing a member of my family, especially my children

Exercise or sleep? Sleep

Eastenders or friends? Friends though really I can do without seeing either programme

Whats your fav drink? Currently lemon and lime

Micky mouse or minie mouse? Neither they both get on my nerves

I have a theory.

To me you blog for a number of reasons. To share your thoughts and day, to discuss problems with strangers, for enjoyment, for release from everyday life etc etc. Whatever your reason it is something that gives release, to share with others. Sometimes you post a lot, other times you post very little.

You trawl through sites and read other blogs. You like what you read so you make a comment or two, get to know a bit about the person behind the blog through their writing and invite them as s friend.

The ones that you don't like reading you don't bother looking at anymore, you deny them when they invite you as a friend, you have nothing in common, you don't like their style of writing, you maybe don't care for their language.

As time goes on you build up a friend list, it gets longer. Occasionally you weed a few out, those you haven't heard from for a long while, maybe, or because they haven't kept their blog up to date so perhaps they are no longer around. But you keep those that still make an odd comment, those that do post regularly, those ones you enjoy reading.

So tell me this, why do some people who obviously don't like what they see on someone's blog, decide to persecute them for it? Why do they have to harrass them? Why is it necessary to make yourself look like a total idiot?

You don't like what you read, you don't like the language they use. so is it necessary then to make a nuisance of yourself? Is it really appropriate to condemn, to flag their blog as inappropriate then tell them you want to be their friend?

If you don't like it, don't read it. Take yourself off the friends list and don't pass by anymore.

Blogs are simply a release. Somewhere you can do to say things you wouldn't normally say. We are but strangers till we meet,if we ever do, deal with it. Get on with it and live your life, post what you want but don't go round making a bloody nuisance of yourself in the process.

Live in peace.

Let others live theirs how they choose.

Free speech is exactly that, deal with it.

simple really.

Dropped Simon off at summer school (last day today), and on the way home Richard says:

"when I grow up I want to be a zoo keeper"

"Why?" says I

"Because I want to look after animals"

This is the same child who when watching a giraffe give birth on telly the other day went "Ewwww it is coming out of her backside, that is disgusting!" and when he heard that the baboon's bum was bright red so as to attract the females said "That is just plain stupid who would want to look at bums!"

Should be interesting

After a very late night (well for me) and after feeling tired all day, so tired that I contributed very little to last nights quiz, for some reason not understanding the questions, I slept fitfully. Not helped by Nig getting up in the night to go to the toilet and stepping on a dog who is a big baby at the best of times, and took about 10 minutes to settle because he just had to look in all the rooms to make sure everything was as it should be and decide where he was going to sleep!

So I wasn't impressed or in the mood when Nig started fiddling this morning at some unearthly hour.

"gerrrofff" I mumble, kicking him hard on the shins.

"time to wake up hun, I need a lift to the station"

"bugger off"

" up you get now, you know you want to really"

"No"

"Oh come on darling, for me, the sooner I get to work the earlier I will be home to torment you"

"another reason for me not getting up then isn't it"

So reluctantly I dragged my weary body out of bed and headed off to make some tea so that I could wake up properly.

So tody he has gone to work by train as he is working in Victoria. He could have taken the van, in fact work did say he could and told him where to park but last time he listened to them he got wheel clamped (their inability to provide parking permits is amazing) and knowing that I hate driving in London with a vengence, he decided not to risk getting clamped and having to call me out to rescue him.

His reasoning is he always thinks of me.

Simons presentation went well last night, not as good as previous years when they had a guest speaker but it was reasonable. He got an award of excellence as well which he is quite pleased with and he got his picture taken with his 'friend' - funny how his mother told him to join in with the picture and the sister of the friend disappeared - told him they made a lovely couple I just love embarrassing him.

For once though I have to say the summer school was a little organised and gave the level 3 students information about courses and careers in Archaeology, what is needed to get into university and what universities offer the courses. There was also this:

Where possible evidence of first hand knowledge of a ‘dig’ should be offered.

so I have been on the relevant website to find local archaeology society and emailed them to find out if he can join. He has some evidence, when he did the first year they were sent a DVD and booklet showing all that they did that year, so far nothing this year or last year though I have nagged him to write it up!

Right must try and get myself organised and wake up. I feel so sleepy and brain dead this morning, even thinking hurts lol! Doesn't help when you have a hyperactive child jumping around this morning either, can feel my nerves going on edge already!

Have a good day