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I haven't been back to the tax stuff yet because I remembered I also had to write what a good boy I've been over the past year for my Performance Review. But I haven't been back here either.
Damn. Now I have.
Just think how much better you'll feel for having done it. Promise yourself that you won't come back in here until you've got to page x or box 34c or something. Now I just need to figure out how to apply that to drafting my performance agreement for Tuesday..  |
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« Reply #6721 on: 15:29:32, 01-08-2008 » |
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Just think how much better you'll feel for having done it. Promise yourself that you won't come back in here until you've got to page x or box 34c or something. I won't have to do the actual form though. It's just categorising and listing all those receipts and contracts for my accountants (one in Germany for 2006/7, one in England for 2007/8). I suppose I could just throw them all in a couple of boxes and leave it to them, but this I think would be prohibitively expensive. One thing that keeps putting me off is the thought that there are probably some hideous tax bills waiting at the end of it all, which I won't be able to pay. Oops, here I am again. I'll be off back to the torture chamber then. Bye! |
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« Reply #6722 on: 19:31:02, 01-08-2008 » |
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GAH!
This could go on all night.
Getting my papers in order, I mean, not Messiaen.
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« Reply #6723 on: 19:40:55, 01-08-2008 » |
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But I really need to eat something. Does that count as faffing around, Mort? Mort? Where are my cornichons? have you taken them?  |
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« Reply #6725 on: 20:51:38, 01-08-2008 » |
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GAH!
GAH!
I had a pretty horrible meal, thanks for asking, some fish accompanied by pasta, with no sauce or vegetables, because I haven't been shopping and my imagination has left me.
And the plumber who was supposed to be coming today to fix the bath and toilet phoned at 11am to say he was running late, and that was the last I heard from him. No doubt he took a short cut through the Finchley Triangle.
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« Reply #6726 on: 22:15:54, 01-08-2008 » |
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This could go on all night.
Getting my papers in order, I mean, not Messiaen.
Sir John Taverner wrote a piece a few years ago for performance to last all night at the Temple Church entitled The Veil of the Temple. (He's in to veils, as we know.) That would keep you up all night, richard. Probably with incandescent fury. |
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« Reply #6727 on: 09:16:52, 02-08-2008 » |
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I remember, I think that was on a Prom sometime ago. That would send me asleep!!!
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« Reply #6728 on: 10:16:08, 04-08-2008 » |
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Grrrr. My ears need to be syringed. This used to be simple - put drops or oil in them for a few days, go along to the doctor and he or the nurse would do the syringing. Now, I have to go to the doctor for him to diagnose blocked ear (which I 've periodically suffered from for as long as he's been alive - I know what it is), and then he refers me to the local hospital to have it done. Double the trouble, double the timewasting, double the journeys, double the hanging about. WHY?
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« Reply #6729 on: 10:25:54, 04-08-2008 » |
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It's probably gone too far this time, Mary, but have you ever tried Otex? I, too had a period where my ears needed to be syringed regularly, but that's long since passed: at the first sign of trouble - increasingly rarely - I self-administer Otex and find that it's excellent at freeing even badly impacted wax: twice a day for two or three days generally does the job. |
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« Reply #6730 on: 10:32:21, 04-08-2008 » |
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Mary, Otex is excellent, as Ron says. I've used it many a time, and you can accelerate the process by using a squeezy syringe and blasting your lugholes yourself after the wax has softened up a bit. I know this is frowned upon by doctors, but as long as you use warm water and don't squeeze too forcefully there's very little harm can be done. And the satisfaction!
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« Reply #6731 on: 10:38:42, 04-08-2008 » |
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Third vote for Otex coming in from Norf Lunnun.
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« Reply #6732 on: 10:39:22, 04-08-2008 » |
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Now, I have to go to the doctor for him to diagnose blocked ear (which I 've periodically suffered from for as long as he's been alive - I know what it is), and then he refers me to the local hospital to have it done. Really? I had a recurring problem with wax in my ears about 2-3 years ago (which culminated in my trying to review six Michael Finnissy concerts in one weekend and hearing three of them in mono after my left ear became completely blocked), and although it took a long time for the doctor to acknowledge the need for syringing, once he finally did all I had to do was turn up to the surgery the next day and a nurse did it for me. (She said she'd never seen so much wax come out of one ear!) Before that I'd been using olive oil drops periodically, but it had only ever alleviated the problem briefly: it always came back a few weeks later. I didn't know about this Otex thing, but recently my ears have begun to feel slightly blocked again for the first time since the syringing, so maybe I should give it a pre-emptive go. |
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« Reply #6733 on: 10:45:26, 04-08-2008 » |
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« Reply #6734 on: 10:49:03, 04-08-2008 » |
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My institution has decided (though Lord only knows why) to 'upgrade' their mail server to Microsoft Exchange 2007.
Much groaning.
Went through the requisite instructions for server settings etc. on a Mac but it wouldn't work...
It was only when I looked at the instructions for Windows that I realised that they had provided incomplete information...
Don't you just love Mac-compliant IT departments?
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