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Have just been reading some old copies of "The Listener" found when turning out the small bedroom. Bring it back!
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I went to work today full of energy and enthusiasm, and left thoroughly narked off and actually quite angry.
I don't want to go into too much detail because this is a public forum after all, but I do wish that a) people would do their jobs and b) that they don't tell me off for doing their job when they fail to!
I'm not shaking anymore but I was when I got home.
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To all those who have also had a very bad day, I send my heartfelt sympathy and commiserations. If I were able to without being ill, I'd go out and get drunk!  |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #7653 on: 18:19:48, 22-09-2008 » |
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Sorry for people who had a bad day. The most important is not to take things too hard (like I have a tendency to do). However, I only know it in theory and can not teach people practical steps.
I just want to say that I am wishing that everybody will have a better day tomorrow. (After all tomorrow is another day). I noticed that 24 hours make a big difference in everything.
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« Reply #7654 on: 18:37:25, 22-09-2008 » |
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applying a shark's liver helps to cure piles At last! |
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« Reply #7656 on: 18:57:04, 22-09-2008 » |
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Chinese medicine uses many parts of other animals to cure some deseases.
I don't know how an elephant task can help to cure anything.
They grind it and they make poshions.
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« Reply #7657 on: 19:15:05, 22-09-2008 » |
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Another member of the 'had a poor day' club checks in. Actually it wasn't that bad. The problem, though, was that the university email system has been down now for 2 1/2 days. No big deal, you might think - and part of me does too. Except that, for a large corporation like a university which relies on email almost 100% for communication, this is more than inconvenience. The knock-on effects can be serious and certainly time-consuming. I won't bore you with details; suffice to say I have been enumerating them in my head all day, and the grumpiness has grown in parallel.  |
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« Reply #7658 on: 19:59:13, 22-09-2008 » |
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I am all too familiar with this kind of things (though I have a second hand experience).
The system always fails at the most inconvenient time like the beginning of exams, the beginning of the year or other important time.
I think they call it Murphy law.
If something will have to go wrong it most certainly will at the worse time.
The best thing to do is to have some kind of relaxing drink (in Russia this particular drink was called vodka, but here people have their own drinks with the same effect. After a couple of them this kind of problems disappear until the next episod of the same Murphy law presents itself.
I myself prefer different remedy: going for a walk a very valuable alternative to the above mentioned method.
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« Reply #7659 on: 20:26:01, 22-09-2008 » |
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Bit of a boring day today and so probably will tomorrow.and he next, maybe.......... However, thursday I be depping for another band , cool(there is no cool smilies here!! ), with concert on the good old Eastbourne bandstand. Probably one of the best on the south coast. There was agood discussion about bandstands in the other forum I belong to, www.themouthpiece.com. |
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« Reply #7660 on: 20:40:39, 22-09-2008 » |
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Bit of a boring day today and so probably will tomorrow.and he next, maybe.......... However, thursday I be depping for another band , cool(there is no cool smilies here!! ), with concert on the good old Eastbourne bandstand. Probably one of the best on the south coast. There was agood discussion about bandstands in the other forum I belong to, www.themouthpiece.com. Hope Thursday goes well, bbm. Enjoy yourself!  Try cool  smilie,just before  That's all we've got on offer at the mo |
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« Reply #7661 on: 01:08:12, 23-09-2008 » |
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A member of the the band I play in, has moved to Chile for work purposes. He goes to the Andes, where apperantly, the skiing is very good. He is quite lucky really, he has that on the one side, and the coast on another. I don t suppose they are very far apart.
The Algarve has the same geography (coast and mountains at opposite ends of the province, but really not that far apart since it's long and wide and they're to south and north respectively), and the mountain we drove up was covered in eucalyptus. Don't know if this is coincidence or what. I haven't forgotten promising to post some holiday photos; but I've misplaced the CD on which they're all stored!  |
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« Reply #7662 on: 07:40:17, 23-09-2008 » |
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Did you go up to Mont Chique or whatever its called where they have a wine tasting place and a NASA radio station there as well. 4000ft high! We were luc ky and had a clear day and the view was nothing quite like it. Talk abolut breathtakin, my goodness it was! Perhaps we ought to have a Holiday Thread!!
Thanks Mort, I am sure thursday will go well and saturday.
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« Reply #7664 on: 08:38:32, 23-09-2008 » |
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Another member of the 'had a poor day' club checks in.
Actually it wasn't that bad. The problem, though, was that the university email system has been down now for 2 1/2 days. No big deal, you might think... Absolutely not - our entire work grinds to a halt if the email servers go down. If you're lucky enough to be in the middle of something else, you can maybe keep going for a couple of hours max before you either need to refer to an e-mail or send one to someone, then you're scrabbling around for stuff to do. It's astonishing how much we've come to rely on it really isn't it? Commiserations Martle, that must be really irritating. |
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