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Today18:17 Nov 29 2008
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As I suspected I was stood up to my knees in freezing cold water scooping pebbles out of the bottom of a pond today. It was a real problem until I made a few holes in the bucket, that made it easier to lift it out of the water.
I had to put a nylon net about a third up, it keeps the goldfish up where you can see them - stops them swimming through the different temperature layers of a deep pond. You have to use this glue gun and stick little hooks every 10cm around the pond on a level line - that was no problem but I now have a net hook glued to the boss's wader - that gkue is really good :)
Still we gave the pond 'the works' because it had no fish left alive in it, and boss has a regular contract with the guy now - I got paid ... s'good :D
Got home just in time to watch World's Wildest Police Chases ... have you noticed how many of them come from Alabama ? I was watching for thumb less, leaf collecting, fire setting, tiara wearing, pink phone carrying, elephant toting, bunny throwers as the cars chased each other but no luck there :( ... [private joke in there hehehe]
Bunch of stuff in the database queue, so me and Abstract leapfrogged each other down the queue ... LOL was fun
Anyhow must go eat now ... there's a party out there with my name on it :)
Today19:36 Nov 28 2008
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I was a little late back from lunch, I went elf hunting at Santa's Ice Rink ... hehehe ... couldn't get online much
Anyhow I am now self catering before debate club - A pouch of Sweet n Sour chicken, Super Noodles and sweetcorn - stirred in together and microwaved - followed by two spoons of peanut butter smeared on choc bar ... was really good
Debate today is about repeating fashions, its going to be a good one :)
Harpie's gone16:56 Nov 26 2008
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Harpia was one of the first people I actually talked to on VR
I knew we had sort of moved apart when I had to get my head down on procurating and all, but she was always there
I saw her online yesterday and didn't say Hi or anything, now she's self-deleted :(
she didn't even say goodbye
*sniff*
Oops12:10 Nov 25 2008
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I often think waaaaay too much
We have a stand-in guy trying to teach us IT, cos we broke the last one, this guy likes making us think for each step of his lesson: which is good
The question was 'you have bought your mother, sister and aunt a Xmas present - but only needed to buy one thing ... how?'
I had a really complicated explanation involving some southern state of America where your mother could also be your sister, and also your aunt (I could only manage step-aunt on that though)
The answer was a multiple user games interface
I hope the old teacher comes back soon, this new guy now thinks I am weird
Today19:30 Nov 24 2008
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Today was a 'teacher training day' where all he teachers go to the Three Anchors for ... training, I guess
This gave me a day off ... woooo
I need to buy a new bird feeder so I went to work on one awesome pond owned by a Muppet.
The pond was a Koi pond but he was going to be keeping cheaper goldfish in it. No problem with that. A Koi pond is too deep for goldfish, unless you never want to see them, so you need to reduce the water depth
The owner had gone online into a fishie forum and someone has suggested dumping a thick layer of pebbles in to use up the bottom of the pond
Owner had wheeled a ton of pebbles to the side of the pond and poured. A ton of water had then risen and spewed over his flowerbeds, along with some fish. The water rushing back to the pond had carried a lot of flowerbed back with it. Fish had been rapidly brought up to the cold surface which killed most of them that hadn't been buried or washed out.
In the short run, the pebbles will act as a biological filter - in the long run the pebbles will get filled with algae, gloop and sediment which simply won't be cleanable.
Despite all his, the only reason the owner had asked us over was to fix his waterfall that had stopped working. He had a really complicated explanation about water pressure and lift ... the actual reason was the pump was on the bottom of the pond when he dumped a ton of pebbles on top of it.
Boss has accepted the job !! We have to go back, empty the pond by a third and 'someone' (me) will have to get in the freezing water with a bucket and scoop the pebbles out ...
... hmmm
Oooooh17:31 Nov 21 2008
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Now that was awesome.
I have just watched a police camera documentary: this ladyn needs a new liver, so they take out the old one and get a new one someplace. The police have to get the liver from the airport to the hospital before the lady dies and before the liver goes bad.
They start at the very east side of London, drive through the centre of the city to the hospital on the far side. The average city speed is 8mph and its the lunchtime rush hour. 51 policemen stop cars at key junctions - they travel 8 miles in 18 minutes !
Really awesome work, good driving ... and the lady lived .... but
I wonder why they didn't use the helicopter ?
Arguing with an elf - a crime18:20 Nov 16 2008
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Today I found that they had set up a really small ice skating rink in a shopping village I haunt, so I wanted a go
Now you could have 30 minutes for £2.50 or an hour for £ 3.50 plus a visit with Santa, a few questions to an elf confirmed that you couldn't do that deal without visiting Santa.
So I was standing in line for Santa, the rest of the queue was level with my armpit, it was a mite embarrassing ... my friends had paid for 2 x half hours at full rate but I knew I was right
On the other side was a cabin with *another* Santa passing out leaflets. All I did was ask the elf "if I am queuing up to visit Santa, who is that then?"
Got told to leave the queue :( so while my friends were enjoying their skating all I could do was watch and fill in lots of customer satisfaction cards.
A joke20:51 Nov 12 2008
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I think you have to live in the UK to understand this ...
Lady goes up to a pedestrian crossing and presses the button.
After a while the green man flashes and the beeper sounds
A foreign man asks "what is that beeping noise ?", the lady replies "it's to help the blind"
The foreigner thinks a while and says "that's really clever, but we don't let our blind people drive at all."
hehehe
Ouch13:47 Nov 12 2008
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Some poor guy spent five hours submitting bands to the database, hundreds of them
It took me and Fizbop three hours to work through them all ... I think we were able to accept 10 (and one of them was borderline)
The member was, not unreasonably, miffed
There's something to be learned in all this
Fireworks18:44 Nov 10 2008
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There was a local news story where a firework went through a window and set fire to the curtains in a girls bedroom, the room was badly damaged.
I can see why it would have been really upsetting for the family, but they heard the glass break and the firework explode, their smoke alarm went off within seconds and they got out with the pet dog and the fire brigade were there inside three minutes.
They had my sympathy until the lady said "My daughter does her homework sat on that bed, she could have been killed, fireworks should be licensed ...."
Well, Mrs Lady, I would hope that your daughter would have had the sense to leave the room shortly after the bed started to burn.
Procurating20:29 Nov 07 2008
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My step sister's secretarial skills are getting really good now. I was *ahem* dictating my procurator stuff and she was making it all official and posh - problem is she now wants her life back and I am back to spell check and asking
Oh well, as the old Ukrainian saying goes: гриб живильний ... 'a mushroom is good food' ...
hmmmmmm stupid saying
Poem22:28 Nov 03 2008
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I spent 2 minutes writing a poem to show procurator people what not to accept .. this is it
blood ugh
I love blood
ugh bite
I might
ooh heck
a neck
my teeth
beneath
the skin
so thin
I admire
vampire
Its actually not half bad
hahahaha
Woooooooaaaaaaaaaahhh11:49 Nov 01 2008
Times Read: 1,071
The new database has been going about two and a half days, with the old system this would have (literally) taken about two years !!!
Truly awesome, we got entries coming in hundreds now wooooooooo
*little procurator dance*
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COMMENTS
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Monotony
18:22 Nov 29 2008
Haha, I wonder who you could be referring to. Trust me, not everyone here is as...civilized as we are haha.
Joli
00:36 Dec 09 2008
Man, I thought I read "World's Wildest Police Chess." Actually, can you imagine that? I'd watch it :)