Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

gilligansyle

Having been to a fair few conventions in my time, it always seems bizarre that the weekend ones have a band or a disco, on the Saturday, and people do line type dances. Can vividly remember doing the 'Bump' in the NEC one year.

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Ug. This post is just to remind me how insane people can be, and how intense that insanity is around money. An old science fiction friend I'd lost contact with has remembered my mobile number and sent me a text like one of those pyramid letters you used to get in the post, telling me dire things if I don't pass it on. How poisonous can a person be!

Well that's ripe - the only thing they want to send you is "If you don't send this to twenty people your face will change overnight to John Prescott's?"

Lovely...

Karmacat wrote: »

Just wanted to send this out to the universe - I will not allow myself to be poisoned by this. I've deleted the text, and deleted the person from the phonebook on the mobile.

I don't do that - I just put a prefix in front. It's so if they ring, I know not to answer it. Otherwise it's remember the number time.

Karmacat wrote: »

Live Long And Prosper.
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.

Om. Shantih. Amen. As above, so below.

I think the message I'd be giving them is "Go forth and multiply..."

boredofbeingathome

ZTD wrote: »

I think the message I'd be giving them is "Go forth and multiply..."

I rather like- "For coughs and colds take Veno's":rotfl::rotfl:

Say it quickly - just always appealed to my sense of humour ( since about the age o f10 when i realized what it meant:eek:)

Personally i hate chain letters, texts and emails- i will always delete them. Some i find quite funny though and some are heartfelt..but i never pass them on.

redsquirrel80

Argh I hate those sort of things too - especially if sent from people you hardly ever hear from, or from people at work who you don't know very well (had an old colleague who used to do that - I'd never even met her in person as she worked on a different site!).. I agree with Z though, I'd keep the number and change the name to "annoying chain text sending person" or something!

Line dancing in a stripper's outfit eh? Sounds fun... yeeha!

Karmacat

You lovely people, all of you! Well, the number is gone, so I can't change the name - there was a reason I lost contact with her, cos I didn't *lose* contact, I stopped contacting her - I wasn't doing it from positive motives for me, so I let it go. And if this is the sort of thing she comes back with after years of no contact, then I can see I made the right choice

Anyway, new day and all that. No paid work today, which had me jumping up and down with glee yesterday after I'd finished. Its a lovely sunny day here, so the washing machine has nearly finished, and I'm going to put the clothes maiden outside and give stuff a chance to dry in the sun - I can peg it to the clothes maiden :rotfl:I'm going to get one of those extending washing lines, not a rotary, when I figure out where to put it, but this'll do for now :rotfl:

Other than that - trip to town to do various stuff, put the final coat of paint on the part of the kitchen that I've done, and the other job is to finish off the soundproofing, part of the therapy room work. And phone calls - eco houses this weekend, and the dreaded Nationwide about the mortgage. If they insist I use a solicitor, I'll go for that Santander zero percent card instead, if I can figure out how to pay for the plumbing work on a card.

Off for a canter around the diaries :j

Karmacat

gilligansyle wrote: »

Having been to a fair few conventions in my time, it always seems bizarre that the weekend ones have a band or a disco, on the Saturday, and people do line type dances. Can vividly remember doing the 'Bump' in the NEC one year.

Ooh! Which ones? The very first I went to was a thing at the Albert Hall, not a proper convention, they had lots of ST:TNG people there for the release of Star Trek: Generations. It was brill Otherwise, the Norbreck in Blackpool, the Adelphi for the British SF Con, and lots of Babylon 5 and Stargate cons.... and Worldcon in Chicago in 2000. That was brill too

Pippilongstocking

*morning* glad you deleted the text person - I never pass any of that stuff on - ergh - waste of karmic energy.

Glad you've got the work done and enjoyed your evening.

OH's working which is seriously affecting my online time - off to do some 'productive' non-online things............................goodluck with nationwide.

Karmacat

Yesterday evening, as I was taking the recycling out, I just decided to go for a walk - through a tiny little nature reserve to an old fashioned English village, round the green and back to my house by another route - I came across the third set of allotments I've found here, as well - the allotments are all beautiful, very well tended, lots of freshly dug soil, maturing crops, bits put by to recycle, all sorts of things, it was amazing. And the sky was gorgeous - a clump of cloud with its underside turned practically barbie pink by the setting sun. Glorious.

Cheery_Daff

Oh Karmacat, that sounds absolutely wonderful! Lucky, sensible you to have found somewhere so beautiful to live! :T And a day off paid work! How fabulous! :j

Karmacat

Thanks Daffs! It is, its very lovely round here. That English village actually has a duckpond, which only has a road on one side, the other is a little footpath. You can get really close to the ducks, and when you do, you find that lots of them are standing on bricks that have been put there on purpose - they're not swimming at all, they're standing on these bricks preening their feathers. Its so funny