Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

Cheery_Daff

AVG?? <boggles>

Glad you're feeling a little better and looking forward to your paid work! :T Looking forward to your diary - although quite worried about the idea of collating ideas for it, when I started mine (although it was my first one so I think I can be let off :rotfl:) I just started waffling with barely a thought! :rotfl: Good on you! :T

EssexHebridean

Dumped AVG ages ago when the free version started annoying me - we're using Avast here now and it's proving just as good. Quietly runs away in the background, without causing any fuss, just occasionally shouts at you that it's updated itself......makes you jump a bit!

KC - sounds like you're getting close on the new diary thing? Exciting! One thing - be cautious how much detail you put on line about your website idea - it would be horrible if you started setting it up only to find that the idea had been stolen. I'm probably way too suspicious about such things, but better safe than sorry mebbe?

Good news that you're feeling better - Yes, I know you didn't say as much, but it can be "heard" in your posting if that makes sense! Take it steady though.

Karmacat

Thanks folks - EH, some good points there. You're right, I won't be putting the website online - I'll do a beta version on my own laptop, and then trail it to some suppliers (I think thats what you do) - certainly, over the summer, I was asked to show my stuff to a marketing manager.

I do feel quite a bit better, you're right! I've really *got it* now that health is the most important thing. Nothing else, absolutely nothing else, is any good without it - so I took care of myself a lot better this time. And having a dishwasher helps me do that

Cheery, I know it sounds a little weird to be so fussy on collating ideas for the diary - but without the "I've got to get debt free focus" I need another, positive one, not just "grab what money I can for the pension". I love planning, but I can get a bit carried away, so the challenge here is to make a realistic plan that the diary will help me implement - the 100 day challenge is part of that, so are Mr Big's challenges.

Cheery_Daff

I didn't mean to imply it was weird Just that I'd jumped right into it without any thought whatsoever! But you're right, and actually I DID have a bit of a focus - paying off Mr Daffs and my fees (which I've now done :j) and getting the PhD finished. Once that's done, I'll start a new one - and, like you, I'm going to need to have a good think about a focus too - not entirely sure what it will be! Depends whether I end up doing extra at work or not. If I do, I'll need to focus on making sure I don't spend all my extra wages :rotfl: And if I don't, I'll need to focus on getting some PhD-related work out into the wider world (gosh, that's a scary thought, given that most of the time I convince myself I'm just going to set fire to it and never think about it again!)

Look forward to hearing what you come up with though! :j

Karmacat

Its okay, "weird" is my word, not yours I like to think - as Hypno said a little while ago, my brain would explode if I did just a little bit more thinking :D:D

Its fascinating right now - I'm posting right by my window, and I can see this huge grey/pinkish-but-not-really storm coming in quickly from the north. God knows what the weather will be like in an hour or so.

I've done nearly all the thinking for the new diary, and I found some fun goals to play with about travel in that newspaper I bought mistakenly on Sunday :rotfl: Ten Great Feats of Engineering:

1. Millau Viaduct, Tarn.
2. The dome of Florence Cathedral.
3. Hagia Sophia, Istanbul - been there.
4. Dutch Delta Works - been to the flower fields and the Dutch coast
5. Khufu's Pyramid.
6. Bazalgette's London sewers. I've been on a trip inside Victorian sewers, though not London's, but I'm going to count this one as done
7. The Colosseum, Rome. Been there.
8. Channel Tunnel. Been *through* it.
9. Panama Canal. Not been there, but I have been on a ship through the Corinth Canal, which was built about two thousand years earlier.
10. Burj Khalifa.

Excellent! I've made a good start :j

gilligansyle

I need new glasses - I read this as

I've done nearly all the thinking for the new day

Karmacat wrote: »

I found some fun goals to play with about travel in that newspaper I bought mistakenly on Sunday :rotfl: Ten Great Feats of Engineering:

1. Millau Viaduct, Tarn.
2. The dome of Florence Cathedral.
3. Hagia Sophia, Istanbul - been there.
4. Dutch Delta Works - been to the flower fields and the Dutch coast
5. Khufu's Pyramid.
6. Bazalgette's London sewers. I've been on a trip inside Victorian sewers, though not London's, but I'm going to count this one as done
7. The Colosseum, Rome. Been there.
8. Channel Tunnel. Been *through* it.
9. Panama Canal. Not been there, but I have been on a ship through the Corinth Canal, which was built about two thousand years earlier.
10. Burj Khalifa.

Excellent! I've made a good start :j

Could never bring myself to go through the Channel Tunnel, once cancelled a holiday because they changed it from a ferry, the Mersey Tunnel is bad enough for me.

Cheery_Daff

Excellent goals list KC, and I'm pleased you've made such a good start! :j

I actually went on a school trip to the site of the channel tunnel while it was being built! I have lots of photos of the 'boring' machines (in both senses of the word, which as 12 year olds we found highly amusing! :rotfl:) I was actually impressed that they seemed to have drills that were the size of the tunnel :eek:

(and I know full well what you mean about thinking/brain exploding! :rotfl:)

Karmacat

Lol to eyesight, gill! Cheery, I think I drove past the construction site at one stage, but I'd have loved a tour. Wonderful!

That list was good, wasn't it, but its a bit local, except for the Panama Canal. Lets see:


Places.
1. New Zealand's mountains, a la Lord of the Rings.
2. Ayers Rock.
3. Table Mountain.
4. The dropoff point of any continental shelf.
5. The Grand Canyon.
6. The Florida Keys.
7. Yellowstone National Park.
8. The Bolivian Salt Flats, the ones with drawings on them.
9. A glacier. A *big* glacier.
10. The Canadian wilderness.

Things.
1. The International Space Station.
2. That skyscraper in Malaysia....
3. Petra, Jordan.
4. The Taj Mahal.
5. Hong Kong.
6. The Ring of Brodgar on Orkney.
7. Chichen Itza, Mexico.
8. Lhasa.
9. Kyoto
10. St Petersburg.

Okay, thats my holiday plans for the next ten years... if I'm going to quadruple my income, this is a good part of what the money will be buying me (apart from my pension, that is).

Ellidee

I would love to see the Northern Lights. Not heard of some of your places KC

Karmacat

The Northern Lights! Absolutely - I did see them once, from a plane, but not a terribly good example.

**KC extends list**.

I have a fairly eclectic set of taste buds when it comes to being a tourist, Ellidee - lots of odd little nooks and crannies. For instance, I don't know whats actually *at* Chichen Itza, but I know its a great site, and not as crowded as Macchu Picchu. Anything in particular for you?