"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

Karmacat

I'm hot! I'm very hot! And I'm staying indoors right now - actually managing to scan (and discard) some work articles: Online Disinhibition, anyone?

Firewalker

Hot here as well. As to the way your day has shaped, I was telling Little Boy that we fail and we gaff; the important thing is what we do next.

FW

redsquirrel80

Karmacat wrote: »

I'm hot! I'm very hot! And I'm staying indoors right now - actually managing to scan (and discard) some work articles: Online Disinhibition, anyone?

Sounds interesting - is that the fact that people will say/do things online that they wouldn't do in 'real life'?

Karmacat

Yes, it is, Squizz - this is part of how he refers to it:
"We deal with a disproportionate amount of sexual abuse and suicidal ideation, because it's a safe place for young people to talk.
They say things to us because we're not in the room and they don't have to deal with our expressions. They can do it in
this virtual way, which is still real but one step removed."

Obviously, tho I made a joke of the title, its a really serious subject - it was in the October 2010 issue of my counselling journal.

Moving to other matters, my diary should really be transferred to Old Style at the moment :o:o there's been a slight smell in the kitchen sometimes, and I've found what it is - didn't know about it, because I don't use the oven. Accumulated grease and dirt from years of cooking without a lid on has festered and festered, and created the mould I saw over the weekend, as well as thick layers of great. I soaked the front bit in stardrops, and the very edges came off, but I've started to scrape it off with the edge of a spoon :eek: trouble is, I've got one finger thats in real trouble with the arthritis, and its a real problem, even typing this is causing pain.

Plus, my ants are flying I've never actually seen them coming out of the nests before, but I have now _pale_ and I didn't have time to get to a chandler's with starting late ... so the ant killer's gone down god knows if I'm going to get them in the house over the next few days.

There's quite a lot of stuff to do to bring this house to a reasonable level!

Triciaxx

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

Sounds interesting - is that the fact that people will say/do things online that they wouldn't do in 'real life'?

LOL! Weizenbaum and Eliza? I always have that in the back of my mind when I interact with people I don't know via the web. :eek::eek: Perhaps they are all computer programmes?

Perhaps I am a computer programme.

Pippilongstocking

Sorry you missed the trade.

I can't bear the texture of blackberries either bleurgh

I'm definitely a computer programme too, a very random one with entropy as it's core

Glad you got some scanning done! My day, um office, polytunnels then helped find paths in an overgrown garden.

Not exactly fast lane freezing here still, wondering when we go sooth if I'll get a shock!

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Hiya! Z, what fruit are you thinking of? Blackberries have a very strong structure, which ends up being their texture ... well, on my planet it does, anyway and I'm officially going to have loads and loads of blackberry jam :D:D

I'm thinking of one of these.



You stick the stalk in your mouth, close your teeth around it and pull. It then explodes as a mass of sweet but intense tasting liquid (with a little crunchy bit if you have a maggot).

I would guess the unripe ones would be a bit firmer, but what's the point in eating those?

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

Moving to other matters, my diary should really be transferred to Old Style at the moment :o:o there's been a slight smell in the kitchen sometimes, and I've found what it is - didn't know about it, because I don't use the oven. Accumulated grease and dirt from years of cooking without a lid on has festered and festered, and created the mould I saw over the weekend, as well as thick layers of great. I soaked the front bit in stardrops, and the very edges came off, but I've started to scrape it off with the edge of a spoon :eek: trouble is, I've got one finger thats in real trouble with the arthritis, and its a real problem, even typing this is causing pain.

At this point you bite the bullet and call in Molly Maid - someone who's willing to tackle your oven for a small fee.

Then once it's clean - a little wipe down with a mild vinegar solution once a month should keep it clean!

XO
RT

Karmacat

Triciaxx wrote: »

LOL! Weizenbaum and Eliza? I always have that in the back of my mind when I interact with people I don't know via the web. :eek::eek: Perhaps they are all computer programmes?

Perhaps I am a computer programme.

:o:o I didn't know about that .... and its my line of work, oops, tho Carl Rogers would have a conniption if anyone said to him that questions like that were Rogerian. Weizenbaum got it right when he said it was a parody ... but my word, he managed that in the 1960s? I'm seriously impressed!

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Sorry you missed the trade.

I'm definitely a computer programme too, a very random one with entropy as it's core

Glad you got some scanning done! My day, um office, polytunnels then helped find paths in an overgrown garden.

Not exactly fast lane freezing here still, wondering when we go sooth if I'll get a shock!

Thanks Pippi

What a very live and bouncy computer programme you are :rotfl:

The scanning sort of gave me something to do during the day when it was too hot to do anything very physical - if its still this hot when you come sooth, you really will get a shock, believe me :eek:

Anyway, later on, I swept the patios front and back, and .... I put down ant killer around the walls of the house. They're such active little s*ds, they'll be in here in no time if I don't do something. After all, if I'm seeing hundreds, then there's thousands underground _pale_

Karmacat

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

I can't bear the texture of blackberries either bleurgh

Glad I'm not alone - thought I was going a bit potty there :rotfl:

ZTD wrote: »

I'm thinking of one of these.



You stick the stalk in your mouth, close your teeth around it and pull. It then explodes as a mass of sweet but intense tasting liquid (with a little crunchy bit if you have a maggot).

I would guess the unripe ones would be a bit firmer, but what's the point in eating those?

Maybe thats where I've been going wrong! Though I am thinking about jams I've eaten in the past too .... I think I'll stick to sieving

rtandon27 wrote: »

At this point you bite the bullet and call in Molly Maid - someone who's willing to tackle your oven for a small fee.

Then once it's clean - a little wipe down with a mild vinegar solution once a month should keep it clean!

XO
RT

:rotfl: you have a point there, RT! I did discover a faster way of doing some of it tho - I remembered I had a load of wire wool, and thats about ten times faster - the oven door is half clean already. Still hurts, but more effective :cool:

Erm, I have paid work today 3 hours, so won't be s*dding about like I was yesterday. I may even hunt the fan out of the shed _pale_

Hope everyone has a good one - I'm not working till 11, so back soon