A few months and several questions

ZTD

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Competitive isn't a word I like to use, Z.

Is that along with the word "denial"?

If the cap fits - wear it...

RosaBernicia wrote: »

More the principle of 'there is nothing noble in being superior to someone else, only in being superior to your former self'. I don't so much mind being carp in comparison to other people, but I do get frustrated if I stay just as carp as I was before... 'cause I get bored and decide I'll go try something else instead.

Oh? So you've improved in your pizza eating and wine drinking over the past year so you've decided to stick with it?

Or do you do that because you enjoy it...

RosaBernicia wrote: »

No not sure, will investigate more tomorrow when it's dried off a bit - I'd run out of dry towels by then and was congratulating myself for daring to unwrap the mouldy towel. Just as well I did though, 'cause it had the jack in it.

Before you put that back, rub it down with oil so it does not seize with rust.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Everything around here gets ruddy limescale, I think some of the water may have been splashing up into the car from the road.

Water absorbs limescale over the course of weeks/months/years. Not during a period of rain.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Of course, it's on the list for the FlyLady Car Boogie now

:T

RosaBernicia wrote: »

We've already had a discussion about me and power tools

The problem is not the power tools per se, but the geometric relationship between your boot and other major features of your car.

Drilling into your petrol tank: It's not big. It's not clever.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Mhmf.

I bet you say that to all the boys...

RosaBernicia wrote: »

I do usually look after the car better than I have recently . Am not using it for long trips at the moment (touch wood) so have got a bit lazy. Something going wrong on the ringroad when a max of 1 mile walk from civilisation is rather less scary than things going wrong in the snow at the top of the A1.

Keeping your car in reasonable condition will stop it going wrong at the worst possible moment. Everything goes wrong at the worst possible moment. It's a law of the universe.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Hm. Have now googled that to ensure that an ALICE pack doesn't bear any relation to an Alice band and it seems I was right :rotfl:

ALICE pack:



Alice band:

RosaBernicia wrote: »

You could fit an awful lot of carp into one of those. Doesn't the fact of having to carry it around help control the urge though?

Unfortunately I have an unreasonably strong back, so can carry quite a bit of weight. A couple of years ago on holiday I was strapping my laptop back to my backpack to carry out to the car to avoid another journey between room and car. One time I forgot to unstrap it when going around one of those "Country House Gardens".

"Hey, that's a really good way of carrying two backpacks."
*looks around*
"Oh bum..."

I'd only walked 2-3 miles so not too bad.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

BTW I think I should probably keep this one too

This is more me...

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Well being organised has taken a bit of a knockback after losing today to a migraine

It's a single day - don't sweat it.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

. Woke up on time, felt fine, went back to sleep for a bit and woke up 5 hours later unable to see straight and with a major headache.

:grouphug:

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Have managed to chuck a load of washing in and bring in the jack etc from the car but that's about it. The limescale looking stuff on the jack seems to be a rust-type reaction with the brass-ish coating and the main thing is that it still works.

Brass is copper which is bluey-green. It's probably zinc and has "rusted" producing white zinc oxide. Rub it down and oil it.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Will be putting all that in the plastic crate with all the other gear now, so that even if water does build up in the tyre compartment there will only be the tyre in there and that shouldn't take any harm.

A plastic crate will collect condensation, and will still need inspection.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Forecast for tomorrow isn't great so looks like it will be a short local walk instead of a proper one... am a bit but on the other hand am still feeling a bit wobbly from the migraine and could use the extra time at home, so maybe it's better that way.

Take care of yourself.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

They moved Once Upon A Time again :mad:, so it's just as well I already discovered 5 on demand - and this time I figured out how to link up the laptop to the telly :T. Now I just need to work out 1) how I get the screen sizing to work,

Don't clone your screen. Set up a screen one and a screen two. Move the player to screen two and maximise it.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

and 2) how I turn off the laptop screen once it's connected.

There will be a symbol on one of the function keys. Hold down Fn and press it a few times.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Oh and NSD and I remembered to press the trip meter when I got petrol the other day, so now know that a tankful lasts me about a month or 300 miles. That will help with budgeting.

Wowsers. That's not very much. Lots of stop-start traffic?

RosaBernicia

ZTD wrote: »

Is that along with the word "denial"?

If the cap fits - wear it...

Mhmf. Maybe sometimes. Cleopatra...

ZTD wrote: »

Oh? So you've improved in your pizza eating and wine drinking over the past year so you've decided to stick with it?

Or do you do that because you enjoy it...

Er, Z, neither of those things require concentration, co-ordination, muscle, or doing things that damn well hurt even when you get them right

ZTD wrote: »

Before you put that back, rub it down with oil so it does not seize with rust.

WD40 sufficient? Don't have motor oil as car does so little mileage - it gets switched at service and looks OK in between (well, that's to say it stays pale brown and olive oil-ish consistency rather than turning to black gunk so I have assumed nothing drastic changed).

ZTD wrote: »

Don't clone your screen. Set up a screen one and a screen two. Move the player to screen two and maximise it.

*stares blondely while Z speaks IT* *wonders if cloning screen could result in extra copies of Robert Downey Jr*

ZTD wrote: »

There will be a symbol on one of the function keys. Hold down Fn and press it a few times.

See, that's more like it. That I understand.

Which reminded me to look up the latest Golden Bull awards... always worth it. http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/awards/golden-bull-awards/golden-bull-winners-2011.html

ZTD wrote: »

Wowsers. That's not very much. Lots of stop-start traffic?

Small tank, only 35l - it's about what I've always got from the car and the automatic thing reckons its about 47 mpg (petrol). That run was about 40 but it is mostly the ring road to work, so lots of hovering at roundabouts.

She rarely gets a long trip now - I got the train the last couple of times I've gone up north, as now the petrol is so expensive it works out about the same and at least I don't end up wiped out from driving. Also refused to insure the car for work trips this year after being told I'm expected to get the train - fine by me, though usually more expensive for them and means they end up owing me more time.


Rosa xx

RosaBernicia

Have been good and cancelled renewal of web domain names I don't use and probably won't.

A whole tenner, but still money back in my pocket.

Rosa xx

kerri_gt

Yeah, well done on signing up for the 3mth pole Rosa. I had a fab lesson this week and managed my first shoulder mount - only been learning it for a few weeks and was so suprised that I nearly forgot to grip :eek::rotfl::rotfl:

RosaBernicia

I'd forgotten how good this is.

http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/examples/gobbledygook-generator.html

Sadly, nobody at my current work wants to play at 'who can get one of these past a real meeting' boring lot


Rosa xx

kerri_gt

RosaBernicia wrote: »

I'd forgotten how good this is.

http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/examples/gobbledygook-generator.html

Sadly, nobody at my current work wants to play at 'who can get one of these past a real meeting' boring lot


Rosa xx

Love it :rotfl::rotfl:

RosaBernicia

kerri_gt wrote: »

Yeah, well done on signing up for the 3mth pole Rosa. I had a fab lesson this week and managed my first shoulder mount - only been learning it for a few weeks and was so suprised that I nearly forgot to grip :eek::rotfl::rotfl:

Woohooo well done you :T:T

:rotfl: at surprise... pole does seem to be one of those things where I find myself going 'Oh. It actually worked. Um, what goes where now and how did I do that again?' And it's kind of important what goes where, otherwise you fall down... have been trying to explain to friend why pole is so much more interesting than Pilates. Don't seem to have convinced her yet.


Rosa xx

ZTD

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Mhmf. Maybe sometimes. Cleopatra...

Cleopatra?

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Er, Z, neither of those things require concentration, co-ordination, muscle, or doing things that damn well hurt even when you get them right

Now you're making it sound like BDSM... :eek:

RosaBernicia wrote: »

WD40 sufficient?

Probably something a bit thicker like olive or veg oil would be best. Use a **very thin** layer - you're not trying to deep fry it.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

*stares blondely while Z speaks IT* *wonders if cloning screen could result in extra copies of Robert Downey Jr*

Yes, one per screen. But both doing the same thing. That's why they're clones.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Which reminded me to look up the latest Golden Bull awards... always worth it. http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/awards/golden-bull-awards/golden-bull-winners-2011.html

I can't complain about that. I went to town using management speak with someone who wanted me to "touch base" with someone. They got a lot of "living document" in return... :rotfl:

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Small tank, only 35l

Yes, that is small.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

so lots of hovering at roundabouts.

I'm impressed now. My car never leaves the ground unless I really floor it.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

She rarely gets a long trip now - I got the train the last couple of times I've gone up north, as now the petrol is so expensive it works out about the same and at least I don't end up wiped out from driving. Also refused to insure the car for work trips this year after being told I'm expected to get the train - fine by me, though usually more expensive for them and means they end up owing me more time.

Yes, that tends to be the case. They make up rules to satisfy them, then weep when people comply with them...

RosaBernicia

ZTD wrote: »

Cleopatra?

Now don't tell me you didn't know that one. We all know Cleopatra was Queen of De Nile. *winces even as typing it*

ZTD wrote: »

Yes, one per screen. But both doing the same thing. That's why they're clones.

*still has possibilities, though was hoping they'd be cloned off the screen... *

ZTD wrote: »

I'm impressed now. My car never leaves the ground unless I really floor it.

It's probably helped by all the hot air when I'm explaining to an idiot's taillights that it was completely pointless to undertake me as I slowed for the 'reduce speed now' sign, because the sign is there due to the roundabout just 100m around the (also signed) bend, not solely to frustrate prats in Audis, so he has only ended up in front of me at the lights, an advance of about 4m and possibly 2s. Same applies to the opposite direction when someone sits on my bumper as I'm doing 73 and slowing for the same bend going the other way... then they undertake past me and have to pull up rapidly when they spot the queue of traffic for the other roundabout. *why did they take away the shrugging smiley?*

Sometimes I can understand the inclination to haul people out of a car and explain to them exactly what a twerp they are. Other times I worry I'm turning into my dad. Then I remember that my dad's the worst driver I have ever met, and at least I actually know the rules of the road to complain about other people ignoring them :rotfl:


Rosa xx

ZTD

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Now don't tell me you didn't know that one. We all know Cleopatra was Queen of De Nile.

Nope. You learn something new every day.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

*winces even as typing it*

I like puns. If it doesn't hurt - it's not a good one...

RosaBernicia wrote: »

It's probably helped by all the hot air when I'm explaining to an idiot's taillights that it was completely pointless to undertake me as I slowed for the 'reduce speed now' sign, because the sign is there due to the roundabout just 100m around the (also signed) bend, not solely to frustrate prats in Audis, so he has only ended up in front of me at the lights, an advance of about 4m and possibly 2s. Same applies to the opposite direction when someone sits on my bumper as I'm doing 73 and slowing for the same bend going the other way... then they undertake past me and have to pull up rapidly when they spot the queue of traffic for the other roundabout.

I usually prefer idiots to over/undertake me and often slow down to let them. That means they are where I can see them, and *I* get to choose the distance of seperation.

Which is usually large at that point.

Best thing is when I'm keeping well back from Idiot A, when Idiot B over takes me on a blind bend. Then tailgates Idiot A and almost smashes into Idiot A because of the extreme "Quality" driving shown by all concerned.

Laugh? I nearly had to call the dry-cleaners in...

RosaBernicia wrote: »

*why did they take away the shrugging smiley?*

Because it was apparently a symbol from Satan.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Sometimes I can understand the inclination to haul people out of a car and explain to them exactly what a twerp they are. Other times I worry I'm turning into my dad. Then I remember that my dad's the worst driver I have ever met, and at least I actually know the rules of the road to complain about other people ignoring them :rotfl:

Fortunately I have a completely different driving style from my Dad, so that'll never be a danger.