MG - The Matrix Re-wired

greenbee

The problem with short haul Horace is you never have time to sleep... it takes ages to get anywhere, but huge amounts of time are spent getting to and from the airport, checking in, going through security, waiting at the gate etc, and getting out the other end. The important thing about the long haul stuff is to try to keep travelling the same way round the world. In 2010 did 3 days in Hong Kong (one day of travel at each end), a week in France and then a week in California and by the time I got home I was shattered. I was told I should have gone from Hong Kong to California and not come back to Europe in between, but work doesn't work like that!

Red eye flights are good for long haul, as are Friday/Saturday evening flights as no one wants to fly then, so they're nice and quiet. And for long haul I'd rather travel at 'night' if possible than waste a day.

Believe me, I wouldn't miss the travel. I don't leave the country for holidays...

Lara44

Done a good day's work so far already. Just going to have a chocolate and ironing break. I am so excited and ready to start work again. There are two abstracts for conferences to write in the next two weeks. GREAT conferences :j

Normally I write an abstract about one thing and send it off. Then when it comes to writing the presentation (a few months later) I end up talking about something completely different. People are expecting one thing and I give them another. Hmmm... Need to figure that out as don't want to look like a wally.

Crickett - your personal style post made me smile. Your outfit sounded fab

Greenbee your travel sounds crazy - hope you get it all sorted.

Well done on the mind map MG, sorry to hear about the coffee spurt.

troglodyte

Horace wrote: »

I second the sheet for Charles Dickens Day. A sheet is a better idea than cutting up a Victorian lace pillowcase.

Thanks, but I think I've made it sound fancier than it is, it's clearly itself been made from at least two pieces of an old sheet in the first place! And I would do it in such a way that it could be joined back together again if required.

All the travel plans sound a tad exhausting. I take it that flying is the only feasible option?

Memory_Girl

Went to start the car to go and get DS1 from school - and nada, zip, zilch!!!!

Completely dead battery, so had to get a jump start from the guy who runs the gallery and then take the kids out for a quick runaround to charge her up a little. Just in case I have left her at the top of the hill so I can bump start her in the morning. Battery on order at local garage - would be in Bills week as well, but can't be helped.

Certainly don't want to risk driving to Glasgow and then being stranded on Saturday.

AW well -plenty to eat in the freezers for next week LOL

MG

Igamogam

crickett1234 wrote: »

Have also been looking very longingly at some Doc Marten shoes and boots... feel an unnatural longing to have a pair of those boots again... and they actually do some lovely "normal" looking shoes too! Might be saving up for some of them!!

I use to like to DMs until I discovered Art shoes............

Hope you are feeling better and not coming down with this vile bug that is going around

troglodyte

MG, you might just want the garage to check that it is the battery that needs replacing, and not the alternator (which charges the battery); a quick check with a multimeter would tell you.

Memory_Girl

troglodyte wrote: »

MG, you might just want the garage to check that it is the battery that needs replacing, and not the alternator (which charges the battery); a quick check with a multimeter would tell you.

Nope I did that - its def the battery, mind you it's original to the car and it's a 1999 Astra ................. so I think it is due it's retirement

Mmmmm - my rude onion tart is smelling lovely - even the kids are wafting around looking ready to eat.

MG

greenbee

Lara44 wrote: »

There are two abstracts for conferences to write in the next two weeks. GREAT conferences :j

Normally I write an abstract about one thing and send it off. Then when it comes to writing the presentation (a few months later) I end up talking about something completely different. People are expecting one thing and I give them another. Hmmm... Need to figure that out as don't want to look like a wally.

I have that problem, as do most of my colleagues... you wonder why on earth you submitted the proposal you did, and then try to work out how to fit what you want to say into the box you've made for yourself :cool:

troglodyte wrote: »

All the travel plans sound a tad exhausting. I take it that flying is the only feasible option?

Sadly yes. We do use trains when it makes sense, but getting the team who plan this to use a map is a challenge, getting them to work it out based on public transport would be even harder! We're expected to be on parade at 8am every morning, and wherever we are they ideally want us with clients until 5 or 6, and then have to get to somewhere else... and often crossing timezones. Most of us are starting to get fairly inflexible about when we leave... we want to be on a 5pm or possibly 6pm flight (earlier if we are going home and its a long way), which means finishing two hours before to allow time to get there etc, so that we can make sure we can get to the hotel, unwind, eat etc and get some sleep (and probably catch up on email and work, talk to our families etc). If you left it to the sales teams you'd be getting in at midnight and getting up again at 6am... the thing they forget is that it makes most of us very grumpy, and although we're polite to clients, everyone gets a lot more from it if we're treated like humans not robots!

Dorastar

Tired house and family today and dh has gone for a nap! Got a list of stuff that needs doing for work but none of it seems as urgent as it did before inspection so am working to a more realistic timeframe than I normally would do.

Grrr for poorly batteries and :j for good dreams - I love my multicolour, multisensory dreams and only feel like I've had a good sleep if I can remember my dreams - mine are so far out there even I have to laugh at them!

Memory_Girl

You can't leave us hanging like that Dora:D whisper I wont tell anyone :rotfl::rotfl:

Filling in DS1's pupil enrolment form - how did that happen? I remember the moment he was born as if it were yesterday.

"Rude Onion Tart" voted a success - and a pretty cheapy dinner:beer:

MG