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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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Someone has decided to dig up the pavement at the end of our street with a pneumatic drill. Seems a rather unsociable hour to be doing it. They started on Sunday afternoon then downed tools until this evening. Can't really understand why it is necessary to dig up a pavement at this time of night...0
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vivatifosi wrote: »Is that a good 'Aaargh', or one that suggests that you'll never, ever listen to my recommendations again?
It was a scared aargh as it reminded me that money was just something we made up and the book gives the impression that now we've made too many versions of it (derivatives etc.), all getting more and more remote from the real world. It would be quite easy to stop believing in it.
I was 100 miles south of Hamish so not much dancing.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
I am going for 'Holy Crap, deadline ahoy' combined with my work colleagues patented 'bosh it out' tactic. The latter isn't as bad as it sounds, one of the many things I've struggled with is the infinite 'polishing' of data and getting bogged down in how to pull it all together. Quite frankly, it doesn't make that much of a difference. No-one is likely to notice, and even if they did, they are even less likely to care. I'm now just going for getting stuff down on a page.
Mind you I'm not being at all creative, and I'm not aiming for glory - more the minimum to scrape by.
Do you need a change of scenery/ some 'you' time, fc?
'Me Time' what's that?
To be fair I no longer juggle running around after kids and stuff but I did have a tick list in 2005 and have now ticked nearly all the boxes.
Whilst the execution of my work is 99% of the job and the really hard bit , the 1% which is the seed (and core) doesn't work on an on/off switch. I wish it did
as I would be a millionaire *said in Delboy accent*,
How long you going into hosp LIR?lostinrates wrote: »Found Friday dress ( still in hamper, so time to wash it and dry it, phew) cannot find books I want to buy so will re read something I suppose. I have a nagging feeling I have forgotten something important......0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »FAO Lydia, I recall you posting a lot of techie stuff about the solar panels. At the time it whoosed over me. However I have a friend who is very interested now in getting solar panels. If you're able, can you post or PM me a brief summary please to pass on?
michaels, am I right in thinking you did/are in the process to? if so, be happy to hear your thoughts too if you don't mind?
They were a really really good deal a couple of years ago, but the feed-in-tariff has been slashed, so they may not be worth it any more. Certainly your friend would have to do his/her sums very carefully now. Ideal roof faces due south at about 30 degrees pitch with absolutely no shading from anything, and plenty of space - mine's about 10m x 30m and my 4kWp system fits on nicely. (4kWp is the max you can have and get the domestic rate of FiT; commercial rates for larger systems are quite a lot less.) I generated about 3760kWh in the first year, with ideal roof as described, in my part of the country - I think you know roughly where that is.I had a bit of a comic moment in love interest's car this afternoon...
Oooh - "love interest" - I like that as a term for him.lostinrates wrote: »I think wedding by heater glow would be a hoot tbh.
It was indeed a hoot. Not just because of the heater glow but becuase of the people. It looked like apartheid in church, with the bride's family (black, with the women wearing dramatic dresses in shiny fabrics and bright colours) on one side and the groom's family (white, with the women dressed with archetypal British restraint and understatement) on the other, but we all got happily mixed up at the reception. My bro and sil have always known how to throw a good party, and they have a particular talent for having an extremely ecclectic selection of friends who would never be likely to meet other than at their events, but who are all such lovely people that everyone always gets on. Christmas at their place is a bit like a RL version of the NPT in that respect...lostinrates wrote: »How are you dear Lydia?
I'm fine. Actually more than fine - beginning to feel a bit more like my proper self.
Recent brief absence from NPT caused by technical problems, not general overwhelmingness of life, but all back online now. Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »My only experience of beetroot is pickled beetroot, as part of a salad.
Had beet borscht some Polish friends made and was surprised how much I liked it.:beer:There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Tomorrow we have the school nurse for youngest. We are meeting at my parent's house as the younger two don't like people in the house (good thing too after James' inattention to the housework!). Youngest doesn't want to talk to her, middle son just wants to play the drums and my parent's would have been home approx an hour from their holiday...don't think she will find us at our best!
How did it go with the nurse?Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
'Me Time' what's that?
To be fair I no longer juggle running around after kids and stuff but I did have a tick list in 2005 and have now ticked nearly all the boxes.
Whilst the execution of my work is 99% of the job and the really hard bit , the 1% which is the seed (and core) doesn't work on an on/off switch. I wish it did as I would be a millionaire *said in Delboy accent*,
How long you going into hosp LIR?
Just tomorrow.. I have been going in more or less weekly this summer, but have just had over a fortnight off. Back to weekly for a few weeks, this is Spider-Man week, but I've managed to get some other stuff schedule for the same day to save more trips and also all the waiting doing nothing. 0 -
Had beet borscht some Polish friends made and was surprised how much I liked it.:beer:
Borscht looks beautiful and we eat it, but...honestly..I think its a bit....lacking.
I also like pickled beets, love beet juice (secret weapon of Olympians ) and think grated or sliced raw crunchy beet is hard to, well... beat.0 -
Whilst the execution of my work is 99% of the job and the really hard bit , the 1% which is the seed (and core) doesn't work on an on/off switch. I wish it did as I would be a millionaire *said in Delboy accent*,
I've read that people get more creative if they distract themselves with something intellectually demanding.
In other words stop thinking about what you have to do and do something that distracts your conscious mind e.g. crosswords or other puzzles to solve. But it mustn't be relaxing. Emptying your mind sounds like it ought to work but it's not necessarily the best way.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »Ah jelly, while you are around... yep, really enjoyed Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England. Very interesting, funny in parts, gross in others. I'm tinkering around in the same period genealogically so it's a good fit to other stuff I'm up to.
Also, did you see the Coursera link to a course that Dan Ariely ran? I've already pre-registered in case of a re-run. Coursera is free and it looked up your street.
https://www.coursera.org/course/behavioralecon
Hi Viva,
thanks for the report. said book has just been promoted up my to get list now...
I did see the Ariely lecture thing. I'll register too! Cheers!:)It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0
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