Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

RT, I hope its gone well! Very good that you found *something* to wear - the police sometimes have a problem with commuters walking around naked

CBC, its interesting to think back, isn't it, how different our shopping experiences are nowadays, so different from just a few short years ago. Very odd!

Today, I've got much more going on than I'd like - a short phone session, cleaning stair carpet, a really long session, then my session, and I'd really like to be able to post that box set today... we'll see. Tragic that I can't come on here and natter whenever I want

beanielou

I am really hoping to do nothing other than make one phone call, read & snooze.

[Deleted User]

That sounds like my kind of day,beanielou:T Not that I ever get it!

Enjoy yours:beer:

Mine started off badly and is rapidly hurtling downhill from there:mad:

Karmacat

:wave: I hope you're getting there, beanie.

I hate bad starts to the week - today qualified as a bad start, but then rapidly got better: I've had two postponements to next week, which makes both weeks much more balanced, and my appointment at my GP practice was cancelled cos of illness :j not that I'm happy someone's ill, just happy that I'm not the only one to have to do that

Still feel like kicking the recommended book across the room, mind you but I'll content myself with pootling off to post the dvd I sold.

Alchemilla

What are the top 5 most awful things about the book?

Karmacat

Ooh! Good question ...

1. Blaming the sufferers of the illness, but being really passive-aggressive about it. They can say, hand on heart, that they're not doing that, but the first chapter consists *only* of paragraphs that use the phrase "this may be true, that you're doing **** which makes your symptoms worse" - well, in that situation, there's a really, really strong implication that the person the book is aimed at is doing it wrong, and thats why they're ill.

2. I'd say it's aimed at 12 year olds, but thats an insult to 12 year olds. It's aimed at 10 year olds.

3. It's repetitive.

4. I had to read through four chapters of "this is what we're going to tell you". Which means that the book is full of non information. Its on my kindle, so there's links: at one stage they give warnings about seeing your doctor, something like "please read our warnings page, and see your doctor if you haven't already done so". Then you *do* go to the warnings page, because you want to do things right, and it says "please see your doctor if you haven't already done so".

5. It reads like it's been written by a subcontractor whose first language is not English - I've seen dozens of them on elance, and I recognise the tone, tho I think its been sharpened up into blandness by a native speaker who knows nothing about the topic.

The underlying problem I have with it is that this was personally recommended to me - so it says problematic things about the person who thought this book could possibly be relevant to me. I trusted her as far as the meeting went, too - very disappointing, though I'll have to check it out next week - she may not have read the blasted thing for ten years, after all.

Ah! that feels better :j:D

Goldiegirl

I think you should delete that book, it's clearly completely useless.

But it's good to get all that off your chest!

On the subject of old computers, our first one was an Amstrad, but then we went on to Dell.

I remember buying computer magazines, and we'd work out the spec we wanted and then phone Dell, and they'd build the machine for us and deliver it. The other day I decluttered a massive Dell box from the loft, with a price sticker on the side, just under £2000! It must have been from the 1990's, and it seems massively expensive compared to what you can buy today.

Also, we were talking about shopping by mail order. On Friday evening, we ordered a belt for Mr Goldie from Amazon, and it arrived on bank holiday Monday, which I thought was very good. We started remembering the old days, when you had to fill out an order form in your magazine and had to allow 28 days for delivery. These days, 28 days to wait would be completely unacceptable.

Cheery_Daff

Oh dear KC, no wonder you're not getting on with that book! :eek: Hope you find something more appropriate... xx

Karmacat

Aw, thank you both! Great question from Al, it really focussed me instead of just ranting

Loving the historical computer chat :jand the prices :eek::eek::eek: good heavens! For a few years now, as I shred my tax documents that are 6 years old, I've been scanning credit card receipts - I fully expect to have some weird ones in there, in days to come :rotfl:

Rhubarb update: I cut the flowers and bagged them, and I've done the same for the sorrel - one clump, and its self seeded everywhere :j I'm going to dry them and experiment with microgreens, later in the year.

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It's so true about the prices, Goldiegirl:T.

My first PC (the Time Machine I mentioned when I started this subject off) was the first PC I actually owned myself. I had access to others but really wanted my own and had been weighing up the costs for ages because they were so expensive. Out of the reach of many in the 1990s.

Just like the early VCRs which I also mentioned. Eye-wateringly expensive when they first became available in UK. We were the envy of family and friends when OH splashed out (very uncharacteristically for him:rotfl:)on one. Cost an arm and a leg. I wish I still had the receipts for some of this stuff. It would make very interesting reading.

KC, I agree with everyone about jettisoning the book. Must have missed a lot of posts as I'm not sure what that conversation is about:o but if you have persisted with the book(as I'm sure you have) and it's still causing angst then forget about it and find something more suitable.

Well done on the gardening results:T. We've a huge clump (is that the technical term?:rotfl:) of rhubarb but never get round to picking any. Neither of us can stand the stuff, it was growing in a far-flung corner of the garden when we moved here in the 70s.

And what exactly are microgreens?

Have a good day, everyone:beer:.