It's when you dilute stuff in a series. Say I wanted to make up a very dilute solution of something, I might not be able to weight out a very small amount of the chemical to make it up.

So I make up a higher concentration. Then I take a bit of that and dilute it further. Then a bit of that and dilute again.

Does that make sense

Sounds like homeopathy! I've read that some of their solutions are so dilute they might not contain more than a very few molecules of the substance!

It makes sense BB2!

Or even none at all - just some sort of chemical memory - complete mumbo-jumbo IMO.

Got in to work, doing stuff, colleague comes over and asks if I've heard the news that the head of our therapeutic area has died (he's based in the US, so the news broke last night after we'd all gone home from work). No, I haven't, as strictly I'm not in the therapeutic area reporting line any more and I don't get all the info. Anyway, v.unexpected, young man, so all a bit surprised.
Then for some unknown reason I put his name in Google just to see, and he's come up as a news story - murder-suicide by his partner.
We've all just been called to an urgent meeting (unsurprisingly).

So we're all just kind of sitting here utterly...well, utterly somthing...can't concentrate, just all lost. A few years ago there was a sudden death in our therapeutic area, due to natural causes, and we all just had several days of utter bemusement. This is just...well...bemusment and gob-smacked-ness all in one.


Suddenly having spent all morning being Completely Terrified about having my first music lesson in 17 years tonight is just silly...

Sudden deaths for what ever reason come as a shock.

This is news of a third sudden death this week I have had. So for me it is sort of "good" as they always come in threes.

Enjoy your music lesson, I had my first one in 46 years back in November and now really enjoy them.

Poor Maizie.

I don't really know what to say, but I hope you're all able to pull through it together.

Today 6+3=9

but it will be more aesthetically pleasing on the 3rd June

I put my journey from work to music lesson in to Google maps - 19.2 miles, 37 minutes.

Being me and the sort of person who double-triple-quadruple checks everything, I put it in to Mapquest to see if they suggested a different route. They suggested the same route. But said it would take 25 minutes

Now, I know it's going to depend on traffic conditions, etc, but it seems quite strange that one places suggests it take 50% longer than the other place!

So I put it in to the AA route-planner, who said a route couldn't be found The RAC route planner just crashed on me. Then Multimap went for 35 minutes, on the same route!

Not that I care, I'm leaving the office at 4pm, which means driving off site at about 4.05pm, to be there by 5pm. So I shouldn't be late (I'm happy to be parked outside and sat in my car for 30 minutes, especially for a first meeting).

Getting increasingly nervous now...

Hope it goes well Maizie.

The 6th January was good because it looks the same upside down. 6/1/9

I'll join you in being a geek!

I'm playing with the new version of MSN.

It's very clever.

Barry has just been giving me a lesson in the new version of MSN.

He's very clever.

glad to be of assistance Floss.

I would have missed that one because I tend to write dates as dd/mm/yy, so would have written it as 06/01/09.

I remember at primary school the date becoming 23/4/56.
The teacher asked us when this would happen again (we were 9 yrs old at the time). It didnt take long to get 12/3/45 but since we were all born in 1946 or 47, most of us would be dead by then. 1/2/34 comes before, but is only 4 digits, as is 2/3/45, and 3/4/56.

I think I've asked every single Christian I know about a million questions about where to find certain quotes in the bible today, for an essay I'm writing (the second in the term on this subject). Would anyone be weirded out by that? It seemed a bit strange to be going over facebook to, for example, a girl who helped me out in my first term at uni, with finding places and stuff, who I barely speak to "Hi! How are you? And by the way, where does the phrase "born into sin" come from?" (Psalms 51:5, apparently).

*Edit* Have read this post lots of times and can find nothing to offend, but if someone finds something, do let me know by PM and I'll just delete it. Don't post on here if it causes offence.

Noodle, they read your mind!!

We have just acquired a new cat.

Correction: we have just been acquired by a new cat.

I'm often reminded of the saying "Dogs have owners. Cats have staff!"

Noodle, have you seen Musical Horses today ?? Youve got until 17.35 before it runs, should be back from the vet by then !

Wondering why some people make me regress to shy, unassertive teenager mode, when I haven't been that person for 20 years. Hmm.

I'll be so glad when I don't have to draw the curtains and put the light on - can't wait for the end of March!

Builders' Breakfast crisps are no better than the dreadful chocolate and chilli ones...

I'm going on a field-trip to Dundee tomorrow.. and taking an old friend who was made redundant last week so I'm hoping to cheer him up..

CBA.

Are you going to explain?

Well it would probably be less random with an explanation.

Council for British Archaeology?
Cost-benefit analysis?
Canal Boatbuilder's Association?

Or just a little tune?

In my area of work it stands for Computer Based Applications with basically means software for data analysis.

Perhaps the notes Miss Ross has been playing on her new flute?

Can't be arsed.

Not sure people were actually asking, but that's what it means.

Miss R, hope you're ok!

Caledonian Buskers Association ??????........................

I've just had yet another "driveway restoration" leaflet dropped through my door

I *like* my drive.

I can't see any reason why anyone would think it needs "restoring"

I don't know what it means for Miss Ross but down here it's the name of a very large builders' s and DIY supplier.

I should be working. My computer has been playing up and I have spent working time sorting it out.
Now I am going to spend working time watching the France v England rugger match.
Tomorrow I shall be in a work panic.

Ooh, I caused some discussion!

(Lucy's interpretation was right, incidentally!)

Enjoy the rugby, Aquarelle!

I'd forgotten that you don't drink Drambuie like wine....

My tutor told me to completely eliminate a term from my essays, as I used it too often. I duly took it out, but apparently just mentally replaced it with a different one, and having just reread, before my tutorial, it appears that I have used the same word seventeen times. That's 2.9 times per page.
Fabulous. I wonder if she won't notice...

Does a layer of matt varnish over a later of gloss varnish result in a mostly matt finish?

For my sake.. I'm desperately hoping so

It should do. Might need a second coat of matt, though

Mole

Eee, what have you been up to, Lottie?

Is this art, or a violin/viola or some combination of the two?

I have the weirdest cold ever. I have the sore throat, the painful ears, the edge-of-headache, the sensitive skin, the tiredness, the aching all over.
But I don't have a runny nose or a cough.
My husband got ill first, and he seems to have had everything. Whereas, I feel dreadful but have pretty much no external symptoms of being ill...

Sorry to hear that Maisie. Im sure my daughter mentioned there had been a lot of people with weird colds at your mutual place of work ! At least you can get discount medication.

Well it's come out kind of silky.. but there's still a fair bit of reflection... I'm an IDIOT - I should have used matt in the first place




It's for an oil painting!

As my husband said recently as I brandished a paintbrush.. "step away from the viola!"

Why is it that comments of mine on a post that is so obviously a total wind-up have been taked seriously? I take it as a compliment to my writing skills, serious personality and helpful and considerate nature.

Yes, but I'm about to run out, so I'll have to go back in to the office! Now the cold has gone completely the other way, it's only my ears and throat that hurt now - head, arms, legs, etc all better - but now the proper external symptoms of coughing and sneezing have started. It's day 4 of this cold, I should be feeling better, not worse!

Maizie, day 4 of this particular cold was my worst. (Couldn't stop sneezing, coughing constantly...) *hugs* Hope you feel better soon. Mind you today I really *sound* as if I've got a cold, which isn't great!

Anyway... Do I look as if my name should be Ruth?

Probably about as much like I should be a Clare, which is generally the wrong name that gets used for me...

I get Claire too! My history teacher used to always call me Claire - now my little sister's in his class, and she gets called Lucy! Very unfair.

Eventually even your most favourite reed in the whole wide world ever has to bite the dust

But then a true clarinettist will keep it for posterity anyway!

See this thread - Old Reeds

Ah yes, I seem to remember reading that thread first time around!