I know I post on the forum a lot, but!...

Have some faith in yourself

*looks at post count*

969 in a week. OK, I won't work this week. I'll post on the forum all day every day...

Or alternatively, I'll earn money, eat, etc....

Who needs food and money anyway

Lunch is for wimps!

Precisely

I call 'em Squizzles.

I like food. Food is great

Wibble, but I'm not sure why.

I'm hungry.

Is that because of the post above Flossie?

(953 posts to go to 20,000 )

No. I'm hungry and all I've got is cuppa soups. I went home to get my car to bring it into work (can only park here after 6pm) and forgot to pick up my tea.

Poor Flossie

I've just been googling recipes for things to make with elderberries (lots growing by the river not far from here) and wondered why it is that EVERY recipe site is absolutely peppered with ads for weight loss, before and after pics and ads saying "wanted women aged 19-54 to undergo serious weight loss..." Testing for a new product etc etc etc.(Oh and carrying a picture of a stick thin woman with her stomach pulled in) made me quite cross actually People should be able to enjoy a healthy balance of food. This kind of blatant advertising is just not healthy!!!

Sorry: rant over

I've got to get up at 5am on Thursday - and it's my day off. (Got to see the wife safely off to Leicester at some unearthly hour. Roadworks, eh?)

Fiona and Matthew are like a real life disney film

Beauty and the Beast?

Sorry Matthew! You're a handsome chap really *runs*

How could you???? Matthew is drop dead gorgeous.

Sorry Flossy.

heslop01 walked right into that one. It would have been rude not to jump all over it

*Wonders whether now might be a good time to start thinking about gathering stuff together and packing*

Hmm, on second thoughts, maybe now isn't such a great time, maybe tomorrow morning would be better.

Tomorrow is today's greatest time-saver!

Lol, it was more the fact that IT'S MIDNIGHT!

Meh I've packed at stranger times.

If you look back a long way in CISD, you'll find my commentary on backing for new york last year. I'd been putting it off all day and ended up hunting for a suitcase in a pitch black loft (my brother turned off the lights and locked me in the garage ) at about 4am because someone hadn't bothered to tell me where the keys to my suitcase had been put so I couldn't get into it to pack it. I didn't get any sleep that night and ended up with an over-40-hour day because of the time difference between here and the US.

I might have considered doing something if I wasn't packing for the next 3 months rather than a week

So I thought I'd make some little slips of paper with my scales / arpeggios on them, to pull out of a 'hat' to practise in a random order. Easy-peasy, make a nice table in Word and fill in the boxes.

Count them to see how many there are, so how big a table I need. 17 of them. Darn. A prime number, can't turn it in to a table (well, except a 1x17 table).

Ah, well. I'm sure I'll do a 3x6 and have one empty box
But it just struck me as typical of my week so far - good intentions ruined by an unexpected obstacle

Put the most difficult one in twice, or add another scale that isn't on the exam syllabus so you've already learnt it ahead of time.

Ha, already decided on the latter before I saw your suggestion. The next grade up has some scales on it which are on different starting notes, so I picked on of those which I've not done before to get to grips with (I didn't choose one with the same starting note as ones I'm supposed to be doing...so that if the examiner asks for F# minor, I don't get confuzzled and do F# major having learned it for the 'next grade').
Though having said that, I don't know if I'll actually be doing G6. Oh, mind you, just checked, the scale I chose appears again at G8, so with any luck in the fullness of time I'll need to know it.

Couldn't just leave an empty box

I seperate everything into tongued and slurred - always get an even number

Ooooh, that's an idea, hadn't thought of that, my teacher just gets me to do them slurred when we do them in lessons, on the grounds that if you can get your fingers to work it slurred, you'll find doing it tounged no problem (or in my case, about a million times easier...he got the measure of my articulation 'skills' pretty quickly!)

I keep being told there's a new version of MSN Messenger.

Doesn't seem that long ago that I downloaded the last new version...

As soon as I've finished packing I'm off down to Bristol to run a course for Sing Up tomorrow.

Wish me luck...

Really impressed by this "Invisible Man". I saw a few pics in the newspapers some time ago but it's great to see more!

http://v1kram.posterous.com/liu-bolinthe-invisible-man

The voting is taking place for the 2016 Olympics...

Wonder who will win?...

I'll guess Rio...

Can't think of a better place for Beach Volley Ball.

It's better off for beaches than London!

Chicago's been eliminated...

What do Project Managers actually do?

Manage projects? I don't know?....

My Dad is a Project Manager...

All I know is that he's very clever.

Tokyo's also been eliminated...

Wibble, but i still don't know why.

Moved to correct response


As him if he provides documentation to the poor sods who have to support what he implements.

Don't be mean! He does, yes - he also works at least 2 hours extra every day "to finish what no-one else can be arsed to do". So you can't tar them all with the same brush. Sorry if you've had a bad experience(s) though!

Good. I've yet to see it happen once here. Still plenty of time, It's only been 5 years or so.

That was my immediate response too!!! And then I saw you'd beaten me to it

Aren't 'project managers' people who successfully find ways to display pictures on cinema screens?

Yes. Yes, that is all they do.

Its a joke and a play on the word 'project'!

Pro-ject as in cinema....

Good project managers are fantastic - you hardly notice they're there, but things run smoothly with all the bits you need being ready for when you need them, issues that start developing being headed off before they become big problems etc so that as a worker on a project you can concentrate your best efforts on "your bit" knowing that someone else is making sure all the various pieces will fit together.

Bad project managers just create more work for everyone without seeming to help at all. You always know they're there because they e-mail / call you at frequent intervals for "updates" that generally haven't changed since the last time and as well as doing your bit of the project you have to spend a sizeable portion of your time filling in milestone plans, risk registers etc and still you end up grinding to a halt because the bit you're dependent on hasn't happened yet.

Most project managers fall somewhere between the two extremes.

I wonder where I can buy a cheapo collapsible laundry basket...

Argos???

Wilkinson's at Clifton Moor definitely have them

The cheap 'Poundstore' type shops usually sell them.