not the cookbook surely?

Q. How do you write?
A. One word at a time.

Cornflakes...same difference really

Today I learnt:

• If your friend passes out on the sofa and you put his hand in ice cold water, then he will actually wet himself.
• Studid people are inexorable and unavoidable.
• I am not the saddest person alive and other people do play MMO's on Christmas day.

Happy new year

Eats shoots and leaves.

Head of the international outcry against poor grammar, punctuation and spelling.

Learned today: Glow in the dark stuff doesn't glow in the dark after you shine a laser light on it. But glows really well (as in visible during the day) if you use a led light.

In other news, I now own a retractable laser + led pen with a rare-earth magnet at one end to pick stuff up with.

_Light moves faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak._

The main thing I learned today (or actually yesterday) was that if you turn your back for a while, everything changes - it took me two hours yeserday to work out how to give my avatar his Christmas costume.
I have been absent for a while mainly due to a bad fall which has had me in and out of hospital on a fairly regular basis - but I hope now that I have things (like my legs!) under control, so should be back at the computer on a regular basis.

Eeep - Pixel, glad you have your legs back under control. Hope you feel better soon!


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Learned, and re-learned: Little girls who try to steal you chocolate at christmas last year, will still try the same tricks this year. Only this time I was ready for her...and she still doesn't like me. Oh darn, I'm so upset...

Learned by my aunt: When a 2 year old is given the option of playing with a) a large ride-on tractor that cost a fortune to buy, or b) a small tractor that cost 2 euro and can be carried about in the hand, said 2 year old will go for the small tractor and think that my father is a genius for pointing out that the box it came in makes a great garage.

Little girls that are given a very, very large toy car & horsebox, along with horse to go into horsebox, will inevitably only want to play with her little brother's new ride-on tractor when he finally wants to play with it. And get pushed off into the mud in her princess dress. Heh heh heh.

Children + Chocolate + drool = keep the hell away from me until I've found a tissue or something to wipe the entire mess away from your face, dear god, why did your mother let you eat that...

Time between father returning from mass and seeing brother to first argument of Christmas day, 1.5 minutes. (he slept in, missed mass, was watching American Chopper and that led to the inevitable 'turn that sh*t off' argument.)

Turkeys cooked in Turkey Bags cook a lot faster than without. (more learned by my mother than by me, but I learned that Christmas dinner tastes just fine when it's just Ham instead of Turkey and Ham.)

Time between mother and sister arguing, 2.5 hours. A world record.

God, I love Christmas. It's so much fun when none of the drama involves me. And I can run back to my own house for a quiet post-dinner nap.

What I learned (actually two days ago) is "DO IT NOW". My apartment is very strangely wired but the landlord (or at least his son, who seems to be taking over the business) keeps asking for money to do repairs (which are actually his responsibility), which even when I pay, he never gets done (he is convinced that the betting shop on the ground floor is run by the Mafia and he is terrified of them - maybe I should try and get them on my side!) - so the wiring is coming out of one circuit and involves a lot of extension cables and multiple socket units. Don't even ask why I don't move - it could get very expensive (I have lived here 8 years and there have been no rent increases in that time - Belgian standard is one increase every three years), I have a lot of stuff to move, and even with my mobility problems, such as walking with a stick but having to handle the number of stairs both leading to my apartment and within it, I like the place - it is also very convenient for transport.

But I seem to have deviated from my original point. Two days ago I accidentally spilled water into one of the multiple socket units - this immediately tripped the diffo jump (for the non-technical amongst us, it is a form of circuit-breaker) and my first reaction was to go to bed and let things dry out, as it was already dark. Then I was lying in bed some while later (it gets dark early here, for those who live in more tropical regions) and I thought "Why am I lying in bed at 7 o'clock at night when I am an amateur theatre techician (admittedly retired) just because of a power problem? If I can't fix this, I obviously retired at the right time". By rounding up all my spare extension cables and extended socket blocks, I had my full power restored (by torchlight) in less than 45 minutes - and that includes trips down to the cellar where the circuit breakers are installed. The only problem now is that the computer was running at the time, recording from the BBC on the tuner card I have installed, and the abrupt cut-off has messed up the settings, and I cannot find the installation CD! So that's tomorrow's job!

Anyway - that's what I learned recently - don't put it off - do it now.

Learned today: No matter how fake and hollywood-esque Extreme Makeover is, and how much I despise that kind of thing, I well up and cry every single time. Therefore, I should really stop watching the damn thing. Dammit.

Damn Spider pig

Do not procrastinate when it comes to buying home heating oil, or you will end up with no heat the one night the temperature is due to drop to -7 Centegrade...

January is Boooring!

Pah, if only!

Damn Spider pig

Do not,I repeat, Do Not try to cut a section from a pepper while holding it in your hand. And don't do it with a serrated blade either. And don't forget where your thumb is behind the pepper. And remember where you keep the plasters.

I am an idiot.

Cuts on thumbs take a long time to stop bleeding.

Inna doesn't read bumped old game threads.

Mrs G
The Garner who cares.

... mreow? (confused)

Friends don't let friends take up scrapbooking!

See: This thread!

Mrs G
The Garner who cares.