Mundane News (Part 1)

[PeteXXX]

I bought a bottle of Camp Coffee.
Only 80p from the staff canteen...

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I just filled in an online passport renewal form.

Is it September yet?

Sigh. The wait is going to be long...

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

My robin has been to visit the bird feeder on the window. She's always the very first and very last visitor each day.

 

[the_mikey]

It's cold outside...

 

[vernon]

My weight loss campaign has not gone to plan.

It's exceeded my wildest dreams with a ten pound loss in the first week.

 

[Hill Wimp]

The sun is out, the cat is in,the kettle is on.

 

[Mireystock]

A light dusting of snow outside, but sunny !

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I've just poured my first coffee of the day.

 

[vernon]

Who did you get to cut off your right arm?

Close. It's since I dispensed with the services of my right hand man, Fenton. I don't have anyone to spoon-feed me anymore.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Who did you get to cut off your right arm?



Seriously though - well done that's great.

It is either that or £10 lost from his wallet on the next round of ingredients for pies/pies themselves... one of which I have made myself and found to be very good.


(Hoping the sense of humour has come through with this post... It may not have done )

And if it is 10lb congratulations, now can you please tell me the secret because that it's roughly what I have put on since my back went in November and I am needing to lose it again. I'm currently munching on some chickpeas and feeling rather hungry.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

[QUOTE 3481724, member: 259"]One of the cables behind the telly isn't working

View attachment 77144 [/QUOTE]
I used to have a server room like that once only 10 times as bad (25 servers each with 7 or 8 cables each plus back up batteries, switched, router, firewall...) until one day we had a power outage and when the generator failed & the back up batteries had expired I asked my boss if I could do something about it. He said yes... I don't think he and I had the same thing in mind...

Every single cable was pulled out, untangled, sorted and both ends labeled as they went back in... The CEO walked in part way through, when we had all the cables out in a tangled heap on the floor... All I could say was that we were putting the downtime to good use and praying that we would be done in time ! The look on his face was wonderful .

It took over 8 hours for 2 of us to sort out and luckily I still had no electricity by the time I was done! Maintenance after that was so much easier and it got H&S off my back.

 

[raleighnut]

My front room set-up is as bad with 7 sets of speaker cables to the amp then there is a DVD recorder, Minidisc recorder. BT box, CD player, Turntable (with an old QUAD 33 acting as a phono signal booster) and AV leads to the TV. Then add in all the fibre optic links, HDMI leads and the rest but its all quite logical until you replace one unit then the cable fairy does her bit and its a 3 hour job to sort it all out.
Luckily my HiFi (in the dining room) rarely needs to be altered and a lot of that is 5pin or 4 pin DIN leads (much simpler)

 

[raleighnut]

Wireless speakers Pah. like you say you've still got to plug em in to the mains .
The AV receiver is an old (15yrs) Yamaha one but it does have digital in to its own decoder that gives 5:1 sound decoding from the BT box and the DVD.
BUT we don't use the Amp to switch (it will do if wanted by scart) we simply use it to listen to audio (I can't say I want to listen to Corrie in 'surround sound' yet.

 

[vernon]

And if it is 10lb congratulations, now can you please tell me the secret because that it's roughly what I have put on since my back went in November and I am needing to lose it again. I'm currently munching on some chickpeas and feeling rather hungry.

It is indeed 10 lbs.

The secret:

Pies for breakfast
Pies for lunch
Pies eaten immediately outside of the pie shop
Pies eaten on my way back to my car from the pie shop
Pies eaten in my car
Pies for tea
Pies for supper
Pies as snacks
Biscuits
Crisps
Confectionary
Sugar
More than two small slices of bread
Eating between meals
Absinthe
Wray and Nephews white cane spirit

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 3481905, member: 259"]The sodding mice have eaten all my seeds in the shed again, so I've had to bite the bullet and pay to order some Dorset Naga and Scotch bonnet seeds. How on earth they can eat a couple of envelopes full of them without exploding I'll never know.[/QUOTE]

Slip in an order for some of these chilli willy seeds while you're at it.