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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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 Posted - 12/09/2007 : 16:09:25
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a series of misfortune has enveloped me like an avalanche ... the catalog of disaster and you bet your bippy I want your soothing words and sympathies!
1. tenant in Bexhill rings to say no heat or hot water ... I get plumber to fix ... leak under floorboards ... much money
2. in follow-up to market and the week am due to start website for new client: first the printer packs up and am advised it's not economic to fix. so have to get new one. much money.
3. thinking NOW all's well - get ready to finish article for M* and prepare demo for web client. BUT
4. apparently some kind of freak power surge ignores surge-protector on puter - motherboard circuit that controls usb ports disables keyboard, mouse -- entire hard-drive dies very very dead. call trusty tech-guy. he advises my optimistic plan of getting laptop to finish my work while he tries to repair bad puter will not be cost effective. advises buying new machine with extended warranty for all kinds of reasons that make sense. Then he will come over and try to get data off old hard drive -- all the stuff I was going to back up this w/e. I do as instructed. much money.
5. Tech-guy puts puter together. New, just out of box. Boots up. Fine. Enter User Name. Puter reboots itself. Dies. Won't reboot back into windows. He spends over FOUR HOURS running every diagnostic disk in his armoury. New zillion-gig drive reported as BAD.
6. Next day is Looks Market. Get up at dawn-crack to take BAD puter back for swap. No more of that model and next one up is twice the price. But, nice guys ring nearby branch and arrange for new puter to be delivered and for me to collect it after Looks Market.
7. Weather reporting hurricane-type winds. Have spent last couple of weeks making sure lots of lovely organic food will be on display. New stalls of Emma's cakes - homemade gingerbread houses, tea breads, YUM ... also lady who sells organic coffee - turns out she uses same supplier as myself, so I trust the quality. Place looks like a mini-food hall from Harrods [very posh London department store]. Pissing down with rain. After launch date of bustle and action, Saturday's market attracts a half dozen customers in 4 hours!
Apologize profusely to lovely farmers and growers. They're very kind. I hope they'll come back!!!! We all agree to pool some money for an ad in local paper next time.
8. I rush off to collect new puter. YAY it's there. Have spent from then to now, setting up machine. Trying to re-install my programs, learn some of them won't run on Vista, even with little trick to make them think they're still in XP. Trying to remember, find, invent passwords for all stuff that doesn't - like lovely benj - let you get your password back. YIKES!
9. Finally bite the bullet that I cannot find my Office Pro ID number and subscribe to Google Docs. Write my article. Use my lovely domain host mail server to compose eMails. And finally get a chance to pop in to FWFR.
10. Did I mention a couple of days ago I bit into a piece of cooked parsnip and my front tooth fell out?!!!!
11. What else can go wrong? Tune in to the next exciting saga of BaftaBabe, the tale of city girl up to her ass in rural mud.
I've really missed you guys.
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 12/09/2007 : 16:26:05
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Now you know how Naomi Campbell feels when she breaks a nail. 
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 12/09/2007 : 17:40:08
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
Now you know how Naomi Campbell feels when she breaks a nail.
She misses you, too?! I didn't even know you knew her!
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Whippersnapper.
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 12/09/2007 : 18:07:47
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I never kiss and tell!
Actually, I was just walking past one day when she picked me up and threw me at one of her assistants. 
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w22dheartlivie 
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 12/09/2007 : 22:10:28
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And here I thought that moving to the countryside, with no ability to drive and spending 3 months with no kitchen stove because there were no used ones with the right type of gas fitting available was bad. Erm, but at least we have our health?
Not that the above isn't true, but I've been too distracted recently to actually participate much on here either. Welcome back. |
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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 12/09/2007 : 23:18:01
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Nothing's gone wrong over here.
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 12/10/2007 : 05:51:16
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Sorry to hear all this, Bafta. But I'm an optimist, and I always say, it could be worse.
(But let's just hope it doesn't come to that.)
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lemmycaution
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 12/10/2007 : 13:33:18
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 12/10/2007 : 13:46:05
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
Would you rather be in Philadelphia?
Probably not, but even that would be better than Pittsburgh. |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 12/10/2007 : 17:03:15
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Thanks everyone for your kind - or not quite so - words. I'm sure it was all meant kindly, so I'll choose that interpretation I'm so desperate for. Because I must admit, a couple of bouts of crying did occur. But enough of my gloom.
WHL - so sorry to hear your woes, too!
What a remarkable species we are ... so resilient, so resourceful.
Wasn't it Conan the Barbarian who declared what doesn't kill us makes us strong?!
All right, already ... I'm strong enough! A respite of peace and quiet would be nice for a change.
Tonight it's chicken soup ... my Yiddische grandma's penicillin. And some BAFTA-viewing copies to help the evening along.
Hugs to you all
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Conan The Westy
"Father, Faithful Friend, Fwiffer"
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Posted - 12/11/2007 : 00:18:00
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
Wasn't it Conan the Barbarian who declared what doesn't kill us makes us strong?!
Conan the Westy declares, "What doesn't kill us can still leave us horribly disfigured and permanently maimed."
On a side note: I've been vomiting a lot lately; I hope I'm not pregnant! |
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MguyX
"X marks the spot"
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Posted - 12/11/2007 : 01:23:41
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Originally posted by Conan The Westy
On a side note: I've been vomiting a lot lately; I hope I'm not pregnant!
It wasn't ME!  |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 12/11/2007 : 03:24:14
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Originally posted by MguyX
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Originally posted by Conan The Westy
On a side note: I've been vomiting a lot lately; I hope I'm not pregnant!
It wasn't ME!
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 12/11/2007 : 06:09:28
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
Tonight it's chicken soup ... my Yiddische grandma's penicillin. And some BAFTA-viewing copies to help the evening along.
Hugs to you all
Ah, now that's the trick! You should be feeling better in no time. Question is, what do you put in it? Noodles? Rice? Or do you go all-out Jewish and add Kreplach or Knedelach or both?
There's a restaurant back near my home town called "Barnum and Bagel" which isn't much more than an up-class greasy spoon, that actually makes their own bagels, and pretty good ones at that. They also had a killer tuna melt and used to sell a big bowl of chicken soup with all of the above - rice, noodles, kreplach AND knedelach! That was enough to keep you from being hungry for days on end.
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 12/11/2007 : 06:11:09
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Oy! I just googled that restaurant and...
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 12/11/2007 : 11:10:02
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Ah, now that's the trick! You should be feeling better in no time. Question is, what do you put in it? Noodles? Rice? Or do you go all-out Jewish and add Kreplach or Knedelach or both?
Well I do an ethnic combo of honouring both my grandma and my late Scottish husband. So Jewish with the rice option and cock-a-leekie with fresh leeks. My trick is lots of sage. And yes, thanks, it does tend to put life into perspective. Mind you The Things We Lost in the Fire wasn't nearly as good as the soup!
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... while I've been away ...
