Today

[valtonray]

My girlfriends friend just dropped in for a visit with her three kids. Luckily, I rarely see them.

The girls, 10,12 are okay - the younger one is always a bit quiet around me to begin with, but eventually warms up. The eldest one you can actually have a conversation with.

But the son who is 8 and has a serious case of ADHD and god knows what else... Let's just say it was a bit much for me to deal with when I hadn't even been awake for 5 min...

Thank Flap I have an xbox 360...

Naughty Children + Me= 1 hr max 'good graces' tolerance period.


Parents (especially those with troubled or naughty ones ) I salute you.


As they drove away, I turned to my GF and said "And that is why I'm glad I don't have kids"

i've got a niece thats bad like this. over christmas while the family was together my brother 23 and fresh outta the navy and my niece 4 were playing mario kart on the wii. naturally my brother one and was teasing her laughing telling her she lost. so she took her wii controller hit him in the nuts with it, and when he fell on the ground she kicked him in the rips and says "HAHA who's laughing now!!!" and that girl is the reason im terrified of having one of my own.

 

[valtonray]

update. my girlfriend and i have decided to leave for nashville this afternoon to visit my family for the weekend. i'll be back on sunday. hope everyone has a wonderful time in my absence.

 

[garysgold]

We'll hold down the fort. Have Fun!

 

[Joan Archer]

Been busy today, shopping this morning then putting it away reading the local weekly rag then decided it was time I booted back into Vista and got it up to date along with NOD32 that resides on that partition.
Had 14 Windows Updates for it plus SuperAntiSpyware and Windows Defender, got the thumbs up from Secunia PSI that all was patched so time to come back into Windows 7 and catch up with emails, RSS Feeds and Newsgroups then cook and eat evening meal and here I am in the forums at last.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Welcome home Joan.

 

[Kari]

Today I've been in bed all the day. I have flu, feeling really sick. Drinking tee with a drop of whisky, bedside table full with books and remotes, a mouse and a keyboard. Surfing both TV and net, trying to read a book, sneezing, getting up only to get new batteries to HTPC's bluetooth keyboard.

I'm freezing and sweating, no solid food stays inside. This is PITA!

Kari

 

[Tews]

You can always turn to that old Scottish cure ya know...

 

[Jonathan_King]

Sorry to hear that, Kari. Perhaps I'd better block you until you get better? Wouldn't want to catch it myself...

 

[JMH]

Today I've been in bed all the day. I have flu, feeling really sick. Drinking tee with a drop of whisky, bedside table full with books and remotes, a mouse and a keyboard. Surfing both TV and net, trying to read a book, sneezing, getting up only to get new batteries to HTPC's bluetooth keyboard.

I'm freezing and sweating, no solid food stays inside. This is PITA!

Kari

You can always turn to that old Scottish cure ya know...

Kari,
Sorry to read that you are unwell.
Tom has quite a point. You could "enjoy" the best of bad health.............& any other distractions that you can put your hands on!

 

[Kari]

Thanks for sympathy, geeks. I've been trying a cure known to us enthusiasts as "The Highland Cure": Fill a large mug with black tee, add a bit sugar and whisky. Sip and enjoy, fill the mug every now and then with whisky.

I'm still going to be sick tomorrow morning so I don't care to add some self caused headache.

 

[Joan Archer]

Well it sounds as if you have the best cure there Kari so enjoy

 

[Barman58]

Kari try this my friend ....

take a Large glass

Add a good measure of fresh orange juice and several orange wedges studded with cloves

add a large measure of a good blended scotch and top off with boiling water (option add some brown sugar to taste)

Drink whilst it is as hot as you can stand

Enjoy and then sleep

Kills 99% of all flu and cold viruses stone dead and the Vitamin C tends to lessen the hangover

 

[jfar]

Yes but Kari, don't boil the water, or all you will be getting is the taste of whiskey,
The boiling point of whiskey is lower than water so when you add the boiling water, Puff
all the alchohol goes up in steam, so don't boil the water.

 

[Zidane24]

Yes but Kari, don't boil the water, or all you will be getting is the taste of whiskey,
The boiling point of whiskey is lower than water so when you add the boiling water, Puff
all the alchohol goes up in steam, so don't boil the water.

Very good point...

 

[NinaJay]

Phew

Today has been super busy already - it's only 1pm and so far I have
- gone to an hour of aqua aerobics at the Esplanade Lagoon
- caught up with a girlfriend over coffee
- done my fruit and veg shop at the local farmer's markets and rusty's markets
- picked up some groceries I forgot yesterday
- made my daughter mini chicken and sweetcorn quiches
- 2 loads of washing
- started the filling for chicken pies for tonight


I'm exhausted already. No rest for the wicked though

 

[Zidane24]

So like I posted yesterday...I have been playing around with OSX in the VM...it has been quite the learning experience...

For starters...The VM works...it is just like a rugged car...You got to start cranking it and hope it will kick off, if it doesn't start...give it another shot

...after the tenth try to get it started again...it just started. Luckily the use of snapshots (in VMWare 7) will allow you to bypass restarting (except in the case of updates)

Actually...I am feeling up to it and probably will setup a Ubuntu 9.1 VM today and snapshot it...

That way I can do diagnostic work no matter the OS

 

[blackroseMD1]

Today, I reached post 1K in a little over a year. Guess I haven't been on here enough.

 

[NinaJay]

Congrats on your first 1000 blackrose

 

[Tews]

Grats on 1k posts BR!!... Now where did I put that box of Ruby Badges??

 

[NinaJay]

Tonight every muscle in my body hurts

I think more yoga and less muscle workouts are in order for the coming week.