Now that refit - what's that all about?
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Thanks, I'm nearly there. It's dear Ron we have to worry about now
Now that refit - what's that all about?
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Now that refit - what's that all about?
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Plastic cladding for walls, bit of re plumbing and moving kit around.Some new fridges and maybe some made to measure Stainless Steel worksurfaces.Thought i was going to be able to get some Govt funding help via Europe(50%) but they have put a stop to that.Oh well, have to pay fo it myself, and maybe rope my father in law in to do some work.I would like to put a wooden floor in the restuarant aswell
looking for an apartment.
colleagues fighting over who takes time off over Christmas.
My trip to London was just cancelled. 
I'm still sick and too busy to go home and get in bed. Self-employment has its downsides.
Self-employment has its downsides.
So sorry, Ron.
A colleague who suffers from chronic sinusitis swears by nasal irrigation - he used to get stuffy once a month, and now gets sick maybe once a year. I'm going to try it.
A colleague who suffers from chronic sinusitis swears by nasal irrigation - he used to get stuffy once a month, and now gets sick maybe once a year. I'm going to try it.
Allergy attack. Woke up sneezing in the middle of the night. Have barely stopped since. Right eye watering like a mother-f***er. Am about to go after the nasal passages with saline solution spray (that usually helps).
| QUOTE (Cathy @ Oct 5 2004, 01:26 PM) |
| So sorry, Ron. A colleague who suffers from chronic sinusitis swears by nasal irrigation - he used to get stuffy once a month, and now gets sick maybe once a year. I'm going to try it. |
Thanks. Mine is just twice a year, once in the fall and once in the spring right when the weather changes. Starts with sore throat and progresses to full blown head cold. Its a bummer.
Are you sure it's not some sort of allergy? I used to have the same problem until I saw an allergist who gave me about 50 scratch tests and other tests only to inform me that my very mild childhood asthma, which had disappeared, had come back and that while I am not 'allergic' to the pollen, mold, etc. flying around when the seasons change it does irritate me as it does those with true allergies. Not so oddly,these respiratory issues arose post 9/11 in the immediate aftermath of which my East Village neighborhood was noxiously fumy and a fine gritty dust drifted onto the sills and in the windows for weeks.
Feel better soon. And when you get home have my granny's cure: a shot of bourbon topped with boiling water and mixed with lemon juice and either honey or stem ginger in syrup.
Feel better soon. And when you get home have my granny's cure: a shot of bourbon topped with boiling water and mixed with lemon juice and either honey or stem ginger in syrup.
My left eustachean tube is so clogged that I can barely hear out of my left ear and my equilibrium is all screwed up. And I have to get on a plane in the morning. Ugh.
| QUOTE (omnivorette @ Oct 7 2004, 09:49 AM) |
| My left eustachean tube is so clogged that I can barely hear out of my left ear and my equilibrium is all screwed up. And I have to get on a plane in the morning. Ugh. |
Whoa! That plane thing can be a killer. Do you have some meds or something to drain your ear? Otherwise, major ache.
| QUOTE (Orik @ Oct 5 2004, 05:26 PM) |
| looking for an apartment. |
"Hi, I'm calling about your listing on the nytimes - a 1,400 sq. ft. triplex in the west village for $2000"
"Which listing is that?"
"Listing ID 276TQW-56"
"Oh, that's no longer available, but if you tell me what you're looking for I can find something else for you"
"How about Listing 5u7345?"
"Not available either"
"So why did you just list it 5 minutes ago?"
"Must be a mistake"
"Let's see then...Listing 389sfbe3445" (number I made up, just to see)
"Rented already. You have to understand these apartment rent real fast"
"But I just gave you a bogus id, how did you check it?"
"Ah...oh...my mistake, yes, it shows as not in the system".
Isn't it great that real estate brokerage is regulated?
| QUOTE (Daisy @ Oct 5 2004, 02:39 PM) |
| Are you sure it's not some sort of allergy? I used to have the same problem until I saw an allergist who gave me about 50 scratch tests and other tests only to inform me that my very mild childhood asthma, which had disappeared, had come back and that while I am not 'allergic' to the pollen, mold, etc. flying around when the seasons change it does irritate me as it does those with true allergies. Not so oddly,these respiratory issues arose post 9/11 in the immediate aftermath of which my East Village neighborhood was noxiously fumy and a fine gritty dust drifted onto the sills and in the windows for weeks. Feel better soon. And when you get home have my granny's cure: a shot of bourbon topped with boiling water and mixed with lemon juice and either honey or stem ginger in syrup. |
I've wondered about that myself. I should ask a doctor.
Also, either we have the same granny, or your granny stole that recipe from my granny.
Orik, perhaps you were playing the cheese shop game, where you are supposed to spend half an hour or so bickering before you get to:
"Do you in fact have any apartments to rent at all?"
"Er...No, sir, I was delibarately wasting your time."
"Do you in fact have any apartments to rent at all?"
"Er...No, sir, I was delibarately wasting your time."
| QUOTE (Cathy @ Oct 7 2004, 11:26 AM) |
| So sorry, Ron. A colleague who suffers from chronic sinusitis swears by nasal irrigation - he used to get stuffy once a month, and now gets sick maybe once a year. I'm going to try it. |
I've been meaning to try that. I have seasonal allergies plus when I get a cold the postnasal drip lingers for many days (like now).
| QUOTE (Cathy @ Oct 7 2004, 11:26 AM) |
| A colleague who suffers from chronic sinusitis swears by nasal irrigation - he used to get stuffy once a month, and now gets sick maybe once a year. I'm going to try it. |
I know theres an off-colored remark in here somewhere just begging to be made..........
It took me a year to fix a dripping tap.
| QUOTE (g.johnson @ Oct 7 2004, 04:02 PM) |
| It took me a year to fix a dripping tap. |
Have I got a toilet for you.
I am pissed!!! My business school dropped 10 rankings from #17 to #27 in the important Business Week magazine rankings. This sucks as it makes it harder for the school to attract both students and recruiters....
I hate the whole rankings idea in the first place but if applicants and recruiters buy into it, then the university must play the game....
My business school dropped 10 rankings from #17 to #27 in the important Business Week magazine rankings. This sucks as it makes it harder for the school to attract both students and recruiters....I hate the whole rankings idea in the first place but if applicants and recruiters buy into it, then the university must play the game....
| QUOTE (Aaron T @ Oct 7 2004, 04:25 PM) |
| I am pissed!!! My business school dropped 10 rankings from #17 to #27 in the important Business Week magazine rankings. This sucks as it makes it harder for the school to attract both students and recruiters.... I hate the whole rankings idea in the first place but if applicants and recruiters buy into it, then the university must play the game.... |
I didn't want to say anything, but talk around here is that your ranking has dropped precipitously. But hey, that's OK, we love you anyway.
AAAARGH - Columbus Day parade so loud I can't think. Deafening.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Oct 11 2004, 01:24 PM) |
| Columbus Day... |
Ah. That would explain the lack of mail today.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Oct 7 2004, 02:08 PM) |
| Orik, perhaps you were playing the cheese shop game, where you are supposed to spend half an hour or so bickering before you get to: "Do you in fact have any apartments to rent at all?" "Er...No, sir, I was delibarately wasting your time." |
Yes, I did get that impression at times.
On the brighter side, we did manage to find an amazingly nice place. I'll start a thread about the methods employed.
| QUOTE (Orik @ Oct 11 2004, 11:12 AM) | ||
Yes, I did get that impression at times. On the brighter side, we did manage to find an amazingly nice place. I'll start a thread about the methods employed. |
You were just toying with me about renting some rooms in Chez Zweig, weren't you?
Happily, I read this in a NYT piece on the latest tax bill: "But Hollywood will not go away empty-handed." Then, I read further and found the writer was talking about the studios. Damn. How do I get to be a special interest?
What the fuck is the point of everyone being quiet in the reading room when some officious functionary has been loudly lecturing some hapless novice at the issue desk five feet from me for the last thirty fucking minutes?
Well it's been doing a good job of feeding your energies for pointless argument
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Yes, but I was enjoying reading about the traumatic origins of violence and she stopped me concentrating. I want to smash her head in.
| QUOTE (Vanessa @ Oct 10 2004, 02:48 PM) |
| Well it's been doing a good job of feeding your energies for pointless argument v |
As a moderator, shouldn't you restrict your snide comments to private communication?
| QUOTE (LML @ Oct 10 2004, 05:38 PM) | ||
As a moderator, shouldn't you restrict your snide comments to private communication? |
Doesn't feel good to be part of a site where you can actually say that to a moderator and not be banned or threatened with litigation?
| QUOTE (Kikujiro @ Oct 12 2004, 11:44 AM) |
| What the fuck is the point of everyone being quiet in the reading room when some officious functionary has been loudly lecturing some hapless novice at the issue desk five feet from me for the last thirty fucking minutes? |
don't they know there's no fighting in the war room? I've never seen such behaviour.
Ron -- it was the moderators who were threatened with litigation by those who were horribly defamed through the public misstatement of the number of posts they had on eGullet. Criminy, I know most of my reputation and self-worth rests on public knowledge of my 3,000-plus eGullet posts. I believe it was a contingent fee.
| QUOTE (Stone @ Oct 10 2004, 05:55 PM) |
| Ron -- it was the moderators who were threatened with litigation by those who were horribly defamed through the public misstatement of the number of posts they had on eGullet. Criminy, I know most of my reputation and self-worth rests on public knowledge of my 3,000-plus eGullet posts. I believe it was a contingent fee. |
This could be my new niche!! The tort of Intentional Misstatement of Number of Posts. I believe its found at Restatement of Torts (Second) Section 224(b). I smell treble damages . . .
I wonder if they will let me advertise on those other food forums?
| QUOTE (Stone @ Oct 12 2004, 12:55 PM) | ||
don't they know there's no fighting in the war room? I've never seen such behaviour. Ron -- it was the moderators who were threatened with litigation by those who were horribly defamed through the public misstatement of the number of posts they had on eGullet. Criminy, I know most of my reputation and self-worth rests on public knowledge of my 3,000-plus eGullet posts. I believe it was a contingent fee. |
Never underestimate the wrath of the content providers.
trying to switch gas supplier. We inputted the new code into our metre last night and just as I was about to cook dinner realised that the gas had in fact been cut off. no oven, no hot water, no heating. we called London Electricity at 7.30pm and an engineer finally knocked on our door at 2.15am this morning.
Access to penguin-bashing denied at work
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Penguin bashers annoy me. Penguins are your friends!
It's safe, sane and consensual penguin bashing. The penguin clearly says 'okay' as he dives toward the club.
I have just been informed that my office is to be moved one flight down "early next week". The COO has airily advised me not to worry because I will have "full support" from IT and staff. Right. There goes my weekend.
Where shall I begin? The incredible fight I had at my bank today that ended with my telling some officious asshole that this, after 14 years, was the last straw and that I would be switching my accounts tomorrow, the judge who kept me and two other lawyers on a conference call for 30 minutes for no good reason, the appellate panel that clearly thought a judge was right to reverse the delicious verdict a jury handed me 18 months ago, or the motion for summary judgment I have been served with that I don't seem to have a prayer of winning?
| QUOTE (Ranitidine) |
| Where shall I begin? The incredible fight I had at my bank today that ended with my telling some officious asshole that this, after 14 years, was the last straw and that I would be switching my accounts tomorrow, the judge who kept me and two other lawyers on a conference call for 30 minutes for no good reason, the appellate panel that clearly thought a judge was right to reverse the delicious verdict a jury handed me 18 months ago, or the motion for summary judgment I have been served with that I don't seem to have a prayer of winning? |
That wouldn't be Chase, would it?
Sorry you're having such a sucky time, R.
| QUOTE (Cathy @ Oct 13 2004, 08:27 PM) |
| That wouldn't be Chase, would it? |
Bingo!
Mortgage, mayhaps?
No simply cashing a check I had made out to a client, representing part of his settlement money.
| QUOTE (ranitidine @ Oct 13 2004, 08:24 PM) |
| Where shall I begin? The incredible fight I had at my bank today that ended with my telling some officious asshole that this, after 14 years, was the last straw and that I would be switching my accounts tomorrow. |
I had a fight (well, more like a hissy fit) with my dermatologist's receptionists. After regularly waiting 30 minutes for each appointment, I got so fed up yesterday with being there for 45 minutes and not getting called that I told them to forget the appointment and that I wasn't coming back. It was a minor thing and frankly there are plenty of other derms out there.
I am so unfuckingbelievably busy I have no time to read or post, more or less, and I'm frustrated and I'm feeling deprived.
I'm so behind in my reports of recent meals:
Beppe (disappointing - only one dish was good out of many - we were 5 people - and the service was abominable)
San Domenico (gala re-openening, they flew in a chef from some famous restaurant in Palermo - fell in love with a Chardonnay from a producer called Planeta)
recent Hearth (last night with Steven Dilley - the kitchen is in top form)
Frasca (in Boulder, CO)
Savoy (good, not very good, but I like that place)
Fiamma (one of my favorite places for biz lunches lately - excellent pastas and good service)
Not to mention some good cooking in CO: bolognese, arroz con pollo...
I'm so behind in my reports of recent meals:
Beppe (disappointing - only one dish was good out of many - we were 5 people - and the service was abominable)
San Domenico (gala re-openening, they flew in a chef from some famous restaurant in Palermo - fell in love with a Chardonnay from a producer called Planeta)
recent Hearth (last night with Steven Dilley - the kitchen is in top form)
Frasca (in Boulder, CO)
Savoy (good, not very good, but I like that place)
Fiamma (one of my favorite places for biz lunches lately - excellent pastas and good service)
Not to mention some good cooking in CO: bolognese, arroz con pollo...
Eek, what have they done to San Domenico? 
They apparently re-did the whole place. I hadn't been in years, so I couldn't quite remember how it was.
It wasn't their regular menu, and it was a Slow Foods co-sponsored event, so I didn't get a sense of what their kitchen is like - the staff of this restaurant in Palermo was in control of the kitchen. (resisting politically incorrect joke)
It wasn't their regular menu, and it was a Slow Foods co-sponsored event, so I didn't get a sense of what their kitchen is like - the staff of this restaurant in Palermo was in control of the kitchen. (resisting politically incorrect joke)
Cluster flies. 
Laundry
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