[Basildog]

Kikujiro, on Aug 21 2004, 10:41 AM, said:

Aquatic Creations, 75 St Helens Gardens, London W10 6LL and the flakey bastard that runs the place.

why?

[Vanessa]

Kikujiro, on Aug 21 2004, 10:02 AM, said:

I suppose 'she didn't have Flash installed on either machine' isn't the answer?

Just had confirmation that this isn't the answer and in any case her computer at work should, in principle, have the same set-up as the rest (although knowing our IT department....)

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[Vanessa]

Making a pate sucree I break an egg directly into the mixture in my usual sloppy way and it's rotten so I have to start all over again

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[Ms J]

ARG, rotten eggs.

Today I went on a vast decent-butcher finding/shopping mission, only to return home and discover that I'd locked myself out. I had to leave the meat with a neighbour while I went in search of my fellow householder.

[Kikujiro]

Basildog, on Aug 21 2004, 11:05 AM, said:

Kikujiro, on Aug 21 2004, 10:41 AM, said:

Aquatic Creations, 75 St Helens Gardens, London W10 6LL and the flakey bastard that runs the place.

why?

OK. Am housesitting for colleague. Began doing so 2.5 weeks ago. Colleague's little girl has goldfish. Colleague left note that tank needed cleaning and local fish shop guy would call in a day or so for this purpose. He didn't.

I tried calling the shop a few times but never got a human response, so I walked over there. Saw guy going in, but by the time I got there the door was closed and nobody answered the knock or my calls from my mobile. Still, I waited until he came out and got in by first buying some fish food. Then I told him who I was. He clearly remembered the plan and took my mobile number, promising to call in a day or so to fix a time to come over. He didn't. (This was around 8/9 August.)

I waited a week for him to call. Then I phoned him and left a message, reminding him. Then I waited another 3 days and left another message. Then I went over again (I'd passed the shop a couple of times; it seems to be closed more often than open) and found him. He addressed me by name. I got that message you left yesterday, he said (ignoring our previous meeting and my other messages). When can you come over, I said? He said the next morning, around 10. This was a Saturday, and not really what I had planned, but I said fine.

He took my mobile number again. I asked for his: he gave me the shop number and claimed it diverted to his mobile. Funny, I said, I've only ever got the answerphone. Well, he said, I can hardly answer if I've got my arm in a tank, can I? That's why you didn't get my messages (sic -- if anyone can follow the logic of that please let me know).

Saturday: got up, waited. 10am passed. 11am passed. Midday arrived. I went out.

He never came round, or phoned.

Walking to lunch today I saw him standing outside his shop eating an icecream. If I hadn't had nice plans for the day I would have been sorely tempted to smash it down his throat. But he is quite a bit bigger than me.

Fish tank is smelling. If they die they are going through his fucking letterbox.

[ampletuna]

Kikujiro, on Aug 22 2004, 10:21 PM, said:

If I hadn't had nice plans for the day I would have been sorely tempted to smash it down his throat.

can't you just stick the fish in the bath whilst you rinse out the tank with some bleach?

[Kikujiro]

I don't know, can I?

Never had fish (other than plated)

[Ms J]

I wish I could help, but I know nothing about fish outside catching/eating them. Isn't there some sort of strange alchemy to caring for fish? Not putting tap water into the tank, etc?

[ampletuna]

joke, Kiku, joke! please don't kill the poor little fish. can't you get another fish man to do the job?

[Kikujiro]

Printing a long document on two sides using my consumer laserjet. Now, I consider myself a reasonably bright guy, but this is melting my brain, and combined with the fairly crappy printer and annoying software glitches, it's becoming impossible

General idea: print all even pages forward, then turn over, put back in paper tray, and print all odd pages backward so you end up with double-sided document and p1 at top.

Problems have included:

• Crappy printer and not-great paper ends up with slight curving post-print, which then screws up paper feed on going through again, which then causes pages to get out of sync;
  
  
• Have managed to print on the same side twice (own idiocy);
  
  
• Both application and printer driver allow you to specify 'odd pages only'. If you accidentally set this in both you end up with every other odd page, again fucking up sync;
  
  
• Specifying, say, page range '2 to 30' as well as 'even pages only' screws system, as p2 becomes first page, hence you get odd pages after all;
  
  
• etc etc etc

[Kikujiro]

PS considering putting fish through printer, thereby ending all my problems in one.

[Vanessa]

Hey for once, something computer-related I can do that Kiku can't

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[Kikujiro]

Vanessa, on Aug 23 2004, 11:47 AM, said:

Hey for once, something computer-related I can do that Kiku can't

Have now done it, but originally environmentally-concerned impulse behind decision to print on two sides rendered null and void by waste.

[fantasty]

College friend with limp taste buds has decided we'll eat at Sea tonight - a place where my husband described the food as "loathsome farang pabulum". There's no gracious way out of it. This is my only triathlon training-free night this week. It's always annoying to not be able to negotiate for a better dining option, moreso when it's my only night out. Grrr.

Also annoying: buying cheese at Murray's in GCT with heavily armed soldiers (U.S. Army) poking about.

[Rose]

I fear that Washington, CT is becoming the next Easthampton sans Mer.