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#11611 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 21 January 2015 - 09:45 PM

Good to hear, SS!

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#11612 TheRetiredBridgeburner

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Posted 22 January 2015 - 07:05 AM

Solidsnape, on 21 January 2015 - 05:18 PM, said:

The little fella is back home and in a much better fettle.
Just in time for me to go to see Tommy Emmanuel tonight.

For anyone who's confused, he's not a metal band.

Good to hear!

MMHT: Well alright, it was yesterday. I'm getting a promotion!

The junior solicitor at work left last week, and my boss grabbed me yesterday and said that (on the basis I go away and research courses, fees etc and have a think about it), if I wanted to take my exams to be a full paralegal then they'd support me through it and basically put me in her role. Apparently there was a meeting of the partners to discuss recruitment and several of them said straight away "Why not ask Hannah if she wants to train up?"

Happily, it comes with the proviso that I don't start the new role/training for a couple of months to let me get totally back on my feet post-surgery. I'm back working full-time but by no means 100% yet, so that's a bit of a relief.

I've only been there four months. I'm in total shock! Posted Image

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#11613 Maark Abbott

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Posted 22 January 2015 - 08:36 AM

See, I'd love to train up but (as you will possibly remember) the company I work for seems a bit stingy about such things.

At least the current role is going better than the old one I was in.

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#11614 pathos

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Posted 22 January 2015 - 09:06 AM

Booked our hostel for our first three nights in Sydney for the world cup

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#11615 Tsundoku

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Posted 22 January 2015 - 12:25 PM

2 absolute cracker goals from Tim Cahill puts us into the semifinal of the Asian Cup.

"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes

"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys

"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker

#11616 Messremb

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Posted 22 January 2015 - 04:11 PM

The whole loft is insulated and boarded, meaning we can move boxes of stuff that have been cluttering the rest of the house since we moved in out of the way. My DIY skills are clearly growing.

"see that stranger's arm crushing the life from him - do you understand? Not an eternal prison for Messremb"

#11617 Nicodimas

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Posted 23 January 2015 - 06:07 AM

In a week I will be at the Phoenix Open...

a) Tiger will be there!!!

Superbowl is in town!

200k-250k People are expected to be there on sat alone. One big party...

Hard to explain..just how much fun it is.

http://www.nytimes.c...party.html?_r=0

-If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

#11618 Maark Abbott

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Posted 23 January 2015 - 12:37 PM

See the fitness/weightlifting thread. HOORGH.

Also, day off today so doing some writing now, then settling down with The Witcher for the rest of the day.

And because I did so well in the gym, treating myself to a bottle of DBC Chesil pilsner.

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#11619 Solidsnape

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From good 'ol Newcastle upon Tyne.

Posted 23 January 2015 - 02:02 PM

Just been scouting Gluten Free eateries in Amsterdam ready for my trip to Nederland in 3 weeks time!!!

Pleasantly surprised by all the options.
Looking forward to it even more now.

"If you seek the crumpled bones of the T'lan Imass,
gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
The Holy Desert
- Anonymous.

#11620 Maark Abbott

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Posted 23 January 2015 - 05:03 PM

I only enjoy Heavy Corvettes, and that because they're durable enough not to get killed off by Taiidan frigates.

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#11621 Solidsnape

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Posted 23 January 2015 - 06:50 PM

Briar King, on 23 January 2015 - 04:41 PM, said:

Solidsnape, on 23 January 2015 - 02:02 PM, said:

Just been scouting Gluten Free eateries in Amsterdam ready for my trip to Nederland in 3 weeks time!!!

Pleasantly surprised by all the options.
Looking forward to it even more now.

Some of my Corvette friends live there. They come here stateside for about 3 mths every other yr but they also try to talk me into going there during winter cause they know I love snow and never get it it here.

I used to live there myself, and it does get bloody cold.
Only 3 weeks to go. Can't wait.

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gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
The Holy Desert
- Anonymous.

#11622 Illuyankas

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Posted 23 January 2015 - 08:03 PM

Salvage Corvettes or bust, suckers

Why yes I have 120 Ion Frigates, why do you ask

Hello, soldiers, look at your mage, now back to me, now back at your mage, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped being an unascended mortal and switched to Sole Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a warren with the High Mage your cadre mage could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an acorn with two gates to that realm you love. Look again, the acorn is now otataral. Anything is possible when your mage smells like Sole Spice and not a Bole brother. I’m on a quorl.

#11623 Maark Abbott

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Posted 24 January 2015 - 01:28 PM

Being on my current department at work is suddenly a LOT more appealing - the one I transferred from have just increased everyone's hours, under the guise that "it's not mandatory, it's overtime, but if no one volunteers people will be made to do it" (aka it's actually mandated). Elongated shifts? Fuck that. If they tried to make me work the hours that have been signed in I'd tell 'em to fuck right off.

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#11624 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 24 January 2015 - 05:38 PM

Good day for the FA Cup today!

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#11625 Illuyankas

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Posted 24 January 2015 - 05:39 PM

Guild Wars 2 is getting an expansion! And it looks awesome! And it has guild halls and GvG and Mursaat! This will only make sense if you played GW1 but rest assured it is very good.

#11626 Silencer

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Posted 25 January 2015 - 01:28 AM

Illuyankas, on 24 January 2015 - 05:39 PM, said:

Guild Wars 2 is getting an expansion! And it looks awesome! And it has guild halls and GvG and Mursaat! This will only make sense if you played GW1 but rest assured it is very good.

Yeah, even I'm pretty interested and I barely played GW2 much because of an intensely annoying router disconnection issue...

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#11627 Andorion

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Posted 29 January 2015 - 02:23 AM

Cajun King, on 29 January 2015 - 12:24 AM, said:

Venus. It is bright as hell and beautiful atm.

Do you live outside/far away from a big city? I ask because you seem really interested in astronomical phenomena and I would have thought most of it would have been dim/invisible due to light pollution. I live in the middle of a metropolis and I can hardly see anything at all.

#11628 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 29 January 2015 - 06:44 AM

Man its always cloudy & raining here in good old NW England. Rarely see cool stars & stuff.

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#11629 Andorion

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Posted 29 January 2015 - 11:01 AM

Cajun King, on 29 January 2015 - 07:29 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 29 January 2015 - 06:44 AM, said:

Man its always cloudy & raining here in good old NW England. Rarely see cool stars & stuff.

I'd go batshit crazy if I couldn't see them. As I type this im looking up at Jupiter, Sirius, Orion, and the Orange super giant Arcturus(which basically looks like Mars). I love it.

OK now I am officially jealous. I am lucky if I can see anything more than 3-4 stars.

#11630 TheRetiredBridgeburner

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Posted 29 January 2015 - 11:23 AM

Cajun King, on 29 January 2015 - 07:29 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 29 January 2015 - 06:44 AM, said:

Man its always cloudy & raining here in good old NW England. Rarely see cool stars & stuff.

I'd go batshit crazy if I couldn't see them. As I type this im looking up at Jupiter, Sirius, Orion, and the Orange super giant Arcturus(which basically looks like Mars). I love it.

Jealous! Although now we're in a little country village with little light pollution I'm hoping to get out spotting once it warms up!

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