MORE random stuff about your day

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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby Dr Markus » 25 Oct 2017, 14:23

There's always one day when you genuinely couldn't be arsed to work. You might say it everyday but just one day you actually mean it. Well today is that day. The problem is so does the rest of member on my team. Gonna be a long day.
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby Minnie the Minx » 25 Oct 2017, 14:31

Nick wrote:It's our third wedding anniversary.

I started the day's celebrations by going for an MRI scan. I now know where the Aphex Twin finds his musical inspiration.


Congrats!!!!
is that what your recent trip was for?
You come at the Queen, you best not miss.

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Someone in your line of work usually as their own man cave aka the shed we're they can potter around fixing stuff or something don't they?


Flower wrote:I just did a google search.

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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby Insouciant Western People » 25 Oct 2017, 14:36

A comedian called Samantha bee wrote:
Nick wrote:It's our third wedding anniversary.

I started the day's celebrations by going for an MRI scan. I now know where the Aphex Twin finds his musical inspiration.


Congrats!!!!

is that what your recent trip was for?


Thank you!!

Yes, we had the long weekend in Munich to celebrate it, and we're going out for dinner this evening too, first to Altrincham Market House, and then to a nice little Belgian bar called Mort Subite.

We've got a short break in Athens coming up too, I'm working there for a bit next month, and CatnHat is coming along for a few days, which should be lovely.
Jeff K wrote:Nick's still the man! No one has been as consistent as he has been over such a long period of time.

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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby Minnie the Minx » 25 Oct 2017, 14:37

Ooooooooh!
Get you!
You come at the Queen, you best not miss.

Dr Markus wrote:
Someone in your line of work usually as their own man cave aka the shed we're they can potter around fixing stuff or something don't they?


Flower wrote:I just did a google search.

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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby Insouciant Western People » 25 Oct 2017, 14:37

Toby wrote:Congrats Nick.


Cheers! Marrying CatnHat is the smartest thing I ever did :D
Jeff K wrote:Nick's still the man! No one has been as consistent as he has been over such a long period of time.

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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby Insouciant Western People » 25 Oct 2017, 14:39

A comedian called Samantha bee wrote:Ooooooooh!
Get you!


:lol: I know!!

It's the time of year when work travel goes a bit mad - I'm in the Gulf all next week, first Abu Dhabi and then Bahrain. Back for a few days, then off again to Greece and Cyprus.
Jeff K wrote:Nick's still the man! No one has been as consistent as he has been over such a long period of time.

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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby Belle Lettre » 25 Oct 2017, 14:41

Happy Anniversary, Nick and Cat. Just don't drink any Mort Subite!
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby harvey k-tel » 25 Oct 2017, 14:42

Happy Anniversary!
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby Insouciant Western People » 25 Oct 2017, 15:14

Belle Lettre wrote:Just don't drink any Mort Subite!


The name might well be a reference to the strong beer and absinthe they serve. Lethal stuff.

The bar's actually in what used to be the Altrincham mortuary. It has a nice decadent ambience to it, like something out of la belle epoque. Lots of heavy red and black drapes and curtains.

A bit like the black lodge, with beer.
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby Belle Lettre » 25 Oct 2017, 15:15

And you probably will end up talking backwards.
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby sloopjohnc » 25 Oct 2017, 21:41

Saw this on twitter today and made me think of Markus.

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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby kath » 26 Oct 2017, 00:12

happy anniversary, nick and catnhat!

and that pic of yer daughters is fantastic, fanjjje.

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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby sloopjohnc » 26 Oct 2017, 00:29

Home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area. And you wonder why I bought in Oregon. . .

I live in Alameda Co. and grew up in San Mateo Co.

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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby Dr Markus » 26 Oct 2017, 13:46

sloopjohnc wrote:Home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area. And you wonder why I bought in Oregon. . .




...but they only probably went higher once you left.
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby sloopjohnc » 26 Oct 2017, 14:12

The Great Defector wrote:
sloopjohnc wrote:Home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area. And you wonder why I bought in Oregon. . .




...but they only probably went higher once you left.


I'm still there, Dumbseldorf.
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby Dr Markus » 26 Oct 2017, 14:18

sloopjohnc wrote:
The Great Defector wrote:
sloopjohnc wrote:Home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area. And you wonder why I bought in Oregon. . .




...but they only probably went higher once you left.


I'm still there, Dumbseldorf.



Early bird catches the worm etc etc.
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby Samoan » 26 Oct 2017, 14:40

sloopjohnc wrote:Home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area. And you wonder why I bought in Oregon. . .

I live in Alameda Co. and grew up in San Mateo Co.

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If I told you the current prices of houses in the specific neighbourhood where I grew up (and where Mum and Dad lived till 1996), you'd faint.
Nonsense to the aggressiveness, I've seen more aggression on the my little pony message board......I mean I was told.

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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby harvey k-tel » 26 Oct 2017, 14:44

What does $1,180,000 get you in Santa Clara? A burned-out shell?
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby sloopjohnc » 26 Oct 2017, 16:55

Samoan wrote:
sloopjohnc wrote:Home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area. And you wonder why I bought in Oregon. . .

I live in Alameda Co. and grew up in San Mateo Co.

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If I told you the current prices of houses in the specific neighbourhood where I grew up (and where Mum and Dad lived till 1996), you'd faint.


The thing is, except for some affluent enclaves, the Peninsula or San Mateo County was where firefighters, cops, blue collar/skilled trade employees and folks who worked in Aerospace or nascent Silicon Valley with families had modest houses. Sure, there was Hillsborough and Atherton, two of the most affluent communities in the US here, but by and large, it was working class. My mom and dad went a year to community college before getting jobs. One person in my family had ever gone to college before us kids came.
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Re: MORE random stuff about your day

Postby sloopjohnc » 26 Oct 2017, 16:56

Harvey K-Tel wrote:What does $1,180,000 get you in Santa Clara? A burned-out shell?


More like a two bedroom condo.
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