Teter you devil.
Smirnov?
Apparently not close enough,.... ;P
Schtroumpf?
EDIT: Guess not ...
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Sounds like a good game, though I'm surprised neither Australia or South Africa were in the final. Of course, I haven't watched much rugby for about 10 years, so the balance of power might have shifted a bit. Who won?
Speaking of sports, the college basketball tournament's upon us Stateside. I won the office pool last year, but with a couple of upsets this year, my predictions look a bit off. Blah!
To Scotland?!? PERK! :)
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Travel with work is not that much fun - as Wolfy says it the excitement palls quite quickly. But some people love it - including my boss, so we are hauled off to an "off-site" event in Stirling (nice town, by the way, from what I have seen) to pointlessly chin-wag. Beats working for a living, I guess.
I'm lucky we go nice places when we do go places - Hong Kong, Singapore, Chicago - but I react badly to jetlag. And I'm not terribly gregarious so the party-party aspect down-route also doesn't do it for me. All I really need is a chat with colleagues during the working day and to go home and see my nearest and dearest. But I'm lucky - the job pays well, seems reasonably secure in the short term and I don't really work very hard. I also travel much less than many others.
Wow,...
Where can I sign up Aubrey!?! ;)
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:-) Have to do all the exams first. And I'm doubly lucky that my bosses don't understand what I do, so they leave me alone and assume I'm some sort of genius.
But the travel stuff is a double-edged sword. You can be in nice places (like I go) or you can be doing jobs in Argentina where you have to flee the country in fear of your life because you have found a fraud that local management were up their eyeball in (like a friend of mine did - they were followed down the road by cars with tinted windows, had to play cat-and-mouse across Buenos Aires, and only relaxed when the plane back to London finally took off). It's not all that great.
But more generally, you are not there to have a good time but to work - you see offices and you see hotels, and not that much in between. Travel is tiring, even if you are just hanging round airports. I got to do a secondment in Hong Kong for a few months so got more of a feel for the place, but I was out there alone because my wife had work commitments so that basically sucked, on balance, too.
Wow. At least your not bored! (dodging terrorists in Argentina might be a bit more than my constitution can handle though!)
What, Exactly, is it that you do Aubrey? If you don't mind me asking?
Do you get medical?
Gross Pointe Blank
I don't want to join your dirty little guild!
And your name is ..?
Malformed. Aubrey the Malformed ...
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They'd send him to that island where the big blumonge(sp?) balls chase him on the beach.
I believe you mean blancmange?
Don't make me start the marzipan thread up again.And, yes, Portmerion is still there, on the western coast of Wales.
It's not a purpose-built set, it's a real place, built by a nutter, or an 'eccentric', as we British call them.
,... and if your NOT rich, your just a crazy ass,...
Experiencing ramp up of RL, will get on when I can. Stay tuned.
Yeah, that RL seems to be contagious.
Don't they have a vaccine for that yet?!?
Yeah, that RL seems to be contagious.
Don't they have a vaccine for that yet?!?
Lottery tickets?
Anybody heard from Kruelaid, or have his email or anything? Just worried, on account of his recent accidental poisoning incident.
Yah, and now everything is poison. WTF?
Have fun!