Looks like another wet Bank Holiday folks! Anyone got any exciting plans for the weekend? (:o)

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Answers

I'd like to apologise in advance for gloating but I'm not going to...

I'm gonna spend the whole weekend sitting outside bars in the sunshine...maybe do some clothes shopping and then get ratted and insult the locals in the evenings....

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

No bank holiday here...well not official. I've got an extended holiday since today's my last day at the job from hell(YAY!!!) and I don't have another one lined up yet.

Celebrations begin with listening to Al reach 300 career goals tomorrow. Followed by an afternoon/evening with the Revs - freezing to death and praying that it DOESN'T rain again. The predicted noreaster has been downgraded to "showers". Multiple layers and rain jack at the ready....

On Sunday I'm going to watch Leeds v Weds(rooting for Weds), then I'm going to read the Sunday paper. Yes, read...not skim...not toss to the side until it's time to take the trash out the following week. Read. It's been years since I've been able to do that. :-)

After that..I dunno. I suppose start looking for another job. ;-)

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Gloating hey Gav?

It's the start of the Golden Week holidays which means that their are 4 national holidays in a week and my place is closed for 9 days.

So I'm on the ferry tomorrow night from Tokyo to a very small island (3.8km2) where I will spend the next few days on the beach (It's 24 degrees), in the hot springs, in the sea and never more than 2 metres away from my beer. I could go on and start talking about the emerald green waters surrounding the island but I don't want to boast :-)))))

In response to a posting on another thread. I think I've found my happy place!

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Here in `sunny` (not) Bournemouth, Pete and I tend not to make plans - not much fun sitting in queue`s of traffic, though a poor weather forecast tends to thin it out a bit. I really wanted to attack the garden again - but at the moment, it`s too wet even to walk on.

Anybody heard how ITK`s weekend in Whitley went?!

Ciara - what line of work are you (were you!) in? You seem pretty unfazed about being unemployed! (:o)

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Nice one Kegsy ;)

Interesting point Galaxy....ITK has been very very quiet since his trip to Whitley Bay which is very unlike him!! I can't wait to find out what the horny old goat has been up to ;))

Isn't Grant back next week? surely he's had his 3 weeks in the sun now!! Wonder if he'll come back a married man :))

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Kegsy that's sounds very nice, my envy is short lived when I remind myself of a friend who did a similar trip whilst working for Nissan and spoke of MASSIVE creepy bugs. I should never have read that book about man-eating cockroaches *phwruagghhh*

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Maybe he`s still thawing out! Have to admit, the idea of a caravan in Whitley Bay in April - definately not my idea of fun! (:o)

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Galaxy - I was working in a Network analysis group...basically a grunt collecting tons of boring data and never getting to really move beyond that stage because the work kept increasing while they've been incapable of hiring more staff to keep up. Adding to the fun is a tyrannical co-worker recently named manager. I'm just the latest to join the exodus of burn-outs and fed-ups. The staff keeps shrinking..and still no new hires. Oh well. I've done my 6mos of martyrdom.

I've been trying to kick start my web production career and will now be concentrating full time on getting paying work in that area. I've got a prospect within this same company...and ironically could end up back in my same office..or in another office along the same hallway if it comes through. It would be really be flipping the bird at the Tyrant if I did wind up back here in a few weeks...doing the very thing he was trying to prevent me from doing. >;-)

Money is a concern, but sanity is my priority. There are plenty of jobs around to bring in cash. :-)

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Galaxy, depends upon what you're getting up to in the caravan honey ;))

Ciara, Good luck with the newspaper reading :))

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Tony,

Yeah there are some big hairy millipedes that give a nasty bite and there are bees the size of your thumb. But that's nothing, I once had a spider the size of my fist, and I kid you not, that crawled over my arm! And that was in my apartment!

It's the ferry that woories me, me and boats go together like a couple of things that don't go together very well!

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Right there's another place on the list for me NOT to visit....I'm scared shitless of spiders!!!

Go on....laugh if you will but even the small british ones send me into a spider killing frenzy...they have to die cos I can't bear the thought of them escaping my sight and climbing on me...

I've already sworn I'd never visit Australia for that reason alone!!

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

No bank holiday here either Galaxy but it is wet. Had the first real rain since Jan today and tonight it's bloody freezing. Got no wood for the fire yet as I didn't expect this cold snap so early.

Wifes out on nightshift, jam eater is in bed so it's a re-run of the famous 5-0 and a cup of milo for me.

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Kegsy...you working for the Japanese tourism authority? ;-) Remind me not to go there, ok?

Gav...Australia was ok...I didn't see any creepy crawlies during my visits. Just kangaroos, wallabies and dingoes. And a shark. :-)

St Martin is another place to be wary of however...or at least dark areas at night. Millions of big, ugly roaches in the restroom of a public plaza. Those suckers beat out the waterbugs of NYC for big and ugly. *shudder*

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

I will be watching S.Weds on Sunday. I like Ciara will be hoping Wednesday win. I managed to get a free ticket. So in answer to the original question, No, I Have not got any exciting plans for the weekend.

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

You big bunch of wimps
And I haven't even talked about the snakes yet
Which reminds me Fiji, sea snakes and snorkelling, no, don't think I should go there.

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Kegsy,

Call me what you will...I ain't going near a spider or a snake...for no-one!!!

Sigh....I guess I'd better own up since I've been gloating....somehow, the clear sky's have disappeared and it's clouded over!! I can't believe it!! it's still lovely and warm but is no longer sunny....I'm gutted :((

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Hmm?! Spiders! Snakes! Man eating millipedes! Maybe I`m not so badly off - a bit of extra traffic somehow pales into insignificance! And just when I was thinking that I wouldn`t mind visiting Oz too!

Good luck with the job hunting then Ciara - it would be good fun thumbing your nose at the `tyrant`! (:o)

Gav - I believe ITK was accompanied by wife, children and dog - kinda limits the possibilities in a small gale-swept caravan! (:o)

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Galaxy,

Different minds I think......I see endless possibilities with that scenario....shame it's his wife though...I'm fairly certain that Ken is on the same level as me though (way below gutter!)

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Hah! I sneer at your roaches and waterbugs. Ask Bud about the 'Parktown Prawns' in Jo'burg, those things have to have been engineered by the CIA. We blow torched one of the evil b*stards until its legs were glowing red hot. It just sat there, pinging as it cooled down and then started trundling about again.

Big, smelly, covered in spikes and horns, clawed feet that cut you when they crawled into your bed, a chirp like a cross between a cricket and a werewolf and absolutely unstoppable. I clattered one with a cricket bat and quite lterally burst its abdomen, white and green ichor all over the place, and it kept going - wouldn't surprise me if it grew another one.

I felt so safe going back to Cape Town with the infinitely more friendly button spiders, Cobras, Scorpions and Baboon Spiders. Baboon Spiders weren't dangerous, just scary. They'd crawl into your house for shelter when it rained. Big as your hand, black and hairy, and they'd creep across the ceiling as though it were the roof of a cave. Problem is, ceilings were smooth, so they would just drop off. You knew all about terror in a thunderstorm when you heard a 'plop' in the room or, in a moment I'll never forget, felt one of the b*ggers drop on your feet - Linford Christie eat your heart out, I was down the bottom of the garden before you could say 'incontinent'. Happy days...sort of.

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

My list is getting bigger!!

Soon I won't be able to leave my hermetically sealed front door!!

Ah ha I hear you say....the answer to all the worlds problems ;))

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

AAAGGHHHH!!! I guess I can rule a return trip to Joburg out now too. Sounds like I was lucky the 4 days I spent there. Didn't see any of those creatures. ew ew ew ew!

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

Thank you for the foregoing.

I once called Rentokil cos there were 4 wasps in the house (thereafter they became known as the four wasps of the apocalypse) so you will imagine how I enjoyed Softie's piece in particular.

-- Anonymous, April 28, 2000

No killer spiders, nor killer bees nor even any scary millipedes. Just one snake (cool), many lizards and An ubelievable amount of booze. 5 of us had a bottle of vodka and a bottle of rum this afternnon on the ferry and then played football.

Oh yes, how to impress the Japanese in one move (not)

Oh yes, the weather was absolutely fantastic, hope you all had a good bank holiday.

-- Anonymous, May 03, 2000

Gav - you got no probs with Spiders in the cities of OZ, just the country, mind you, the cockroaches.....the very first morning I had arrived in Sydney I pulled on my strides (in the venacular)and for a while after the fisrt slurp of tea it dawned on me that I had a cockroach caught in the leg of my jeans.....eeehhhheheheheehehheeeeh, jeans off and the little b*gger ran off. After two years of this sort of stuff I said hello to them in the end as they skuttled about.

I'll get to say hello to them again in the Autumn, unless the chemical warfare is beginning to work.

-- Anonymous, May 03, 2000