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I have only ever looked at poutine.

I would like poutine (I am Onimoed, this might colour my judgement as to what I would find edible and nice).

Poutine does sit in your stomach like a rock, but this is not necessarily always a bad thing. Sometimes you like to feel comfortably full of stuff you're fairly sure won't come back up (because it is too super-dense to be regurgitated).

Welcome back, Kev-lol.

I am not back yet! Thanks though.

I will make do with cornflakes :(

Oh yeah, I forgot. Still, at least the strike has been called off, so you don't have to sit in a yellow Fisher Price plane and have ads played at you loudly all the way home. That's something.

I've never had proper poutine wot with the cheese curds and everything, HOWEVER, I have requested the kitchen in the Head of Steam (as was) to give us CHIPS CHEESE AND GRAVY. They took a very long time to decide whether they could do this! Eventually they did, and we were very happy.

I believe 'poutine' should be pronounced 'poutsine'?

They have poutine in the MAPLE LEAF pub, but I hear they don't use cheese curds either so what's the point?!

(Chips and gravy being the foodstuff of the g0ds obv)

yes.

Unfortunately accentmonkey I cancelled my ticket yesterday morning! Well at least I get the refund and work covered my flight back (I am soooo important. Or they're understaffed, either or basically). It's Easyjet to Gatwick then Ryanair home. I'll wave to you from the plane, of course.

I was in Head of Steam with Stevem and 4l1x once I think. Is it in King's cross? V depressing place full of aged alcos and mean barmen? (Note: Stevem and 4l1x were heroes to meet us there, they were just in from Manchester where he had been fannying about djing).

Chips and ketchup with tabaco, bits of onion and mayo is better imho. The other sounds a little too dense & salty, if such a thing is possible

Head of Steam is just outside Euston station. I watched some rugby in there with Carsmile Steve and Ptee once.

Ah, quick google shows me that that is not the place. Right. Must finish packing for trip back. Chat tomorrow when I'll be *groan* back at desk. So need to find a job in France!

I know, I was watching Phil and Kirsty the other night (I know, I know, but they're so flirty!) and they showed this couple a house in a small town in France and it was insanely gorgeous and €40,000. Sometimes I wish Mister M was a tax adviser or someone who could work from home, and then we could hide away in France.

You could all visit us. At that price, we could buy two houses, and our guests could stay in one.

I keep coming across old repeats of Phil and Kirstie when flicking through millions of tv channels, and seeing old eps when the houses were affordable then realising that was about six years ago and same lovely house would now cost about a squillion times more.

My current house-buying favourites are Rocco and Dawn on Costa Chaos, the most deluded couple in the world. There was a Costa Chaos catch-up marathon on More 4 on Sunday, and I sat howling like a madwoman at them. Please someone else tell me they've seen this, i don't think it's worth a thread on its own.

I haven't seen it. Mister M bans any program where people poke around other people's houses (except House M.D.), and he is here at the weekend.

(o-no, i reallyreally believe that i actually did have two things)

I always thought Poutine was New Orleans dish. But the discussion of cheese curds makes me realize I was mistaken.

I have completed a deadline, with 30 minutes to spare, that I worked on all last night.

I'd love a latte as reward but everything on campus is still closed. :(

30 minutes to spare is plenty (by my piss poor standards)!

Well my client needed mockups to present at a meeting at ten. I was worried about emailing them before she left. In any meeting I've been with her she seems incapable of figuring up how to connect to the wireless.

Deadlines imposed by others are good for me. I work efficiently compared to normal laziness. I need more of them besides the ones I have to set.

Please tell me what I have forgotten to do re. impending house move. There must be something. I can't possibly have remembered all the stupid wee things I need to do, can I?

(I have read a list of things to remember to do that I printed off the interwebs, but there must be other things I need to do, yes?)

I am addicted to House, MD.

Er, bog roll.

You always need bog roll!

transport/set-up for furries
setting up/turning off utilities
shower curtains, paper towels, dining necessities easily at hand
a few changes of clothes, towels not packed
alcohol for relaxing afterwards

1 pack
2 hire van and/or burly removal blokes
3 sort out all legal gubbins with lawyer and/or mortgage provider
4 beer

haha xpost

I just booked van this morning, I R disorganised (also hello onimo, please be burly removal bloke, I shall reward with beer and takeaway). Set up/cancelled phone/TV/internets/gas/lecky this morning. Sorted insurance. Signed legal gubbins. Dad coming down to do (sorry, help with!) packing stuff for the next four days. Anything else?

I have no furries, unless you count the mister.

Make sure he has a litter box ready at the new place.

See, I told you bog roll...

I can attempt burly removal bloke-ing but my back's still sore from the other week so I don't know how much use I'll be. If you want mrs o to help as well let me know, I don't think we've got any plans - though taking mrs o might mean you have a pile of mini-onimos around your feet.

Packing: number your boxes and keep a wee notebook listing what's in each numbered box. Worth the extra bit of time for relatively pain free unpacking (until you do what we did and decide to swap everyone's rooms around).

Almost every house move I've been involved in has involved someone going to a hardware shop for a couple of yards of twin and earth cable to connect the eletric cooker.

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When I say someone I mean me.

If the packing has yet to be done, buy a couple of more rolls of tape than you have already.

Cooker is built in, so that's one less thing to worry about. I actually don't think we'll need you on Monday, it should be just one van-load to unpack (think non-essentials are going in aunt's garage to be hoicked over by car when we're a bit more settled), and me, Neil, Kr1s and Ry4n should have it covered between us, but I'll let you know. You might still get a panicked phonecall! Neil's folks are helpfully all out of the country, so local relatives are a bit thin on the ground.

I'm working on Monday.

Oh, OK, I sort of assumed holiday, but I guess not. You are excused (though stop by on your way home if you like, you might be needed if the panic sets in!)

I thought you said you were moving on Sunday and that was when you needed me?

English bank holiday innit? Our work swaps that for the Glasgow Trades Holiday (fancy dan for the "Glesga Fair").

Naw. Taken to email, sorry thread :-)

No worries I like reading things to waste time. Even if they don't relate to me. (being serious here, not snarky)

Have now set firm deadlines for testing, demos to directors and everything for the two sites I AM BUILDING SIMULTANEOUSLY. Will complete all, on time, by the end of Sept. come hell or high water. I predict much caffiene and pretty much working all day and all night for the next month or so. Poor Harry Potter sweater. :(

Also trying best to be patient and not all IT bitchy with less-than-educated client questions. So hard, but so necessary. Deserve chocolate or ice cream but will instead reserve calories for beer later.

I keep thinking that I've got everything scheduled and set and manageable, then something utterly confounding happens and it's late nights and weekends to the end. Patience wears thin in these moments!

I just got a call from my mother telling me she's hired someone to unblock the energy at their properties. Feng shui dowsing stuff, with spinning crystals and whatnot. Whee!

Is she getting a psychic to talk to the pets?

Oh, Ailsa, if the new house has an alarm, don't forget to get the code from the vendor. You certainly don't want to arrive at your new house on the Friday evening of a bank holiday weekend and open the door only to trigger the alarm and have no way of turning it off for THREE WHOLE DAYS!

On the other hand, it's a great way to meet your neigbours.

accentmonkey, that is a blindingly good point - the alarm was going off when we went round to view the second time and the agent had no idea what to do to stop it!

No psychic to talk to pets. The dog barks itself hoarse, the rabbit is a rabbit, and the cat knows to dodge trouble.

She is seeing a color psychic and an emotional energy therapist for herself, though.

other random house things: find out the brand and color for any paint that you don't intend to redo right away (for touchups), where the circuit breaker is, what day they pick up trash/recycling... that's all I can think of right now!

And the stopcock!

???

For turning off the water.

ah, like a drain plug/stopper. sounds dirty.

It's where to turn off the main water line to the house--pretty critical!

We ran into trouble before we'd even moved in when the foundation work caused the pipes to split. When the plumber got there he saw that the workers had used duct tape to direct the spray of water away from where they needed to be, but not actually turned it off.

ahh, sorry.

We had just barely moved in when the fridge was delivered. The delivery dudes were installing the water bit, forgot to turn it off at the main line and ended up flooding half our house. I had no idea where the cut-off was so had to call G at work while their dispatch was unhelpfully suggesting we get some towels.

Towels? Oh that's rich. Nothing like a flood to make it seem like home though!

This thread is reminding me that the overhead light in one of the bedrooms hasn't work since we moved in, and we've yet to discover why. Replaced the bulb, checked the wiring at the switch, still nothing.