Not location specific, No rules: Welcome to ILX heaven

When you're in the browser? I don't know. I had a Flickr account before they were bought by yahoo. Maybe you need to register a yahoo account now?

(Does it really call you a fraudster?)

Picasa will host your pictures online on Picasaweb, but you can only see them if you're signed into google, I think.

If you upload them to your Facebook photo book, you can link to them if you open the photos in a separate window so that you get its unique URL, if you know what I mean?

Oh also the peeing on us in the bed early this morning.

Oh yes, this is always a fun stage. We got around it with smidger by keeping a litter tray in the bedroom, but she still peed on us. Now she's not allowed in the bedroom anymore. Just like all cats before her. I don't get why they do this, really.

Yeah we have a litter tray for her but I don't think she knows how to use it yet. I wish we could get Wheezy to teach her but I don't think that will happen. Queen Wheezy is very displeased with this new development.

She hadn't gone at all since we brought her in and I was cuddling with her around 5 this morning, wondering when/where she would go. She kept trying to get away from me to go over to G. (he's like Dr. Dolittle, all the the animals love him more). I finally let her go and then he woke up saying he was peeing on her. Ha-haw.

When you're in the browser? I don't know. I had a Flickr account before they were bought by yahoo. Maybe you need to register a yahoo account now?

I have one!

(Does it really call you a fraudster?)

Sadly not :(

Fraudster!

I like it when you get saucy error messages.

I am so tired. Why why why is it that when I get in drunk on BEER and cocktails that I can't just go straight to bed and have to stay up til 2.30am listening to pop songs and flipping through old magazines?! It's not even as if my vision weren't blurred so I could actually READ them! IDIOT! So so tired, can barely even type now and work is so busy yet all I can do is refresh gmail...

Aldo - your sausage sounds a bit of alright. I think I might need to eat sausage. I have eaten scando ponce food today. And a packet of Wotsits. And a FUDGE. And drunk a tonne of strong coffee. Feel very strange. Oh blegh.

My sympathies, Sarah. I got precious little sleep last night but I am shockingly uncrapulent.

I nipped out for a quick pint after work last night and was still in there (more or less) at closing. Surprisingly unonimoed.

Whilst I am rambling on about nothing I must say that I am impresed with AMAZON - I placed an order at about 11am yesterday, paid for 1st class postage (bcz one part was a textbook I needed like last WEEK) and woosh - there it was on my desk when I got into work the following morning! Very glad I didn't pay the extra for their EXPRESS delivery cos it was express anyway! Yay!

MW: I think it is the coffee slump now more than anything! And the fact that today I just HAD to buckle down and send off some things which were horrible and I've been putting off and putting off. Ah well. Hometime soon. NOT staying late today. Not physically possible anyway!

I am listening to some gongs. Not Gong. Gongs.

What I *really* don't need now is someone ringing me up and telling me about their new policy relating to the collection and use of human tissue...

... but that's wot I got :(

I'm glad I didn't get that...

Still sick, and think my cold is moving out of the way for bronchitis, so I imagine this will be a super fun weekend (it's already ruined all my plans for the week, the bastard...)

I would like a new kitten, but not as much as the two big dogs would like one, so no kitten for me.

Sarah, how was your run? Sorry, I mean YR RUN?

Sorry you're sick Luna. There will be more weekends in lovely southern California.

I would like a new kitten, but not as much as the two big dogs would like one, so no kitten for me.

Haha, yeah same here. We're definitely going to have be supervising things closely and keeping them apart for awhile. I think a small, furry, scurrying thing is just too much for our dogs' strong prey instinct.

Same with mine. I think Zero would genuinely like to play, but Zoe... well, I suspect Zoe is looking for something more like a snack.

Dogs gotta eat.

Our dogs are alternately baffled by and afraid of our kitten. Who is not much of a kitten anymore, reall. She's getting to be a real live cat now.

Reall?

I meant fo' realz, obv.

Aw, our dog got on well with both of our cats when I had dogs and cats in my younger days. I think Sandy (dog) was kind of confused by sudden appearance of The Cat, but by the time the The Ginger Cat came along (necessitating The Cat's name to be changed to The Grey Cat) he was fine with it and they became bestest of friends.

Yr dog wz a pussy

The dogs have no problem with grown cats. They understand they are fellow family members who are allowed on the furniture (unlike them) and are not to be messed with.

It's just baby cats I worry about. Poor thing. None of them want her around.

Poor smidger. Nobody loves her.

I do let my dogs on the furniture. Because, fuck it, nobody visits me anyway.

Ah, see, we got both our cats as grown-ups, The Grey Cat chose us after getting fed up with her current owners, and The Ginger Cat was taken from the rescue home after The Grey Cat moved on from us to a family across the road.

I prefer grown-up cats. Mostly b/c kittens almost always will get adopted before adults will. I pity the unwanted.

This one is the baby of one of the neglected cats we've been feeding. I had been aiming to eventually take one of them in but this kitten was on our front porch chair yesterday. So far none of the kittens have ventured across the street from the drug dealers' house. They are moving (yay!) and G. thinks they left it on our porch so we'd take care of it. Hmm. I disagree but I'll let him stick with his romantic story.

It's black, opposite of white Q-Tip who I had to put down last Dec., so I'm calling her Bizarro Q-Tip at the moment.

We had a dog that was too high-bred aka nervous wreck, a street cat that ran away, two stupid cats (one still living). If I were a cruel man I would love to get them both in the same house for a day.

Anyone have any tips re. cookies, firefox and getting flickr to work?

I have mine set at "Accept cookies from sites" and "keep until they expire" and flickr's never given me any problems.

Arse. I think I do too... I'll check when home.

Cultural question: Does the use of 'arse' as an exclamation stem from the Jed Thomas character in 'The Fast Show' or does it predate the show?

In Ireland it has been used since the dawn of arses. I cannot speak for others beyond these shores.

So yiz say it like 'shit' or 'damn', then? As in, "Arse, I forgot to pull out!"

Yes. Like that. Also like "I made a right arse of that" and "I arsed it up big style" and "I got it all arseways".

arseways sounds brilliant.

sick with a head cold that's sapping my will to live (hi 5 luna!), but I do get to call a small town police chief to let him know I'm coming to town.

That sounds intriguing, patita...

accentmonkey, I've heard all the others, it's just as an exclamation that I only knew it from the show.

"Arseways here we come"

Michael, we have a long-idle Scrabulous game still in progress. Want to finish it, eh eh wot wot?

I think "Arse!" said loudly in a West Country accent might have originated from the show. "ARSE!" said even louder in a fake Irish accent comes from Father Ted. Same writers.

Arsepost.

If I have any long-idle games, please feel free to force a win. I'm so swamped with work (and kittens) I can't promise any regular up-keep.

I can't put scrabulous on my facebook profile because annoying "friends" I don't actually like will probably try to engage me in a game.

Rock, and whoever else I have neglected on facebook, I was out for much of August and played about a zillion games but now that I'm back at work where it's blocked, I just haven't had much time. My sincerest apologies. Feel free to kill it, if you can or I'll concede when I get a chance so it doesn't ruin your ranking.

Accentmonkey, feck, I'd totally forgotten about Father Jack.

I hate to force-forfeit games. I wish there was a "game cancelled by mutual agreement" function.

I have updated my flickr! I am so proud of myself.

Link it, kv nol.

jamais!

Quel dommage!

Ha ha. I'll have to label stuff first. Also get over fear of being spied upon. Sad but true, totally over value myself!

Yeah, I still have to label photos I took over a year ago. *Whistles* I'll, uh, get around to it, eventually.

I hate to force-forfeit games. I wish there was a "game cancelled by mutual agreement" function.

Although I can't speak for anyone I would like to say that force-forfeiting on me is by mutual agreement.

I will upload a couple of pics of baby cat whenever she stops napping on my chest.

Yay pictures of kittens. I will need them, have to talk to estate agent today :(

Just remember, Kv, the golden rule of buying a house is this:

When it's your turn to do something, it needs to be done NOW. When it's the turn of the estate agent/vendor/mortgage provider/solicitor, it doesn't need to get done for weeks, or possibly months.

If you remember this rule, you will be far less hassled and confused when documents are shoved at you and you are told to sign away 30 years' worth of salary in ten minutes, while a simple document search that your solicitor told you would get done today takes three weeks and 40 phone calls from you to accomplish.

I have bought four houses in my life so far, and this has been my experience every single time.