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karohemdThe weekend didn't quite go as planned, I was far too lazy so got almost nothing done :o(.
After sleeping in on Saturday, I made breakfast and watched LotR. It's still fascinating, even on a tiny 14'' TV and Hugo Weaving is still wrong as Elrond ("Welcome to Rivendell, Mr Anderson"). I'll probably get the extended version as well when it comes out in November, which should keep it interesting til TT comes out. The trailer so far looks good. Will be interesting to see what they do with Saruman's and Gandalf's transformations. Both could get just too cheesy and unreal. Hope that G will only turn out white.
When the film was over, it was already 4 o'clock, so I just went around tidying a bit, by far not as much as necessary, read a bit, got some takeaway and rewrote the elysium site with the content from the tripod one.
Spent ages in bed on Sunday, most of it daydreaming, read some more, did some more website stuff and made pasta with pesto. About half of the old photos are now up on elysium, it's just a case of uploading it all which I hopefully will finish tonight if I don't run into any problems like last night were I couldn't create new folders on the server side properly (which, after checking with ronni, was due to my FTP client being strange, not the server).
It also now includes (or will when it's complete) the photos that used to be on my yahoo album (ICC2K1 and Scottish Ball 01).
This morning, I took my car in for servicing and MOT. Back at work, they called me and said that the 63,000 miles service would be due instead which involved some special checks. Well, I said, it can't be because there only 60,000 kilometers (37,500 miles) on the clock. It's a German car, the facts that the steering wheel is on the left hand side and that there's a little "km" next to the number should give it away, shouldn't it? Morons!
Which brings me to a little rant that is by no means meant to be offensive to my friends here, just something I've observed over the years.
British people seem to have large difficulties in being able to look outside their own little worlds. If there's something that's a little different, they ignore it and say, that can't be, it has to be this way. German cars is one thing, for example.
Another example: A colleague of mine has Greek parents and a Greek passport but she was born and grew up in Germany. She recently had her appointment for her National Insurance number where she had to explain this fact (i.e. you don't automatically gain German nationality when you're born there, and dual nationalities are almost impossible as well) several times until the person finally accepted it. A week later she was called in again, as there apparently was something wrong on her form and had to be corrected and which apparently couldn't be dealt with on the phone. She got back in, only to find that someone had changed her nationality back to German because "it's not possible that someone was born in a country and has the nationality of another". This might be the case here but it isn't in Germany. This fact had been explained to them several times. Moreover, one should think that in a large city like London with a huge non-British population (students, people who work there), these things should be known, or at least can be looked up. *shakes head*
Just a few of the more prominent cases I found over the years. There are more but they are more quirks than actual things that drive me up the wall.
And I need a new clutch. Oh well, changing gears was a real problem recently, so I expected as much. Things like that are bound to fail after 7 years.
After sleeping in on Saturday, I made breakfast and watched LotR. It's still fascinating, even on a tiny 14'' TV and Hugo Weaving is still wrong as Elrond ("Welcome to Rivendell, Mr Anderson"). I'll probably get the extended version as well when it comes out in November, which should keep it interesting til TT comes out. The trailer so far looks good. Will be interesting to see what they do with Saruman's and Gandalf's transformations. Both could get just too cheesy and unreal. Hope that G will only turn out white.
When the film was over, it was already 4 o'clock, so I just went around tidying a bit, by far not as much as necessary, read a bit, got some takeaway and rewrote the elysium site with the content from the tripod one.
Spent ages in bed on Sunday, most of it daydreaming, read some more, did some more website stuff and made pasta with pesto. About half of the old photos are now up on elysium, it's just a case of uploading it all which I hopefully will finish tonight if I don't run into any problems like last night were I couldn't create new folders on the server side properly (which, after checking with ronni, was due to my FTP client being strange, not the server).
It also now includes (or will when it's complete) the photos that used to be on my yahoo album (ICC2K1 and Scottish Ball 01).
This morning, I took my car in for servicing and MOT. Back at work, they called me and said that the 63,000 miles service would be due instead which involved some special checks. Well, I said, it can't be because there only 60,000 kilometers (37,500 miles) on the clock. It's a German car, the facts that the steering wheel is on the left hand side and that there's a little "km" next to the number should give it away, shouldn't it? Morons!
Which brings me to a little rant that is by no means meant to be offensive to my friends here, just something I've observed over the years.
British people seem to have large difficulties in being able to look outside their own little worlds. If there's something that's a little different, they ignore it and say, that can't be, it has to be this way. German cars is one thing, for example.
Another example: A colleague of mine has Greek parents and a Greek passport but she was born and grew up in Germany. She recently had her appointment for her National Insurance number where she had to explain this fact (i.e. you don't automatically gain German nationality when you're born there, and dual nationalities are almost impossible as well) several times until the person finally accepted it. A week later she was called in again, as there apparently was something wrong on her form and had to be corrected and which apparently couldn't be dealt with on the phone. She got back in, only to find that someone had changed her nationality back to German because "it's not possible that someone was born in a country and has the nationality of another". This might be the case here but it isn't in Germany. This fact had been explained to them several times. Moreover, one should think that in a large city like London with a huge non-British population (students, people who work there), these things should be known, or at least can be looked up. *shakes head*
Just a few of the more prominent cases I found over the years. There are more but they are more quirks than actual things that drive me up the wall.
And I need a new clutch. Oh well, changing gears was a real problem recently, so I expected as much. Things like that are bound to fail after 7 years.
