The Hornet's Nest

Lol good one!

 

Blue Woad - that's fighting talk

 

Off to warmer climes on Monday a cheeky little week on Gran Canaria! Bring it on!

 

HAve a great time Al - hope you get a 3 point send off

 

Back again. Power has returned. The jolt was only 5.3 but with a lot of lateral movement which is scary. Things like books and cd stands fell down. A plate and cup, which we had only bought this morning, smashed. A bowl of water on the dining table became a bowl in a pool of water on the dining table.

Smart phones are amazing things. We had no power but I could still get a message to the Nest, and check the extent of the damage on news channels. It seems okay but there will be a lot of scared people around. Mrs NZ and I try to make light of it all for the sake of the children. It works. Master NZ, aged three and a half, said it was exciting.

Now it's time to change threads for something far more important

 

Glad you're back and all is safe and well in NZ

 

NZ - same thing happened in Queensland this morning - Townsville hit by 5.3 shock. Worrying times in the Southern Hemisphere.

 

Glad the power is back on NZ, worrying indeed. Lots of good thoughts heading your way...

 

have a great holiday Al! Very jealous! lol

 

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Thanks Ak

 

hmm, gin and orange for me i think, thanks Ak

 

Gotta say, i didn't get much cooking done! And i've run out of sugar! Disaster! lol...better have a drink before i tackle that problem

 

Glad you, Mrs NZ and the little NZs are ok .

 

Japan also hit again today !!! it is very worrying! Glad you have power back NZ .....and might be an idea to get a spare battery or 2 for your phone and keep em charged!

 

thought this was very indicative of life today!!!!!
Perspective on the necessity of computers in daily life...

An unemployed man goes to try for a job with Microsoft as a cleaner. The manager there arranges for an aptitude test (Section: Floors, sweeping and cleaning). After the test, the manager says: You will be appointed on the scale of $30 per day. Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send you a form to complete and advise you where to report for work on your first day. Taken aback, the unemployed man protests that he is neither in possession of a computer nor of an e-mail address. To this the MS manager replies: Well, then, that really means that you virtually don't exist and can therefore hardly expect to be employed. Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and only having about $10 left, he decides to buy a 10 kg box of tomatoes at the supermarket. Within less than 2 hours, he sells the tomatoes singly at 100% profit. Repeating the process
several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 before going to sleep that night. And thus it dawns on the man that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes. Getting up early and earlier every day and going to bed late and later, he multiplies his hoard of profits in quite a short time. Not too long thereafter, he acquires a cart to transport several dozen boxes of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again shortly afterwards on a pickup truck. By the end of the second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pickup trucks and manages a staff of a hundred former unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. Considering the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy some life assurance. Calling an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the telephone conversation, the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order that he might forward the documentation. When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned: "What, you don't even have e-mail? How on earth have you managed to amass such wealth without the Internet, e-mail and e-commerce? Just imagine where you would have been by now, if you had been connected from the very start!" After a moment's silence, the tomato millionaire replied: "Sure! I would have been a cleaner at Microsoft!" Moral of the story: 1: The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to rule your life. 2: If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a millionaire. 3: Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, you're probably closer to becoming a cleaner than you are to becoming a millionaire. 4: If you do have a computer and e-mail, you're already being taken to the cleaners by Microsoft.

 

Just looked at the fixtures to see if mathematically it was not impossible for us - but its not - in theory if all the other sides lost all their games except when playing each other we could still go up on 65 points - so there you go lads - 2 wins and a draw and we could be in the play offs

I am so confident of it that I will buy a round of drinks for everyone who attends the last home game of the season when we get into the play offs - so remember to e-mail me that you were there

YRBA - I will buy you as many as you can drink as you were so enthusiastic and optimistic earlier

 

Leo it is still possible ,but ring up Ladbokes and see what odds they would give? Our play off chances went when a we couldnt resign mutch and Taylor , and totally disappeared after the boro game!

 

Careful leo, Yorkie will be at the game and he can sink a bottle or two of

 

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I Was There When Doyley Scored!