Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[Slite]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

recipe! Now!

Ingredients

3 dl oatmeal
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
1 dl sugar
2-3 tablespoons cold stong coffe (Can be left out)
3-4 tablespoons coacoa powder
100 g butter

Stir butter and sugar until its well mixed and smooth
Add coacoapowder, vanilla sugar, oatmeal and coffe and mix well
Make small "balls" from the mixture and roll them in nib, cocnut flakes or vermicelli
Store them in the fridge for a few hours.

Serve chilled

You can leave the coffe out of the mix if you like, works fine without.

[Libby Cone]

I have never been able to understand Excel. I bought a 64-bit Linux machine at husband's suggestion, but most available software is 32-bit, so I haven't been able to run FlashPlayer. I'd like to have a fast forward and rewind working when I run audio, so I just tried downloading stuff with my text window, but it said I didn't have the right password, and that I was a naughty girl, and that 'this incident will be reported'. Yesterday poor husband was drilling holes in the porcelain tile I installed in the bathroom, an all-day project, so he doesn't feel in the mood to give me tech support right now.

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by pshrynk

Retro planning? You do something, then outline a plan on how you were going to do it?

my kind of plan - that way if it goes wrong I can blame the outline ...

Originally Posted by Slite

It's amazing how quick it is to get back in the MR-saddle and start making sense of your posts. They do tend to scream and claw all the way into the sense-labb, but once there, it's very quick work.

making sense of posts ...

[yvanleterrible]

Painting the study where the computer is...

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Painting the study where the computer is...

and not the computer .... ?

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

something like that. actually you start from the date you know the project has to be done by, and then count backwards, planning everything you need to do from now until that time. i'm still working on it, it's just infernal.

Surely, doing that means that if it takes you more than day to put the plan together that way means you have to re-visit the plan again because you've then got one less day to do everything? Or does the first thing on the plan just take the hit and have to take one day less? Although, if the first thing on the plan is making the plan then that just becomes a nightmarish self-referential loop and you eventually disappear up your own fundament!

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by Slite

Ingredients

3 dl oatmeal
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
1 dl sugar
2-3 tablespoons cold stong coffe (Can be left out)
3-4 tablespoons coacoa powder
100 g butter

Stir butter and sugar until its well mixed and smooth
Add coacoapowder, vanilla sugar, oatmeal and coffe and mix well
Make small "balls" from the mixture and roll them in nib, cocnut flakes or vermicelli
Store them in the fridge for a few hours.

Serve chilled

You can leave the coffe out of the mix if you like, works fine without.

Sorry if I'm being incredibly dense here, but what's a 'dl', as in '3 dl oatmeal' above?

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Surely, doing that means that if it takes you more than day to put the plan together that way means you have to re-visit the plan again because you've then got one less day to do everything? Or does the first thing on the plan just take the hit and have to take one day less? Although, if the first thing on the plan is making the plan then that just becomes a nightmarish self-referential loop and you eventually disappear up your own fundament!

arg !!! stop it !!!

actually i told them i would give them the retro-planning tomorrow, so i'm still okay, no self-referential loops (yet).


oh, and "dl" = "decilitre" (to me, anyway. slite, correct me if i'm wrong).

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

oh, and "dl" = "decilitre" (to me, anyway. slite, correct me if i'm wrong).

So the dry ingredients are measured by volume rather than by weight?

Actually, thinking about it, in the UK we use a mix of both - small amounts are done by tea and table spoons, larger amounts are done by weight.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

So the dry ingredients are measured by volume rather than by weight?

Actually, thinking about it, in the UK we use a mix of both - small amounts are done by tea and table spoons, larger amounts are done by weight.

well, personally i would have given that measure in grammes, and use dl for liquids only, but maybe in sweden they do things differently. or maybe slite only has a measuring glass with the liquid measures and he must use that for everything.

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by Libby Cone

I have never been able to understand Excel.

I like Excel - it's easy to automate various tasks, and saves me loads of time.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

I like Excel - it's easy to automate various tasks, and saves me loads of time.

aw, sparrow, and back in post number 7718 i thought we were kindred spirits ! trust me, it's not saving me any time, on the contrary. and there is nothing automated about this retro-planning. alas. oh well. hey, since you love excel so much, any chance i could get you to finish my retro-planning ? it's almost done, really ! i have to send it off tomorrow, so it's a bit urgent, but there's really not much left to do...

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

aw, sparrow, and back in post number 7718 i thought we were kindred spirits ! trust me, it's not saving me any time, on the contrary. and there is nothing automated about this retro-planning. alas. oh well. hey, since you love excel so much, any chance i could get you to finish my retro-planning ? it's almost done, really ! i have to send it off tomorrow, so it's a bit urgent, but there's really not much left to do...

What is 'retro-planning'?? I've never heard of it, . Google throws up a lot of French sites, so maybe it's a Continental thing.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

What is 'retro-planning'?? I've never heard of it, . Google throws up a lot of French sites, so maybe it's a Continental thing.

yes, sorry, i don't have the first clue whether it has a different name in english (or any name at all other than "infernal thing"), "retro-planning" sounded english to me so i just figured it must be called that everywhere.

i did explain what it is back in post 7754 :

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

something like that. actually you start from the date you know the project has to be done by, and then count backwards, planning everything you need to do from now until that time. i'm still working on it, it's just infernal.

do try to keep up. clearly too much excel is getting in the way of you reading the forum, we can't have that.

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

do try to keep up. clearly too much excel is getting in the way of you reading the forum, we can't have that.

Soz - I tend not to get involved with planning schedules (they are silly things imho!).
But people use MS Project for that sort of thing don't they? Gantt charts, pretty colours, scrollable panes - everything you need to give you the illusion you're actually accomplishing something.