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ShortNCuddlyAm · 04-29-2010, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

I'll just be lobbing you a few vials of insulin! Can't imagine what your blood sugar is by now - although after a week of cake you may have acclimated to your new diet!

Don't think my brain has - very foggy in there today!

Edited to add: I am pleased I am able to eat cake though, having been on a wheat free diet for a short period.

Dylrob · 04-29-2010, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Well, sketching with charcoal is even worse!

But at least with charcoal you can make a point. Fingers are a relatively broad "tool".

FWIW though I usually sketch with a pencil.

DMcCunney · 04-29-2010, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Missed the PilotBob comment earlier....that's kinda what I thought as well - frying pan into fire - but this is the free version supplied by Comcast so I've gone along for now. It's already popped up several annoying notices and added tool bars to my Outlook and browsers! as well as sticking it's nose in on my email scanner I've been using for a couple of years and is working fine....

My ISP offers something like that (I'd have to look to see what, possibly Norton) but I passed. I understand their motive, as viruses/trojans/malware are pervasive problems. I was part of a discussion elsewhere where a poster thought the ISPs should be sat on hard for letting the stuff be distributed on their network, and contented myself with posting a little background on how the internet worked and querying how he thought what he wanted was possible.

ISPs toss packets, and all the routing servers look at is packet headers to see where it's coming from and where it's going. Blocking things like viruses and malware would require inspecting the content of the packets, which opens a can of worms no one in their right mind wants to contemplate. (And would have an enormous performance impact i9f it was done.)

Personally, I don't want my ISP to take extreme measures. Setting the wards on my machine and keeping out things like viruses and malware is my problem, and I'll select my own methods to do so.

Good luck with Norton. I wouldn't use it, but many people do successfully. Maybe you'll be lucky.
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Dennis

kennyc · 04-29-2010, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by DMcCunney

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Good luck with Norton. I wouldn't use it, but many people do successfully. Maybe you'll be lucky.
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Dennis

So far so good. If it turns into a problem though I'll dump it and get something of my own choosing.

Katti's Cat · 04-29-2010, 09:36 PM

*Sigh* - why do I feel cheated all of a sudden? Spoke today with the guy I got the job from. Now its 12 hours - meh, the agency signed me up for 20 so that's what we will bill. (Discussed with agency).

Tricky employer - wants me now for 12 hours, but will send me document prior to me starting, so I can have a look at. HaHaHa.

And still in no position to refuse as this is my first job through this particular agency.

And the start is not next week, but the week after.

Off to stuff my face with some cookies and chocolates now. Need some comfort food.

kennyc · 04-29-2010, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Katti's Cat

*Sigh* - why do I feel cheated all of a sudden? Spoke today with the guy I got the job from. Now its 12 hours - meh, the agency signed me up for 20 so that's what we will bill. (Discussed with agency).

Tricky employer - wants me now for 12 hours, but will send me document prior to me starting, so I can have a look at. HaHaHa.

And still in no position to refuse as this is my first job through this particular agency.

And the start is not next week, but the week after.

Off to stuff my face with some cookies and chocolates now. Need some comfort food.

It really pisses me off when they are not honest with you up front and then try to get more out of you for free. Send the document before hand, yeah right! Asshole!

Katti's Cat · 04-29-2010, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

It really pisses me off when they are not honest with you up front and then try to get more out of you for free. Send the document before hand, yeah right! Asshole!

Agreed - thankfully the agency is pretty good. It looks as if I'm going to work actually Mon & Tues. So agency told me to bill all time I am reading the thing at home. Still, I feel cheated and used. Even worse: the job came through a former colleague who knows me well. He knows that I won't deliver a half-arsed job and would finish it even if I couldn't bill the hours. It sucks.

kennyc · 04-29-2010, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Katti's Cat

Agreed - thankfully the agency is pretty good. It looks as if I'm going to work actually Mon & Tues. So agency told me to bill all time I am reading the thing at home. Still, I feel cheated and used. Even worse: the job came through a former colleague who knows me well. He knows that I won't deliver a half-arsed job and would finish it even if I couldn't bill the hours. It sucks.

Good luck and congrats on the job in any case!

FlorenceArt · 04-30-2010, 03:36 AM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

It really pisses me off when they are not honest with you up front and then try to get more out of you for free. Send the document before hand, yeah right! Asshole!

What Kenny said

SneakySnake · 04-30-2010, 04:10 AM

yair - what they said

ShortNCuddlyAm · 04-30-2010, 06:24 AM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

It really pisses me off when they are not honest with you up front and then try to get more out of you for free. Send the document before hand, yeah right! Asshole!

SneakySnake · 04-30-2010, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

It would appear to be cake week at work. Right now I am ruining my appetite for lunch by eating a slice of a gorgeous chocolate cake made by a colleague's mum.

The cake I'm eating isn't on her website, but to give an idea, have a look at chocolate cakes here: http://thebestdesignercakes.com/

Katti's Cat & Nomesque, I'll trebuchet you some to celebrate getting the job and recovering husbands

(The cake is huge, and very, very decadently rich (it has chocolate cake, chocolate cream, chocolate whirls/flakes, chocolate tubes, chocolate cream icing, chocolate rolls and marzipan fruit), so I'm sure I can lob a few more slices of it elsewhere...)

yes please it sounds delicious

Can I have a bit with choc flakes and marzipan fuit please? ta

beppe · 04-30-2010, 07:56 AM

I just had my lunch. The first at home since I started the PilotDiet.
Friday is special: the baby is at the Nursery and we do not go to work. La dolce vita!!
Usually I go to the supermarket and then we orgy on home made hamburgers with all the trimmings, a big bag of chips and a big glass of beer (usually Leffe).

Not today. the diet is on. We had an apero under M.me Wisteria with a small Campari, dried but soft tomatoes (80cal), quarters of artichockes (from a can, in salted water, nice for occasions like this), and 6 pistacchios for me and sweet olives and plenty of pistachios for her. To day papers and cigarettes (we do not smoke inside).

Then the lunch, that, at that moment was just waiting to be dished out (I do not know how to say it in English, enplaté in French, impiattato in Italian), was already prepared. Steamed fresh salmon (two nice thick slices, we call them darne) and a full bag of steamed bitter greens (frozen), for her also a plateful of huge fresh shrimps (steamed). Steaming for me is so easy as I got one of those hightec MW, from Whirlpool actually. They do everything by themselves.

Everything gently humidified by a delicious Cote de St.Tropez of which I still have a congruous reserve. While I am writing this, she, grateful for my cooking, just made coffee, with the help of Nespresso.

She just told me that she started the sauna ...

vivaldirules · 04-30-2010, 07:56 AM

MMmmmmmm!!! That looks great, Am. Is 7:00 am too early for chocolate cake? If it is, I could wait until after my coffee.

vivaldirules · 04-30-2010, 08:01 AM

Oh, great! Don't I feel like an ass! I post a pic of chocolate cake just as Beppe is telling us about his PilotDiet meals.

Look, Beppe, be assured that several of us are struggling with our weight. Of course, not me - ahem! Erm, anyway, the cake is all in fun. Yesterday, I had a plate of veggies for lunch and also for dinner. I'm about to have some granola for breakfast. Cake (and bacon and doughnuts) are simply figments of our collective imaginations. So ignore the visions and chatter about these things because they are not real.

And I wish you and BOb and others (not me, of course - ahem!) the best of luck on their regimens.

04-29-2010, 09:36 PM	#14480
Katti's Cat Wizard Posts: 2,259 Karma: 175640 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Brisbane Australia Device: Sony PRS-600	Sigh - why do I feel cheated all of a sudden? Spoke today with the guy I got the job from. Now its 12 hours - meh, the agency signed me up for 20 so that's what we will bill. (Discussed with agency). Tricky employer - wants me now for 12 hours, but will send me document prior to me starting, so I can have a look at. HaHaHa. And still in no position to refuse as this is my first job through this particular agency. And the start is not next week, but the week after. Off to stuff my face with some cookies and chocolates now. Need some comfort food.

04-30-2010, 04:10 AM	#14485
SneakySnake I'm watching you! Posts: 6,113 Karma: 22344652 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Sunny Coast Qld, OZ Device: Sony PRS-900(unused lately) iPadAir2, want me Kindle Oasis	yair - what they said

04-30-2010, 07:56 AM	#14488
beppe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,161 Karma: 81026524 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Italy Device: Kindle3, Ipod4, IPad2	I just had my lunch. The first at home since I started the PilotDiet. Friday is special: the baby is at the Nursery and we do not go to work. La dolce vita!! Usually I go to the supermarket and then we orgy on home made hamburgers with all the trimmings, a big bag of chips and a big glass of beer (usually Leffe). Not today. the diet is on. We had an apero under M.me Wisteria with a small Campari, dried but soft tomatoes (80cal), quarters of artichockes (from a can, in salted water, nice for occasions like this), and 6 pistacchios for me and sweet olives and plenty of pistachios for her. To day papers and cigarettes (we do not smoke inside). Then the lunch, that, at that moment was just waiting to be dished out (I do not know how to say it in English, enplaté in French, impiattato in Italian), was already prepared. Steamed fresh salmon (two nice thick slices, we call them darne) and a full bag of steamed bitter greens (frozen), for her also a plateful of huge fresh shrimps (steamed). Steaming for me is so easy as I got one of those hightec MW, from Whirlpool actually. They do everything by themselves. Everything gently humidified by a delicious Cote de St.Tropez of which I still have a congruous reserve. While I am writing this, she, grateful for my cooking, just made coffee, with the help of Nespresso. She just told me that she started the sauna ...

04-30-2010, 07:56 AM	#14489
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	MMmmmmmm!!! That looks great, Am. Is 7:00 am too early for chocolate cake? If it is, I could wait until after my coffee.

04-30-2010, 08:01 AM	#14490
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	Oh, great! Don't I feel like an ass! I post a pic of chocolate cake just as Beppe is telling us about his PilotDiet meals. Look, Beppe, be assured that several of us are struggling with our weight. Of course, not me - ahem! Erm, anyway, the cake is all in fun. Yesterday, I had a plate of veggies for lunch and also for dinner. I'm about to have some granola for breakfast. Cake (and bacon and doughnuts) are simply figments of our collective imaginations. So ignore the visions and chatter about these things because they are not real. And I wish you and BOb and others (not me, of course - ahem!) the best of luck on their regimens.