This weekend...
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A lot of shopping. We have a large family. A lot of wrapping. Cut the grass. Decorate the outside of the house. The tree has been up since before Thanksgiving. Practice the piano... for some reason, my piano teacher has seen fit to poor on the exercises after she took several weeks vacation. Sleep ? What's that ? Steven J. Ackerman, Consultant ACS, Sarasota, FL http://www.acscontrol.com steve@acscontrol.com
Steven J. Ackerman wrote: Decorate the outside of the house. The tree has been up since before Thanksgiving Your tree's been up since November! I'm not planning to put my Christmas decorations up until about a week/10 days before Christmas. At one end of my street there are some neighbours who are determined to out-do each other. Last years decorations were fabulous, but this year both of them have really gone to town. I can see one's conservatory from two streets away its lit up almost as bright as the Forth Bridge (that's the historic rail bridge Edinburgh and Fife. It, along with all the clouds within about 3 miles, is lit up each night) --Colin Mackay--
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but perseverance." (H. Jackson Brown) Enumerators in .NET: See how to customise foreach loops with C#
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What's everyone up to this weekend? For me it's going to be a little work, a lot of catching up on sleep, some Christmas shopping and possibly a great deal of lounging around with a good book. Any better ideas? cheers, Chris Maunder
Busy as usual. :) Working on Fluid; upgrading my mom's hard disk from 20 GB to 40 GB, and replacing my dad's hard drive because it's failing; installing VS.NET 2002 finally, preparing to send a Christmas package to a not-so-well-to-do family. This weekend I'll also be putting up Christmas lights and doing other decoration, making some Christmas orders, and changing my sig to a Christmas one ;) . Then comes wrapping presents, etc.
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Steven J. Ackerman wrote: Decorate the outside of the house. The tree has been up since before Thanksgiving Your tree's been up since November! I'm not planning to put my Christmas decorations up until about a week/10 days before Christmas. At one end of my street there are some neighbours who are determined to out-do each other. Last years decorations were fabulous, but this year both of them have really gone to town. I can see one's conservatory from two streets away its lit up almost as bright as the Forth Bridge (that's the historic rail bridge Edinburgh and Fife. It, along with all the clouds within about 3 miles, is lit up each night) --Colin Mackay--
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but perseverance." (H. Jackson Brown) Enumerators in .NET: See how to customise foreach loops with C#
Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Your tree's been up since November! I'm not planning to put my Christmas decorations up until about a week/10 days before Christmas. At one end of my street there are some neighbours who are determined to out-do each other. Hehe, we don't try to outdo anyone, but we still put up our tree in early November. Outdoor lights go up somewhere between the day after Thanksgiving and the first weekend in December.
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What's everyone up to this weekend? For me it's going to be a little work, a lot of catching up on sleep, some Christmas shopping and possibly a great deal of lounging around with a good book. Any better ideas? cheers, Chris Maunder
Let's see... 1.) Work for "da man" to pay my mortgage 2.) Maybe a bit more Christmas shopping and hanging of lights around the house. 3.) Work on RecipeKing some more. 4.) Work on web sites a bit. 5.) Finish up reading Digital Fortress 6.) Start reading beginning SQL SErver 2000 Programming by Robin Dawson 7.) Review Chapter 8 (APS.NET server controls) of G. Andrew Duthie's book 9.) Ask wife if her carpet needs tending. If she says yes then forget above list. Best, Jerry
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little past them into the impossible.--Arthur C. Clark
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What's everyone up to this weekend? For me it's going to be a little work, a lot of catching up on sleep, some Christmas shopping and possibly a great deal of lounging around with a good book. Any better ideas? cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: What's everyone up to this weekend? It's already started! I just finished up walking a parade with all the Kiwanis clubs in the area, along with all the kids' clubs we sponsor. Reminds me of herding cats... Tomorrow is a spell at bell ringing for Salvation Army, followed by attending a karate tournament, then a Christmas party in the evening. And somewhere over the weekend I really should make up a final exam for my math class next week and revise my syllabus for next term. In my spare time I'll be trying to figure out how to link edit boxes with recordset fields in C++, fiddling with a website rewrite, and looking for work. Maybe I'll mow the yard if things get slow; I'm sure the neighbors will appreciate it. And the truck has been making a funny noise I really must look into. Beer will be involved in many of these activities, of course, so the weekend won't be a total loss. "Your village called -
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Corporate x-mas party tomorrow, well feed and well drunk party, if I can only manage not end up in an empty hotel room! :-O
Maximilien Lincourt "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with backup tapes." ("Computer Networks" by Andrew S Tannenbaum )
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What's everyone up to this weekend? For me it's going to be a little work, a lot of catching up on sleep, some Christmas shopping and possibly a great deal of lounging around with a good book. Any better ideas? cheers, Chris Maunder
Scanning family photos for next year's calendar. More work refactoring a gigantic app to (hopefully) allow multithreaded access. Consuming tasty malt beverages. Possibly chatting with my sister's boyfriend who's staying with us (an Aussie vacationing in Wisconsin in December. Not my place to judge... :~ ) If i get really bored, washing the ever-growing pile of dishes in the kitchen, so's i can actually eat here.
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What's everyone up to this weekend? For me it's going to be a little work, a lot of catching up on sleep, some Christmas shopping and possibly a great deal of lounging around with a good book. Any better ideas? cheers, Chris Maunder
SNOW on Saturday and Sunday.... :mad: Snow is already started here. :doh:
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Let's see... 1.) Work for "da man" to pay my mortgage 2.) Maybe a bit more Christmas shopping and hanging of lights around the house. 3.) Work on RecipeKing some more. 4.) Work on web sites a bit. 5.) Finish up reading Digital Fortress 6.) Start reading beginning SQL SErver 2000 Programming by Robin Dawson 7.) Review Chapter 8 (APS.NET server controls) of G. Andrew Duthie's book 9.) Ask wife if her carpet needs tending. If she says yes then forget above list. Best, Jerry
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little past them into the impossible.--Arthur C. Clark
Toasty0 wrote: 9.) Ask wife if her carpet needs tending. If she says yes then forget above list. Right on! :laugh: That's gotta be the best thing I've read all day. Chris Richardson
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What's everyone up to this weekend? For me it's going to be a little work, a lot of catching up on sleep, some Christmas shopping and possibly a great deal of lounging around with a good book. Any better ideas? cheers, Chris Maunder
Going to the bar tonight with my friends, same tomorrow night. Going to help my old roommate get a virus off his computer tomorrow afternoon, as well as some off-roading in the Jeep, which should be fun. I was hoping to get some Christmas shopping done, as my girlfriend keeps talking about "I bought you something again today honey.." for the last few days, and I don't want to get too far behind. But, if that doesn't happen this weekend, I'm sure I can get it done some other weekend. Anyways, if I were you, I'd ditch the book and take a nice drive in that car you bought (didn't you buy a car recently?). Take it out to the country, and have some fun driving on country back-roads. It's real relaxing, plus I'm sure Canuckda has some nice countryside to offer. Anyways, hope you have a great weekend! Everyone knows you deserve it. :) Chris Richardson
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What's everyone up to this weekend? For me it's going to be a little work, a lot of catching up on sleep, some Christmas shopping and possibly a great deal of lounging around with a good book. Any better ideas? cheers, Chris Maunder
The dreaded Christmas shopping for me this weekend too. Some time reading, and some perl scripting. And a little football on Sunday of course. No stress, no worries.
"Myths and the magic, Triumphant and tragic, A mechanized world out of hand. "
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We (me, g/f and my son Ian) are all flying to San Diego tomorrow morning for 8 eight days of business/pleasure. Assuming the plane gets off the ground. It's snowing quite a bit right now, and there's sleet expected in the morning. At least the airport is 15 minutes away! And it'll be in the high 60's in San Diego! That reminds me...I wonder if that young whippersnapper wants to show an old gheezer like me around his dad's work? What was his name...oh yeah...David....David Stone! Marc Latest AAL Article My blog Join my forum!
Must you pick the absolute worst time of the year to come out here? ;P Marc...it's the week before finals. If I have any free time at all...I'm using it to study. But I suppose a quick lunch at Dave & Busters might not hurt... ;)
When I can talk about 64 bit processors and attract girls with my computer not my car, I'll come out of the closet. Until that time...I'm like "What's the ENTER key?" -Hockey on being a geek
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What's everyone up to this weekend? For me it's going to be a little work, a lot of catching up on sleep, some Christmas shopping and possibly a great deal of lounging around with a good book. Any better ideas? cheers, Chris Maunder
Let's see...my Neice's birthday party (I'm workin' the dough ornament painting station), hang the Christmas lights and throw together the new P4 3.0 GHz machine with dual monitors that showed up today. Which means a lot of moving things around (flip a coin to see which one of my lucky employees gets my hand me down 2.4 GHz machine). Should be a busy one :) Drew.
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What's everyone up to this weekend? For me it's going to be a little work, a lot of catching up on sleep, some Christmas shopping and possibly a great deal of lounging around with a good book. Any better ideas? cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: What's everyone up to this weekend? Work ... what else would i be doing ? Next weekend is Palm Springs - big fencing comp, friends will be down from Vancouver and Toronto. Should be good. Chris Maunder wrote: Any better ideas? Get the CP team together and go cut down a tree for the office. Just to be clear, i mean go to a tree farm and do it. I'm not suggesting some clandestine op where you roam the city and cut down a random tree. Chris : (bzzz) this is Bob-1, i have target in sight. Target appears to be unaware of my presence, condition is green. David : (bzzz) Bob-2, in position. Nish : (bzzz) Bob-3, have tapped into CIA surveillance satellite. I have a visual on your position, area is secure. Oh, and might i add, this satellite has some awesome bandwidth. I mean compared to the crud I ... Chris : (bzzz) Bob-3, please stay focused. Chris : (bzzz) Ok people, GO! GO! GO! (wood-chips go flying, a tree goes down ... no tears are shed) ...cmk Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What Rosencrantz: England Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers then. Save the whales - collect the whole set
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What's everyone up to this weekend? For me it's going to be a little work, a lot of catching up on sleep, some Christmas shopping and possibly a great deal of lounging around with a good book. Any better ideas? cheers, Chris Maunder
For me, it's shopping on Saturday morning followed by our office Xmas party this afternoon. Just got back from CD, etc... shopping and watching south park on my PC while fidgeting with my Blog's code. Tomorrow, it's probably fixing my DVD writer (should be intertaining) and reading a book or something. Cheers, Simon sig ::
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Must you pick the absolute worst time of the year to come out here? ;P Marc...it's the week before finals. If I have any free time at all...I'm using it to study. But I suppose a quick lunch at Dave & Busters might not hurt... ;)
When I can talk about 64 bit processors and attract girls with my computer not my car, I'll come out of the closet. Until that time...I'm like "What's the ENTER key?" -Hockey on being a geek
David Stone wrote: Marc...it's the week before finals. If I have any free time at all...I'm using it to study. But I suppose a quick lunch at Dave & Busters might not hurt... he he. OK. That sounds good. Our flight this morning got cancelled! We're going to try a 4PM flight, but I don't know about that either, since it looks like there will be more snow. Anyways, send me an email with some contact info and, assuming we eventually get there, I'll give you a call. Marc Latest AAL Article My blog Join my forum!
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SNOW on Saturday and Sunday.... :mad: Snow is already started here. :doh:
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What's everyone up to this weekend? For me it's going to be a little work, a lot of catching up on sleep, some Christmas shopping and possibly a great deal of lounging around with a good book. Any better ideas? cheers, Chris Maunder
On Sarurday we have a friendly visit. On Synday I'm going to a Russian consulate to vote for new Russia's Parliament. Вагиф Абилов MCP (Visual C++) Oslo, Norway Hex is for sissies. Real men use binary. And the most hardcore types use only zeros - uppercase zeros and lowercase zeros. Tomasz Sowinski
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What's everyone up to this weekend? For me it's going to be a little work, a lot of catching up on sleep, some Christmas shopping and possibly a great deal of lounging around with a good book. Any better ideas? cheers, Chris Maunder
Working, the second job is kicking in big time at the moment, which is good seeing as I have a hectic week present wise coming up soon. Second job's pay week is Thursday - Wednesday. Last week I did 14 hours, beaten that already this week. Thursday night 5.5 hours, today 9 onsite, 1 here at home and about another 3 to go tonight. Hopefully more in the first couple of days of the week. As for the hectic week to come - 21st Mother In-law's Birthday 25th Christmas for my 2 kids 26th Wife's Birthday 27th Father In-law's Birthday Michael Martin Australia "I suspect I will be impressed though, I am easy." - Paul Watson 21/09/2003
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What's everyone up to this weekend? For me it's going to be a little work, a lot of catching up on sleep, some Christmas shopping and possibly a great deal of lounging around with a good book. Any better ideas? cheers, Chris Maunder
little work i hoped so, but i was wrong. a lot of catching up on sleep ditto. some Christmas shopping there's still plenty of time to do it. :). and possibly a great deal of lounging around with a good book yeah, a VC++ book. "Gods die, when their believers are gone." --from Sandman by Neil Gaiman