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13539. Ms. No - 1/27/2005 12:26:51 AM Congratulations!
Do we get pictures??? 13540. alistairConnor - 1/27/2005 12:29:34 AM I'm thinking I should do some pictures. A couple of historical progress shots, plus a few finished-product things.
This weekend most likely.
The thing about the stable boys is true, I've met one of them. 13541. Ms. No - 1/27/2005 12:39:46 AM I believe it. There are plenty of people in the world still living through winter thanks to the heat of their stock animals. 13542. Macnas - 1/27/2005 10:56:20 AM I think some pictures would be good too.
If only so I can laugh at your handiwork. 13543. Ms. No - 1/27/2005 6:32:39 PM ooooh, cruel! 13544. The Summer Woman - 1/27/2005 7:57:35 PM Ms. No - that sounds really exciting.
Alistair - You live in a windmill?
I have always had a fondness for decayed and rotting things. I feel at peace in a landfill, looking at the detritus of other people's lives. 13545. PelleNilsson - 1/27/2005 8:28:17 PM No, in a former nightclub, le Moulin Rouge du Massif Central. Alistair has skilfully preserved a piece of the stage where he, accompanied by a fat-tailed Jordanian sheep and dressed as Lawrence of Arabia, performs lascivious dances for selected audiences, thus preserving several ancient traditions, 13546. alistairConnor - 1/27/2005 11:11:00 PM I have always had a fondness for decayed and rotting things well you'll certainly feel at home here - please let me know next time you're over this way.
Le Moulin Chorel is the the lieu-dit, but the (water) mill itself, which used to be on the other side of the stream, was demolished shortly after the first world war. The millstone is still lying in the field, I keep thinking I should dig it up and do something with it, but I haven't thought what yet. 13547. thoughtful - 1/27/2005 11:14:59 PM There's a home in our area that was a former water mill. They have a couple of millstones on end marking their drive and also use one as the step into their house. 13548. Magoseph - 1/28/2005 3:01:30 PM Hello, Mac, Ronski and everyone--I can't believe that January is almost gone--I did preciously litte so far this winter, except making certain that Flexy doesn't have the same winter as the last one.
It is so exciting reading about Ms. No's and Ali's renovations. I think about the satisfaction one gets in having done, or participated in, something that will last. 13549. Macnas - 1/28/2005 3:39:56 PM Hello Mago. 13550. wonkers2 - 1/30/2005 3:39:55 AM In December I embarked on my fourth career, representing unemployment compensation claimants in appeals proceedings (for any lawyers out there, administrative law judge hearings), and yesterday I received my third decision, a complete win for the claimant I represented. That makes two wins and one loss. My next hearing is Tuesday. It involves the termination of an engineer with 26 years service with an auto parts supplier for what seems to me a very minor matter, as the case law says "an isolated instance of poor judgment," not a "wanton or willful disregard of the employer's interest" which is the test in Michigan for establishing disqualifying misconduct. Not satisfied with firing the engineer and reducing the company's pension liability and completely avoiding any further health care costs, the company is trying to screw him out of unemployment compensation. His odds appear to me to be better than 50-50. If anybody is interested, I'll report after the hearing and administrative law judge decision. 13551. judithathome - 1/30/2005 4:41:12 AM I'm in! 13552. Magoseph - 1/30/2005 3:30:03 PM I am interested too, Wonk, and glad that you found something that seems to engage you—I remember what you mentioned about retirement.
13553. Magoseph - 1/30/2005 4:12:23 PM Don’t forget to read this hilarious piece in the Technology and Science: Message # 5045 in thread 27.
'Am I going to be a playstation widow? Are you going to spend all your time playing games and ignoring me?' Half-jokingly as women do.
I know of one couple within our family in which this complaint counted very much indeed in the recent divorce. Luckily for him, the husband won the court battle and that is only because the wife’s games were worse than his were.
13554. arkymalarky - 1/30/2005 7:14:51 PM Sounds like a great job, Wonk. I hope to read about a good outcome. 13555. PsychProf - 1/30/2005 7:48:49 PM Wonkers...I would find that very interesting. 13556. wonkers2 - 1/30/2005 8:22:50 PM Thanks, everybody, for your interest. There was a long story in my Sunday paper about several people who posted, anonymously or so they thought, to chat rooms and lost their jobs or otherwise got into trouble. So, I have to take care that what I post in this forum does not identify the individuals or companies involved. This means I won't beable to post some of the details which might be of interest. Anyway, thanks for wishing me and my client luck. 13557. Magoseph - 1/31/2005 3:22:33 PM Hello, everyone--I try to retrieve the paper this morning--I see it way out there in a virgin snow area and I think I can walk in yesterday’s footprints. I have a snow rake that helps to slide the paper over the snow towards me. So here, I am near the paper--extend my rake and both arms and find myself prone, head and feet covered with snow. I stand up and this time, the back of my head hits the ground and I see all white. Later, my good nature restored, I call the paper and request that the paper is to be thrown out to the driveway from now--or I will cancel a fifty-year-old subscription--may forgive me the dear departed one who originated it. 13558. alistairconnor - 1/31/2005 4:10:30 PM Mago making involuntary angels in the snow... very good.
On Saturday afternoon, there was a bit of sun, and temperatures above zero for the first time for a week. So we took the ponies for a trot in the woods, very pretty, the snow snot deep but still clean and powdery. But the tracks, usually muddy, were frozen solid under the thin snow, and very treacherous.
We were passing near a friend's house, and the dog came tearing down the hill to greet us. Which spooked one of the ponies, she reared and elder daughter tumbled off the back -- she will insist on riding bareback -- and the pony appeared to be kicking her, I think it was probably just trying to get clear and slipping on the ice. Anyway, I came flying to the rescue, and fell flat on my ice...
Nobody hurt, there is just the barest trace of a bruise on daughter's back which might be a pony kick.
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