Parts of this description are quite frighteningly familiar..


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ellistar and I went to the Lowry yesterday afternoon to see Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead. This is a fascinating play by Tom Stoppard with LAYERS. Lots of them. R&G are bit parts in Hamlet. This play is them all the time. Hamlet weaves in and out of the action, but the play centres on their disattachment and frustration over not really knowing ( Read more... )

I went to a meeting today that was held at a Holiday Inn. The five car parking spaces nearest the entrance were "reserved for lady business drivers ( Read more... )

On Sunday Smeages got married. I don't think there are very many of you on here who know him, but I can assure you that this is a minor miracle. His parents still bore a look of astonishment by the end of the day, and his mother actually said to me "none of us expected to see this day, did we ( Read more... )

Today I poddled into my kitchen, and there was a very big mouse on the floor. At least I hope it was a mouse. How big do they have to be before you suspect rattiness? It was about 4-5 inches plus the same again in tail.

Retrospectively, ellistar informs me that he would have said "oh bugger, we've got mice again", and once it had peacefully walked ( Read more... )

Who's going to Odyssey? I am trying to talk Jem into going (mainly because NWO is drawing to a close and I don't want Maelstrom to be our only game), and I need ammunition ( Read more... )

Ye Gods, I'm tired. We bodily threw the last people out of the Casino at 3am every night, and were back up by 9am to have breakfast before time-in. And then I spent the days in Rimici Capell meetings with chancellors and governors thrashing out colony development loans. Eep ( Read more... )

It's ages since I posted; far too busy actually living to spend time reporting upon it. I'd better use some cut thingies to protect the bored from my life.

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I had a strange dream last night. Well, if truth be told I have strange dreams all night, and every night; but this one I remember ( Read more... )

Tech support needed.

Does anyone know where I can download a free reader for EBCDIC files, or download one on x day trial? I use Monarch on my laptop, but I need to download something to a desktop tomorrow at a client site.

Ta