What's on your mind today?

[Asmodean]

Sounds... Cute. 

[Tank]

Today is Mom's birthday, so my brother and I are teaming up. He's making dinner and I'm making a chocolate cake. Best part? It's a surprise. I can't wait to see Mom's face when she sees what we made.

Excellent party!

[The Magic Pudding]

Working on the wording.

[Ali]

Armidale is located on the Northern Tablelands in the New England region about midway between Sydney and Brisbane at an altitude (980 m AHD)[3] ranging from 970 metres at the floor of the valley to 1,110 metres above sea level at the crests of the hills. To the east are heavily forested steep basalt gorges dropping down to the eastern coastal plain. Some parts of the highlands are composed of granite and decomposed granite soil, which is slightly deficient in nutrients. There are also basalt intrusions which are more fertile than the granite country. To the west are gently undulating pastures and bushland.

Ye so Armidale is a university town and my daughter is starting her third year.  We gave her our old car last year and the positive of that was we wouldn't have to do these trips again.  Didn't work out that way, two cars go one comes home after moving a couple of camel loads of stuff.  It seems entirely inefficient to drive seven hours to spend twenty minutes carrying stuff.  People with faces you love will use those faces to make you do silly things sometimes.

A tale of the trip, from the coast across the/a lesser great divide and back again.

It rained heaps over night, it has been raining a lot, rivers flooding in a minor to moderate way, in a major way in places not that far away.
Rain wasn't a problem on the way there.  Busy rivers, streams, gulleys even a gutter full enough to float a leaf can be a distraction to a person with a fascination for flow though.  

The road is a two lane thing, one each way.
Bugger all traffic, it's not a major highway.
You start by driving forty minutes west by familiar road, stop at Long Flat because there's a toilet there and the next one is in the wild, a place my loves have named Wolf Creek.  I point out a calf to my daughter, she falls in loves, calf slips under an electric fence while I'm not looking and my Beth regales me with a story of the calf's special sneaking under fence abilities.  My wife hears the river, or demands me to hear it, already the details become vague, we used to do them together from the Murrumbidgee to the Baron where crocs disturb your peace of mind.

Another fifteen minutes driving through the lower Hastings valley you start to climb, winding road 25km/15mph forest bends for about 45 minutes and you arer are in another place entirely.  These places aren't mine I haven't figured out a way to describe them.

The trip back was interesting, the sky was... you see a sky and it looks blue, it's not proper blue but it isn't rain grey.  Skirting storms, driving on roads left drenched and steaming by a storm just past.

You're a good dad, Pudding. 

[Sandra Craft]

Going to meet a new client today.  Nervous because they had a lot of problems and requested to be moved from their old account rep, and they are a huge client, and now they are my problem.  Hope they like me.  LOL

I don't see why they wouldn't.  So, how did it go?

[Crow]

Architecture by far is the most boring, tiresome job I can imagine doing. I'm helping out a my architect get some drawings ready and it is by far the most mind numbing experience I have had in a long time and the list of things to do never seems to stop rolling in.

Anything I can help with? 

I'm a demon on AutoCAD don't you know...

Thanks for the offer but its all sorted now, but that's good to know I will certainly remember that.

[Ali]

Going to meet a new client today.  Nervous because they had a lot of problems and requested to be moved from their old account rep, and they are a huge client, and now they are my problem.  Hope they like me.  LOL

I don't see why they wouldn't.  So, how did it go?

Really good, actually.  What can I say, I'm a charmer.  LOL

[Amicale]

Going to meet a new client today.  Nervous because they had a lot of problems and requested to be moved from their old account rep, and they are a huge client, and now they are my problem.  Hope they like me.  LOL

I don't see why they wouldn't.  So, how did it go?

Really good, actually.  What can I say, I'm a charmer.  LOL

Yay, congrats, glad it went well. 

[Amicale]

Today is Mom's birthday, so my brother and I are teaming up. He's making dinner and I'm making a chocolate cake. Best part? It's a surprise. I can't wait to see Mom's face when she sees what we made.

Aww, that's great! I bet she'll love the surprise!

[En_Route]

Going to meet a new client today.  Nervous because they had a lot of problems and requested to be moved from their old account rep, and they are a huge client, and now they are my problem.  Hope they like me.  LOL

I don't see why they wouldn't.  So, how did it go?

Really good, actually.  What can I say, I'm a charmer.  LOL

More like genuinely nice, I'd say.

[Guardian85]

Just came off a three day nightshift, and am typing this in full on zombie mode.

[Asmodean]

CERN.

[Amicale]

CERN.

What about CERN? Upping the hadron collider's energy, or something else?

[Tank]

CERN.

What about CERN? Upping the hadron collider's energy, or something else?

I too would like to understand Asmo's cryptic comment.

[Buddy]

Okay, I know I'm quiet in class, but this is ridiculous. I sit in the front row of desks in my maths class. My teacher stands right next to my desk when he lectures, which is for about half of the class. I also answered some of the questions that he asked. Five minutes until the bell rings, I'm working on my homework and he comes up to my desk and asks me if I was in class the whole time. Apparently, he counted me absent. I am now invisible. What worse, this isn't the first time it's happened to me. For some reason, I find it really funny.