My Own Journey To The West!
May. 2nd, 2007 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puddingcatI've told O I'll do the Great Race and passed on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
munchkinott's link to the Corvette dealer.
The track day is in Vegas! How cool is that! O's something of a poker player too; I'll just have to take along a corset & distract everyone else ;)
Good grief. I'm excited enough about this that I'm not worried any more about spending a week with someone who'll be an ex-work friend and what he might think of me by the end.
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Addendum: Things not to say in the office, Part n=n+1.
H: My brother's getting married. Everybody's getting married except me.
Me: I'm not getitng married. I'm not even getting laid.
H laughed so much she cried. G (H's red haired sidekick) went scarlet.
Note to Self. Engage brain, *then* open mouth.
munchkinott's link to the Corvette dealer.The track day is in Vegas! How cool is that! O's something of a poker player too; I'll just have to take along a corset & distract everyone else ;)
Good grief. I'm excited enough about this that I'm not worried any more about spending a week with someone who'll be an ex-work friend and what he might think of me by the end.
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Addendum: Things not to say in the office, Part n=n+1.
H: My brother's getting married. Everybody's getting married except me.
Me: I'm not getitng married. I'm not even getting laid.
H laughed so much she cried. G (H's red haired sidekick) went scarlet.
Note to Self. Engage brain, *then* open mouth.
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Date: 2007-05-02 09:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-03 09:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-02 09:50 am (UTC)Know how you feel.
* wallow wallow wallow *
Oh bugger. Mask slipping there, isn't it?
:/
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Date: 2007-05-02 11:42 am (UTC)*manages to engage brain before making smutty remarks about being ready, willing and able to lend a helping hand with that...*
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Date: 2007-05-02 11:52 am (UTC)Please consider this a gentle reminder that constant pervy comments can become very wearing and irritating.
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Date: 2007-05-02 12:05 pm (UTC)Re: icon
Date: 2007-05-02 01:16 pm (UTC)Don't worry; wasn't talking to you :)
There's a difference, between Carry On double entendres, and being able to predict where the personal comments are going to come from. I don't want to get to the point of wanting to set up a filter so I can talk about going shopping for bras without getting detailed speculation about my breasts.
Gah. I've clearly hit the "Oh, FFS" stage of sense-of-humour-failure.
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Date: 2007-05-02 02:40 pm (UTC)How is your cycle-fu these days? You reckon I'm due?
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Date: 2007-05-02 02:50 pm (UTC)Re: icon
Date: 2007-05-02 09:52 pm (UTC)My apologies - I shall refrain in future.
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Date: 2007-05-02 09:50 pm (UTC)She started it; that comment was begging for a retort.
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Date: 2007-05-02 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-02 10:11 pm (UTC)It was, and I did. :p
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Date: 2007-05-02 12:04 pm (UTC)Thanks love. It's not that I couldn't get laid if I wanted to, I'm not short of offers; it's that the person I want is manymanymany miles away and I have no prospect of seeing him any time soon.
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Date: 2007-05-02 10:00 pm (UTC)*hugs back*
Long distance love sucks mightily sometimes...
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Date: 2007-05-02 10:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-02 10:10 pm (UTC)*smiles sadly* True enough...
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Date: 2007-05-02 09:54 am (UTC)If you have a non-biometric passport you need to apply for a visa before you go to the US. Everybody ought to know this.
Huh?
Date: 2007-05-02 10:21 am (UTC)Who says this? Link, please.
You don't (just checked with a colleague who was there last month). It needs to be machine readable, though.
Re: Huh?
Date: 2007-05-02 10:42 am (UTC)Re: Huh?
Date: 2007-05-02 10:55 am (UTC)OK, I haven't checked any British sources but as long as a German passport was issued before October 2005 (which mine is), you don't need a biometric/chipped one. I would assume this is the case for British ones (and other visa waiver countries), too.
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Date: 2007-05-02 11:10 am (UTC)You can get in visa-free if you have a machine readable piece of text at the bottom with chevrons on it, and I do.
Now I am trying to remember what I read that convinced me only chipped ones were machine-readable so I can ask them to disambiguate.
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Date: 2007-05-02 11:28 am (UTC)Watch next time, they open it and run the bottom of the laminated bit through a slot like you would with a card with magnetic strip.
You're right, chips are machine readable as well, which is indeed ambiguous.
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Date: 2007-05-02 10:18 am (UTC)When you mentioned Cannonball Run, I thought you meant this.
You rock, but you knew that. :o)
*giggles*
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Date: 2007-05-03 09:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-03 09:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-02 10:27 am (UTC)Nah, you're better just speaking without thinking first. It's always much more fun and if you spend too much time pondering what you should say, you never say anything at all!
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Date: 2007-05-02 10:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-02 02:02 pm (UTC)Also I saw your doppelganger on thie tube this morning and was going to hit her on the head and steal her gothofficewear for you as it was marvellous but she got away.
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Date: 2007-05-02 03:02 pm (UTC)Which came first, the race or the film?
Since I am a film person and very much not a car race person, I didn't even know there was a real race and only heard about it a few years back. So I naturally assumed the film came first and the actual race was invented afterwards. Was it in fact the other way round?
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Date: 2007-05-02 03:10 pm (UTC)This isn't actually a "Cannonball Run" insofar as it's legal and doesn't use the name, but it is at least coast to coast across the US!
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Date: 2007-05-02 03:42 pm (UTC)So there's not likely to be wackiness with Roger Moore, Burt Reynolds, Jackie Chan etc? :(
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Date: 2007-05-02 04:18 pm (UTC)We'll just have to be the Chartered Accountants team sadly omitted from the film!
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Date: 2007-05-02 05:27 pm (UTC)I hope you'll be dressing like this, at least?
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a290/pmoodie/cannonball1.jpg
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a290/pmoodie/cannonball2.jpg
;D
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Date: 2007-05-03 09:01 am (UTC)O is - erm - well built :) He *certainly* won't be wearing spandex! Besides, I think his fiancee might object somewhat...
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Date: 2007-05-03 10:58 am (UTC)Tush and fie! Methinks you exaggerate!
So, we've established there'll be no Roger Moore, no Burt Reynolds, no Jackie Chan and no spandex catsuits! And you're still going??? LOL
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Date: 2007-05-02 04:38 pm (UTC)DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE! *bounces up and down* This will be the most awesome, exciting, otherwise fabulous and life-affirming thing you've ever done. *massive hug*
what he might think of me by the end.
Don't worry, he'll only think you're THE MOST AWESOME WOMAN WHO EVER LIVED. Cross-continental coast-to-coast racing with a corset-compulsive - I'm sorry but that is immeasurably cool. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs their head examined.
Me: I'm not getitng married. I'm not even getting laid.
*raises hand* Me either. I've decided there are greater things in the universe at-large than the pursuit of meaningless sex... I haven't found what these things are yet, but at least I'm deluding myself that they're there. *nods firmly*
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Date: 2007-05-03 09:04 am (UTC)Meaningless sex can be the best sort. No ties (you know what I mean), no comebacks, no awkward conversations...
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Date: 2007-05-03 07:24 pm (UTC)On the Meaningless Sex front - you have a point. The only problem is I reached the apathetic 'oh screw it, why bother! I've got porn!' point a loooong time ago. *headdesks* I am
occasionallyfrequently be partial to getting what's known as A Bloody Good Seeing-To. Unfortunately I mastered sarcastic and unapproachable after passing my GCSE in obliviousness. So even when I'm aware I'm being hit on I give off the 'you do not have a snowflake's chance in hell' vibe.*head. desk.*
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Date: 2007-05-02 05:59 pm (UTC)*clearly firmly in the not getting laid camp*
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Date: 2007-05-03 09:03 am (UTC)*If* this comes off, I'll be most smug about succeding where the TG3 failed ;)
Sign me up!
Date: 2007-05-03 09:58 am (UTC)Re: Sign me up!
Date: 2007-05-03 10:30 am (UTC)Re: Sign me up!
Date: 2007-05-03 10:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-03 07:26 pm (UTC)They created an LJ comm for Cool People Who Aren't Getting Any and it was a failure? O.o