My Own Journey To The West!

[puddingcat]

I've told O I'll do the Great Race and passed on 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.

Comments

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Hope you're planning to take a bucketload of race photos!

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Hell, yes!

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

I'm not getitng married. I'm not even getting laid.

Know how you feel.

* wallow wallow wallow *

Oh bugger. Mask slipping there, isn't it?

:/

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

*manages to engage brain before making smutty remarks about being ready, willing and able to lend a helping hand with that...*

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Um.

Please consider this a gentle reminder that constant pervy comments can become very wearing and irritating.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Really? Damn. Shall have to bear that in mind.

Re: icon

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Only out of jealousy (and an excuse to use this icon...)

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.

Re: icon

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Whereas I'm past that and into the melancholy navel-gazing phase.

How is your cycle-fu these days? You reckon I'm due?

Re: icon

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Hard to tell now you're happy!

Re: icon

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

My apologies - I shall refrain in future.

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

She started it; that comment was begging for a retort.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

I did, and it was.

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

It was, and I did. :p

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

* hug *

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.

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

*hugs back*

Long distance love sucks mightily sometimes...

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Yup. But it DOES force you to treasure every second when you DO get to be together.

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

*smiles sadly* True enough...

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

You cheered her up, anyway.

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?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

If you have a non-biometric passport you need to apply for a visa before you go to the US.

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?

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I meant chipped, not biometric. D'oh. The kind I haven't got - but there are two kinds I haven't got!

Re: Huh?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Same thing, the biometric info is stored on the chip.
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.

Re: Huh?

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Ah - machine readable and chip are also not the same thing. (How much more complicated can they make this? Is there some kind of ritual where you have to hop around the airport singing a song patting your head and rubbing your belly as well?) link
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.

Re: Huh?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

The machine readable ones are those that have a laminated page with all the important info on it.
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.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Too bad I've already planned my US trip for this year or I would be happy to be your personal photographer...
When you mentioned Cannonball Run, I thought you meant this.

You rock, but you knew that. :o)

*giggles*

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

You'd have to find your own transport :p

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

That wouldn't be a problem.

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

Note to Self. Engage brain, *then* open mouth.

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!

[pond823.livejournal.com]

Gah, I'm so jealous of you that I almost said something cruel about your addendum, ;)

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

Oh so exciting! The fabulousness of you doing this takes my breath away! And so much better than saving all your miserable pennies until you are dead!

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.

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

So listen, I have what is probably a really stupid question about the Cannonball Run:

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?

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Was the other way around :) There's something on wikipedia about the original race, then the film came along in 1981.

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!

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

Ah, thankyou. As suspected, I was being daft again.

So there's not likely to be wackiness with Roger Moore, Burt Reynolds, Jackie Chan etc? :(

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Sadly, no :(

We'll just have to be the Chartered Accountants team sadly omitted from the film!

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

Och well, never mind.

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

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Ah. Possibly, if you sewed both those catsuits together, I could fit into the end product (with the help of a shoehorn).

O is - erm - well built :) He *certainly* won't be wearing spandex! Besides, I think his fiancee might object somewhat...

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

Possibly, if you sewed both those catsuits together, I could fit into the end product (with the help of a shoehorn).

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

[munchkinott.livejournal.com]

I've told O I'll do the Great Race

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*

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I'll settle for the *second* most awesome, etc - I don't want to upset his fiancee!

Meaningless sex can be the best sort. No ties (you know what I mean), no comebacks, no awkward conversations...

[munchkinott.livejournal.com]

You won't upset her. Really. You're a living icon of religion-forming deification... How could that POSSIBLY upset anyone?

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 occasionally frequently 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.*

[indochine-uk.livejournal.com]

You're a hero. Oh yes. Proving that girls not getting laid can still be frikkin' awesome.

*clearly firmly in the not getting laid camp*

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Hey, maybe we should start an LJ community for "Cool People Who Aren't Getting Any"?

*If* this comes off, I'll be most smug about succeding where the TG3 failed ;)

Sign me up!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I think that community would get a lot of members rather quickly. The danger is that it might turn into a find a f***-buddy comm...

Re: Sign me up!

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Hence restricting it to *cool* people. As defined by me :)

Re: Sign me up!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

That works!

[munchkinott.livejournal.com]

*If* this comes off, I'll be most smug about succeding where the TG3 failed ;)

They created an LJ comm for Cool People Who Aren't Getting Any and it was a failure? O.o