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Pretty good guess! 
I used to work for other people, first Government departments, then medium companies, then small ones.
Then I was MD of a small company for some years, then I went to being me, myself and I.
I like it: I'm responsible to me, for me, and everything that happens is either my good work, or my fault. There is no politics, no dodging the blame, no interviewing morons who lied on their CVs, no people quitting when the project reaches urgent status.
I can make decisions (mind you, I always did - just sometimes I wasn't supposed to) and I don't have to argue with anyone to get something done. I also don't have to worry if one month there isn't enough to pay the staff and the suppliers - which has happened in the past - It's obvious: pay what you have to, and pay me what I can. Employees don't work like that!
Yes, there are down sides but it suits me. And nobody can tell me what to do or threaten to fire me if I won't work the whole weekend while they swan off to the pub!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Are you hiring 
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Sorry - no!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Quietly P
tap H
Can you explain this bit (I was surprised that the rest is clear to me...)?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Quietly as in the musical term piano (gently) or P.
Tap (Hot and Cold), in this case H.
I forgot to add that if you are a Septic Tank or you live in Septic Tank Land, then a UK tap is known by the on-the-other-side-of-the-pond reprobates as a faucet?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
modified 19-Feb-14 5:24am.
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Septimus Hedgehog wrote: Tap (Hot and Cold)
I had always thought the 'H' was for minature Helicopters to land on. The C had always confused me though.
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We all make that mistake. C (collection) is where you store your miniature helicopters.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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15 Core![^]
Enough to run a medium sized planet?
And a snip at £5000 each.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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On Saturday my wife and I were going to a spa for a couples massage (our Valentines day gift for each other). Last week had been pretty tough on me and I have had tension in my shoulders since Christmas, so I needed it.
The spa is downtown where the streets are smallish, but not really too narrow and tiny. I make a right hand turn while looking for the place and I clip the curb on the corner with the right rear tire, sending a good jolt through the car. My wife gives me The Look.
The spa is right there, so I pull into a parking spot and turn off the car. When I hear the Pfffttt of air escaping, I immediately know I pinched the sidewall of the tire and it is going to cost me.
My wife turns to me and says "You need to be more careful when you turn right, you are not good at judging the distance anymore".
Yeah, things like that make me SoMad. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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think positive ! At least you had a massage 
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HobbyProggy wrote: At least you had a massage
Is that what they call it nowadays? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Age does that to us all...
If it's any consolation, I was chopping onions last Friday (to fry for hot dogs for lunch) but I was wearing my "walk-about" glasses instead of my "reading", or "computer" glasses.
Guess who cut the tip off his left thumb?
Only a small piece - size of your little fingernail - but bled like anything and I still have a bandage to prevent me knocking it...surprising how much it affects my typing!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Guess who cut the tip off his left thumb?
Well, that was a stupid thing to do, wasn't it? Didn't the wife tell you so?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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No she was quite good, really - she even put the plaster on. Then the second one on that, and the third...
So I moved to a latex glove and waited until it had calmed down a bit before we put a "proper" bandage on... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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That sucks too. Did mrs wife give you a good scolding?
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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No, she even (with huge reluctance) offered to do the washing up for me until it was sorted. I blew it though, suggesting it might take a couple of years was probably a mistake.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: surprising how much it affects my typing!
But in a positive way - I don't see any misspelled 'the' 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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OriginalGriff wrote: Age does that to us all...
But I am not old. Sure, I had to get reading glasses a couple of years ago and yes, sometimes it takes a while to get a good steady stream going...wait...where am I going with this? 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Yep I'm not old either, at least not from the inside.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Quote: I make a right hand turn while looking for the place and I clip the curb on the corner with the right rear tire, sending a good jolt through the car
It could be worse: my wife did that and, of course, it was my fault. 
Veni, vidi, vici.
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 My wife is a good driver and has plenty of confidence. At one point she had an old Navigator and she would parallel park that monster as if she was born to do it. It's great because she doesn't really get dings and scratches, but it sucks because that leaves me without a comeback when something like this happens. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Normally my wife is the same. But a while ago when she was parking MY car right next to a good friends car, she got to close and scratched up the entire side of both cars (I don't think she ever told our friend, but her car was a wreck even before it got the extra scratch, so what the heck).
I didn't say anything, because I tend to scratch the car myself at regular intervals. I don't think it's really a question of distance perception, more of carelessness.
I'm not really that careful about my car. As far as I'm concerned, it's mostly a tool that gets me from A to B, and it can do that just as good with a few scratches as it can without.
But as the car ages, I seem to get more and more careful. I realize that I might have to sell it and buy a new in a not too distant future, and it will of course have a higher value with less scratches...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 19-Feb-14 4:24am.
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Scratches and dings have advantages in a car:
1) Nobody wants to steal it.
2) Everybody gives way, because they don't want you to hit them - and it's clear you hit lots in the past...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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