another Happy New Year

From a west coast island far away.


Life here is... sedate. Quiet. Easy. Too easy.
Something horrible is about to happen. Any UKRMers planning
a trip sometime soon by any chance?

 

Marc D says...

And the same to you. Nice to see you're enjoying life over there.

 

<Raises glass>

Here's to absent UKRMers!

Still watching the trees grow on Vancouver Island then?

Out to your neck of the woods? Or in general?

 

Is that where he is? I'm jealous. Gorgeous place.

Ali

 

Wotcha Marc!

I was going to go to Oz after Easter, but depending on how things
go next week that may change.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

It's not too bad. Another year as an undergrad then I'll be
moving on, assuming the family can agree where we go next.

 

Happy New Year to the Cannuck!

Not planning a trip over your way on '07, got too many trips planned
already! Perhaps '08..

How's the knee doing nowadays?

--
Lesley
CBR600FW
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18
Real burds don't take hormones, they rage naturally

 

I ain't absent! I'm just... away.
Pint of Fat Cat Porter for me please!
(local brewery. Quite nice.)

Or blow down in the high winds, or get cut down and shipped
to the USA. But in general, yes. Also watching the marijuana
crops growing. Must be half a dozen in my area alone.

I don't know. I just got chills, that's all. Like maybe someone
was planning a UKRM hits Nanaimo (which, so long as the north
end is razed to the ground, might be a good thing).

 

That's "pedantic canuck" to you, and it's only got 1 'n'.

At which point the family (me, partner, 2 cats, 1 dog) will
probably be ending our multi-year vacation and moving off the
island. Oh well.

As healed as it will ever be. They pulled a metre of titanium wire
out of it a couple years ago. Now it's just doing the slow
degeneration thing until I can't walk at all. Luckily, the knee
is degenerating more slowly than I, so I haven't really noticed.
There's a lot of good food, wine and beer here on the island...
well, there was when I got here anyway.

 

Hey Dr Ivan! How's Brunel treating you?

So long as you don't end up in the wrong Sidney. http://tinyurl.com/yy2jkp

Actually, if you end up in Victoria... BC, I can provide a couple
beers as you wait for the next flight.

 

Hello Marc

My trip is already planned so I hope to be excluded from your soothsaying.

How's the degree going? On course for whatever they call a first over
there?

 

Pretty much. Although it's not exactly a 1st string institution,
I'm pretty happy with the quality of the instruction. I extended my
sentence by a year to take more senior courses, but then I need
to find a graduate school. Vague noises are being made about
coming back to the UK for that... very vague. More like stay
in Canada.

 

Well, I've got a long-standing ambition to make it out to your current
location so I'll keep that in mind if I ever make it.

Smoke it

If UKRM hits, you'll notice that because the whole island will have
suddenly run out of beer...

's funny, I'm not one of these premonition types but for some reason I
decided that travelling tonight was a bad idea. No real reason, just a
bad feeling - so I figured I may celebrate the New Year at home
instead, in the company of UKRM[1] instead of driving up to London as
originally planned.

[1] Shoot me now, I guess...

 

Well, I'm not averse to trying anywhere, really ;o)

Except the Poles (North and South, that is, not the people from that
country). I don't like it when it gets too cold.

So, you've invited people over there to visit just before you leave for
other climes, and it looks like you just might have got rid of the good
food, wine and beer before we get there anyway...bleeding cheek! ;o)

--
Lesley
CBR600FW
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18
Real burds don't take hormones, they rage naturally

 

SP wrote:
[...]

Actually, they keep growing/brewing more. I just can't keep up!

 

Hi Marc, and a Happy New Year to you.
Glad to hear the knee healed as good as possible.

Rog tallbloke

 

Happy New Year island-type person.

 

Giving me the run-around at the moment -- seems no-one's ever
requested a promotion from RA1A before so they don't know what to do.
I've been boosted into the process for Academics so it's going to take
a year rather than a couple of months.

Sidney, Montana wouldn't be too bad. But, Sydney, Nova Scotia...

Line up a few cold Mooseheads.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

HYN

Still with the gook?

 

"Who want's to spit in the cripple's food?"