Trippin' Again (or Your Tax Dollars At Work)

It seems that I'm being sent up to the land of Doherty for a week to
attend Microsoft Tech Ed (of course I'm taking an extra couple of days
so that I can socialise with my people a little bit.)

Anyway, I'm basically looking to cadge a place to stay from someone
who lives around Armidale on Saturday night. That's ARMIDALE on
SATURDAY 9TH AUGUST.[1]

I'll be staying with Clem & family for the duration, and I believe
there's a Mt Glorious ride involved towards the end of the week. :-D

The interesting "tax dollars" part is that although I'm riding up and
therefore saving my Department[2] about $500 in airfare and $200 in
Cabcharge vouchers, the tight bastards won't give me any Motor Vehicle
Allowance. Well, they probably would if I hired a DASFLEET Falcadore
and towed a trailer with my bike on it, but that's not gonna happen...


BTH
[1] You listening Ash? ;-)
[2] And thus the taxpayer.

 

Make them pay for the airfare anyway, don't use it and ride up anyway.
That'll show them for being unflexible !

 

I'll be seeing him on Friday with the Mandrake 9.1's on standby.

 

I just installed 9.1 on a spare machine to 'play with'... never used
Linux before, it aint bad...

 

BT Humble wrote;

Wow; and I thought I was blatant!
~

Mebbe Ecka day (Wed 13th) if any of you other Briswegians are interested!

I could probably be talked into a curry or a steak on Tuesday night too if
anyone's up for it.
Cheers ..... Clem

 

I was up at Glorious on Sunday the Northbrook Parkway Road is covered in
gravel and really dangerous.

Why not a Curry and a Steak.

Boxer

 

Count me in for the ride, but Deb's working. Dinner shouldn't be a problem.

J

 

Linux is not for you...

Doug Cox.
Debian 3 now up and running...

 

why am I not surprised.

 

"Knobdoodle" wrote

I thought Mandrake was a plant, or a magician.

Did you see on the news tonight where a warehouse full of Jim Bean
went up in flames in the US? 2% of their stock.

Theo

 

vapourised vomit

 

I just wacked it on the laptop, peice of piss. Last time I tried
(v7.0) had heaps of troubles getting it to work. Now I just gotta find
a winmodem workaround!

 

Isn't it a wonderful irony that the supposed purpose of my trip is to
attend *Microsoft* Tech Ed? :-D


BTH

 

www.linmodems.org/

Doug Cox.
Work to ride, Ride to work...

 

Check carefully when you buy *any* modem; I have a PC Card Winmodem that
doesn't work in Linux OR Windows!

Gary

 

I'm on to that one, thanks Doug, tho' it's not looking too good for
the Prosignia. May be time to purchase another card modem and be more
paranoid about using it in thunderstorms this time!

 

Actually..maybe i should have said

g0 b4ck 2 wind0w5 n00b. 1inuX 1s t00 133t f0r j00.
p5. i h4x0r3d ur mum 145t n1ght!!

thats..like..totally heaps more elitist.

 

It's a sign, you're on a mission!

 

That's no loss ;-)

Yoo shore got that right, clem-bubba. Damn corn-likker tastes wuss 'n'
rum!
--


Bernie Dwyer
Dump the z to reply to me
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An update: I went and bought comprehensive insurance for The Jackal,
and now I qualify for Motor Vehicle Allowance. At $165 for 12 months
it's the cheapest comprehensive I'll every buy, and I can cancel it
for a full refund any time in the next 3 weeks.


BTH