The little Inn by the wayside

Post by **Chroelle** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 21:54

Sounds both fast and quite good. I convinced a colleague today that she will run it with me next year. She really likes the idea about being a good example for her kids (she has 3). So I will try to make it another thing that my closest group of colleagues do together. We are becoming more friends than coworkers, so thats quite nice.

And thanks for the wellwishes/congrats.

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 22:14

Run Run for your life mates

/me lights a ciggie and opens a beer...

Allright. I'll see pretty soon what's my current condition.. Tomorrow I'll start my Nissan, and drive to mid Finland to hava a hunting trip. No running, thats for sure, but a lot of walking...

Also my work schedules went nuts, so do not expect me to be much in here in next couple of weeks. I'll have to take care of two German co-workers who travel here from Ulm at next monday and spend tw weeks in Finland. Today I also heard that next wednesday a Polish co-worker will arrive to Finland, and I am expected to guide him too... This means that my own duties will be postponed even more, and that I'll be even busier when things will calm down with the visitors...

When we sum to that 2 weekends of hunting, and a weekend with a friend's 30 years bday... Well, I will not be around that much. oh, and kiddos are once again ill too... It's just hilarious when things are piling up :/

And what comes to wedding pics, I'll have some at facebook

And finally, I really liked Germany. It was my first visit in there, and I really loved old houses from middle age, not to mention the Munster... Besides people were friendly, and beer was cheap

only thing that disappointed me was that my German co-workers gave up the beer drinking so early (around 11 PM), and even the sole scotch fellow gave up at 01.00 AM. I and my Finnish mate continued untill 2.30 AM - and we were the first ones arriving to work at next morning 0_o

...

I am unsure if it is good or bad thing, but I heard the scotch guy mumbling to the German manager something about crazy Finns when he arrived to work an hour after us, and saw us sitting in there and working

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 0:40

Maz wrote: And finally, I really liked Germany. It was my first visit in there, and I really loved old houses from middle age, not to mention the Munster... Besides people were friendly, and beer was cheap only thing that disappointed me was that my German co-workers gave up the beer drinking so early (around 11 PM), and even the sole scotch fellow gave up at 01.00 AM. I and my Finnish mate continued untill 2.30 AM - and we were the first ones arriving to work at next morning 0_o

I'm happy that you liked your trip to Germany! But I agree: Giving up drinking at 11 PM is really disappointing. These guys must have ben from southern Germany (if they were Germans for real)...

Maz wrote: I am unsure if it is good or bad thing, but I heard the scotch guy mumbling to the German manager something about crazy Finns when he arrived to work an hour after us, and saw us sitting in there and working

I would take it as a compliment...

Scythe · Post by **Scythe** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:19

It's a proven fact that Finns are crazy...

Post by **Chroelle** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:02

Proven time and again. Take a look at WWII and see how the crazyness helped them though.

"Hey a German Tank is coming up the road - Honey grab my rifle and my skies. I am going after him...."

Tank · Post by **Tank** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 15:35

Someone mentioned my name? No, just kiddin'. I don't invade Finland.

Finns are crazyness? Apart from someone's signature (here or at OGC), I don't see any arguments for that.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:31

I am crazy. Ive just finished watching Big Lebowski for the 8th time without knowing it has cult status. Isnt it crazy?

Pager · Post by **Pager** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 18:30

crazy, indeed.
I've seen it once because it has this cult status, and it might be that I was expecting something fantastic from it's hype, and the fact that people quote it like crazy...

I once chugged a can of cream corn, while my head was shaved into a mowhawk and I had covered my entire body with blue tetra paint...and I was completely drug-free, sober and non-suicidal...I'd like to tell everyone there was women or meny involved...but there wasn't...

I'm pretty sure everyone interesting in the world is crazy...anyone ever had a conversation with someone that was completely sane??

Usually goes to the tune of, "the other day I had mustard on my sandwich as well as butter!" now if that isn't the epitome of crazy, I don't know what is...

Post by **Chroelle** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 21:51

You loons!

Heck crazy is what crazy does..... Or was that something else....

Post by **Chroelle** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:44

Happy Birthday Ivan.

I hope you will drop by and see this. It has been way to long since last time we talked.

Railwaymodeler · Post by **Railwaymodeler** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:20

Hi, all! I know I have been away for a while. Long story short, I have been extremely involved with business, and I have 30 computers and 20 monitors coming in on Friday this week.

The real reason I have been busy, is my girlfriend. She lives pretty much opposite suburban end of Chiago from here. Take a train to the City, transfer to LaSalle St. Station by bus, take another train, then another bus. Then spend a day or two with her.

Plus my laptop, my Armada M700, seems to be cursed. Things keep happening to it- car accident, kid on the bus breaks screen, dropped on commuter train, etc...

In short, man am I busy! But I did want to say hello!

Pager · Post by **Pager** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:07

cool. Thanks for the drop-in Railio!
Letting us know you haven't forgotten about CWF.

I almost want to ask how your laptop got in a car accident...but am also afraid to hear that it was driving...

I have also been fighting with my computer lately...which is terrible because I just downloaded The Suffering...I think I need to replace the heatsink for my CPU...it seems to be getting up to 68 degrees then freezing...using my imac right now, and I never thought I would say it but I sure miss Windows.

Railwaymodeler · Post by **Railwaymodeler** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:50

Pager, I was riding passenger in my dad's car. My mom was driving, and even it was in the mid 50 degrees F out, she STILL wanted the air conditioning on, and when she was playing with that, she crashed into a stopped car in front of us, and we were doing about 40 MPH. My lappy fell the deck of the car, and the HDD was borked, and the motherboard started doing strange things.

Took the good parts out it, it was a 500 MHz Armada M700, and put them into an 850 MHz M700. That got broken on the bus. Or, the screen did. Put a new screen on it that I had hanging around. Then the power management chip started acting funny. Replaced THAT, and all was good for a while. Then, someone sitting next to me on the commuter train, spilled his coffee on my computer (and to an extent, on ME) when we crossed over from one track to another (Going much too fast for a ladder track like that, which is what caused the double deck coach to sway that much). That was it for the M700. I figured it was cursed at that point. Am building me a Dell Latitude C610 now.

Post by **Chroelle** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 14:31

Good to see you Railly. Glad to hear about the girlfriend...Isn't that a new thing?
Always good to hear from you, and though cursed by cursed laptops, you still seem to be smiling more these days. At least that is what I am getting from the posts you write, but it might just be me reading between the lines...

Railwaymodeler · Post by **Railwaymodeler** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:48

No, Chroelle, you are not reading between any lines. For a while now I have been a bit happier. Actually, my girlfriend and I have been going out over two years, but because she was a bus driver for our local city bus service, Pace, I had to keep it mums, as management was really bearing down on her for entering a relationship with a regular fare paying passenger. Which was totally rediculous. Managment at Pace is a bunch of crooked bums, if you ask me (Or any of the drivers).

Well, my workload is light tonight, and I got some records in the mail. Not historical records, the listening kind that I like. These are pre-World War II 78 RPMs, with a couple postwar 33 RPM albums of big band era music. I'm having fun tonight! I can stack up to six single 78 RPM records on my phonograph, or better yet, have music all night if I stack 6 33 RPM albums.

Post by **Chroelle** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 14:27

I remember you talking about her now - but it was so long ago that I forgot.

Post by **Chroelle** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:39

Yet another member who celebratd more than one birthday in here.

ZYX

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 14:18

Happy Birthday, Zyx!!!

Hope you enjoy your birthday and have a nice party with your friends and your family. And I hope there will be many more of your birthdays that we can celebrate in this bar!

Post by **Zyx** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 17:18

Thank you, thank you... I raise my champange glass to all you guys.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 23:57

Happy and fortunately for me not belated.