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Forgive me if I am less active for a little while: tomorrow I start a new job and besides expecting work to interfere with a social life, 3 hours commuting (by car on the Manchester section of the M6 for those that know the area) each day won't leave a lot of time for posting. Rest assured I will still be looking in whenever I can!
Please look after the pies in my absence.
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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing
Good luck with the job - don't envy you the commute on that stretch of the motorway. May I suggest you lay in a supply of audiobooks, preferably unabridged, to while away the tedium.
Please don't ask me to look after the pies - I usually manage to avoid them (fattening, even the virtual ones) but temptation would get the better of me.
Music choice will be a mixture of Terry Wogan, Heavy Metal, Acoutsic folk and 1920's comedy foxtrots - plus the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, but you would probably have guessed that!
The road beckons!
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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing
May I suggest Opera? Or Nightwish. Even Jethro Tull....
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
PrinzHilde Wrote:
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> Opera? Screaming women when you're sitting in the
> middle of a traffic jam seems to me not to be the
> smartest idea...
Isn't *that* what most people do in a traffic jam? At least that how it seems to me, when I'm breezing past them on my bike.
Definitely not that "Road to Hell" dirge, some opera, maybe - Puccini or Verdi for driving.
Definitely no audio books as they require concentration needed for the road. I that extra concentration so that I can open the car door at just the right time to wake up bikers .....(just joking)