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Irregular verbs strike again! The hammer strikes the nail; the bat struck the ball. So real life struck. And you have my sympathy and my deepest admiration for your service as a volunteer firefighter.

The letter of release is because usually there's a contract between the company and the agency that a fee will be paid to the agency if you get hired full time. Since you came to them this time thru another way, then the agency should not earn a fee; thus the letter of release. So it's not so much to release you from a contract w/ the agency but for the agency to release the company from it's fee agreement. I used to have a certification in HR (USA, not Aussie), so your best bet is working w/ the HR people to resolve it. I assume the manager at the hiring company is not in the HR department; so having the HR person who's helping you to work w/ both the 3rd company and the hiring company is a good thing as he should have the right contacts to get it done quickly and to the hiring company's satisfaction. Fingers crossed for you!!

Had a bad day at work and need a distraction... taking the plunge (just waiting on updater as I type)!!

Couldn't have happened to two bigger suckers, I mean, two swell forum members!

Your two vocabulary words today are: cheesecloth and pergament = parchment At first that sounds a bit gross since you let the milk sour, but I am a fan of sourdough bread which has a similar fermenting process. As for your cheese recipe, I read somewhere that it can only be done with fresh/raw milk because pasteurizing kills certain necessary bacteria. Sourdough bread begins with "starter". It's simply a water and flour mix which is allowed to gather wild yeast (some yeast may occur in the flour but much comes from the air). Sourdough from San Francisco is famous because of unique wild yeasts in the air there which give a strong tangy flavor to the bread.

Mmmmmm, fudge.... Have fun!! If you get into too much trouble, drop a line and I'll come post bail for you.

It appears that cheese names don't always have a translation... I blame the French and their insisting on international trade protection for stuff like wine and cheese. I looked at the store last night but nothing close to handkase. I might try to go to a deli or specialty store over the weekend.

It's better than an iPaddlemyself by virtue of a keyboard and the number of interface ports (USB and media cards). If I didn't already have a cheap laptop, then I might consider this. My current cheap laptop is basically an internet device. And what little else I do on it (minor spreadsheets, editing photos, solitaire) can all be found on the net. My problem w/ the fad tablets and w/ netbooks is the lack of a DVD player. I want to lay in bed or fly on a plane or go where ever and watch a movie w/out needing a 2nd device of the exact same size (ie a portable DVD player).

A very close spelling "Alt Eritreisch" translates as "Old Eritrean". My money is they changed it just a little so it'd be familiar but not real.

But you still have to clean the INSIDE of the screen to remove stuck electrons and such... I prefer this one.

Don't think I've ever heard the song it's based on but fun to watch. I had to let buffer to watch it w/out choppiness. http://vimeo.com/23248158

Off the top of my head, I'd say "coarse flour" or "stone ground flour"

While I love the recumbent seating of the trike, if it will be used on regular roads (instead of sidewalks or trails) then I too would be very worried about visability to drivers. On a bicycle, your body mass is at the driver's eye level; but a trike is below eye level so harder to see. I wonder if there are taller trikes that fit your requirements that look more like this: http://www.theelectricbicyclestore.com/products/E%252dMoto-Electric-Tricycle.html You lose the recumbent seating but still get the extra rear wheel for stability.

Second pair!!

I'm not seeing much that's helpful. Only phrase I'd add to the mix is: flight hole (I assume that's what the flap is protecting; some of the places selling hives or w/ hive plans refer to it w/ that phrase).

Wow, Google bot's fast! Wattaveudun already shows up in search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=787&bih=383&q=Good+Lord+Wattaveudun&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

I will be using the royal title my mother bestowed upon me as a child. Henceforth I am to be addressed as "The Good Lord Wattaveudun".

This is one of those things you stumble across that you just have to share.... I don't think I could actually use this mouse!

You can't stump an Okie w/ that one! It's "Where the Red Fern Grows". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072402/combined That screenshot can be found at 1:45 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Rli9k1UsQ Someone else can take my turn at posting a pic.

My UW master list can be found here: http://forum.sacred2.com/showthread.php?t=40274 (WOW! has it really been 5 years since I did that:)) Someone before me, in Plus had made a list and had even copied all the writing, but I wasn't enough of a glutton for punishment on that. It has been confirmed as close to officially as possible that there is no reward for reading all books (theory is it was never implemented; I suspect if it was implemented then it got broken by any books added after Ascaron took over the game from that other company). Also you can find download files that contains all or nearly all the scrolls here: http://forum.sacred2.com/showthread.php?t=41841&highlight=downloadable (I checked and the links still to work) EDIT: lol @ Gogo... Gogo pm'd me about the list and then proved resourceful enough to find it himself

And IMDB is (as far as I know) a professional website, where wikipedia is user edited content.... so IMDB is more definitive/reliable.

I'd be surprised if the amount of verbatim dialogue was even as high as 5%. I do know parts of Bilbo's speech at his birthday were accurate. But since parts of the tale were reworked (or entirely fabricated), so was the dialogue. I would state that LOTR was truer to the books than, say, Tom Cruise's "War of the Worlds" or Will Smith's "I, Robot"... but that's not saying much. I think of it like a road that runs along side a river. The road may run tight to the bank for stretches and in others the two may be vastly separated. The question is, when you get to the end, how good of an understanding did you gain of the river and its course? In the LOTR, I'd say it's fairly high overall understanding. Unlike w/ Will Smith's "I, Robot" where the river ended in the ocean and the road ended in Saskatoon.

Winks may seem aggressive because of the words they might follow. For example, I use the wink when I'm trying to say "hey, wink wink, nudge nudge, that's me being funny, not me making fun" or "hey, that's a joke, don't go off on it". I use the tongue where there's more of an overall tone of silliness. Hmm, and the tongue has a bit more teasing to it for me. Example: Yeah, like Knuckles' spandex!

As an anti-Apple person, I find it slightly offensive when various iPocalypse device connections are put obtrusively into products. Frankly, such a connection in a vehicle is as useless to me as an ashtray.

I'll play w/ it this weekend on my Win7 64-bit laptop and see if I can find any new ideas. essjayehm - sent you a PM.