You start playing mind games with a pot plant.

A couple months ago I put some cactus plants, since I tend to kill everything else, in a pot plant near the back door and since it's under a verandah the plants bent towards the sun in quite an impressive arc so a couple weeks ago I turned the pot around. Already they're starting to bend the other way so it's starting to look like an S shape. I'll give them a few more weeks then turn it around again.

That'll fool 'em.

ROFLMAO Sounds like you've got them outsmarted Copago.
So what did you decide on for desert?

I've done the apple strudles, or however you spell it Between those, the pasta salad, a potato bake, chicken skewers & satay sauce, dip for the nibblies I had a busy cooking morning. I'll probably eat too much once again!

I thought it was just me that did daft things like that Jill.

Ahhh great minds, Sue, great minds.

find yourself drawn into your personal library to finding something new to read or something old to re-read and a few hours later you realize you've been rearranging things alpabetically.

I guess that's what happens when you're very first job in High School is a page at the local library.

i work

I talk to inanimate objects Wait! I do that anyway, bored or not!

But do they talk back????

I have these new orchids given to me THANKS MUM (I don't do plants) to busy with the kids and work!!!

and I got 2 ( I guess for the price of miscounting your daughters!)

So how do i care for them?

Food Shopping, I have to be at my wits end to survive supermarkets.
I'm a confirmed Bachelor.

here's a thread you should read, Blueee.

The trouble with personal libraries is this. I have spend twenty years collecting both new and old hardbacks for which i have turned a room into my library. now, whenever i want to read, it can take me up to 2 hrs to choose a book, by which time I've realized I was supposed to be elsewhere.

Have you ever gone to the 'just returned' trolley, found a book you really like the look of, and realised you just returned it?

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I make an Excel spreadsheet, doesn't matter what for, I just do it.

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You are a sick puppy, Sue, and so am I! I do the same! Do you know how to make a graph with pictures in it? It is great fun..

I DID know how to do virtually anything, with the help of my books anyway, I took a couple of courses including 'Expert' and have 'certifticates'. I must give that one a try again soon.

If you want to know just how sick I am, many years ago when I was younger and without a computer at home (in the late 60s early 70s), when it came near to time for us to get a pay rise or bonus I used to calculate exactly what my new net pay would be after working out what earnings related deductions would be - I did this for a variety of amounts so when I knew what my bonus or salary increase was going to be, I immediately knew my new net pay. All using long multiplication, so even sicker.

I was retrenched from a government job some years back, so wrote a spreadsheet that calculated variables like leave, long service leave, varying tax rates, pay rises, etc, which was 'unoficially' adopted by thousands of employees. It was accurate to about $10 in $500,000 and went all over Australia. I wish I had kept it!

(PS- Have you played my Excel quiz?)

If I remember correctly, I aced it!

You did!

I used to program electronic accounting machines, and electro-mechanical ones, then small computers. My favourite ever program that I wrote was for annuity scheduling for mortgages to be used by a local authority.

This particular machine could add, subtract, multiply and divide, it could also check for zero, and for negatives and positives. The problem was that it took 'a mechanical operation', a cycle for each calculation, each 'stop' took up about 4/10th of an inch and the width of the 'program bar and panel' was 26". Some functions needed to have a gap of a couple of inches, some things only worked in forward motion, some only in reverse.

I worked it so that you entered about four figures on the keyboard then it set off clunking back and forth for about five or ten minutes, depending on the period of the mortgage, then stopped. The schedule will have printed showing the amount of interest paid each half year and how much off the principle - ah wonderful. That was all done in 'old money', in pounds, shillings and pence. When they changed to decimal currency in 1971 it had to be converted to decimal. Someone else had taken over that geographical area by then and I got a call for help, the poor woman didn't have a clue as to how to convert it. I ended up writing the decimal version for her in a pub over a drink.

Ah, those were the days, all this modern stuff is easy peasy, in those days you really needed skill to get the machines to sing and dance.

oh God ( I mean Oh Ozzz!) There is something seriously wrong with you two Although if ever I need a spread sheet I know where to go!

Come on Jillian, you have to admit that to configure a speadsheet so that you can enter a figure on one worksheet and it will automatically update other worksheets, that is fun. Spreadsheets are great fun, if I could only have one piece of software on my computer it would have to be Excel.