Dinner time witterings
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ventaTwo good things this morning:
Mmm. Vanilla Coke.
Quick detour to Sainsbury's this morning, after discovering this stuff exists. It doesn't taste quite like I'd expected - I'd been envisaging the sort of thing you'd get if you dropped a vanilla pod in coke. However, it tastes like a cross between coke and ice-cream soda, and is very definitely A Good Thing.
I remembered that driving is fun. Which is easy to forget, sometimes.
This morning the combination of encroaching summer, and me setting off slightly later than usual, meant that the sun was high enough in the sky to be nice-and-sunny rather than aaaargh-argh-get-the-bright-burny-thing-out-of-my-eyes. And it's still early enough in the year to be a sensible temperature. So I turned Mao Tse Tung Said up nice and loud, and drove along happily. If I had a soft-top, I'd have put it down and laughed at the world.
For a change, I drove in to work through Wargrave and Henley. Which was all fun until I remembered that the Wargrave road is broken as all hell. I rarely agree with Jeremy Clarkson, but as he said in an article a year or so back "Will somebody do something about the roads in Oxfordshire. Please." - preferably soon.
Just to make today slightly awkward, I'm working mostly at someone else's desk. Which is deeply annoying, as there are a 1001 things which I don't like about her Windows setup, but feel it'd be rude to change. I'm surprised how annoying I'm finding these things - the task bar is on auto-hide, and it's a scrolling desktop, and the mouse buttons are the "wrong" way round. These are changeable, but I'm worried I'd forget to put them back. Then there's the mouse - I'm used to a trackball - and the annoying hardware 'beep', and the absence of a text editor... Grumble. Thus any emails sent to me this afternoon will go (even more) unanswered (than usual).
Oh, and a random question about belts.
I usually put my belt on so that the buckle is on the right-hand end. This is, in general terms, the wrong way round. Ordinarily it doesn't matter, but today I have a belt-buckle with a picture on, so I've put it on with the buckle on the left-hand end.
Now. I'd have thought that, throughout history, belts have been more of a blokes thing. Therefore they should do up "boys way round". When I put, for example, a dressing-gown on, I wrap it round me left over right - i.e boys way round. This is the same way round I would put a belt on.
Why is everyone else inconsistent?
Mmm. Vanilla Coke.
Quick detour to Sainsbury's this morning, after discovering this stuff exists. It doesn't taste quite like I'd expected - I'd been envisaging the sort of thing you'd get if you dropped a vanilla pod in coke. However, it tastes like a cross between coke and ice-cream soda, and is very definitely A Good Thing.
I remembered that driving is fun. Which is easy to forget, sometimes.
This morning the combination of encroaching summer, and me setting off slightly later than usual, meant that the sun was high enough in the sky to be nice-and-sunny rather than aaaargh-argh-get-the-bright-burny-thing-out-of-my-eyes. And it's still early enough in the year to be a sensible temperature. So I turned Mao Tse Tung Said up nice and loud, and drove along happily. If I had a soft-top, I'd have put it down and laughed at the world.
For a change, I drove in to work through Wargrave and Henley. Which was all fun until I remembered that the Wargrave road is broken as all hell. I rarely agree with Jeremy Clarkson, but as he said in an article a year or so back "Will somebody do something about the roads in Oxfordshire. Please." - preferably soon.
Just to make today slightly awkward, I'm working mostly at someone else's desk. Which is deeply annoying, as there are a 1001 things which I don't like about her Windows setup, but feel it'd be rude to change. I'm surprised how annoying I'm finding these things - the task bar is on auto-hide, and it's a scrolling desktop, and the mouse buttons are the "wrong" way round. These are changeable, but I'm worried I'd forget to put them back. Then there's the mouse - I'm used to a trackball - and the annoying hardware 'beep', and the absence of a text editor... Grumble. Thus any emails sent to me this afternoon will go (even more) unanswered (than usual).
Oh, and a random question about belts.
I usually put my belt on so that the buckle is on the right-hand end. This is, in general terms, the wrong way round. Ordinarily it doesn't matter, but today I have a belt-buckle with a picture on, so I've put it on with the buckle on the left-hand end.
Now. I'd have thought that, throughout history, belts have been more of a blokes thing. Therefore they should do up "boys way round". When I put, for example, a dressing-gown on, I wrap it round me left over right - i.e boys way round. This is the same way round I would put a belt on.
Why is everyone else inconsistent?
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on belts
Date: 2003-04-22 06:48 am (UTC)Don't know if this is gender specific or not tho' never really thought about it. Having said that, I'm right handed, but always wear a watch on my right wrist because the left wrist just 'feels wrong'.
Re: on belts
Date: 2003-04-22 06:54 am (UTC)*However*, I think it ought to be the other way round, for consistency with clothing.
Ooooh! I love vanilla coke!
Date: 2003-04-22 07:33 am (UTC)Oh wait--a quick look on Tesco Online says they have it. Good thing I was making an order tonight!
Re: on belts
Date: 2003-04-22 07:41 am (UTC)Furthermore, it seems sensible to have the end of the belt where all the work is done fastening it, be on the favoured side.
Even furthermore, it seems to be that with the buckle on the left, you are doing it left-over-right. It's just that you then pull the underside through the hole in the overside, so that it's the right-hand side that ends up on top - the same way that when you do up a button bloke-wise, the button ends up on top despite the fact that it originally came from the right.
Yet furthermore, vanilla coke is foul. But Mao Tse Tung Said rocks.
Re: on belts
Date: 2003-04-22 07:43 am (UTC)Mind you, nowadays it ought to be Mao Zedong Said...
Re: on belts
Date: 2003-04-22 07:56 am (UTC)I still think the rest of the world is wrong.
Re: on belts
Date: 2003-04-22 08:29 am (UTC)Hmm, if I understand which way around you mean correctly, then I also wear my belt with the buckle at the right. By this I mean with the belt on, but undone, the buckle is on the right hand end.
I don't think this really makes a great deal of difference. :)
Re: on belts
Date: 2003-04-22 08:42 am (UTC)Is there going to be a prize for the weirdest collection of choices (and, yes, I know it won't be me ;-) ) ?
Why are you working at someone else's desk ?
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Date: 2003-04-22 08:42 am (UTC)(Buckle on the right-hand side. It's just easier to do up that way...)
ISTR that the reason why girls' buttons and belts and things go the other way is because they're meant to have a lady-in-waiting dress them, whereas boys have to do it themselves... (Although I prefer my entirely logical explanation that it makes it easier for members of the opposite sex to remove each other's clothes. But maybe that's just a sympton of the heterosexual power conspiracy or something...)
Re: on belts
Hmm, think I may be doing this wrong.
Who makes up the rules? Maybe this is one of those complex left-brain-dominant things.
Or maybe it's what handed your mum was (as it's mums who teach you these things mostly)
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Date: 2003-04-22 09:02 am (UTC)I never really considered it until I was given (aged 10 or something) a belt with a picture of a train running round it.
I put it on, and then had it pointed out that my train was upside down.
no subject
Date: 2003-04-22 09:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-22 09:20 am (UTC)(Belt buckle on right, watch on right wrist, ambisinistrous (equally incompetent with both hands) though with bias to right, use mouse left handed with buttons swopped (didn't use to swap buttons over until my trackball started giving me RSI)...)
Re: on belts
Date: 2003-04-22 09:22 am (UTC)It's summer, I'm migrating East :)
More boringly: A coworker has a highly, and convolutedly, customised build of Tao's O/S which shows up a bug I'm working on. Since she's away on holiday, it's easier to use her build in situ than try and replicate it on my own machine.
(My right/left combination is listed somewhere further down)
Mice
Date: 2003-04-23 01:34 am (UTC)Left wrist watch, left side buckle, right hand mouse use. Everybody's different...
Re: Mice
Date: 2003-04-23 01:51 am (UTC)Back at my own place right now, fixing a background problem... If I think I'm going to have to spend much longer at Jen's desk, I might think about actually trying to change a few things rather than just grumbling about them :)