*eating chocolate* Long weekends are still way too short, aren't they? Did you have nice Easter? Lots of free time in the sun of in front of the telly? Lovely! Even though I had to work yesterday I had lovely three days off. Sure I can tell what I was doing, ta for asking. :-)
Well, on Thursday I went to cinema with a friend of mine and mostly we were enjoying the thoughts of the long evening ahead of us since the next day was off work. We planned to watch "The Fighter", but as we arrived the cinema we noticed a poster of this movie and so "The Fighter" lost this battle. It was a good choice. What an incredibly, incredibly sad story!!! And before you ask: yes we cried. A lot. I highly recommend this movie. It’s not only for girls, in case you wonder.
Good Friday. Yes. Long sleep. Ahhh, yes. Lovely. I spent the day reading a book about rowing brothers, recommended by Christine (thank you for that) and I would like to recommend it further, in case you haven't read it yet. Not only a nail-biting drama for sports fans, "Blood over Water" also looks at the darker side of sibling rivalry and asks just what you would be willing to sacrifice to achieve your dreams. And what an insight into rowing!!! This boys are heroes. Who said rowing was boring? Not me.
Saturday was Super Sport Saturday. I had training in the morning and in the afternoon there was time to watch others sweat. Telly on, legs up, it's footie time. :-) Fernando Torres might have scored his first goal for Chelsea, but seriously, who cares? We played Birmingham and ...5:0 baby!!! For me it was a MAXImum delight. :-) Find more results here. And in Spain there was loads of goals too!
Sunday. Hmmm ... it was times for some tennis. Rafi Nadal and David Ferrer faced each other (again) in a final of Barcelona Open. Rafi won his 6th title. Lovely.
On Sunday I managed to read a whole book at one go. I haven't been able to enjoy a book that way for ... well, for quite a long time. It was good book though.
On Monday I had to go back to watching sports for money, however I made myself a nice morning with a high interesting book (and chocolate) about the history of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. Once again: who said rowing was boring? Did you know that in 1929 when the first boat race took place the crew lived chiefly on beef? They weren't allowed to eat fruit or potatoes or stuff like that. No smoothies, and yoghurts and ... chocolate. Haha Very interesting.
Well and that was it, my sporty Easter weekend.
This week is the Champions League week again and the third Clasico in a row (tomorrow night). I hope Sergio Ramos won't mess it up this time ... Though far more important than the Clasico is today's match: Schalke 04 vs. Manchester United. Normally I don't read Rafael Honigstein's stuff, but this time ... I made a sacrifice. An act of desperation? Very much so. Schalke are my last hope. You better be right, Honeystone!
Lots about me today, ay? :-) Since it's my birthday I believe I am allowed to be selfish for one day.
Don't miss the Tweets of the Week and have a great Tuesday. :-)
Ta ta!
Happy Birthday Amanda :)
Happy Birthday Amanda!
Good morning to All, birthday greets to amandoloss!
Happy Birthday Amanda!
Amy, Greg Rust has joined twitter! http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=Thrusta1
Amanda shares her birthday with four F1 drivers! http://bit.ly/haYe5X
Happy Birthday Amanda!
ew
Ping! http://amysrunning.posterous.com/week-6-day-1
Good UK Morning
Hilarious, really can't stand any of the OneHD team....
Thank you all!
"Amanda shares her birthday with four F1 drivers! http://bit.ly/haYe5X"
That's fab! hehe :-)
Thought you'd like that!
No prizes for guessing what tony is up to then!
http://twitter.com/#!/tonyfernandes/statuses/62791746697969664
Morning all.
Good Morning,
good tuesday?
So far so good.
Half the office has gone to lunch the other half is in a meeting, and i cant carry on with what i want to do without an approval... tee dum tee dum tee dum
Looks like the Fifth Driver is on the road to Turkey: http://twitpic.com/4poid2
Roooooad trip!
No thanks, took us a total of 8 hours to drive back from Berlin on Sunday!
Awww. It's okay if you're prepared for a road trip, not so much fun if it's traffic and the like.
Actually it wasn't too bad, had my iPhone for company and the traffic was ok - the German autobahns are a bit monotonous though!
Mmmm, speedy.
I was just plotting if I can fit a road trip to my actual home town into my visit home in October. I miss it.
Not as much as I thought though. The motorways in Germany have a speed limit of 120, but although parts of the autobahn are unrestricted, most people were going less than 150 ... and to be honest, with the condition of the roads it's harder to go much faster than that.
I don't think my car would go much above 90mph anyways, but it's a nice dream :)
I think you have a similar one to ours - 90 would be pushing it I reckon!
We travelled down in my parents in law's diesel Ford Focus though. We briefly hit 160 but it could have done a bit more...
ooh McLaren have changed their membership program a bit
For 2011, members are allocated a voucher to use in an exclusive members-only category available in the McLaren eShop. Members can select items from a range of merchandise, from official Team Member pin badges to actual used F1 car parts, allowing them the flexibility to personalise their own welcome pack.
That's smart, I reeeeeally don't need another McLaren hat, shirt or backpack.
cog!
unfortunately my membership is not due for renewal until September, so it'll be a while before I can check for cogs :D
more detail from tony on the animated f1 data: http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/04/26/a-first-attempt-at-looking-at-f1-timing-data-in-google-motion-charts-aka-gapminderf/
he's no steve jobs when it comes to keeping things quiet, is he?
Joe's on it too... http://wp.me/ppB1o-1Du
Team Lotus Caterham sounds like a bit of a mouthful, but I like his idea of providing cheap sports cars to Asia...
I love graphs, i really do. I make a lot of them, often for no reason other than they fill a monitor with data and make me look more productive.
But i really cant do timing graphs, perhaps i am being a luddite but i can visiualise the data a lot better looking at a list of numbers than all the graphic representations
Caterham Team Lotus perhaps isnt quite as bad
That's just how your brain works. Do you feel the same way about the graphs I made yesterday?
Ant is awesome: http://twitpic.com/4pop7i
Collection of models of all the cars he has driven since F3
Dont want to sound mean, but yes
Perhaps either using a bar chart instead or missing out the in and out laps for pitstops might help?
I dont know, I love reading a lot of data off graphs, but not F1 timing for some reason
You're not. Perhaps you don't have as much a visual brain as you think you do?
I already exclude the pitstop laps but the in laps are important because that is often where time is made up or lost. An overlaid bar chart might be too confusing or have too much data ink to look meaningful though?
It is odd to look at timing graphs - I think there can be a lot of things that can be interpreted from the data though.
in the office with mike: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_COVTUcaJ0
not as good as previous videos, but worth a watch.
my grandparents house is for sale a year after we sold it, it looks sooo weird to see it full of someone elses furniture. Browsing real estate should come with some sort of 'you might know this house' warning :D
Dennis the Menace t-shirt.
Give me price fluctuations of conversion rates over a period of time as a graph any day!
Happy Birthday Amanda!!
Hi everyone
Fair enough. If you guys have any bright ideas on how to display the data better I'm all ears. I prefer clean graphs with clear colours and only a few series as I think they look better though.
I agree with that, perhaps because there are so many values at play over 60 odd laps it becomes to much for me
I see what you mean. It is a hard thing to display - I have made graphs like for Turkey last year where I only plotted a few laps and it looked better. What annoys me are posts like James Allen's where he writes a really good strategy review and then ruins it with a lap chart for all the drivers and it looks like coloured spaghetti!
Happy birthday, amandoloss, and I very much enjoyed the Daily :)
Sounds like if you can get to Duxford tomorrow you can go and see Team Lotus do the straight line tests...
Sounds great, especially since a lot of Lotus' drivers will be there.
Ooh fun!
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Daily: 26th April 2011
- Tweets of the Week - Happy Birthday, Felipe Baby
- Live: Giggles Radio - Summer of '11
- Daily: 25th April 2011
- Button at The Mountain
Someone needs to go and take pictures of Heikki for me :D
Ping: http://www.f1minute.com/news/robert-kubica-leaves-hospital-and-prepares-for-rehabilitation
Once again thanks for the birthday wishes. :-) Enjoying my half day off work and #eatingchocolate :D
Excellent stuff!
Ping (finally): http://mrschristine.com/2011/04/26/doctor-who-series-6-episode-1-the-impossible-astronaut/
Ooh, happy birthday!
Ooh, bit of a dig at Tony Fernandes here: http://www.metrof1.com/blogs/metrof1/2011/04/tony-fernandes-seven-wonders.html
but we know which side Adam falls on anyway ;)
who pays his wages again... oh yeah, group lotus.
happy birthday amanda.
Yup. At least he says so at the top.
I've seen far worse digs! :)
sounds more like he's after a job :)
Perhaps he can't make his mind up which Lotus is right either.
he's clearly following a different formula 1 series than us. f1 is more accessible than a lot of sports these days and it's very much been no-frills for the past two years.
adam's still partying like it 1999.
Not quite yet as accessible as NASCAR, though. That said, F1 strikes a very good balance.
He makes a good point I didn't know before, though: Caterham's colours are also green and yellow.
I have had 6 paddock tours but I aint never seen where Roger Federer lives inside the bowels of Rod Laver Arena :D
If it's alright for Prince, it's alright for Adam.
:)
:D
Hello, folks.
*nods*
Mmm, spaghetti... :D
Well, you could just ignore the charts, right?
Happy birthday Amanda (April is an awesome month) and hello everyone.
Hey RG. :)
He yearned for that in an older post when he was talking about Red Bull's old quirks going missinhg
Yeah but I'm a Data Analyst by trade, so it actually upsets me to see such a hatchet job!
Oh and I saw Vladimir Putin today ;)
Things you don't expect to read in the daily.
I didn't expect to write it, in fairness!
Did you say hello?
No, he was 100m away (but in the same building)
booo turns out you can't scan a passport photo from an actual passport without getting reflections of all the security features the government have shoved in there. Must remember to get photo taken tomorrow.
anyone would think they did that on purpose :)
It's as if they don't want people to make copies of it or something? ;)
this Air Asia prize is costing me more money by the day! :D
I think they will be getting proper paddock passes with our photos on them though so the photo is important :)
wow
I am basing this off the blog post of the guy who won in Melbourne
"Walking to the paddock & swiping your card as you enter, your face appears on the screen & that's when you know this is something different!"
i'm so glad you're doing this not me :)
ahh with all the travelling around you've been doing the last few days its only a small minor leap to get you on a plane to Singapore.
hey Journeyer, I didn't know Manny Pacquiao could sing???
do the planes to singapore have wifi yet?
um.....yes....*shifty eyes*
:)
but you can fly to Singapore on Air Tony from London for cheaper than my flight is costing me! I'm not flying Air Tony though, that might be the key.
you're paying for your flight?
to Singapore, yes.
I thought there'd be more chance of getting you there then there would be to Korea :D
ahh yes. too many races!
i would like to try out fanvision, but valencia is closer than singapore if i'm gonna do any race.
good point. I should be on Fanvision commission.
ohhh... go to Valencia! :) it's nice there.. :) plus you can go to the aquarium! :)
If you split the difference you get... Abu Dhabi!
Withe fee accomidqtion, beer and a chauffeur it's a real bargain!
#GetSidepodcastToAbuDhabi
Evening all and happy birthday Amanda
but do they have wifi on the plane? we can drive to valencia (just) and use 3g all the way. #whereweregoingweneedroads
Hello all, Happy Birthday Amanda.
Home alone for the first time since Thursday. It's lovely having my Mum & sister here but it's also nice to be back to the normal routine.
Turkey has tickets half the price of Silverstone. I checked. (didn't check the flight tho) :)
turkey is more the middle of nowhere than silverstone. you'd struggle to see a race from your hotel there :)
you should meet my dad when he's in London, you'd get on well.
"If I can't hop in the car and drive there, I don't want to go" is his holiday motto.
I think they do in the A380 #bigplane
How did he get from NZ to London then?
Hi all
That's the thing I found funny about NZ - takes you a day to drive North to South per Island. A day's drive in Europe can take you across the continent!
my mum talked him into it by happening to catch him at a time when he's really interested in his ancestry, then promising him he can go to Scotland.
I know a guy who can sell you a weekend at the Fairmont in Monaco, overlooking the hairpin from their roof.
How can he fight against the pull of Scotland?
wonder where you'd park if you drove to monaco?
precisely. He then sent a letter to every Fulton he could find in the region his however-many-greats grandfather came from and asked if he knew if they were related and if so could he meet them. If I got a letter like that I'd go 'wow crazy' but he's had some positive replies. Turns out the son in law of one of the Fultons he wrote to is in charge of the historical society in the area so sent him lots of old stuff and has promised him a tour when he arrives. Dumb luck, that is.
Nice?
Easy. he lives in the South Island?
:)
Hotel car park. As long as you got there when the road is open. :)
Sometimes you just can't beat being lucky
all my school friends who have been to Edinburgh say its great fun to go there and freak out at everything being named the same :D
One of the companies who do maintenance for us at work is called Fulton Boilers. I must look up where they are from. :)
one of the major road works firms in Australia and NZ is Fulton Hogan. I have lost count of the number of times I've been asked if thats my families company. No, if it was we'd have a lot more money :D
My Uncle in Invercargill works for them ;)
Hah :)
people who know the company though swear my dad looks just like "old man Fulton" who founded it in 1933, so you never know. Dad has gone back far enough to know that they're not related via his ancestor who came to NZ, but they're probably related once you get back to Scotland.
If you don't mind me asking, when did your branch of the Fultons move to NZ?
http://grandprixadventures.com/race-package/Monaco2011/Diamond
Have you seen these recent posts on sidepodcast.com?
- Daily: 26th April 2011
- Tweets of the Week - Happy Birthday, Felipe Baby
- Live: Giggles Radio - Summer of '11
- Daily: 25th April 2011
- Button at The Mountain
1863 I think it was
Wow that's quite a history!
Dear comments, please help me!!!
Nick has at the last minute asked me to get some Olympics tickets and I need to do it before it closes tonight and he's not in to ask. Which tennis sessions should I go for??
In Britain terms 1863 is like, yesterday. It's why I was always confused when I met British people who were impressed by Oamarus Victorian precinct. I only recently learned its one of the best preserved in the world. Possibly because Oamaru is so small they never bothered to knock down anything :D
Don't forget it is Christine's Rankings day today so your fabulous suggestions are more than welcome.
I'd say not the ones I went for but I'm in a separate ballot to you, so um, if he is fine with seeing any tennis I'd say early day ground passes but if he wants to see big name players, maybe early day center court/court 1?
I guess at that time they were miners?
I'm lucky I have a huge student overdraft still available. I can't believe they don't tell you how much money they're taking in advance.....
I think there was a bit of it but they actually made all their money as the frozen meat industry in NZ started there. We have a monument to frozen meat up on a hill :D
How unusual
and just as Dunedin stole most of its street names from Edinburgh, Oamaru stole most its street names from English rivers. We're just a big bunch of stealers down in the South Island.
Really it was people from here going abroad and trying to take home with them. I hate when people refuse to come up with new names. We have planets full of features named after things and people here
its hard to think of new names for things though, if I ever founded a village I'd be mighty stuck. Good thing I have no plans to found a village.
Can I borrow a pen off someone please? :D
But people with less knowledge came up with all the original names.
Call it Sidepodville. Easy
Not vey #mfc
very
i'd call it team lotus.
Mark's egg selection is good:
http://twitpic.com/4p2846
I learned something Finnish related tonight as I answered the McLaren members competition question of the month, 'which McLaren driver set the fastest lap at the Malaysian GP two years in a row'
Turns out it was Mika. I never would have guessed him first.
I keep trying to double book myself while looking at lympic tickets. Paper and a pen would help a lot. I was gonna write on the back of a used envelope if that makes it more ecologically sound?
I did mine on a spreadsheet #mfc
I'm doing that now but honestly... I'm yearning for a pen.
I'm also looking at the site, its all very complicated.
#leavingittothelastminute
I signed up for an account but then gave up :)
you all need to get tickets because my mum was concerned that i'm going alone.
"Mum, do you realise how many friends I have in the UK? It's the one place I can go and be sure I won't be alone"
:D
Nick wants to go to waterpolo final and closing ceremony (zzzzzz) but they're on the same day. Can we make it from Waterpolo Arena to Olympic Stadium in 90 minutes? I'm assuming everything will be rammed.
Buy it all!
Anyone else coming to the fencing?
you also need to allow up to an hour to get through security for the opening and closing ceremonies, it's where its at its tightest.
Dont worry, we will have jetpacks by then or sumtin
Ooh walking distance = problem solved!
Good afternoon everyone!
That's it! I've just completed my first post-Easter day at highschool.
I blame you for being so disorganised. I need help with this!!!
There's always the marathon and the cycling, those are free..
TV for the win! :)
Hi Marti
Once I know what I've been allocated I'm going to have a look and see what comes up for public sale and buy anything that fits into my gaps that sounds remotely interesting. Although I'm sure the only things that won't sell out in this round of ticketing are the really boring odd things :D
The !!!!!! are back
Find an outside bigscreen TV somewhere, apparently some cities will have them. Means finding a city.
Oh yeah! Sign up for the cycling thing with the electric bike!
Forgot that 1!
#sidepodspace
The countdown has started
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html
I was gonna just buy some cycling without consulting you tbh. That's my favourite.
kieron (sp?)
Q. How long does the security screening procedure usually take?
The security screening procedure is similar to airport security. Due to the volume and set up of each venue, security screen times may differ dependent on the venue. The security check itself usually takes no more than a few minutes. The wait for the security screening is usually within 15 to 30 minutes except for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies where the wait may be over an hour.
Q. What can I do to reduce my security screening time?
Whenever possible, do not bring bags or any oversized items with you to Olympic event venues. Most event venues will have express lanes for spectators without bags.
Note to self: Pack clothes with pockets, don't take a bag.
Not the robot one though. If you get robot on the same day then lucky you :P
I dint mint as ling as electric bike is in there!
Oooh. Am I Factbyte Factboxing this one?
Been on the beer?
I didn't put in for cycling, as much as I'd like to see my neighbour :D
you must1
must!
Oh dear, no spelling... Back to pubbing
It would be very curious. Then you could record 'An Aside with NASA' and so on ^^
Why is it too difficult for them to put up a simple list of where everything is. Telling me where the venues are is useless if you don't tell me what sport is at what venue.
Of course. It launches on Friday evening. The wedding is just an excuse to give people the day off to watch. Even Obama is going to the Cape
Last message was supposed to be sent to Christine's...
I suppose it would be a bit rude to just do the second to last one and ignore the last one.
Dan knows an astronaut. Just saying
NIIIIIIIIIIIICK
This is the second last one. There is an extra one in the summer now.
what?
A bonus Shuttle?
They managed to get funding to fly a final mission with Atlantis in July I think
Yes
Ah ha. No need to do this one then :)
Sounds nightmarish for anyone attending who expects to be able to take a reasonable amount of stuff for attending a sporting event with them :(
Or expensive
you can do it, you'll just have to queue :)
But it is the second last one and the last one for Endeavour and the only one you can do with a president there
What if they keep extending it and I keep on doing the second to last one?
:)
BMX could be fun
Groundhog shuttle.
They have no more budget. There will be no more. The last one only has a crew of four so there is not even a chance of a rescue mission if the crew gets stranded on the ISS
MARMOTS!!!!
How can you object to constant marmots?
Buy 134 shuttle missions and get one free
:D
Hehehe.
For an hour in large crowds (because a) there'll be a lot of people in the same situation and b) this is the government so all estimates will be underestimated)? That's likely to be more than I can cope with. And given that my idea of essentials for watching sports includes a decent-thickness book for the lulls and intervals, it's very unlikely that I'd be able to get everything I needed in the venue even if I won the lottery.
evening all
you could just watch it on tv.
Doesn't sound like the Olympics are for you then.
I could - but I could do that with every other Olympics ever...
Mmm screens.
sounds like a plan then.
ahh yes, doesn't sound ideal for you. I think as long as I have my wallet, and a camera and my phone I'll be OK.
I think the security will take way longer than they say. It takes forever to get a few hundred people on a plane so getting tens of thousands in and out of various events will be horrific
will you be our on-the-scene reporter (again)?
amy from the internet: going outside so you don't have to (since 2009)
of course :)
Best motto ever.
It does defeat the point of having the Olympics in Britain and paying a fortune for it when the experience is identical to the ones before and after it. If you're going to have a people's Olympics, then really it should be made accessible to people who want to see the events...
Hence why I think it'll be an underestimate.
How much would you have to pay to go to the Olympics?
There are a lot more entrances to the stadium
quite a lot of people will go and no-doubt enjoy it.
Getting the Olympics to Britain has never been about the people.
75% of the tickets are reserved for the British public, in general I'd say it's pretty accessible.
Well, everyone in the country's going to end up sharing a large bill whether they go or not because I can't see tickets coming close to covering the costs.
Tickets for individual events vary from £20 (for a full day of endurance swimming events) to £2012 (most expensive tickets for the closing ceremony).
the main stadium will hold 80,000, I wonder how many entrances it'll have. *ponder*
Out of everything I've applied for the Opening Ceremony is what I want to get the most, and it's probably the one I'd be least likely to get. I'd say it will be many times oversubscribed :(
They are fairly accessible, but this is London and London is understandably the most paranoid place about terrorism etc. Gotta put up with a few more searches and things there.
the total cost of everything I've applied for came to about $1350 Australian dollars, so at least thats less than the cost of the flight to get there. Stupid isolation.
In fairness it's no worse than most other cities in that regard...
And I guess you'd like to go there more than just one day...
But everyone at an airport knows what they are doing because they do it every day. This is going to be people with limited knowledge who on the first day are going to be swamped
Will it be a sell-out? Probably not at these prices and ticket allocations (either the tickets needed to be cheaper or more needed to be made available to non-British people).
Will it be enjoyed? Probably - if the mess-ups that sound like they are going to happen don't happen. The overriding message I'm getting from what's being posted here is that the authorities haven't thought this through and should have learned from (for example) the British Grand Prix organisers.
I'd be fairly happy with one day, I shudder to think about hotel costs that month.
oh yes, Bassano has offered up Sidepodhospitality and I'm going to hold him to it :D
seems unduly negative to me, but fair enough.
There's paranoid and there's estimating needing an hour of queue time due to security. The former shows sense and preparation, the latter shows the opposite.
I expect the athletics and velodrome will be sold out, probably the only gaps will be in the corporate sections. Things like weightlifting maybe not so popular.
I think the main events will all sell out.
Yes. I thought about going to London and watch the Olympics, it would be a great oportunity to enjoy such a event and discover one of the most important cities of Europe, but I don't know... It's unlikely.
I guess you were either far too small or not around at all when Barcelona hosted them?
Even one day would be good (with a train ride before and after to avoid hotel fees), but the way it's being done it's not going to be feasible to do even that.
so how is everyone today?
I didn't exist hehehe. I was born in the '95, and the Olympics were celebrated in the '92.
My maths was really fail then, for some reason I was thinking 1992 was not 19 years ago :D
Is everyone invited? :)
If I can find the right events (and get given the tickets) I'm sure I can manage a 6am train, be in London 9.30 or so if SW Trains pull through (*manic laughter*) and stay all day.
Although in reality I'm applying for what I like and will worry about logistics in 12 months.
The cheap seats will definitely sell out, as will the "elite seats" for the premier stuff and those Britain traditionally does well in like sailing, but the expensive seats (of which there are a very large number) in most events won't. Cheaper seating or wider international availability would have helped.
I'm OK, thank you.
have they announced how many expensive seats there are? I'm sure they wouldn't be stupid enough to have so many that half the stadiums are empty.
I baggsied first so I'm claiming the spare room :D
I will have the same if the lady with the mouse gets the tickets!
how does bassano know where he'll be living in 2012?
Minnie?
:) :) :)
Seb Coe has said best ones to go for will be hockey and volleyball... http://twitter.com/#!/Pearcesport/status/62938168630067201 So presuming they are selling weakly or something.
They haven't announced how many of each there are, but they've described the type of seat each ticket type gets. So if you know that and know how the international versions of each type of venue is generally set up, you can guess what sort of seat quantities are involved.
Good stuff Ali
Can't imagine hockey being a big seller
I think I should get a discount for having an account with their banking sponsor.
It must be said that neither is exactly a high-profile sport in the UK, so I wouldn't be too worried if they're the only problems the authorities have sale-wise.
:D
#ScaryPerson!!!! :D
ooh his tweets are quite interesting
"Here are 2 more #2012 events which I'm told are high demand and maybe heading for ballot. Finals of badminton and canoe slalom"
They're not what I'd call events I'd expect to be in demand, I think your crowds shall be fine :)
:D Love it!
Badminton did get popular when that duo were good at it, but I think she retired anyway.
Britain has recently had a very good badminton duo, so I can see why that is headed for ballot. Canoe slalom, on the other hand, is a good sign that some unexpected events are thriving in terms of popularity, because normally few people would think twice about that event in the UK!
His tweets are all quite negative about anyones chances of getting tickets to anything. Hopefully the travel involved from Australia means the number of people applying for our ballot will be a lot less. Then again, the country will have been allocated a lot less too. Nothing to do but wait and see :)
Gail Emms retired cos she was pregnant I think, I think its Tomlinson (I think) and Kellogg these days.
She did. I think I've seen her play in an exhibition match since, but it was for entertaining the crowd alongside some other badminton "masters" rather than a serious competition.
Britain has won a few badminton medals in recent Olympics so maybe it will draw a crowd
He is still playing.
I'd wager not as well.
Of course his tweets are negative - he's got to be to convince the British public that things are going well. He doesn't need to worry about putting people off because this is the last day to apply for tickets (if I remember correctly).
No idea where I got Tomlinson from, I meant Robertson.
Can't say I have paid to much attention
Who are you talking about?
Sebastian Coe, one of the ambassadors of the Olympics and chairman of one of its committees.
James Pearce: http://twitter.com/#!/Pearcesport. He does the sport for BBC News.
http://twitter.com/#!/Pearcesport
If you want to take a look about the changes the main teams did during the Chinese GP, take a look at this article.
I didn't write it and it's in Spanish, but there are plenty of useful pictures. http://www.caranddriverthef1.com/formula1/articulos/2011/04/16/que-hay-nuevo-en-los-coches-shanghai
gosh thats rather pessimistic!
oooh, good find. ta.
wut?
Force India is attempting to start another version of Follow Friday - #watchwednesday. Even I have to query the advisability of going up against that powerful a hashtag...
#points
Politics...
i get that. i don't get your point of view. mind you it's not even on this year, so i'll sit quiet until 2012.
For the benefit of the tape I am using Notepad to record my choices.
(do you hear that on TV cop procedurals any more?)
In a nutshell, if it's difficult to get tickets, then the Olympics have sold well. If it's easy to get tickets, it hasn't. The former helps the political careers of those involved in organising the Olympics a whole lot more than the latter.
oooh, i likes that.
I just don't get what you mean by convincing the public it's going well. The Olympics is MASSIVE. I'm sure it's going well.
it's not a robbie williams concert. there's no-one pretending to be popular.
he's a BBC journalist, I'm sure he doesn't give a rats about the organisers political careers.
♥
For one thing it isn't him tweeting, and for another he'd be upbeat saying "it is the last day and we're selling out!"
If you knew how much scepticism there was about it round here...
That's not the impression I got.
Plus, no one (the papers) actually cares about it yet. Particularly this week.
on sidepodcast? we're stocked about it aren't we? i'm planning on christine taking the whole event off work to factbyte factbox it.
:)
stoked, rather.
He doesn't but the guy he interviewed does.
Ooh, work. Good point.
(assuming you have a job by 2012)
;)
I filled in the extra word myself without even thinking :)
the sceptics also tend to be the ones who are the least aware of whats actually happening around them. The UK has a population of approximately 62,000,000. You don't need a very large percentage of people to apply to fill an 80,000 seat stadium and thats on the large end of the scale, some of the events will only fit 2000 people into them.
3 weeks of daily FBFB :)
we're gonna need a bigger server.
I should be practiced enough by then.
AND at least it will be in a decent timezone :)
I meant the people I meet face-to-face. Maybe it's different where you are, but the majority of people I've spoken to about the Olympics where I live are either neutral or highly negative about Britain's handling of the event.
I have a feeling I know which newspapers they buy without asking or checking, but that's all I'll say..
You don't - but an awful lot seems to be happening to prevent that filling-up from happening.
Like what?
You seem to be presuming an awful lot.
If they're getting their information from a newspaper, they're not the ones I know - most of them don't even have papers any more and the others are in a scheme whereby they share pretty much every one on sale at their local shop (which covers pretty much the entire spectrum of British journalism, good and bad).
we drove down the new road to weymouth over the weekend, it is absolutely stunning (as roads go). that's there because of the olympics.
haven't driven to weymouth for about 10 years, but the last time i went it was a crappy little winding road that nearly got me killed. i have nothing but good things to say about the olympics in the uk so far.
I certainly haven't seen any ticket sale numbers yet.
Although... when it's done... that's gonna be a big ol' road just to get to Weymouth :)
it's ok, when I win the lottery before 2012 I'll buy 50 seats for everyone on sidepodcast
Then it sounds like a lot of old fashioned British cynism and a whole load of nothing to back it up.
I drove down that two weeks ago, lovely road.
#roadnerd
Also, WHAT, you were half an hour from me and you didn't say. Pfft. :)
i assume the place will grow into it.
Mr BBC said chances of getting a ticket to the opening ceremony is like winning the lottery. I'd say those 80,000 tickets will be sold many times over by now :)
Melbourne has no trouble filling its 100,000 seat stadium and we don't have 62,000,000 residents :)
If there are seats left over after the ballot it's a good thing anyway - means that people who don't know if they can go until last minute get a chance to.
Transport links not being completed on time (the electrified line from London to central England that's not even been started yet was meant to be finished by next year). Finals tickets where 4 hours at the lowest price costs more than general admission to Silverstone. Hour-long security checks. Ticket purchase procedures that don't reliably work (and that's other people saying it because I haven't attempted to book an Olympic ticket, so no point blaming my computer for this). These things matter when it comes to accessing the event.
Time to leave.
See you tomorrow, have a nice day (not in Bon Jovi's song meaning hehe) ;)
ooh, we could've, but i'm not sure we knew where we were as christine buggered her lighter socket, which makes charging phone, sat-nav and what-not a bit of a problem :(
The way from Dorch was a slow slow slow slow road which was only slow because of the heavy traffic. I was shocked at how it only took 5 minutes to get there instead of half an hour.
:) :)
There's a key thing in that sentence I don't agree with and its 'in the uk', it isn't. Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland and the top 2/3 of England have got nothing bar a few football matches, they get no improvements, nothing is beneficial has come from the Olympics for everywhere bar London and a few places a few miles from there.
Also consider the dreadful handling of events regarding legacy of places like the Olympic Stadium, its been pretty poor in my eyes. And the price cost hikes...
I'm not sure its relevant but I felt the need to say it.
We've seen tweets implying sale numbers for certain things.
ahh, true. sorry.
agreed.
:D
that happens in every country that hosts it.
I agree with this - how come Spurs get the right to the stadium when they only want to knock it down anyway?
Ah, right. That seems like an awful lot of "hasn't happened yet" stuff, so I'll leave you to that.
I'm having trouble timetabling myself :P Too much choice :D
I'm aware, I just don't like it when they say its the UK Olympics when really, it isn't.
What city has benefited from it in ways other than increased exposure and tourism though?
ahh. I've only ever heard it called the London Olympics down here :)
It was only meant to be London but we've got a nice shiny new road and we're 3 hours away from the place.
Good points though.
The opening and closing ceremonies are always the most popular events. The thing is the Olympics and Paralympics combined are going to cost £20 bn at least. The "like winning the lottery" will be true in the broader sense of the term.
It's the events in the middle which worry me.
I have a feeling some visitors may be disappointed when they arrive. :D
it is a lovely road.
wish we'd taken some pictures now.
They don't open up enough tickets to foreigners to make much money from tourists, but if they had less availble to the UK, much of the UK would whine. But they whine regardless so you really can't win :D
It may explain things if I say that I'm also in the 2/3 of England in question. In the organisers' defence, I will say that the Olympics in Britain is spread out over a larger proportion of the country than usual (most of the time only football gets delegated to other cities, but Britain's been thoughtful enough to do so for several other events, notably sailing).
Wonder if I can tape a camera or phone to my dashboard or window
If you have a little camera/phone, you just need an elastic band and a rear view mirror.
Not that I've tried it. Obviously.
Nokia E71 would be too heavy and I don't have a modern ultraslim camera.
:D
hmm, I have to leave for work in 3 hours, perhaps I should try and sleep.
Stupid public holidays, I'm broken
It's a "been promised explicitly or by implication", except for the transport links (the line I cited as an example - which is the only Olympic improvement that it looks like my area will get - is estimated to need 3 years to install due to not wishing to introduce excessive problems for current rail users), the ticket prices (which are clearly indicated in the brochure) and the ticket purchasing.
A bit late now
It'd be ok if I could come home and nap but I'm going out for dinner :(
Now that Nick is buying me some Olympics tickets, I'm feeling a lot more positive about the whole thing :D
I thought you were buying him tickets
That'll hurt
Round Derbyshire it's called the Olympics, the assumption being that everyone means the 2012 one unless the context makes it obvious it's not.
I knew it would happen, I've gone to bed at 4am every night since Wednesday last week. This 5.22 is new to me though :)
you may want to avoid sidepodcast next year, i'm guessing it'll be just like the world cup in terms of threads. incidentally, we need a summer sport to follow this year...
Wimbledon is one.
Well there is the Rugby World Cup later in the year...
The trick is to alter the proportions according to what people are likely to want to buy. The less popular events and rounds could easily have had more non-UK spectators invited, while the more popular ones could have had high UK crowd numbers in order to satisfy demand.
With his money.... Obviously you're better off in the UK pool so I have to do it.
I think most things will have fairly high demand tbh.... If I get to see a few different things, I'll be really happy! :) They'll reopen the ticket sales if things aren't sold I'm sure.
I'm happy about the Olympics, it's the government's handling of it that bugs me. Once the sporting events themselves start and the politicians and psuedopoliticians shut up, and assuming major calamities are avoided, I'll be fine...
Have you considered just staying up through the night. I have done that a couple of times recently just to get my bodyclock back to something like normal
OK
I do it quite often but normally on the weekend. It's too much with 8 hours of work ahead of me, and it's going to be a really ridiculously busy day too as I'm going to be two people for the rest of the week.
Don't forget the Euro Champs (which were awesome in 2008) are just a month before the Olympics too... as for this year, its a perfect opportunity to get into speedway I think...
over here the applications have closed, we find out what we've got the week beginning may 23, and then on june 28th anything not already sold goes on sale as first come first served.
I was awake for 38 hours straight last week and couldn't sleep at the end of it
although being two people at work means theres no one else there to keep an eye on me and make sure im not asleep at my desk. hmm.
Why???q
500ml can of energy drink, slowly.
now shoo :)
I don't like energy drinks. I had one last week because the vending machine gave out 5 instead of 1 to one of my colleagues. Still don't taste any better than when I last had one :)
Five for one sounds like an excellent deal!
our vending machine often jams and the only way to get the stuck can out is to shake it a bit. Then more tend to fall out :D
It's not that rare. I stay up right through about once or twice a month for a bit of a reset. Quite often can't even sleep after I've finished work.
Our machines are all anti tilt.
I don't like many of them but the ones with real juice are nice (Relentless and Rockstar).
I'm always scared someone is going to pull it over on top of themselves.
My body clock was so far out of sync it was the easiest way to get it close to normal
Does it do this? (keep watching)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqT_dPApj9U
That would hurt.... Coca cola got wise to people tipping machines to get things out. They're alarmed and everything here now if you try and tip them. Nothing comes out at all :(
The only pool I have is 27 floors down and full of water...
Jealous.
I'm stuck btw. Help me.
A coke machine that does pizza mmmmmmmm
I wish :D
All the stuff is bunched in the first week is that okay?
Our vending machine is stocked with skinny cans whereas I think its built for normal cans or bottles which is why they all fall out and jam it in the first place.
How do you feel about Badminton?
NIIIIIIIIICK!!! Help meeeee!
if he's on the internet right now...which he is....why isn't he doing this himself?:D
Good grief.
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/robert-kubica-makes-his-debut-on-christines-rankings-this-week
I hope this 0 looks like a life saver ring?
It's cruel to the horses
This is too many decisions all at once! I struggle to decide what I want for a meal.
I prefer the tennis outfits on the ladies?
Is that a no?
Beach Volleyball it is then.
I really don't get why you're doing this :)
I do worry about the weather for that!
And inflicting it on us! :)
I must be hungry. I'm reading a list of events and read "Foil Individual Round" as "Foil Individually Wrapped".
Dinner break.
I am in the pub...
If I wanted tickets I need to apply through my local OC
...that or watch paint dry
:)
Probably best to go for more tennis instead?
thats the worst excuse ever.
:D
There aren't enough days in the week. Why are you not helping me with this??
I was in an Aussie pub earlier and asked for tui...
... I got tooheys :D
Yeah - I don't think they'll need to worry about sunburn!
Aussie's don't know what that is so I'm not surprised.
And with that, I'm actually off to bed :)
They are both awful beers anyway
It is never going to work in rain an wind
:D
Errrm I have a problem. I have to ship tickets to my billing address for security and obviously my billing address is here but there's no way I'll be living here next year.
Can you not change the billing address later (even for a fee?)
I've decided I probably can and just paid up. You owe me Nicholas, wherever you are. This has taken me a whole evening!!!
Phew (I hope)
Ping: http://sidepodcast.com/post/live-blogging-gains-points-on-this-weeks-team-rankings
Daily is done and includes the rankings. Now off to watch the end of the footy and then sleep. see you later!
Byee.
Night mate.
Night
I forgot to ping this earlier
http://toomuchracing.com/2011/04/26/tmr-game-2011-week-14/
I don't know if I'll be living here this time next year, they must realise people move house though.
Yeah I'm sure I can change it somehow later.
I've just had some sad news :( One of my cousin's kids is 17 and he's been training with a proper football club since he was about 10 but we've just found out he needs major knee surgery and won't be allowed to play again for 9 months. Bad times.
I thought it was going to be something really serious with that start.
9 months is alright, isn't it?
:( He was very good. They were interested in taking him on. I'm totally gutted for him.
It's a lot for a footballer at that age. He could go from top of their list to being of no interest to anyone in that time. Happens a lot
Your intro made me think he had been killed
9 months is a long time for a footballer, in fairness injuries that long and you often aren't the same player afterwards. Its a shame for a promising player like that to get such an injury :(
Ah, okay.
Hah! That's probably how he feels tbh.
While he is convalescing, you should get him into F1. He can come and comment with us.
What an excellent word. That's two new words I have learned today!
Which words?
Great idea. You don't even need knees fo that
F 1?
Convalescing, which Christine just used, and the other was another word for a model of something, Miquet... it was a french word Lou said to me earlier and it's sooo much fun to say out loud. :D
I think I'll volunteer you to go harass football club so they don't forget about him. You anywhere near Glasgow??
I don't know how to spell the french word I should add, I just enjoyed saying it out loud
As if the Playstation Network outage could get any worse for Sony (7 days it's been down now since they've been trying to fix it), it seems whoever has been hacking it has got credit card and address info of users. What an absolutely huge disaster, yikes.
Million miles away.
ooh you don't want to get messed up between the Glasgow clubs
Oh well I'll let you off with phoning them.
True
No point hassling anyone till his leg is working
Hmmmm if they don't remember his name, I'm blaming you!
Cycling time trial is free at Hampton Court Palace, August 1st. Sounds like a nice day out. Women's at 10am, Men's at 1pm, wander the palace in between the races.
Maybe head to London afterwards for the evening swimming session.
Hardly seems fair. You didn't say what his name was.
Really glad I don't have a PS3 or a PSN account... oh.
Sew you into a Celtic strip and drop you off at Ibrox?
Mmm. I haven't had a PS3 for a while but I know my account still exists so it is slightly disconcerting.
I know enough about football to know that you can't get anyone interested in a player who can't play. Once he can play and train again you have a chance of people taking an interest
I didn't even think of that
Do that with Nick
Nick won't come with me to Scotland. Perhaps this is why :D
Oops. Might have left it a bit late. Website timed me out and is struggling to log me in.
:S I'm glad I got mine out the way. It was working fine an hour ago so I would persist with it.
It just worked, got the opening ceremony and some swimming so far..
I'm not into all this flag waving stuff but Nick seems very keen.
Ping: http://mrschristine.com/2011/04/26/the-post-office-more-than-just-post/
Good evening
Don't undo the top before you shake it
Good advice, just 24hrs too late :D
Staying safe with Ciabatta tonight
I don't know if this is a new thing or my computer gone mad or whatever, but the font on there is near impossible to read. It wasn't like that yesterday.
Yea, I'm testing out Typekit stuff. It's driving me bonkers.
I was just about to say similar
Very thin
Ah yeah it can take a while to find one which works
Hello and what on earth have you done?? :D
I'll do anything to get away from Georgia, but I can't remember the last thing that made me this angry.
It was yesterday... one sec
http://sidepodcast.com/post/daily-25th-april-2011#comment-1078571
Nick is that you??
The Country or the State?
I changed it to something darker but who knows when the caches will actually fix themselves.
Yeah, it was quite dippy of me. I blame ... err, I don't know.
I reserve the right to blame something when I think of it :)
Didn't want a repeat
Squarespace? :)
If you look at mine or Lukeh's blogs and click the Typekit logo, the fonts on those are pretty good if you want something readable until the caches sort themselves out and you can look properly again.
Oh yea. And I went there to get away from Georgia. Funny ol' world.
Appreciate the thought
That's a lot better
Bassano is there staff parking at Heathrow for non BAA staff?
Wow. Only took ten minutes that time then.
Or obviously just use one of those..
Airline staff you mean or general airport staff?
General airport staff.
Agreed
Heh, appreciated. It's not a service that encourages changing your mind.
ALL people [well, nearly all] who work at the airport park off-site, usually near the long term car parks and get a shuttle bus to the terminal of their work location. Very few will have passes that let them park in the short-term multi-stories that are next to the terminal building
The maintenance base is 1 or 2 stops away from the terminals and the airlines have there own car parks too for various locations in the area
I'm mainly bothered about the cost. Do you have to pay the same as punters in the airport?
Generally, the emploter will have to fork out for a permit from BAA for the privelege too and well as the cost of the ID
I think the use of runways is quite far down the list of their revenue
Cost of what? The employer pays for parking, the courtesy bus is free
Generally, all the local airport buses are then free too
Oooh okay. That's all I'm bothered about! Just weighing up some options etc. for the next few months.
Admit it. You want to nick Bassano's space
Bear in mind, the process adds about 20-30mins to your journey at each end of your shift.
Technically, I don't work at the airport, just next to it. Right next to it, granted :D
:D I want to get out of my current workplace before the **** hits the fan. They'd pay me £££ for working unsociable hours in an airport :) I'd need to move again if I did that though. It's just deciding what's best really.
If you are studying in Southampton, that has a (little) airport
Shift pay's not huge but it does help. I'll email you
I flew out of there a few times. Not a bad little airport
Goodo. Now I have a vaguely legible blog, I shall retire.
Night all.
I may need a reminder, I'm in the middle of something
Good night Christine
G'night Mrs Christine
Same. Scared my sister there once when 'forgot' to mention until the departure lounge after check-in that our plane was a turboprop rather than a jet, she'd only ever been on big jets. :)
Night
Thanks :D I'll try and remember.
It's hard. My living costs are so low here that I'd probably need to earn an unrealistic amount to make it worthwhile to move. It's hard to decide because I'm very restless at the moment.
:D
Hahahaha epic job advert. Looking through our internal vacancies. Someone's made a typing error on "shift leader" It's missing a letter :D
Would this be before Uni starts?
Who would want to lead sift? Shocking.
Maybe they are being really honest :)
Probably! I'll probably end up just staying here. I get a lot of overtime. Just need to get my head down for another 6 months, got to keep telling myself.
The cost of living is considerably higher in the South, especially near big cities. The areas near Heathrow are either affluent or... not the nicest.
evening all.
I've learnt something this evening, i'm soooo pleased i didn't choose to do a graphic design course.
Avoiding bad decisions is a great discovery. Hi Lou
indesign still being a pain?
Was it a French word for model that Lukeh can't spell?
Ah!
the best. :) i can also now sympathise with my flatmate who is always stressed.
Mannequin?
not really, i now understand alot of the programme, it's just the stress of coming up with a good layout that not only shows of my images but also isn't too boring. Then there is choosing the colours and text... soo much choice!
word of the day!! :)
you mean maquette? ..
No, that's a monkey ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maquette
Application succesful... I may have just bought £500 worth of Olympic tickets.. but the liklihood of getting either of the two BIG athletics nights (each with 100m finals), let alone both, is very very small.. and the opening/closing ceremonies. And the velodrome as that's popular.
That's quite a specific word, were you discussing architecture or did it come up on your course?
Wow!
Blue skittles and maquettes, today has been a knowledgeable day indeed
erm i was making a maquette for my indesign final piece booklet i'm making. which is driving me slowly insane btw.. :)
and i thought my £90 worth was alot! that is alot of tickets..
wow, well you never know until you apply :)
I have no idea because he couldn't tell us because he couldn't spell it. But you told him the word earlier today
It's only 8 tickets though! If I win everything, which is so unbelievably unlikely it won't happen, is I'll spend £410. Max is £530 I think.
But 4 of those tickets are going to be oversubscribed, one in a million chances on each of the four tickets. Realistically I'm expecting to win maybe two at about £80-£100 total.
i got two smoothies for breakfast. Wake me up, fruit sugar!
That's what I thought.. If I only go for one and I lose it, that would be a shame. So go for lots knowing they have slim chances anyway. :)
Don't forget convalescing
yes!! Spoilt with new knowledge :)
I'm gonna be so sad if I don't get at least a few things :(
Feel better after 2 and a half hours sleep?
i feel the same as i did before 2 hours sleep. It's around 1pm the trouble starts!
Just keep sugar loading
@London2012:
Some people experienced a temporary delay in accessing the Olympic ticketing site following a surge of applications around 10:30pm this eve
We apologise for any inconvenience this delay may have caused and the ticketing system will remain open until 1am.
:D
I may or may not be going to a beach volleyball event at Horseguard's Parade :)
I love how British that is. Leaving it until the last minute :)
Sugar and caffeine and apples.
speaking of which. suppose i should do my mclaren thing soon.
once the smoothies are gone I'll have to move onto office coffee.
Yep. Myself, and I saw several on Twitter doing same :)
Now I have to clean the bathroom for a flat inspection, she's turning up at the momemt I'm due home from work tomorrow.. last minute stuff again..
What be that then, overalls?
Landlady or flatmate?
i have given up on choosing a typeface and appealed to my flatmate who does graphics. it's just too hard. i can now see why Mr C says he can take days to choose one for sidepodcast.
Agency on behalf of landlady
You moving again soon?
fonts are serious business, even going through typekit for clog fonts can have you sitting there for ages just trying to find the perfect style. There really in something oddly interesting about fonts..
Nope. Contract renewal.
Oops, blog fonts silly HTC. My clogs don't need new writing write now thank you very much
I'm so glad I don't have this nonsense. I pay my rent and my landlady leaves me alone... She never took references or anything. Oddly trusting :P
I nominate Phlebotomy as Wednesday's Word of the Day!
Oooh I'm good at that!
i think this may take months. i need the perfect font, i even need to justify it my sketchbook! Then i need to think about the layout of my images, and if i want them within borders or just embedded in the text...
... then i need to think about what i'm going to write.
so when i try again tomorrow you may not see me for months!
#useless skill
you're Amy from the internet, she knows you're cool see
Bloodsucker
Is that because everyone knows each other in Liverpool? I've seen it on Brookie, must be true
Alison is now Amy?
Am I dreaming?
Bah. Sorry Alison, thought that was Amys comment.#fail
that wasn't me :D
Shouldn't let that pass without a chuckle :lol:
No, I searched for a houseshare on the internet. Chose a nice cheap one, had a look round and decided it would do.... The lady wanted cash payments at first and I had to basically wait for her to come over and run after her with cash. It took me ages to get bank details for a standing order. I'd ask her if the money was coming through okay and she said she hadn't checked for about 6 weeks... Oddly trusting as I said. I could probably stop it and I doubt she'd notice.
my mind is exhausted from learning 2 new words :)
you are now discovering my troubles with HTC quoting with the doohickey i see. :)
Amy has a militant letting agent!
Though Venipuncture is pretty close
well as long as youre around for your birthday in October ;)
no i'm thinking of missing that too. i don't want to turn 20 yet thanks :)
we never heard from them after our last inspection so for once they're not saying 'the inside of your dishwasher was dirty, EVICTION'
The silence is scary. She could be plotting anything.
in that case, happy pre-emptive new year!
It would be horrible to be that old. Imagine not being a teenager any more?
:D
I'll take your birthday this year if you want, I'll need strong shoulders anyway come October
#Biggun
i know! so i think i've decided to stay a teenager for another year, just so i don't have to act like an adult just yet. :)
Getting older doesn't stop that. You just get better at pretending to be grown up
Good plan. The earlier you start lying about you age the easier it is to fool people and convince them that you are younger than you are.
:D
I'm actually pretty good at it now
Quarterly inspections so far, but I think the first 3mth one was just because I'd only just moved in. Now I've renewed for a year they should leave me alone until next April.
The lady in the etihad office remembered I bought f1 tickets last year, and my name!
Scary lady!