Snowy Sunday 12th - Just a conversation - The Book-keepers Forum (UK)

Wella · Expert

Snowy Sunday 12th - Just a conversation

Wella · Expert

Peasie wrote:
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The spreadsheet keeps on expanding as I add more things to it.....................

As long as it's expotential to the waste line reducing, let it expand smile

Good luck with it. To be honest I could do with losing about a stone. I am closer to your target weight but am not particularly tall.

I blame the bookkeeping. Since I started doing this, I spend more time sitting down than I ever did before. Gave up smoking about four years ago, which hasn't helped either.

Not sure how I am going to erase the naked Peasie image from my head now though.

Edit: Found a way biggrin

images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTafv3-fo4ByP43TFKCMSn9mztsOjGTctR8T9-owsT0en7XydA29g

-- Edited by Wella on Sunday 12th of February 2012 02:05:17 PM

Wella · Expert

Spamkebab wrote:
I am 5 foot 10ish and when i started college in September 2010 i weighed in at 15.5 stone, by July 2011 i was a healthy 12.5, god knows what happened as i can't seem to put my finger on any changes to my diet or activities apart from study and exams but hey-ho i'm not knocking it. Only trouble is i feel the cold now i haven't got the layer of chub to keep me warm lol.

Bill i have been interested in picking up a Banjo for a while now but wouldn't know what type would suit me. I play Acoustic guitar and am mainly a rhythm guitarist,
any tips on which type of Banjo to go for? (don't say none lol)

Done the weekly shop this morning and just enjoying the delights of a freshly opened jar of coffee, the cheapest custard creams and bourbons money can buy. In fact i may have a taste test between major supermarket own brands.

Neil.

Five string open back is used more for folk/ traditional/ music hall type music.

Five string resonator is a loud instrument (my weapon of choice - no amp required smile ) More commonly played in Bluegrass best played with finger picks. Open backs tend to be more mellow, resonator are very bright. I would say resonator is the way to go, as you can play all styles on it.

There are many other hybrid versions, 4 string tenor, same tuning as violin/ mandolin. Banjele (baby uke banjo) Banjolin (eight string mandolin tuning), banguitar (six stringed in guitar tuning - I seem to remember Peasie has one)

Want see what an eight year can do with a resonator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3qbB4Kq3Y0

Nice lady playing open back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_1DQi_P9MI

Edit: Forgot to add there are different styles of playing banjo. I like picking but if you prefer rythm type playng, there is a style called claw hammer, which is more of a strumming technique.

May have spotted a link between weight and diet biggrin

-- Edited by Wella on Sunday 12th of February 2012 04:00:16 PM

pDm · Senior Member

Aha! Afternoon everyone - hope you're managing to get a day off and not sitting reading the forum... like I am :S So far I've had a very lazy lay in. But have to actually get moving to the tip so I can empty my car ready for Monday. It's chocka with stuff that "might be useful one day" - foot put down. It's going. Then to the shops quickly and that should be that. Who else? Anything as amazing as my plans for the day? :)

Peasie · Expert

pDm wrote:
It's chocka with stuff that "might be useful one day" - foot put down. It's going.

You'll be kicking yourself in a months time when something breaks down and you think to yourself - "I could have used ========= to repair it, why did I take it to the tip"

A very long lie in for me - didn't even get up in the morning. I think it was 12:55pm before I dragged myself out of bed. It's warm in there.

Time to whip all the clothes off and weigh myself. Since January I've gone from "severely obese" to "obese". My target is a "slightly overweight" 14½ stone. Anything under that weight and I'll look unhealthy. I remember looking at my weight loss and at one point noticed I'd lost 5½kgs. I just happened to have an unopened 5kg bag of sugar and picked that up. It made me realise I was dragging that about with me all day every day for no reason. In fact, I've another four of these 5kg bags to get rid of just to be slightly overweight.

The problem started 4 and a bit years ago when I passed my driving test. It meant I wasn't cycling anymore. Which brings me to the present day when I have a spreadsheet set up with all the relevent formulas in.....how many calories someone my age, height and weight should burn in a day.

= 66 + (6.23 x weight in pounds) + (12.7 x height in inches) - (6.8 x age in years) x 1.375 (for an activity level of 2)

I then add up all the calories I eat in a day. The spreadsheet keeps on expanding as I add more things to it. Each day is a new tab. I'll enter my weight in pounds and then have it converted into kgs and stones/pounds (which is a pain as I can't figure out a way to do it that doesn't involve a few extra cells).

Spamkebab · Expert

I can't lie in for the life of me. I used to envy my mates when we'd been out of a Saturday night and got steaming and they stayed in bed and slept it off, meanwhile i would be up at the usual 5-6 am with a stinking head, most often still quite tipsy. The good thing about getting older is aquiring common sense lol.

I am 5 foot 10ish and when i started college in September 2010 i weighed in at 15.5 stone, by July 2011 i was a healthy 12.5, god knows what happened as i can't seem to put my finger on any changes to my diet or activities apart from study and exams but hey-ho i'm not knocking it. Only trouble is i feel the cold now i haven't got the layer of chub to keep me warm lol.

Bill i have been interested in picking up a Banjo for a while now but wouldn't know what type would suit me. I play Acoustic guitar and am mainly a rhythm guitarist,
any tips on which type of Banjo to go for? (don't say none lol)

Done the weekly shop this morning and just enjoying the delights of a freshly opened jar of coffee, the cheapest custard creams and bourbons money can buy. In fact i may have a taste test between major supermarket own brands.

Neil.

Peasie · Expert

Wella wrote:
Not sure how I am going to erase the naked Peasie image from my head now though.

Ok, anyone know the easiest way to get an image from an Iphone onto a computer. I've taken a picture that I want to use as my avatar on here now.

Peasie · Expert

Spamkebab wrote:
I can't lie in for the life of me. I used to envy my mates when we'd been out of a Saturday night and got steaming and they stayed in bed and slept it off, meanwhile i would be up at the usual 5-6 am with a stinking head, most often still quite tipsy.

I think the worst one I've done was in my youth had been on a weekend bender. Started on the Friday night and all day Saturday. Resumed early on the Sunday morning. At the time up here north of the border most of the pubs shut at 2:30pm until 6pm. I'd gone home out my face at 2:30pm. Woke up at 8pm thinking it was the next morning so got ready for work and started cycling to work. I passed by pubs and couldn't figure out why people were walking in and out of them. Also - why was it dark? Then it dawned on me. So I cycled home and then headed off to the pub again.

I've no idea how I survived beyond 19 years of age. Now if I have even just a few pints on a Saturday I still feel rough unti the Monday evening.

Spamkebab · Expert

Youth is for the young lol.

Takes me 3 days to recover from an evening of drinking. well it did last time i pickled myself, been tee-total for around 2 years now and don't miss a thing. Only trouble is i find people annoying once they have a drink inside them now.

Rhianrach · Expert

Peasie wrote:
Spamkebab wrote:
I can't lie in for the life of me. I used to envy my mates when we'd been out of a Saturday night and got steaming and they stayed in bed and slept it off, meanwhile i would be up at the usual 5-6 am with a stinking head, most often still quite tipsy.
I think the worst one I've done was in my youth had been on a weekend bender. Started on the Friday night and all day Saturday. Resumed early on the Sunday morning. At the time up here north of the border most of the pubs shut at 2:30pm until 6pm. I'd gone home out my face at 2:30pm. Woke up at 8pm thinking it was the next morning so got ready for work and started cycling to work. I passed by pubs and couldn't figure out why people were walking in and out of them. Also - why was it dark? Then it dawned on me. So I cycled home and then headed off to the pub again.
I've no idea how I survived beyond 19 years of age. Now if I have even just a few pints on a Saturday I still feel rough unti the Monday evening.

I'm the same, I can't get away with drinking anymore, not that it stops me. biggrin

Spamkebab · Expert

I wanted to take a creative writing course and see if i could pen a novel, but after researching just how much alcohol consumption is required to make it big as an author i thought i'd take up bookkeeping. Turns out you're all a load of lushpots lol.

Wella · Expert

Peasie wrote:
Ok, anyone know the easiest way to get an image from an Iphone onto a computer. I've taken a picture that I want to use as my avatar on here now.

Any one know how to block IPhone downloads biggrin

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

Wella wrote:
Any one know how to block IPhone downloads

A 12lb lump hammer works really well at stopping downloads from them...

kjmcculloch83 · Expert

Wella wrote:
Peasie wrote:
Ok, anyone know the easiest way to get an image from an Iphone onto a computer. I've taken a picture that I want to use as my avatar on here now.
Any one know how to block IPhone downloads

It's apple. It'll only upload to a special apple site, for apple users or you'll need to buy a special app that only apple sell to see it.

My rant on apple. No one I know would pay twice the price for an average car if they were told they could only use it on certain roads or fuel it with special fuel that only the car maker sold and it was twice the price of other fuels. But make a phone the same way....

Ok, better now.

Kris

Wella · Expert

Shamus wrote:
Wella wrote:
Any one know how to block IPhone downloads
A 12lb lump hammer works really well at stopping downloads from them...

HI Shaun

Yep that'll do it smile

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

Hi Bill,

well, nobody ever accused me of being subtle! biggrin

Hi Kris,

So if we scan your new Avatar does it come back with your old picture of Homer?

My phones a trusty old Samsung D900 which I've had for about five years now so it wouldn't know what to make of these new block icons.

Wonder how many people do actually scan these things? Sure it's not just me whose a dinosaur when it comes to mobile technology.

All the best,

Shaun.

semsley · Guru

Shaun all you need Is a qr reader they're free and then just scan over the block and it takes you to the web page. I'm quite a dinosaur but I've managed to get used to qr codes. But have great difficulty writing on this &&&"& I phone

Peasie · Expert

Takes you to his bookkeeping resource website. Well, it takes you to a page that tells you about the bookkeeping resource website. I wonder what the future of these little boxes? Are they to become more advanced or are they going to be limited?

EDIT : I like Dave Gorman's - it has a picture of his face in the middle of it. (on his twitter avatar).

-- Edited by Peasie on Monday 13th of February 2012 10:42:02 AM

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

Peasie wrote:
I wonder what the future of these little boxes? Are they to become more advanced or are they going to be limited?

Or die a horrible lonely demise through lack of interest...

If someone wants to sell me something then give me a web address that Norton and McAfee will both verify as safe before opening it.

Right, I'll just sit here sinking into my tar pit whilst doing accounts long hand (yes, I really do!!!) and bar humbugging all technological development. wink

kjmcculloch83 · Expert

They actually feature on a lot of my advertising materials and you'd be surprised how many people use them.

You need to remember Shaun that not many smart phones have antivirus software as viruses don't seem to be a huge issue with them. This is generally who uses VR codes as they tend to have all the necessary hardware and software. Also antivirus software doesn't normally assess links but rather warns of a virus when the site code is being executed.

Kris

semsley · Guru

If someone wants to sell me something then give me a web address that Norton and McAfee will both verify as safe before opening it.

I suppose it's to save you typing in the URL and getting it wrong.

Shamus · Forum Moderator & Expert

Hi Kris,

Norton and McAfee both have site advisor add ons which come with the full security suites. When you list sites in google it tells you in advance whether or not trying to access those sites is advisable.

Whenever anyone posts a link on here I copy the link and paste into google to let my security systems tell me how secure the site is before I attempt to access it.

Since the demise of dial up I think that the coffers of a lot of hackers have been deminished somewhat so I can see a great opportunity in waiting with mobiles for implementing software to dial numbers via something like an 0898 number with auto forwarding (working a bit like the suppliers out there such as Cable & Wireless who piggy back on the BT network).

I remember having an arguement with an ex girlfreind who worked for BT about the dial up redirectors as the only way to make money was for BT to pass their cut of the money on to the people hacking systems.

Just got the "its nothing to do with us" line as she couldn't see the link between BT taking the money and passing it on to people hacking internet connections. Her line was, well if you get hacked it's your security that's insufficient.

My line was that if BT didnt pass the money on to these thieves then they wouldn't do it.

Anyway, on a happier note I think that Norton security 2012 also works with mobile devices so security solutions are now becoming available for this gap in peoples online privacy and security.

Peasie · Expert

To change the subject a little....well, a lot.....

Looking below in the recent topics there is a topic that starts with the question "Really?..........."
Any time I see that I think of Penny waking up in bed next to Raj in the morning after they've both drank too much the night before. Because Raj is sober his inability to talk to girls returns. Penny turns to him rather annoyed - "Really? STILL can't talk to me?"

Cracks me up.

(Big Bang Theory for those wondering what Peasie is babbling on about)

Wella · Expert

Very funny episode.

I have also seen two episodes now where Sheldon only gets to knock / say Penny twice, before Penny answers, and he still gets in the third one,

Peasie · Expert

Wella wrote:
Very funny episode.
I have also seen two episodes now where Sheldon only gets to knock / say Penny twice, before Penny answers, and he still gets in the third one,

Is one of them the one where she slams the door on him but he runs back to say it the third time?

Wella · Expert

Yes

In the other he is interrupted and after penny has said her piece, tasp lightly taps the door frame, and almost whispers "Penny".

For the life of me, I can't remember the context but as I find them all so funny it gets harder to seperate the individual scenes

Peasie · Expert

Here's a pile of Sheldon knocks - not just for Penny. Some of them I haven't seen before. The best one is when Penny is the other side of the door knocking back with "Sheldon".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUATfYpS3aw&feature=related

Wella · Expert

That link has left me with a warm glow

I am pretty sure the one I am thinking of is the one that follows the banana bread/ door knob scene at 1:41