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I am typing this in the Add box and am going to press preview first before submit.

Oh that is so weird. The screen flicks away from the thread to a Community Add post screen and what I have typed appears in a box below this one.

Think I'll leave this little lot to the drips under pressure (experts). You are correct DET it does not disappear just moves itself elsewhere!!!

What do you mean Aunty? You can use the preview with the Add Button. Perhaps its just a vagary of the az site. On this PC, you have to scroll down to read the preview, at which point you've lost the post you were replying to.

Glad you appear on the mend Janey. Can't say I can understand your political observations, but at least they give more depth to discussions.

FBG is correct with her comments about children's weddings in the UK. Our daughter and now son in law said they only wanted the minimum acceptable number of relatives, as they didn't know (or in some cases like) the extended family. Even if budget is not a problem, numbers have to be limited to suit the venue.

Sylvia.
Yes I was invited to the wedding and I did look after my granddaughter,other Granny took charge of 3yr old grandson (Now other Granny really IS one snotty bird)
BUT.
I was put half way down yea old table for wedding feast next to the B**ch from hell S.I.L that all and everyone but Bro and her know I totally loathe.
My parents were put at top table to left of son and brides parents put on her right with one bridesmaid between said parents as they havent spoken for years since the DIVORCE and it was the only way both would agree to go to wedding !
None of brides family realised I was Granny of the baby ,never having met me,and me being halfway down table.
Funny looks from most of them as to why baby was in the care of some strange old bird,and strange man that none of my family had ever met before (Too scared to tell my mother at 40 something that I had a new love) I just threw him in the deep end !Sink or swim I thought,seems he swam,still here...

Then the woman opposite told the waitress coming round that I had already had a glass of champers and that the glass she was filling was my neices (age 8) and I then had to say.

Well actually I am mother of the groom and my only expense of this wedding happens to be the CHAMPAGNE so I think I WILL have my too young for champagne neices glass if you dont mind,enjoying your FREE champagne are you??

Woman turned out to be Snotty Grannys sister,I guess I should have known by the nose stuck in the air and the eyes looking down it at self.

You can keep family get togethers as far as I am concerned.

OK Experiment. Type something using the add button and then click Preview.

Don't type too much.

Did it disappear instead of putting a preview of the text on the screen below the add box??


EDDITT. Yeah it does. So preview is not to be used with the Add button.

Oh Janey. I am sooooooo flamin' well excited!! Your brain is returning to something near almost normal.

The Add Button. Exactly. It is extremely fortuitous to have your comprehensive compositions in close proximity whilst attempting to fashion a reply.

The add button facilitates this action. And as you have just discovered, it places the post in its correct chronological position on the thread.

You will let us know when the brain has sufficient functionality to resume your research duties, won't you??!!!

Runs away, quickly ~~~~~~~~~

....................... and the font is also larger in the Add Reply box

Okay, I've been meaning to try out this "Add" thing because I've heard rumours that it interrupts the flow of chat by adding a message immediately below the message whose "Add" was clicked.

This works on threaded discussion boards -- you end up with threads that look like

1. Hello - Janey, 01:00
. 2. Hello Janey - AuntySherlock, 01:05
. . 4. Hello Aunty - Ginny, 01:15
. . . 6. Hello everyone - SylviaInCanada, 08:22
. 3. Hi - Ginny, 01:10
. . 5. Hi Ginny - Janey, 01:20

i.e. you are presented with a 'tree' showing how each post is related to the others.

To start mucking with the order of a *non*-threaded thread by sticking new posts in between existing posts, that would be insanity.

So this one is an "Add" to my post of 19:54 that starts out "Yeah, I forgot that part" and it opened the reply box immediately below that post and above AuntyS's post of 20:00 that starts out "I received an excellent mark". Where will it end up?

And no, doing this did not make anything go haywire in the process.

I close my eyes and click Submit ...


edit - it's cool, it added the post at the end rather than in the middle somewhere.

What it does do is let you see the post you may be replying immediately to, rather than making you scroll way down the thread to see it as the Reply button does, so there's that ...

~~ Waves to Janey.

Have you been to the doctor?? Please tell me you have. I will bet you haven't and I understand that.

However in these days of miraculous breakthroughs in medical dispensing they might just have a concoction which will alleviate Janey flu.

Instead of suffering for three weeks you might recover in about 20 days.

By the way. Have you tried clicking on the "add" button at the bottom of one of your pieces of majestic prose. The page goes all haywire across the screen.

FBG, you said

But I was asked if I would look after my 6 wk old grandaughter for the day !






at the wedding I hope ..................... or were you not invited???




I agree, I think a lot of the old etiquette around weddings has gone by the board ......... and it is probably because so many are marrying later in life and paying the whole shot themselves. They want to have fun, and seem to see no reason to lumber up the party with old fogies.



It's J's loss, Janey!




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PS ....................... glad to see you are obviously improving!

OH has had contracts with with NRC Press in Ottawa for several years ........... and thankfully they ended this year.


I certainly believe what happened to you, 'cos we've had almost as bad!!

I received an excellent mark for writing summaries in my book learnin' years. Let me have a bash at this.

"I have the flu and feel miserable. My temporary employers have stuffed up an important tender document necessitating its amendment and reissue. In my state of current ill health it is very inappropriate of them to expect one hundred percent from me, particularly as the recompense is insignificant.

I am providing you with alternative sites illustrating thinking Canadians opinion of their governments anthems.

My best friend, with whom I have shared the trials and tribulations of my life, has a daughter. The daughter's partner is deemed less than acceptable. To add insult to injury, and no doubt further compounded by my current bout of delirium causing influenza, I have not been invited to participate in the pre-wedding festivities.

I have therefore invoked the wrath of the flu gremlins in the probably futile hope my illness will be freely available to all who have p*ssed me off."

So what's so difficult to understand!!!!

Yeah, I forgot that part, definitely the couple, being 30+, and J's daddy being a total deadbeat (although I think snotty hubby's mummy and daddy are a few rungs up the social ladder), were footing the bill themselves. So yeah, that makes them king and queen of their realm for their day. ;)

Snotty hubby deigned to address a couple of words to me at the birthday bash last week -- J was making some well-intentioned effort to initiate conversation between us, I think, and thought genealogy might be the trick. Apparently her snotty hubby has been doing some of his. Evidently he had no clue of the extent to which I do it, as it was quite apparent that he thought that any details of his own searches would be wasted on the likes of me, the way he brushed off J's effort to open the topic. Hah. We know whose loss that was. ;)

"But, well, I'm gathering that this old wedding etiquette stuff -- how the wedding isn't just about you, it's about your families, and about honouring important people in your lives -- just doesn't apply to today's self-absorbed, narcissistic, it's-our-perfect-day young couples."

You have it in a nutshell I am afraid.

You see Janey the days of Daddy footing the bill have mainly gone as couples pay for their own weddings on the whole,in UK anyhow,so Mother no longer makes the invitation list and is rarely consulted on it.
I certainly wasnt a couple of years back when NO 1 son married his partner after 2 children,in fact I was consulted on absolutely Zilch..

But I was asked if I would look after my 6 wk old grandaughter for the day !

Good god JC, it wasnt until the last sentence that I understood what you were on about!

Do you talk as much 'face to face' ;)

Ducking for cover.................!

Gin
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It actually took me about an hour to type that boring post. ;) Seriously. In between wandering off to check on corrections to addendums and blow my nose and cough and come back and realize I'd typed something completely incoherent ... and yes, my arms hurt, waaah, more kind of numb actually, is the flu supposed to make your hands numb?

I was going to throw in an etiquette question but things were starting to get muddled in my head. So here -- sort me out, somebody.

You have been best friends since 1974 with one "K". You saw her through a moronicly bad marriage that ended when her three kids were aged 3 and 1 (yup, twins), and for the next 20 years helped out in all sorts of ways while she finished two degrees and then dragged out social assistance benefits until she had no choice but to get a job because the kids were all over 18 -- took dinners to the house a couple of times a month, took the kids Christmas shopping, contributed needed household items like furniture, supplied transportation to various events, always encouraged the three kids in their school and employment efforts, had family get-togethers with our two sets of parents when they were in town, saw K through the deaths of her parents ...

Last year, K's daughter "J", now in her early 30s, gets married. K, your best friend since before J was born -- you're the one who looked after 2-yr-old J the night her twin brothers were born -- tells you J is engaged. You're not a big fan of weddings or get-togethers with people you mostly don't know, but you expect to be invited, and figure you can probably beg off actually going, and just get the couple a very nice and carefully chosen gift.

What actually happens is that you hear about the wedding plans from K (whom you actually don't see as often now since she has moved to another part of town), and eventually you hear about the wedding from K and see the pictures ... but you never hear a word from daughter J.

Hmm. "Mother's best friend" - traditionally invited to weddings, I had certainly thought. In fact, mother's best friend is generally a candidate for giving a bridal shower, or making some other kind of contribution to the festivities. (Had I got married, and had my mum's best friend from high school, Auntie M, still been living, I would never have considered not inviting her, as the special family friend she was. My mum was certainly invited to her kids' weddings.) And in my case, not just mother's best friend -- given the two decades of financial and other kinds of support that J herself had actually had from me when she was growing up, I looked more like a godmother. And J's wedding was certainly not done on the cheap. Fanciest restaurant in town for the reception.

But, well, I'm gathering that this old wedding etiquette stuff -- how the wedding isn't just about you, it's about your families, and about honouring important people in your lives -- just doesn't apply to today's self-absorbed, narcissistic, it's-our-perfect-day young couples. Too bad - this one at least missed out on what would have been a pretty nice prezzie, and wouldn't even have had to feed me 'n my plus-one, in the end.

And that's why I hope her snotty husband gets flu. And here's another hour of my sickly life frittered away ...

Hummmm.
For one so sick she can certainly get up the energy to type an awful lot !

No swimming of the sight then?
No aches of the fingers?
No going to sleep of the bum sitting so long on the chair?

Must be on the mend..;)

Syl - Bill Shatner's original (and much better) I Am Canadian:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOnQROgk1IM

And of course for anyone who has never seen the original Joe Molson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRI-A3vakVg


Should O Canada be changed again?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/03/-intro-copy-here-do.html

Well, it will take several changes to get me singing it ever again.

- I am nobody's son and no patsy of patriarchy
(the current issue: true patriot love in all thy sons command)
- there is no god and I don't do prayers to anyone else's imaginary friends
(god keep our land glorious and free)
- whether one is a native-born Canadian is irrelevant
(our home and native land - which it isn't for about 1 in 5 Canadians, including all my grandparents)

Oohhh whoooah. Poooor me. I am so sick of this. I had plans to be well today. I amn't. When I make a decision, I expect it to be carried out! I think I'm actually going to have to beg off work tonight and head home to the chesterfield for another day.

Of all things, one of my govt customers decided to send out its new invitation to tender for work for the next three years, last Friday ... a half hour before I headed home and collapsed on the couch ... and gave a deadline of tomorrow, the 5th, for bidding. Well, that one was going to go down the drain. A 39-page tender document to read, just for starters? Ha. And they started out by sending out two invitations and one recall notice w/in 5 minutes, and not answering my email asking what that meant. So today I looked at it and figured out it was beause the first invitation had the wrong contract number on it, so they sent a corrected one and recalled the wrong-number one (not that this was remotely clear at the time). But now they've also sent out two sets of responses to queries from other people who can't make head nor tail of the whole thing, and an addendum, and they have extended the deadline to next Tuesday. And now -- a correction to the addendum sent yesterday, and a telephone call to make sure I got the correction to the addendum ... I kid you not ... then comes a fax call from that office ... except my fax is out of ink, so I had to call them and find out what they were faxing me ... apparently it was confirmation of the conversation about the correction to the addendum. Which they will now email me as a PDF.

Okay, am I delerious?? I'm not making this up on purpose - but surely it can only be the product of a very fevered brain; not even the most bureaucratic bureaucrat could have come up with this brouhaha. Or am I right, that I'm better off just recycle-binning the whole 39 pages + Q&As + addendum + correction etc etc etc because it's going to take me more time (not even counting assembling all the docs they want from me, once I figure out what they are) than the $2K I actually got paid by them in the last two years is worth??

I want to go to sleep ...


"A Stronger Canada. A Stronger Economy. Now and in the Future."

&%$#ing unbelievable. I mean -- what are we, illiterate kindergartners? Who only understand. Sentence fragments. Of five words or fewer.

What was it ex-Premier Mike Harris stole from his right-wing cretin US counterparts? Think, now ... that's it, I remember: The Common Sense Revolution. And then Harper stole some pointless right-wing verbiage from Harris ... Cripes, if you're going to plagiarize something, make it something elegant.


Anyhow, this is all my fault for not getting my shots. And no, I didn't intentionally choose to do something silly like build up my own resistance -- because it just does not work that way. You're only resistent to something if you have been infected with it, and if you're infected with a flu, you get the flu, and that may not be a wise tihng to do. If I survive this flu, I'll have some resistance to the next similar one to come along. In the meantime,
(a) I have been horribly ill, and lost about 10 days' work so far;
(b) I may have infected other people who might have become even sicker than me;
(c) it is very lucky that No.1 did have his shots, because flu can be life-threatening for him; and
(d) I have just been very lucky that, so far at least, I seem to be recovering myself and not acquiring secondary pneumonia.

It is pneumonia that is the main cause of flu-related deaths, and in fact 15 years ago I did get pneumonia after getting a flu, and was very sick indeed.

Actually, there is one person who I kind of hope may have got it from me. The day before getting good and sick last week, when I just had a bit of a cough, I went to my BFF's 60th birthday bash and ended up having words briefly with her ungrateful self-important daughter and I would be quite happy if she'd got horribly sick. Oh, well, no, it turns out she's pregnant, so I guess I hadn't better say that. But maybe her obnoxious even more self-important husband ...

Now I've made myself cough. Whine ...

We always end up discussing politics. Where did I conjure up the idea that Mr Harper was going to the polls this year. Must be the "threat" of a general election. More brain cells in the trash receptacle.

Us, on the other hand have a definite State one this month. I am assisting at a polling place on the day (or evening). I've received my two booklets from the organisers of the frolic. One to read what to do and one to answer questions therein. Interesting how one can go to such length to impart commonsense.

So are you better now or are you just after more hugs and kisses!

And the 'fruit' thing JC; you're supposed to eat it to stop you getting ill, not as a cure for when you are ;)

Dads cure would have been a hot toddy, beachams powder, fresh lemon. honey, hot water and a shot of whiskey

Viv's missing your 'tongue' eeeew!

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Nope, neither a provincial nor a federal election planned for this year!

My province (BC) has a set date for elections, every 4 years, and we had one in May last year.

The last Federal election was in October 2008. Another one could come IF the 3 opposition parties decide to get together and defeat the Conservatives in a vote of confidence ....................... but it isn't on the cards at the moment. Maybe after the budget tomorrow ...................

Of course, Harper may just decide to provoke them once again, and possibly even go to the Governor-General and ask for the government to be dissolved because there is no way the parties are going to work together with him. That's what he did last time.

He didn't however get the majority that he expected, but ended up with another minority government, in which he can be out-voted.



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