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Mamabear, These kids dunno what work really is ... a bit of "after hours" employment is OK, as far as it goes! My partner is currently working a full tim - quite pressured - job and completing her degree in the evenings and weekends. As well as that, she does a fair amount in the olive grove as well as continuing to owner-build our home. now, THAT is working while studying!

Season 06/7 I was in Niseko. (that by way of a disclaimer as to current situation) The PO in Kutchan takes some foreign cards and has an english menu machine. While your'e in there getting some cash, take the time to call into Cafe Kaku for a cappucino (about the best in the region).

FFS, the spoof emails are ALL (or at the very least 90%) from email addresses that are either non-existent or not the one from which they are sent.

Of course, I have never stopped learning! While I was enrolled in a Grad Dip, I was working fulltime and studying after work. Straight out of High School, I was employed as a trainee metallurgist, working 4 days a week and attending tech (Technical College) one day and 3 nights a week for 4 years! The "did you work while you were a student" question is a crock! If you didn't work full time while studying part time, you have no idea what work really is! Don't expect me to feel sorry for you!

All our water comes from the natural recycling system called the "water cycle". Rain falls onto our roof, is captured and stored for our use in tanks. We have NO other source ofmwater for domestic use. The waste water we generate, both grey (from showers and such) and black (from toilets) goes to an aerated waste treatment system (called, predictably, an AWTS) and the reclaimed water is reticulated to the garden (shrubs only, not food plants because of legal restrictions). Looking at a grid connected system for elactrical generation - will be interested to hear your take on the poten

Originally Posted By: soubriquet TV revenue goes to Bernie, so the costs have to be found from gate receipts. Which quite nicely explains why BE is pushing so bl00dy hard for the Oz GP to be a night race - he gets daytime TV in Europe! and therefore a great wad more cash! On a brighter note, there is, at least a small, glimmer of hope for Melbourne. The twilight meet seems to have been a roaring success, even though there was a huge rate of attrition. (7 finishers only!) The removal of traction control meant that the drivers actually had to drive (OMG! fancy that!) and some of them

Absolutely! I'm with snowdude! Happy to get out onto the white stuff whenever I can (afford it!). 10 days a year isn't that much, but you get to make the most of it, and most definitely can see an improvement. How? well, zero crashes, more experience in trees and fresh tracking in powder (the latter was definitely NOT an option in Spring in Oz for the last few years - Japan has significant advantages there!)

The charges are to be against whom, and for what?? Surely not the BF as he spent the 2 years (presumably in between work episodes) feeding and watering her! Against her? For what, is stupidity a crime in US - (If so, GWB must be high on the list to be charged!) Oh, it was in Kansas - that might explain things, that was where Dorothy was just before she went 'over the rainbow'.

Would ASS be better?

In your case, it might be better to take your boots (as rental boots are the pitts!) and rent skis/boards for the short time in Japan. I am no expert in this, as we took our skis, boots etc and freighted them (using Takkyubin) to our accommodation while we did the ourist thing around Sapporo. But, it seems tomake sense. Especially as you are unlikely to be in Oz for the ski season too! Even if you are in Oz for an early ski season slide, it might be worthwhile renting skis for the amount of use you'll get from them. (BTW when in Oz, drop me a PM, I might be able to help with so

Sorry, Mama, I got confussed. Thought you was talking about staying in Tokyo. (I was actually a couple of posts behind ... Story of my life, ATM)

giggsy, That is typical of the "huge monster email blocking the queue" that I mentioned. ISP deletes, then all is clear again.

Originally Posted By: KevKastle What is a DLDVD? As already stated - Dual Layer DVD. This is the style that the movies are on and that explains the slight hesitations you sometimes see while watching a DVD movie. The hesitation is the re-focus mechanism swapping between layers.

Understand exactly where you are coming from ... several years ago, we were skiing in Oz on a "official snow depth" of just 12 cm. And the locals in Hirafu a couple of years ago were complaining about the depthy "A miserable 1.4 metres!!" and that was in the village, the top was a heap more! We had a ball. If you're going to Hirafu, give GoNative a yell, he's a good bloke, tells it like it is and knows a thing or three about the place.

Mama, you neglected to mention that the kids (or at least one of them) is a student of Japanese. That might be important. We (4 oldies 55-60 yr olds) had a night at Ryokan Taito. It is in Asakusa and not a huge distance from some nice tourist spots. Google the name should get you a website and contact details. Cost us $30 Oz (about at 100yen to the dollar) Traditional (old wooden structure0 ryokan that would never be able to be rebuilt given the new earthquake structure laws for Tokyo. It was lovely, "rustic" is a word that springs readily to mind.

What you will find is that booze is generally cheep. Couple of years ago, I bought a large bottle of JW Black Label Scotch (with a free mouse) for under $30Aus. Things are a tiny bit more expensive of late, but still way down on the Oz prices for booze! What the ... Big thing was the vender machines where you can get beers in 750ml and 1L cans (as far as I can recall) - many of them are on the street. Have a ball, but don't get too wasted at night, the early runs are fabulous! BTW the cams are showing a fair amount of melt - hope there's a big dump heading in for ya!

Most new boxes do not have the recovery disks supplied, you have to make them yourself! One desktop I installed just yesterday wanted 2DVD, 1 DLDVD, or 14CDs to make the recovery set. That was for a Vista setup on a Compaq. Very few manufacturers give you the OS on disk any more, just a link to a utility that will allow you to create a SINGLE recovery set. After that, you have to use the recovery set to reinstall. Most of these will give you the option to just recover the OS, but the average punter will just reset the box to "factory original" settings which includes the crap (freebi

In Niseko, some places take cards but most prefer cash. The Post Office cash machine in Kutchan will take "foreign" cards - not sure of what other kinds, we had Mastercard that worked. Seven11 have a gig with an atm in the stores. Trouble is, Hirafu doesn't have one, just a SeikoMart (AFAICR)

Kev, It is possible that there is a HUGE email that will not load into Outlook. As mentioned above, get to the email by webmail (go to the ISP site and they should have a webmail - read your mail- link. You'll need your username and password to access it, find the problem and then delete it. OTOH, it could just be a mountain of spam. (Suggest you use something like MailWasher to check headers at ISP server, delete those you do not want to read and then d\l the ones you do!) OR, Thunderbird - a far better client (IMHO) than Outlook. Of course, if you need to be able to use the meet

Thanks, lin. That came from way back aeons ago, when I was teaching IT to High School leaving level students. They insisted that they had no spelling errors in their submitted works until I gave them that electronically to check, and then read back to me. The only error that was flagged was o'er (which is an old english contraction for over) and there is nothing wrogn when the stuff is read aloud (or should that be allowed?)

You are assuming that they ARE thinking! What is the point of downloading a vid to a mobile phone, crappy little screen and tinny audio. Better to get it on PC and save to CD/DVD and watch on a decent screen with reasonable audio. (all this IMHO) A phone is for - talking to people! and messaging people! Nothing more is valid.

If you mean, hit the snooze button on the alarm ... then I never do! Thge alarm is set or not depending on work day or weekend! If set, it wakes me with the news and I listen to the weather for the day then head on out to brekky, shower, dress and gone. If it's a weekend, I wake when it happens, get up shortly after and get on with the things that fill weekends (like mowing, washing, ironing, building, ... stuff like that!)

Originally Posted By: me jane No, but I know the difference and they are not typos. I mean things like typing "teh" for "the". A typo is anything that is not correctly typed. It can be "fat finger syndrome" such as 'thenm' when two keys get hit at once - and the spellcheck will usually get them - OR when the word used isn't correct - try "it's" (contracted it is) when its (possessive) is meant. Both are correctly spelled but wrong, wrong, wrong! I found the poem, it's called An Owed to the Spelling Checker by Jerrold H. Zar I have a spelling checker. It came with my PC. It p

Rev, Have a look at the poll ... http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/307#Post307

Jane, Spell checks only do what they can, they cannot, four example tell the difference between too, two or to. All of which will be shown as correctly spelled. I have a great poem for spell check addicts. It shows the folly of relying on them. Will try too dig it out. (BTW the errors in this are deliberate, and would not be noticed by a spellchecker.)