Yamyam

Oh, if 'Thanksgiving'=='Harvest Festival', it kind of makes sense here. What's Thanksgiving all about?

If you're doing something that makes you happy, then congratulations are in order. I can't remember if I've said this once or not, but if not, here goes!

I'd noticed things slowing a bit, but I see it as a chance for those of us who are a bit quieter to dip a (well-shod) toe into the waters. This is your chance, silent majority! Let's be hearing what you've got to say !

You'll need to find your own goddess for that, or buy a good number of Hot Rod magazines.

I'll just have to keep looking for another goddess, then. Darn

Oh, and ObOnTopicComment: "...when you wish that pictures on the Internet would load from the bottom upwards, rather than top down."

After buying a new car you realise that you should have checked if you could drive it in heels first. And then parking it outside, then realising that all it needs now is a high-heeled goddess to sit on it

And when we can't, we go to the bathroom in groups. Yes, be worried when you see this! We're plotting! It is exactly as you expect!

Oh, we knew that bit. It was the rest that had us worried

I might. I know I might. But there's still a little nervousness there

On the not so good side, my best friend and I were out on Halloween and I saw a guy wearing heels. Made a comment to my best friend about it later... we saw the same guy last night and my best friend turned to me and goes "Isn't that the faggot that was wearing the heels the other night?" Kinda pushed back the schedule on telling him, although I have another friend ( that I'll be telling soon.

I don't think that should put you off too much. It's my experience that things like that stick much more in my head than anyone elses, purely because I'm more stressed about it than anyone else. My brother's made a comment to me about something, which he'd forgotten the next minute, but I remember to this day. That's just being human.

Next time (if ever ) I just might. It'll save that embarrassing 'third date' conversation. To be honest, I'll probably just end up going 'Bill, please' like that bloke of "Goodness Gracious Me".

lol Yamyam, I didn't catch that typo. Would that be a freudian slip or what?

and btw, I probably was checking out their shoes

Well, it was a Freudian slip there, which is why I thought I'd mention it

And I know what you mean - I spend a lot of time these days watching films for the shoes (hey, it was the only way I lived thru the 'Rocky & Bullwinkle movie'

Yes, those are nice. I don't see myself in them, but I'd sure like to see someone else in them

less obviously biased? He's the only one who gets to see the extent of what I do! He'll be honest, because he has nothing to hide and no reason to lie about what I do in heels.

I said "less obviously biased" as a reference to the fact that the two of you are going out, that's all. It was a gentle tease that didn't work over the web, I guess.

Not that he'll tell everything, I'm sure.

I'm sure too. But I'm looking forward to your further adventures. And if you can wash a car in heels, then there's really nothing stopping you

I like women in skirt suits and hh pumps. Preferably just above the knee, but not mid-thigh or anything. That can be sexy too, but I find it kind of distracting if it's too short.

Skirt suits and pumps are quite nice, on the right person. Makes visiting all those offices I have to go to bearable.

I think I started liking women in suits because I watched a lot of lawyer shoes in the 80's

Uh, did you mean 'shows'? Or did you watch a lot of lawyers and their shoes ? I know I shouldn't take the mick out of typos, but that tickled me.

Well, yes, they are practical, I can do a lot in them. Four inch heels are the athletic height for me, I have run in them, though I am sure I don't look like a sprinter when I try it.

Hey, after some time, with the right shoes, a girl can do anything.

Just ask Chris...

Perhaps I should ask someone less obviously biased

But I can do quite a lot in my 4" heels too, and I'm just wondering how to move to 5". But then, I don't think I see myself on the street in 5", so I don't know when that'll happen.

I think we should consider the computer/person ratio. After all, you live in a full house. I'm here on my own with eight computers that work plus a broken one. Well, at least a podium position, anyway.

Nice one! I wish I'd had the courage and the self-knowledge when I was at Uni!

Or, with Mozilla, right-click, and select 'Copy image location'. Paste it into the address bar in another tab, and hit 'return'

Phew. I'm out of my depth already!

Shoes, if any, will need to be practical, five inch heels or so should do it for being on my feet at a party.

Practical five inch heels?!? You're definitely a high-heeled goddess!

Hmm. I'm not quite sure how this happened, but I seem to have made it to 4.5" shoes. Perhaps I should be paying more attention. On the other hand, perhaps I should give this powerposting lark a try Congrats to Francis &c on your elevation!

Cows!

No need to worry about having old kit. My portble PC will soon be celebrating its 5th birthday, PII 266 MMX 4Gb disk, 96Mb RAM, Win 98 etc... it does what it needs to do and I could still develop software on an old 386 machine that would run on the fastest PC going! As long as you aren't seriously into Games/Media/DVD having the very latest/fast kit is not reality. The top of the range is aimed at business users and 12 months down the line the same will be offered to domestic users for a quarter of the price. Unless you REALLY need it NOW WAIT!

Quite so! I'm typing this on a PII 266MMX, with 2x 2GB disks, and Windows 2000 (I'm allergic to Windows 98). I shudder to think how old my Alphas are. If I need power, I haul out my AMD Duron 950-powered laptop, and that's the fastest I've got.

The only time I play games, where the serious performance is required, I'm either on a friend's PlayStation 2, or in a video arcade. (ObShoe: I've played Sega Virtual Karting in 4" wedgies!)

So I'm happy with my elderly hardware.

I very much doubt I'll be able to make either. But I'm miffed - I was in Lakeside not so long ago, and it is nice. It'll be better when Schuh opens, tho'

greb, grebo, greebo n. dirty, greasy haired, pos. dressed in dishevelled clothes, rocker-type person., pronounced gree-bo. Bands such as Zodiac Mindwarp and Pop Will Eat Itself were popular with grebo's

So, kind of like grunge but a bit more electronic?

(I'm sure I used to understand this stuff before I became a parent )

Might even mean me not being up half the night chatting on MSN Messenger! How will I survive?