Meenzer

Back for more punishment... After my recent problems, I've decided to revert from Vista to a simpler XP setup, which is now installed and basically running fine. I've also got my old Vista HD currently running as a second drive, and was hoping to be able to simply copy across the contents of My Documents etc. for use on the new system. However, I can't access the ...Users\Meenzer\ section of the old drive (which was also the Administrator account), even when logged in as Administrator on the new system - I just get a standard "... is not accessible. Access is denied" error. I presume it's protected in some way, as the directories for the older (non-Administrator) accounts are accessible, but I wouldn't have thought this would be a problem given that I'm not running Windows from the older drive. Apparently so, though. Any ideas?

Paul Frost laughed at me after I spent most of a performance of a Swedish Christmas carol on "Northern Life" poking the kid next to me every time he forgot the words.

A very happy birthday to you m'dear. I won't try to SMS the greetings to you, I'll only end up sending them to your landline again.

And shared a taxi to the match once with Jonathan Edwards and Kathy Secker. The Gosforth elite, man.

Oh, that reminds me, I had lunch with Andreas Andersson's heavily pregnant girlfriend. That was fun.

A bit. We came to a mutual agreement that my dad would have the rest because I didn't want to lose face. 'fraid not - it's standard-issue girls-with-guitars pop. Think Avril Lavigne meets Blondie's "Maria". Not my cuppa, but they'll do alright.

Said it before, but Gazza bought me my first pint at the Rupali restaurant in the Bigg Market when the team were out celebrating Darren Jackson's birthday. I was 9. (Maybe I should be posting this in the alcoholism thread. ) Oh and two of my friends have written this year's Irish Eurovision entry.

Let's see Louise Taylor put a positive spin on this one...

I have a massive 50p left over from the payout on a speculative Irish Eurovision Final bet the other night. As such, I feel like putting it on something spectacularly improbable. Any thoughts?

Tachey birthday!

Therapy? - Infernal Love

I suppose it's appropriate that she goes out in a blaze of publicity, it'd have been strange any other way. I hope she has a relatively painless end, her kids are well looked after and we all forget about her within a few years.

Found his level.

Ah well, if it's good enough for nufc.com to flag up... That first half man.

They do it. Apparently it takes about 1-2 years driving around on a moped. Monkey spunk? Take a right down Threadneedle Street and it's between Dark Hangman's Yard and Cocknose Lane.

Pistachios and cashews are awesome. Crisp-wise, it has to be plain Kettle Chips.

Gah. You mean you're leaving me home alone with the Fish again? I'm getting sick of his inappropriate way with a sausage sandwich. Well the joke's on you fucko. I'll be in Leeds reliving past glories. Make your own damn banger-sangers! Excellent. Front door key under a plantpot pls.

Xisco in the Xornal. Xlass.

Yeah, I'm not really thinking from a legal perspective here. It's just my gut reaction at an obviously fairly mature lass posing for a family photo with a baby and a boy who's supposed to be the father. It's hard to think of him as the sexual aggressor somehow. If he turns out to be exactly that then I take it all back, naturally.

Bah. So much comic potential about how she's a disgusting paedophile, and this is what comes out of it? If I were a dirty old man I'd be considering legal action.

Sometimes. There's only a couple of people at my company I get on with particularly well, though (as evidenced by trips to the Christmas party every year), and I see them plenty outside of work. As for the day-to-day stuff, you just have to make sure you create a life outside the house - as long as you're the one doing the errands and you've got nights out in town, gigs etc. to look forward to, foregoing the daily commute isn't the worst thing in the world. Maybe that's the difference - my first company had an effective "10% personal Internet use only" rule (though god knows how they intended to enforce it), but I made it perfectly clear to them that I can't work effectively without MSN, chatrooms, this place etc. constantly in the background to distract me. They agreed and I made it work. A less considerate employer might let you go for that kind of thing.

I've worked from home since early 2004 - freelance for a couple of years, full-time since then (with a company that believes in telecommuting). Not sure I could ever become part of an office environment again, which will likely prove a problem at some point...

Gah. You mean you're leaving me home alone with the Fish again? I'm getting sick of his inappropriate way with a sausage sandwich.

New PC. Or rather a new barebone system that I can slot older stuff into - back to XP for me.

Each other's dad?