It was such a simple plan…

Posted by Les on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 at 07:43 AM. Read 621 times. Tags: ,
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Took yesterday off from work to get the car worked on because they couldn’t fit it into the weekend and it made for a nice three day weekend which I’ve not had in awhile. Not a big deal, right? Then it got complicated really quickly. First there’s one part they need to finish up work on the car that they don’t have in stock so it’s supposed to arrive today. Then it turns out that my daughter’s friend who was staying the night last night needs to go home today earlier than we had expected so a car needs to be available in the afternoon so even if I were to drive into work today I’d need to leave early to be back in time to get her home.

OK, not a huge problem, I’ll just work from home today. So I set my alarm for 7:45AM so I can be logged in by 8AM and I get up and creep downstairs and power on the PC to find that I can’t connect to my work machine. Which is really odd because I was able to connect last night to send out the email saying I’d be working from home before going to bed. Turns out the office had a minor power outage around 6:34 this morning so my PC is off. It’s always embarrassing having to ask your boss to power on your work machine so you can… work.

So it may be Tuesday officially, but it’s feeling a lot like Monday.

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EyesOnly Great Britain (UK) Posted on 08/22/2006 at 02:44 PM

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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry


No matter how carefully a project is planned, something may still go wrong with it. The saying is adapted from a line in “To a Mouse,� by Robert Burns: “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.�

Hmm, now who else has a lot of problems with his plans going awry, some dude called George?

LuckyJohn19 Australia Posted on 08/23/2006 at 03:25 AM

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Robert Burns: “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.�

When ever I hear this one I see Eddy Izzard giving the explanation as to how young Robbie came up with those two lines.
Admittedly you’ll have to get thru some Frank Skinner and a mild amount of Eddie’s surreal rambling until, right at the end, the obvious explanation is given.
I like it when right near the end of this one he says: Do you know there’s [sic] other countries?
So what was the post again?
I just found a nice $5 bottle of Merlot and it’s going … far too quickly.
Oh yes.
The best laid plans of mice and men do often go astray … or awry as you know it by.
That word awry ... I’d never used it out loud and never consciously heard the word till my first brother rang me a few months ago mentioning he’d used the word, mispronouncing it as aw-ree and his friend set him straight.
I never did admit that it’s the way I’ve always said it to myself when I’ve seen it written. LOL

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