The General Wibble Thread

Far Queue wrote:Bad luck Snapzzz, sounds like she was a GOAT :roll:

Boarder eh?
Well out of that Snapzzz

OldAndy wrote:

Snapzzz wrote:

I have a SSD in my macbook pro, it makes a lot of difference. Have you seen the new Fusion drives they are offering?

What difference do you notice on daily 'puting with SSD Snapzzz?

Depends on what you do daily really.
Its just fast, everything is very responsive. Apps open quick. files copy quick. Events that took 5-10 secs on my old mac now are instantaneous. But you just get used to it after a while, its just normal to me now.

Never mind Snapzzz, obviously wasn't the right time. I am a big believer in everything happening for a reason. Something better will come along.

Sorry you didn't get the job Snapzzz - maybe it was my fault - I might have temporarily uncrossed my fingers a bit to type :oops:

I wasn't too happy yesterday - we failed to get the £10,000 Lottery grant I was applying for, for our local history group. And all the feedback I got was that there were too many people trying for the money, and we should apply for the next grant. I'd done a lot of work for it , preparing the application.

I hate failing things as well :cry:

Oh well - here's to better luck next time for both of us. I will pretty much have to do the whole blooming thing again!

Hmm this is turning into an own up to failure thread, so I will fess up.
Apart from skiing, engineering, bulding, alpine water colour painting, and more recently, newbee ski song writing, I have for 12 years acted as a gofer on a tennis club committee.
In addition to doing most of the admin stuff, my main aim was to develop the youth side. Partial success in that we have taught hundreds of young children to play tennis, and some have gone on to become good players.
My failure was the results in initiating a program to encourage our best young players to start along the pathway to coaching. Initial success, (two 16 year olds qualified), was followed by apathy. Ho hum.
I have said that I will come off the committee this year, (I want to do more painting, ski songwriting and playing), but I will continue to run the project to try and encourage young players into coaching.
Heaps of good stuff, but as I leave, it is the failure that measures strongest in my mind.

Hi DaveMac, it's nice to know that Snapzzz and I aren't the only failures on here :D

I don't get what you were trying to do with the youngsters (other than teach them tennis I mean). Did you want them to become professional tennis players or what?

Anyway, it sounds like you've got plenty of other things to do to occupy your time with :D

Ally, think about how you develop skills in any young group. Take the best, and start them off on the path of teaching skills. My plan was a 10 year plan, when we would have several qualified coaches.
The individuals would benefit from having another skill string to their bow, the club would benefit from a ready made supply of young coaches.

Its snowing in Newcastle.
In one respect very excited, another is its lying on the ground which means as we had zero gritters driving is going to be fun tomorrow! An inch of snow and the city will grind to a halt! Makes me chuckle every time we have snow its as if we have had a natural disaster