Shout Your Frustrations to the World! (You know you want to.(READ FIRST POST))

[littlemissattitude]

Originally Posted by Manarion

I absolutely love fish of all kinds-salmon, cod, halibut, tuna, sturgeon, even had shark and swordfish before -but like I said, it's far too expensive to buy, and I can't go deepsea fishing for a few reasons: No boat license, no fishing license, and I suffer horribly from aquaphobia.

But yeah, a lot of fish has Omega-3 essential fatty acids that are very good for many things.......

Yeah, you probably don't want to do much on a boat if you're afraid of the water, Manarion. Anyway, that isn't my trouble with fishing. I love to fish and the water doesn't bother me. And not even not having a fishing licnese is a problem, because while it isn't deep sea fishing, the pier at Pismo Beach doesn't require a license to fish.

The problem is that we aren't anywhere near the coast here. It takes three hours to get to the coast from here, and nearly another hour to drive down to Pismo after arriving at the coast. So, I don't get to go over there very often, and then no one I'm ever with wants to fish, so I don't get to do it.

I used to go fishing with my father all the time, though. Never got to go deep sea fishing, but we used to go to Ventura or Oxnard and fish off the pier, or at the Marina in Ventura. Then, after we moved to L.A. County, we'd fish off the pier or the barge at Seal Beach. It was cool when we'd go to Seal Beach at night. Hardly anyone ever fished at night; sometimes it would be just us on the pier and the surfers down below...and, no, we never hooked a surfer. Also, it was a clear view across to Long Beach and all the lights at the Queen Mary. Beautiful.

Okay, now there's something for me to rant about...I really miss Southern California, and I've been feeling especially homesick for it lately. I'm trying to find a time when I can take a trip down there for a few days. I thought about going over this weekend, but I don't like traveling on holidays. Also, my mother hasn't been well lately and although her doctor said its fine for her to travel if she feels up to it, it takes extra planning and effort to travel so that she is comfortable. But it would be good for her to get out of town for awhile. So, I don't know...I'm trying to work something out.

[Hilarious Joke]

Wow sounds idyllic LMA.

Earlier this year I went on a very good holiday with five of my best mates up to a place called Shoal Bay, which is a quiet place about two hours north of Sydney. We stayed in a flat that had 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a beautiful view of the beach that was about 150 metres or so from where the flat was. It was the perfect place to stay, and we went when it wasn't school holidays (none of us work full-time, all except one are uni students).

There were lots of great awesome things we did that I could go on about for a while, but the reason I mention the whole thing is because you talked about fishing, and one day on this holiday we decided to. We walked around the rocky headland on one side of the bay and attempted fishing off the beach - we weren't really well equipped for that. So then we walked down the length of the beach (pretty long) to close to the other headland, where there was a jetty and we fished off that. We fished for hours in the baking sun and it was great fun. Strangely enough only one person caught anything, and he caught five fish, and they were all the same type! We saw heaps of little fish though, and mud crabs, and even a stingray. Most of us got sunburnt.

All in all, fishing is great.

[littlemissattitude]

I love fishing for the ambience, the fresh sea air, and the time to just be out in nature. Catching fish is not the main object, as far as I'm concerned. Of course, it's nice when you do, especially if you like to eat fish, or if you have another use for them. For example, my father grew roses. And when we fished off of Seal Beach, we most often caught rock cod, which my father did not consider to be a good "eating fish". However, they made great fertilizer. Most of the rock cod we caught therefore ended up buried in the garden under the rose bushes. And those were the most beautiful roses I've ever seen.

Extra added attraction: we didn't have to clean those fish. I've always hated cleaning fish.

[Drachir]

Breaking away from the important topic of fishing I'm wondering what experience some of you might have had with cruise lines. I have cruised twice and found both cruise to be quite pleasant - the first more than the second. However, there was one hitch with the second and that involved the exchange rate. I was sailing with Princess Cruises and paying by credit card for final reckoning. When I received the bill I found that Princess had converted the charges in American dollars at a rate most favourable to the cruise line. I am not sure if this sort of fraud is common cruise line practice, but it took me two months to get Princess Cruises to give me a refund. It was just $140 Canadain, but it was the principle of the thing.

[Hilarious Joke]

Um...can we talk about fishing again?!

Just kidding, I don't know about cruises Drachir. But I hope someone does!

[christyrocks99]

I totally understand the whole toe thing LMA having only recently coming off crutches. At least over here we don't have to pay to get checked over or go into hospital unless you're private because we have this thing called the National Health Service so most things are payed for by them. That's good news for me since I'm so accident prone like today I nearly broke my arm being stupid in the living room...

anyhoo, here's a fustration...IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE MY FRIGGIN HOLIDAY WEEKEND BUT I'VE GOT A TON OF REVISION TO DO AND I HAVE TO COME INTO SCHOOL IN THE TWO WEEK HOLIDAY!!! GRRRRRRRRR

[AE35Unit]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHGH!
Just tried to install Active Synch software to allow me to synch my PDA to the PC,not fun! It asked to install Outlook 2000 and then overwrote our existing Outlook, and I had to use system restore,twice!

[AE35Unit]

Look what i just found concerning my devivice(known as TyTn originally)

The company, “High Tech Computers” (HTC), a Taiwanese Microsoft Partner who are market leaders for creating the most powerful handheld devices on the marker have been under fire lately from websites and blogs claiming that the manufacturer “neglected to include the necessary drivers needed for the devices to come to their full potential”.
The main complaints surround the poor graphical performance of the HTC TyTN II. Specifically, laggy web page scrolling, choppy 3D rendering in GPS software such as TomTom and the inbuilt camera.
The HTC TyTN II itself is an awesome device, with impressive overall specifications, including (as I reported earlier), a built in graphics chip using the Qualcomm MSM 7200 chip. However, for the hardware to work to its full potential, the software manufacturer (in this case, HTC) first needs to load the correct “drivers” onto the device to handle putting graphics onto your screen. This makes the HTC TyTN II feel, at times, unresponsive.

explains my problem

[Leisha]

I've done no editing today. When I got up I was told my ill uncle only had a couple of days left to live at most. He passed away a few hours ago. My aunt is distraught - and it's her birthday in a couple of days.


Life is so fragile.

But I was asked to compile the funeral music, so I've made a CD of some lovely songs. It's the least I can do, since I knew my uncle well. I still can't believe he's gone, though. It was so sudden - yet not.

[Overread]

Oh Leisha you have my sympathies!
Its painful to lose a loved one so suddenly - life is fragile, but also wonderful - just got to keep on going though

[The Ace]

My condolences, Leish.

[Leisha]

Thank you, both of you. Every day I come here and you all make me smile. I think this site is made up of the best people around.

Or maybe I'm just over sentimental.

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Sorry to hear about your loss, Leisha.....

[Leisha]

Thank you.


The thing is, my aunt has a lump on her brain. I think it's a tumor, if I recal correctly. I worry about her, now. My parents are going to London to stay with her.

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

That's horrible! Even if it's not a tumor, such a thing could still be dangerous.......