Congratulations!! That's how it worked with mine, I got the hard copy, but the online status didn't change for a long long time

Oh I can get the times - I just like to watch the plane fly over the world I have to leave my puter on at night so I can see it if I wake up - is that normal or am I just sad?!

Heh, I thought *I* was compulsive!

No - seriously - I'm the same when I am flying there too - I have to force myself to watch crap movies so I don't sit and watch the tiny plane fly over the world for 11 hours...

Oh yeah, I totally know what you mean. I do that too. It makes me crazy when we're half way over the Atlantic and the little airplane doesn't seem to be moving at all, so I'll just stare at it until it finally moves a pixel. Aaaargh!

Oh I find the Atlantic fine - it's when we fly over Canada that seems to take forever! And Colorado!! Denver seems to be on the map for at least half of the journey!!

For most of the year, Colorado is essentially a sub-Arctic Canadia.

Because several of our U.K. ladies have been stressing today, here is an injection of humo(u)r:

British scientists have struck upon a substance guaranteed to suppress one's appetite and engender weight-loss. It's called British food.

The last time I flew back to the US, I discovered the secret of how to endure a trans-Atlantic flight. I can't reveal my secret, but I'll tell you the primary ingredients are Dramamine, wine, and Benadryl. Wait...I think I might have just revealed my secret.

You can simplify it even further, Mox -- anaesthesia by beer. (My personal favorite is paint-thinner with a little grenadine.)

You know - Jeremy was really surprised when he came to the UK for the first time as he had heard that the UK was notorious for bad food!! He got here, lost 10lbs from all the fresh veg and fresh food he was eating instead of all the processed crap - he also loves English mustard, *real* cheese (not that plastic/rubber crap you get there) although I couldn't get him to appreciate the joys of marmite

Oh and this is officially the best site I have found: http://www.flightview.com/

You put in the flight details, click on the flight number and it allows you to track it in real time

If anyone is interested he is in US Airways flight 732

Whaddaya mean, plastic/rubber crap? The five major food-groups are Fat, Grease, Salt, Chocolate, Beer, and Fruit Loops. (Also, 5 out of 4 people are bad at math.)

Marmite, n. - any of numerous superficially antlike social insects of the order Isoptera, many species of which feed on wood and are highly destructive to living trees and wooden structures.

Ergothuswithforthly, you accuse us of eating plastic/rubber when YOU eat wood or critters who eat wood?
'Fess up, Aly!

The best Indian food I've ever had has been in Britain. In fact, I don't think I ever had even mediocre Indian food over there. It was all really good. I also had some wicked beans on toast...

I love US baked beans I must say - Bushes are yummy!! Thing is the tins are either too big or too small... I am going to get soooo fat

Jeremy loves Indian - he can't get it near where he lives so we are going out for an Indian with all my friends this Friday - I'll think of you when I am scoffing a lovely chicken tikka masala

Indians, when eaten as food, taste like chicken.

"Tins, scoffing"? (The words are "cans" and "snarfing.") If the British ever learned to speak English, Britannia could empirically rule where the sun never sets!

One of my favo(u)rite British jokes, si man:

Harry and Cedric, two venerable English gentleman, are relaxing in the smoking-room of their club, reflecting on the old days in "Injah." Harry, who is writing his memoirs, pauses, and asks, "I say, Cedric; would you spell it "Wumooph?" "No, old bean," says Cedric, "I believe that it is spelled "Woomummph."
A waitress, walking by, said, "Gentlemen, you are both wrong. The correct spelling is "WOMB."
Harry looked at Cedric and said, "Rubbish! How could she possibly know the sound of an elephant fart?"

I have eaten haggis, locusts, camel, horse, dog, and all manner of other things. So when I say I *tried* to like Marmite, I mean...I really tried. But I'm sorry. It tasted like a hospital in my mouth.

I'm jealous that you're going out for Indian, but thanks for thinking of me. If for some unexplainable reason I get a little tingle in my mouth, I'll know why!

Mox, can it be said that eating Marmite is the yeast of your worries?

I prefer bovril to marmite but still - it's a love/hate thing

I love marmite...nick just pulls funny faces when I eat it!!!

Read: http://www.mabot.com/random/bovril/index.html
for a determination of cat tongue length by use of Beefy Bovril. The science is pioneering and awe-inspiring.

The funny thing is my cat does love it - I must have the compatible cat they mentioned! She likes to eat bovril on toast as well

Ok Jeraly, its your turn now. time for CSC to get your NOA2 now.


Chris

I'd say so!! DKM, CBR and myself are all my nominees for this week! I'm fed up with nominating myself!!

Cats won't go hungry. Mine pesters me until I serve her favo(u)rite soft food; she snarfs... er, scoffs it, usually hurls it immediately, and then sniffs and re-eats it. That's not a bad system -- kind of like having "seconds"!

my old cat forgot to read the "how to be a cat" textbook! She hated fish but loved strawberries. She loved marmite too and wasn't advisable to leave cheese anywhere near her or it would be gone. She one broke into the kitchen and jumped onto the work surface where she devoured half a packed of ham. was perfect cat sized head hole right through the pack!!!

That sounds cattish enough. When I eat, mine always jumps up to see what's good. If I'm eating something with tuna or meat sauce, I will let her lick the fork, which she does very completely. She will even lick tomato sauce that does not have a meat flavo(u)r.

Fact of Life #1: At the earliest possible moment, every box and bag in the house must have a cat in it.
Fact of Life #2: Dog is man's best friend. Cat is man's best paperweight.

Oooooh - yeah my cat goes nuts for cheese! Also likes gravy, pork chops, ham, chicken, tuna, milk, bovril, butter, cottage cheese, creme fraiche, weetabix crunchy bran, ready salted crisps.. you get the idea

cats were once worshiped as gods..they have never forgotten this.

Dogs have owners....Cats have staff

Your cat will stay away from you for weeks....until you are dressed in your best black clothes!!

Oh yes! just before a night out! And if you have a white cat and are going to a club with UV lights....

Jeremy should be in Charlotte now.... oooh I hope I get a text from him soon

Uh, we here in the Colonies, being unlightened, wonder what a "ready salted crisp" is, let alone what they might be in the plural.

And white cats are ALL crazy. Every one of them.

Potato chips. Like your common Lay's variety only Britishier.

This would imply that there are some non-white cats who are sane. There are not.

Haha - yeah - Lays here are Walkers - same brand, different name - even have the same logo Although potato chips here taste *so* much better - even lays salt and vinegar flavour don't beat proper UK ones

1. WHEN will the British learn to speak English? Call them by their proper name: spud-shavings.

B. Cats are vicious carnivores who kill for sport and devour their still-warm prey, then want a tummy-rub. Actually, cats are spoiled little women in fur coats.

Yeah, I haven't really found a good salt and vinegar chip/crisp over here. I pretty much gave up on it some years ago, so maybe there's some good ones now.

There sure are -- Marmite Chips!

Well I know last time I tried the *only* salt and vinegar ones I could find were Lays and they were cr@p - I don't like Walkers here either because I find they have too much flavour and seem not very potatoey (new word ). The ones in the US were even worse - everything seems to be sour cream and chive or chili flavour!!! Not even cheese and onion!! Although judging by US cheese maybe that's a good thing...

Ok - Jeremy has officially landed in Charlotte NC, I can only assume for refuelling as he doesn't need to change planes. He doesn't leave there until almost 8pm EST which is 1am here and I want to stay up so I can get my little map up and leave my puter on all night!! Grr!!

1. Not enough Marmite (or Bovril). Civilization still eludes the Colonies.
2. Useless always stops in Charlotte, unless they stop in Pittsburgh or Philadelphia. The Charlotte airport is actually quite nice -- they've expanded in the last 7 or 8 years -- so J. should have no end of distractions until he gets back on the plane and reaches the Main Attraction.

Like thinking of myself as the main attraction! Am trying to juggle cat and keyboard#


Am sure she would type to 9+you*- see? She's not very good - although she seems to have been experimenting with maths here

Well, truth be told, Aly, you are indeed adorable.
My cat helps with the typing, too. She also sleeps with me at night, always with one paw on my radial pulse (and if she misses the exact place, she'll adjust). I figure that she wants to figure out when I am no longer alive so that she can eat me (vicious carnivore, and all that).

LMAO - I am sure my cat would think much the same of me - although I am never quite sure where her dirty paws are at night... I am generally asleep Sometimes she gets into bed with me, sometimes she lies by my feet, sometimes she lies in the crook of my knees, sometimes she will lie near my chest so I can put my arms around her and sometimes she will lie on me depending on how clingy/cold she is

Did somebody say...cat juggling?

Awww!!!

Jeremy just text me He's in Charlotte for a few hours now and his brother has got off his @$$ to go to the suit shop for the wedding!! Have suggested calling card to him as few ppl seem to be just getting NOA2 hard copies

They're amazing. I can count on mine sleeping on my wrist, and at the end of the bed, and between the blanket and the sheet, and in the laundry basket, and on her mat on the couch. This all in one night. And, of course, she will also chase her toy mousies, and open closets (funny how they do that), or rip the snot out of the carpet trying to get IN to a closet. Did you see just recently that Korean researchers have bred cats that actually glow in the dark? We could track their whereabouts much more confidently.

Mox, we can always depend on you.

I'm not really filing for a Visa. Just here to keep the troops happy.

Yeah - it sounds silly but I think this whole visa process would have been much more difficult without my cat - I've only had her a year but she is always there for me to cuddle when Jeremy isn't - even if she is miniscule by comparison

It isn't silly -- for your reasons, and because cats are good training before taking a wife: "Yes, Dear; right away, Dear..."

Hmm... I might have to make sure I know what I am getting myself into when Jeremy gets here... I thought I was getting a husband...

Well - that's if we ever get to that stage of course *still* nothing

Yep -- 187 days +++ here as of today...

Yours and Jeraly's file must be in the "special" bin.

Rooting for you both!!

Thanx, Mox. Yea Harvard, or whomever. In violation of my own earlier recommendations, I may call the USCIS help... er, hell-line again.