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Holiday
2007-08-09 16:50:00 Ahhh, holidays, can't beat them... I've come back to some exciting developments and a general feeling of "purpose" (sort of), so I'm going to put this blog on ice for a while, with all my online efforts going into The Other Blog for now. Watch that space for news and gossip :-) More About: Holiday
Demob Happy
2007-07-23 10:51:00 Getting a bit demob happy now. This time on Wednesday I'll be settling into a four-hour flight to the sun. About time too, I haven't seen the bloody thing for months. What the hell is going on this year? The weather's gone mad, and it's sending me that way too. It's been an exciting week - haven't had much time to do anything here because I've been hard at work on the other blog (see comments in More About: Happy
Bizzy
2007-07-17 15:39:00 To busy to blog at the moment - not only has the fan gone brown, the sky is apparently falling again *and* there are rumours of a wolf or two prowling the carpark. I've just been CC'd on another political email where my Big Boss is telling somebody else's Big Boss in another country that "Bobbins is a critical path resource on the Scungeflanger project, which is already right on the edge of our More About: Izzy
Shame
2007-07-13 17:28:00 Oh dear, I think I've offended my scammer friend... YOU ARE ALSO INSANE I JUST KNEW THAT YOU ARE A MAN THAT DOES NOT KNOW THE MEANING OF ONLINE TRANSACTION I guess that's the end of that, then. I guess I'll live. More About: Sham , Shame
Bite
2007-07-12 15:13:00 Aha! The bait worked! In spite of my outright rudeness and terse reply our scammer has decided to give me a try. Here's the latest from them with my initial thoughts inline followed by my actual reply: Dear Uncle, [Ed: Uncle??] We thank you for your mail. Please we are very sorry if we upset you by our offer of 15%, please dont worry about that, this is a very confidential issue, i have not More About: Bite
Awwww
2007-07-11 16:07:00 Look what a lovely person has written, just for me. I'm bowled over... Ave, my gentleman I strive to be a loving and supportive friend to you. I am longing to share the intimacy of talking from the heart. You inspire and fully embrace the romantic woman inside me. I want to swim into your eyes like in the deep lake, I want to be hugged by you, want to be kissed with warm wind. You are
Bait
2007-07-11 15:20:00 Something in the air this week, I'm feeling a bit grumpy and in need of some entertainment. I think it's about time I wound up a scammer again. Here's what they sent, followed by my reply. Hopefully s/he'll reply back and we've got us some cheap entertainment :-) From: Marie and Jeffery Blaise. DANANI REFUGEE CAMP, ABIDJAN, COTE D' IVOIRE. WEST AFRICA. 11/ 07/ 2007. Dearest One,
Wriggly
2007-07-09 11:28:00 Monday morning. Phew. I am totally socialled out. Two weekends of visits in a row. Sheesh. Just how much smalltalk can a person make before they spontaneously combust? Anyhow, that's that. Duty done. A couple of panicky ohmygodweforgottobuysuncream weekends ahead and then we're out of here for a couple of relative-free weeks in the sun. Can't wait. Hectic weekend, that. The problem with
New Clothes
2007-07-06 15:58:00 A while back I bought John Cage's book Silence. It's something I dip into every now and then when I'm feeling particularly brave. It's what academics euphemisically label a "difficult work", whereas a spadecaller like me would say "it's a lot of pretentious old bollocks". Let's face it: John Cage was mad. Besides the infamous 4'33" of silence, he "wrote" countless other "musical works". I was More About: Clothes , Cloth
Nursery
2007-07-05 11:28:00 Chuffed, I was. A new piece to play. By Beethoven, no less. I sawed my way through it last night while the kids were in the bath. PinC was clattering about downstairs. "What's that you're playing? A nursery rhyme?" [pop] And there's me thinking I was playing it well, too. We have this thing going where a stray tactless comment from one will usually generate a razor-sharp ego-popper from the More About: Nursery
Bouncing About
2007-07-04 17:25:00 Bit of a bouncy day today. I started off on the Apple website looking at options for turning the iMac into a PS2 monitor and occasional telly. After that I bumbled about on Google for a bit looking for reviews and real-world experiences of a couple of the gadgets that looked promising. Then I ended up trying to find out what sort of digital telly reception we get here. Which sent me off to the
Tranquility
2007-07-03 12:47:00 I felt like dancing round the house last night. Odd, considering I'd just come back from the gym and was barely capable of flumfing sweatily down into the sofa. "Brilliant!" "Good workout, Bobbins?" "Pfft. To think I pay them for stretching and wrenching bits of me about. And the radio was crap. Again. And..." "Shhhh. No moaning tonight, listen..." "I know. That's what's brilliant." The house More About: Tranquility , Tran
On Blogging...
2007-07-03 10:54:00 No, not me... check out Troubled Diva for a fascinating take on the world of blogging and blogs-to-books. It's a long post, but well worth the read IMHO. In other news, the tent is still in the back yard "drying". How long can this continue? Horror update: I have just ferreted about in the rucksack and found today's sarnies all squashed under a mountain of OU books. Disaster. More About: Blogging , Blogg
Yawn
2007-07-02 10:32:00 I'm almost pleased that it's Monday morning. Sitting here with my free corporate coffee, the catch-up meeting out of the way, I'm thinking the rest of the day is pretty much my own. No smalltalk. No forced laughter. No more avoiding PinC's saysomethingdammit! eyes, searching for something trite to say to break up the oppressive silence. Unless this Glasgow thing has messed up other internal UK
Nuance
2007-06-29 12:50:00 I sent this month's TMA off just in the nick of time. Copied (sorry, "quoted") huge swathes of the course materials in the essay because there was absolutely no way I could pad "I really don't give a shit about this contrived bollocks" into 2000 words. It's going to be a down-in-the-40's score for this one. But at least I didn't opt for the Substitution. I finally got the previous month's TMA
The Second Grand Neds Plan
2007-06-29 12:08:00 I've just been in a meeting about unit testing, so naturally I've been daydreaming. I stumbled across a thingy on the Apple website the other day that you plug into the computer to turn it into a telly. The enormity of the potential of this wonderful invention has only just struck me. We could throw the telly away! Apparently this magic device doubles as a Freeview reciever and an S-Video More About: Grand , Plan , Econ
Foiled
2007-06-29 10:18:00 Bwahahahahah, much to my amazement the Grand Neds Plan, a.k.a. "Kill Your Television" actually worked. In a whispered, fantic, onmigodtheyrenearlyhere panic while the kids were in the bath me and Partner-in-Crime came up with a dazzling plan. While I was at the airport picking the bids up she would: nip to the offy and buy some Tosser Bait (cheap red wine) plonk a bottle of the Tosser Bait in the
Web 1.05
2007-06-28 11:01:00 Shaking off the red wine fug with a strong coffee and a bit of e-house clearing before I start on the day's dreariness. My e-life is scattered all over the place. Often I sign up for something on a whim and then forget all about it, which tends to make the weekly trawl through the spam account quite good fun. Newsletters that I'd no idea I'd signed up for. Tempting special offers from e-shops
Dry
2007-06-26 10:13:00 The tent is still in the back yard "drying", as a result of one of those oh-god-I-can't-be-arsed-to-argue moments. Partner-in-Crime saw a Polo-sized hole in the clouds with a bit of blue shining through, so that was that: "Shall we get the tent out of the car?" "No. It's going to rain again any minute." "I wouldn't be too sure. Look. Blue sky." "But that's microscopic!" "No it isn't. And look
Aaachoo
2007-06-25 12:50:00 Bit of a wet weekend, that. We managed to get the tent up without it actually raining on us, but that was more by luck than judgement. Within an hour the kids had upset a miserable old bloke in the caravan nearest to us. Tch. Nothing to do with noise or damage - the kids were quietly playing hide and seek nowhere near his caravan - he was just a grumpy old bastard. The bloke in the office told
Stampede
2007-06-22 12:25:00 Our inboxes have just taken delivery of some exciting news: "If you would like a coloured CrapCorp branded lanyard for your security pass, please come to reception to collect one." Whoa. It's all go here today. More About: Stam
Lard
2007-06-22 11:28:00 So, last night was the final session at the gym. My two months are up. "Final Assessment" is on Monday evening. That's where they use the secretly smaller set of measuring thingies and say "my, how you've lost weight" and "gosh, look at those pecs!". This is my cue to immediately sign up for a year's membership, flushed with pride and at the same time slightly and inexplicably missing my More About: Lard
Content Lite
2007-06-21 10:24:00 The monthly roundup of amusing google hits comes slightly early this month. This is largely because I'm feeling very lazy and don't have a lot to say at the moment. "carrot baton machine" A repeat visit, this one. What is it with carrot batons and this blog? I'd never heard of them until a month or so ago. Time to change the tagline, I think. "squashed finger hammer treatment" This one's More About: Content , Lite , Tent
Bizarre
2007-06-20 17:48:00 Extremely Big Boss has just wobbled down the corridor with a gaggle of Japanese tourists. One of them even took a photo. What. On. Earth??? More About: Bizarre
Special
2007-06-18 11:14:00 We've never really bought into that whole Let's-Flog-Another-Card Day thing in the Bobbins household. "Hallmark Holidays", they call them in the States. February 14th? Come off it - why celebrate that dreaded day when one of us subjects the other to hideous experimental cookery? Drunkenness is the only way to survive. They might as well call it Thresher's Day. Mother's Day/Father's Day - these More About: Special
Dead End
2007-06-14 16:25:00 My ex-boss was grumbling about some junk mail he got the other day. Somebody pretending to be a debt collecting agency was trying to scare him into giving up his bank account details. Lucky for him he works here - he's both cynical and always up for a fight. After he'd told me his tale of woe and I'd run off to get a refreshing cuppa I managed all of ten seconds me-time before my phone went off. More About: Dead , Dead End
Blink...
2007-06-11 12:10:00 ...and you miss it. Quick weekend or what! Mine was spent mostly sneezing, drinking too much and burning things on the barbecue. Watched Dr Who with Bobbins Jr, too. I generally don't bother - well, not unless I know the Daleks are going to be in it. I like the Daleks. But this week I was too tired/post-BBQ-pissed to do anything else. Whoa - how about those scary statues? Brilliant stuff. In More About: Blink |
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