Missed a day

Well, The fiasco that was the England game seriously made me sad…so sad I turned to the liquid known as ‘Tequila’ and oh boy did I suffer yesterday – I actually got up fine and came into work, then the evil drink started it’s work on my tender head – I ended up going home at 1 as I felt so bad.

Couple of hours sleep sorted me out fine though – then I realised I hadn’t checked my Lotto ticket from Wednesday night…result! £100

Tickets went on sale today for Foo Fighters at Wembley next June – I’m waiting for an email confirmation I’ve managed to hook a couple – keep your fingers and everything else crossed.

EDIT: I’ve got 2 tickets for the Foo Fighters! wooooohooooooo!!! this is one deliriously happy snee…roll on June 6.

Words cannot put across how happy I am right now – lost the chance to see them at V Festival (for the right reasons though), tried to get to see just about all of their shows in the UK (sold out too damn quick) – but FINALLY I’m gonna see ‘em

It’s all gravy…

Corina’s quote of the day

Ah bless…she just had a peek at my blog and came up with this classic Corinaism:

“Your ball’s getting big…”

You just can’t make this stuff up…

Double glazing? why of course I’m interested…

For some obscure reason, our main office is based in a steel security box (plays havoc with cellphone reception). Now, as we had a t’interweb dialup connection in the days before broadband, we also have a second phone line.

One of my biggest pleasures during a dull day at work is to pick up this phone when it rings – 9 times out of 10 it’s a double glazing salesman or such like

“Why yes, I’d LOVE you to come and measure me up (fnar, fnar) for double glazing/conservatory…”

My boss calls it evil – I call it fun.

Think I’ll grow a beard…

EDIT: Obligatory Scaryduck link

Corina and the fax machine

Our fax machine is dead. Not completely dead, so long as you only want to send a single page it’s fine – it just refuses to feed multiple pages through. This is the reason when on the odd occasion I’ve been asked to fax 2 or 3 (God help if there’s any more than that) pages to a customer, the level of swearing increases proportionately…

“Oh, you f*cking piece of sh*t…feed through you b*st*rd!” etc., etc.

Anyway, I digress (no change there).

So today Corina needed to fax through, wait for it, about 50 pages!

So there I was, huge grin on my face as the first page went through ok, and the second…third page created a jam (tears started rolling down my cheeks as I shook with barely contained mirth), resulting in the whole machine needing to be turned off and on again (the ultimate IT cure-all).

As I type this, Corina is, as I first suggested, putting the whole lot in the post…

I’m not really very good at this am I?

I mean, not blogged in over a week?

Not that a great deal has happened this week – the weather’s got colder is about all.

Still no Wii consoles available.

On the bright side though, there’s only 1 hour 45 minutes until the weekend woohoo!

15 minutes until the weekend, time for another hilarious quote from Scaryduck:

PC: Woe

The worst thing that could possibly happen to your computer: letting other people use it.

Wife: “I’ve got a new screensaver.”

Me: “Oh yes?”

Wife: “Something popped-up while I was shopping and said I could have a free Valentine’s screen-saver. So I did.”

Me: “Ah.”

Wife: “It’s really, really good. Look!”

* Switches on computer, it is like running through treacle. After ten minutes, we finally crawl onto the internet. The homepage is now www.superwazoosexsearch.cz *

Me: “Oh God.”

Wife: “And there’s another thing. Something’s wrong with the computer. I bet you did it.”

Grin

Update on my big red ball

 

TGND’s been kinda slack at blogging recently – with the last elastic band ball update in May.

Well, today I got the Official Ruler and made good use (well, almost – I’m a crap photographer) of the office digital camera:

Now, as this ball is made up entirely of the red elastic bands that come wrapped around the mail – can I claim it to be “By Royal Appointment to HRH…” or would I just be risking the wrath of our good Liz?

Anyhoo, at just over 5″ diameter (127.000254mm for the metric monsters out there) it’ll soon be time to get it up on Ebay

Oh, I’m trying to lay my hands on one of those Nintendo Wii consoles (they’re like rocking horse poo over here), so my weekly phone call to Toys ‘R’ Us this morning was slightly different – rather than the usual “Got any Wiis coming in?” was replaced by the laugh-’til- you-cry:

”Do you have any Wii on your hands?“

Cue me laughing like a manic laughing thing, and the guy the other end snorting (glad I don;t have to use that phone after him) for a good 2 minutes before he could answer.

Personally I think I deserve one for the unique way I asked…Hmm…opens up Word:

Dear Nintendo,

I think I need to lay off the strong coffee a bit…