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Well, yesterday was my wedding aniversary, went to tell you about it but blogger was having a moment.
Well, Im on vaccation till tuesday now.. Mmm.. the days are filled with opportunities, I'll probably not do much today and monday, but hey.. its my choice!
OK, I mentioned the curse of ebay.. and that Id bought enough wool to see me to the end of time, and patterns to match.. Well, *HALF* the wool has arrived.... The postman must think Im a freak.. He had to leave it with our neighbours as we were out, but, it was so much, he left the sack.. you dont believe?? heres a pic
Ever notice sundays always fly by??
Its midnight oops I get up at 6 .. better make it quick.
Ive ordered more things on ebay, sigh.. Im half way through chair back 3! yay ..
Ive enough crochet patterns to sink a ship :) I found some free sites and saved them all.
Ive been quiet I know, why?? Ive been crochetting and unpicking and recrochetting like a demon I swear Id probably be mostly through the 3rd one of the set if it wasnt for the number of mistakes I keep finding that arent like "oh well never mind" status..
So, ebay.. I need to explain here, Im a tight wad with my money, I am the person that picks coins off the street, Im the person who walks around with nothing in their wallet so they cant spend it, Im the person with the savings account and Id rather go without food than take money out of it.. so.
Why do I spend so much time buying on ebay?? I *HATE* shopping, cant stand it, but because I can sit here, and pretty much anything I want I can find.. and buy, and often cheaper than bothering to leave the house.. This week Ive bought enough wool to well keep me going till the end of time at a guess.. If Id ordered a bit more Id need to empty the garage just to store it, its a rediculous amount, Ive bought at a quick guess Im supposing its over 25kg of the stuff.. (thats a lot btw thats like 60, I also bought a few stitch markers, oh and a new set of bathroom taps!! (We always wanted one with a shower thingy attachment)
Ive probably spent over 200 pounds in the last month or so.. sigh..
I need to quit ebay, but I cant, coz everything my heart dreams up is there, at a good price.
ARGH!!!!
OK, so I unpicked lots of the second item yesterday.. redid most of the unpicking last night, was finishing it off and...
I only had 56 stitches at the beginning not 57 as I swear I counted a billion times..
I had to unpick the lot..
(I am so mad!!)
Its wierd, since I started this blog I started crochetting, and now its all I seem to blog about, so. I apologise.
Ive completed 1 of those things for my dad, I did about 1/3 of the second to notice Id made a seriously large mistake (forgot to do half the pattern haha) and so had to unpick most of it.. grr.
I got 2 of the crochet books I ordered from amazon:
***SMALL RANT ***
OK, I bought a book called "200 MORE crochet stiches" so, as the title implies you expect 200 stitches, its a darn rip off.. Im almost dreading the 300 crochet stitches (eg vol1) arriving now.. why??
well picture a square of say this
ooxxoo
ooxxoo
xxxxxx
xxxxxx
ooxxoo
ooxxoo
where x and o are different colours, of the same stitch (hence its nameless)
so, according to this book, if x = red and o = black, they've counted showing different colour combos as their 1 of 200 stitches, so if they show 3 combos... thats 3 stitches.. err no, its the same darn one.. and more if they then did
oxoxox
oxoxox
oxoxox
which forms stripes.. they'd have another 3.. all the same actual stitch.. for that..
um
THATS CHEATING, sorry, but thats cheating!! It may have only cost £7.20 but I consider myself taken for a bit of a ride there..
Similarly I also got 200 crochet blocks for blankets, throws and afghans .. they have done exactly the same thing!! Having flipped through Id say around 40-50% are identical stitched squares just in different colour patterns so, plain, lines, squares, triangles... yeah but they are the same square underneath!!! Im almost burning to sell books of crochet patterns now, as well it seems I could make a book called "100 fillet crochet patterns" and only have 20 patterns in if I showed 5 of each one in a different color!! now theres an idea...
OK, so, ideally this blog would be profound, insightful or something. But, this is me, Im good at missing an opportune moment.
So, whats happened. Michael Schumacher was declared to have deliberately stopped in a bad place to hold up the others.. me? I dont believe hes that dumb or childish.
With my top finished, Ive started on my next project, 4 things to put on the backs of chairs for my dad.. no idea what they are called. We designed one, and Ive almost finished the first, with 3 more to go after.
Even better, a friend of mine wants me to make a baby blanket for her, its great, I can do useful stuff, stuff I enjoy and I dont have to keep it!! Im really enjoying crochet but I cant picture what being able to keep all the stuff I make, things like I really want to make a nice big bedspread, but, with our 2 dogs its just not ever something you could use, I cant even use my patchwork quilt I made let alone something with holes for dog claws to catch in... and theres only so many jumpers and crocheted tops I think a girl can own
I found myself wishing my gran was alive so I could have made her a bed spread..
Odd fact you never knew about me: I still have the 1 and only pram blanket I had as a kid, its mainly blue, its a mothercare one with elephants on it. :)
So, I finished and Ive done 1 round of edging as the pattern says, but I dont want buttons on it, so the edging needed something else. Being the Queen of indecisiveness Im sitting here I must have tired upteen things as edging, I really have, single crochets, doubles, half doubles, kinda shell things, all sorts. Ive decided Im going to do a round of half doubles, and then maybe a layer of shell type things. depending on how it will look I dont want much, the shells may turn into kinda mini loops.
And heres the long awaited picture (stupid blogger was hanging when I tried to upload it)
I finally finished the last sleeve!! I can actually wear my creation now. Its not quite as baggy as I felt it would be from the picture (sigh), but it does look nice, Im not that happy with the seems, joining doesnt seem to be my strong point.
I'll do the border bit, or take a photo real soon. I promise.
Well. Thursday is around again. On tv tonight coming up is House and Greys Anatomy which are great. However, I just watched "Bride and Grooming" which basically channel 5 have taken couples about to get married and given them cosmetic surgery and so on.
I related to the woman, she weighs about as much as I do, and had similar issues in that pretty much nearly everything else can be over looked but the apron as they so kindly called it on her stomache forms, well, she was better off than me, but then I dont have quite the same puffyness around the back, so, she wins on one, loses on another.. I felt sorry for her though, while they lypo'd and a tummy tuck total weight loss of a stone (I think thats 14lbs), I know looking at my own body there would be certainly far more scope for improvement, and I think hers too.
However, she at least got hers for free..... I cant afford..
(those with nervous dispositions should stop reading here)
What bugs me is cycling to work, so its not like Im not trying to be fitter here, I can feel my stomache bouncing of my thighs as I cycle.. and its not a racer either.. if it was I wouldnt be able to breathe!!!
A show tonight was how William Shatner change the world. Its curious to look at how much of what was in StarTrek has kinda become true. I object to it being how he changed the world for, he was not the writer, producer or so on.. He was key, but he alone did not make the change. The whole crew of the USS Enterprise did.
Things like the injection things that had no obvious needles, we have those now.
Communicators.. nearly everyone has a mobile phone
MRI scans are much like a large version of tricorders
Computers - our computers are capable of speach recognition, processing and working around what we say as well as mutiple processes, large databases etc.. at the time of StarTrek 1, this just wasnt.
Apparently other wierd stuff they metion and had totally made up such as ionic propulsion.. is actually doable too!
Just a shame that "StarTrek night" has 1 frigging StarTrek show and a lot of waffle pampering to William Shatners unfortunately large ego.
So, over the weekend the last ever charmed aired. I got to see it yesterday. Now, I mean Ive watched every charmed there is, Im an avid fan. Why? I guess because like so many I would love to believe there some element of magic for real in life. The fact that charmed shows magic being hidden from people in someways makes it more real!
Series 1-7 had strong endings, even series 7 where it was potentially the end of charmed. At the point of filming the decision to make series 8 hadnt happened, and when it did happen it was a reduced budget, hence the lack of Leo, Darryl etc this year. However. What a flipping lame ending.
Im not going to give the ending away, because I know at least 1 person reading this hasnt seen it. All I can say is its a carebare attitude and seemed to just well break half the meaning and presense Charmed has had. This last series really has centered on Piper, who I feel a better affinity to. Shes not exactly a babe within charmed, shes kinda more average in a way, but that power to freeze?? oh would that be a cool thing. Premenitions.. nice.. ability to summon objects or orb.. nice.. but to freeze??how many times would you love to freeze someone, scream blue murder at them saying probably a number of over exagerations take a couple of deep breaths and then hear what they have to say.. that way you could have the satisfaction of the shouting, without any of the fall out!! (yeah I know personal gain.. bah)
Im sad Charmed is over, it would have been nice to have like the last one as a film length real big spender job.
The bbc run a series called "top gear" its hillarious. In fact, most comedy programs on tv just arent as funny as this series for petrol heads.
Why is it so funny? Well, Im not sure originally it was meant to be as stupifyingly funny as it is, but a breif run down..
Richard Hammond - hamster - 36, kinda good looking, nutty, and game for a laugh. Kinda short, lots of jokes about him having his teeth whitened last series, most likely not true, but hey, was still funny to wind him up.
James May - Much like that odd uncle everyone has, nothing actually wrong with him, but then, hes just a kinda wet fish.
Jeremey Clarkson - world famous I believe, good laugh, very tall, especially when next to hamster.
They test various new cars well Maydoesnt seem to, just Hammond and Clarkson, they have a cleleb each week who go round the same racetrack in the same kinda family car, and go up on a scoreboard.
They have a "Cool wall" where cars are rated from totally uncool to sub zero.. depending on various criteria (often made up as they go along)
And then theres the challenges come sillys.
One silly was todo with a drag car and an airplane.. Which was finished in the drag racer blowing a caravan away, which was the funniest thing I ever saw..
Often the challenges are like May got a pilots license so had to fly from south of france I think to London, while Clarkson drove.. except of course May couldnt fly over various areas or at night as it turned out.. the races like that are always close.
This week the challenge was to make an anphibious car..
May got a triumph herald (about as old as me)
Hammond got a vm camper van (nick named the damper van..)
Clarkson got a toyota hilux (which they blew up, sunk, in a previous series and was deemed indestructable)
May fitted a huge sail to it but no keel, Clarkson put a very large outboard motor on, and Hammond used the existing engine to power a fan..
Hammonds van had little go, and struggled up hills and ended up being towed by clarkson
May broke his mast on the way, and broke down (as he inevitably does) but finally made it..
(Both May and Hammond
Clarkson had the least issues on the way to the water, having none :)
On entering water, Hammonds fan broke.. and rapidly began to sink. Clarkson leant him a spare outboard but it just helped it find greater depth to sink into
May did well except he floated into weededs before his sail was up, took a while to get going.
Clarksons did well, motor going.. and could do a good speed
Clarkson finally gave hamster a lift, Clarkson and hammond bombed down the water, a little too fast, and the front began to dip, taking on water, he made it to the finish first but in stopping, he rolled it.. his time was over.
Sadly for all, May made it up the ramp, well partly, took him forever, but he won!!! Now theres a turn up
Well, our lack of data flow continues. Currently some data is seeming to make it in and out, so I thought Id stick my head up and say Hi!
Hubby reckons hes seen 3mbit/s yeah funny how everything Ive seen is running like a dog still - of course his precious news download of tons of stuff we dont need is achiving this great speed, I tried a DSL tester and it said we were getting 534kbit/s so odd how hes getting 3192mbit/s and Im not :P
oh well. Im not dead anyway
8mb line.. Ok that's bits not bytes, but at the moment m doesn't stand for mega it stands for minutes.. 8 minutes per byte is probably not that far off!!
I guess it could be hard to explain why the decision I made yesterday makes so much difference, when in fact, Im not sure anyone will even notice.
I was supposed to be the primary support for something. A person who has far less experience (make that no previous) has been it would seem to me, the focal point for everyone bar 4 people, me, them, our boss, and our bosses boss. (and maybe the one above.. that positions had a person change in it, the previous one did, this one.. wouldnt recognise me if I went and slapped him in the face with a pair of used socks).
To me, this means its my duty to ensure that this lesser experienced person doesnt make a mess, to document how everything is to be done, to oversee and be aware of things so that at any given time, I can be professional and fix anything, and warn of impending doom etc.
Sadly this hasnt been the case, with everyone other than the previously mentioned people going to the lesser experienced person, whispering and generally making me feel pushed out and paranoid, Im not aware of whats going on, and I have seem some things the lesser experienced person has done badly or wrong and I now cant fix it until it snaps. On top of that, the anguish in my head to slap the person has been hard in that they are blissfully happy thinking the world is happy, in fact, everyone was except me.
This was hightened by the fact that this other person took credit for some of my work yesterday with the person giving the praise sitting on my desk while it was going on.. and me right next to it all.
My decision therefore was to back off, and let this person have it all. I would be there in case of emergency, the skill wont go away. However, soul responsibility is now on this other persons shoulders, while in my eyes, he seems to clearly not fully understand it, if the management tree arent/werent/cant be prepared to make a decision and either correct those making the assumption that this other person is the only person doing this task and say this other person is doing the task but is secondary to me, please talk to me as well.. Or. I back off and let the way it is be true. I took this option as apparently the option to correct anything is not politically viable within the company right now.. sigh..
I felt much better about myself and my life (although I havent enough work to keep me occupied) until my boss told me this morning that the other key thing Im responsible for is no longer to be implemented in the future within the company. Thus leaving me with like absolutely nothing to do.
So, as you see the only thing really to change is that any crap to hand out is not mine any more,and I should no longer have to worry about not being included, for it is no longer mine.. in reality nothing changes except the most important thing of all. How I feel.
OK, looking back, in this I posted about my biorythmn and the fact I think its a load of waffle. Therefore it strikes me as rather frightening to say the least to say that if you look at todays, Ive been feeling terribly low again and oh look, all the bits are at the bottom. Much as Im still saying its waffle, I find that a scary co-incidence.
There are 2 things getting me down. Work and home. Today however, I took a very bold step to release the work issue. My manager understands, and has given me till tomorrow to think about it. Im not changing my mind, if the management cant/wont make a decision, this has done it for them with no impact to anyone really except me, and no I didnt quit!
Looking forward..
Looks like we might be upgrading from a 2mb dsl to 8mb!!!! yay! and it costs a whole 6 pounds a month more! whoohoo! I might even get some download room (Na.. hubby will suck it up) but hey, theres hope.
More looking forward the crochet is going good, once hitting the arm pits, I had to split into 3, Ive done the right front,99% of the left front with the back to go.. then 2 small arms (they're only half length. and.. tada!! sew together and done..
Look out for pictures maybe in a couple of weeks.
the bbc have a nice article on Merapi, sadly their site doesnt seem to like being linked to, but they do have some pictures here.
I feel for anyone there, that looks real scary
My creditcard was indeed due to the blizzard fiasco.. but for some reason the bank didnt bother to tell me.
another excellent volcanoe link is here - great link IMHO.
OK, I posted a bunch of volcanoe webcams right.. you saw that.
So, thursday 11th may 12pm(bare in mind they are 9 hours behind the uk. BOTH Alaskan volcanoes have gone to yellow status, and from the webcam you can more than clearly see the sulfer fumes pooring out!! So that was around an hour after my post..
A direct link to one (best viewed in their daylight hours so from about 8am their time 5pm uk time) is this
Well the weekend starts 12pm tomorrow.. Its funny how whats 15 hours away can seem so long!
Today was a georgous sunny day, all day, just such a shame I spent it at work. Today Id have done some low down and dirty jobs if it had meant I could have every day like today off.
The cycling to work seems to be getting harder not easier, I must admit I dont get it. The first day the way home seemed mainly downhill as my backside hurt so much I couldnt sit for long and coasted most of it, today, I had to peddle all of it! Stopping I was slowing to a halt.. My bum still hurts, although less Id say, but still hurts whenever I cycle..
I finally think I got to the arm pits of my top! whoohoo!
These sites are not funnys (well one is), but mostly this is stuff I find oddly facinating.
I thought it was time for a proper update on crochet. The current work is now about 14" long. (If I havent posted a link to the pattern, its here)
Im trying to decide wether I continue a little more, make the top slightly more flattering to those like me of a larger scale who really need the top to come further down over backsides.
So.. you may remember (how could you not?) my somewhat rant about blizzard and their somewhat rude attitude about how their world wide game is not for anyone outside america, or some such judgement.
Well.. now my bank has retaliated I think. Since the blizzard incident when I tried repeatedly to get them to take the card, my credit card has disapeared from my banks online system.. Their system deserves a rant in its own right, however, in this case, my credit card has disapeared from the view, it used to appear on my statements, and well now its not.. If I try and add it, it claims its already in use.
So, I thought it might just be some bad electron day or something, so, I tried again today, still no joy.. So, I phone the online banking support crew.. Having felt I almost needed to explain that I used a "computer" to view my stuff, I had to provide various athentification stuff, this is fine, but, she took my credit card details and had full access to pretty much everything the bank knows about me..
She had to call back for my account number, as she closed the screen too early..
sigh
and of course she hasnt been able to fix it, shes had to pass it on to someone whos obviously got a computer and knows what that is.
sigh..
I remember way way back, when dos was young and programs ran.. only what you told them and when, and while viruses and the like existed, you kinda knew you had one, coz well with 640k being "mega" nothing much got in there without some knock on effect.
Now, today, Im running etrust av, windows defender and spybot.. the first 2 claim to "stop" anything from infecting me, so, and believe me I check my settings, but today, firefox (which is good against most stupid things) successfully downloaded without my permission and further more RAN the downloaded exe which then blocked everything.. and I mean everything, cant dir c:\ coz "log on privilages disabled" blah blah blah.
So, I ran a check with the av (as a different user who could still login thank goodness)..
Nothing
So, I ran windows defender check...
nothing..
ran spy bot, found sometrackers, a couple of exes that werent in memory, but.. hey..
anyway, my pc is back with me, so something it found must have been it.. but.. Just how many of these types of "keep me safe" products are you realistically needing to run to stop most of these things when nothing at all seems to actually stop it happening in the first place, only try and clean up afterwards.. grr
I should point out Im not a qualified physician etc..
However, I know Im depressed, I dont need some guy in a suit to tell me. However, difference is, I also know that no amount of pills will change the things that have me down. Im semi used to these major bouts of being low, unmotivated, feeling the world is not happy with me, feeling worthless etc. However no pill is going to change those events, they may make you forget, or believe that things are better, however, unless they really are.. it makes no difference.
Now, Im not a great believer, but, I thought Id take a look at my biorythmn and .. well its been pretty much at rock bottom both phsyical and emotional, however, Im supposed to be at a peek today! (haha), and next week.... well everythings at an all time low. In fact, if you expand it to 28 days everythings kinda at a peek today, perhaps thats why Im aware of it all..
However, a week or sos time.... I should be rocking.. I wonder how it will turn out :)
A thought for you while Im watching the F1.
The Renault ad for their Megane has always had the music and words of "Shakin that ass" .. they seem to be very proud of this rather (scuse the pun) butt ugly car.. it has the rear of something in a pile up, Im sorry.. so is their ad trying to say their car is an ass?? (in case you have no idea what I mean see this.
So,
I thought it was about time for a crochet update. Its growing, but due to the tinyness of the stitches, and the fact its the whole top in a line, it grows slowly, its about 11 inches right now.. getting there, just slowly!
Now, I dont mean this to sound like an american bashing post.. I have nothing against the sane americans, I have american friends, and love them dearly. However.
AMERICA IS NOT THE ******* CENTER OF THE WORLD OR UNIVERSE..
Ive been playing world of warcraft for around 18 months. I got a game card to start with, then paid with my creditcard, for the last 18 months, this card has happily paid for my time in the game. Last month, I thought I was quitting, why? I was a bit down, and money was feeling tight, so I cancelled.. oh what a mistake that was.
None of the details have changed, the cards balance is 0, its paid off, and has a limit of around 8.5k, so, theres plenty good on it.. so, blizzard rejected my card.. why?? My postcode.
My postcode is 7 characters long.. their box for the code is 6. Therefore the bank wont accept the card transaction coz the postcode is wrong.
After spending 25 minutes to the "free" (if in american) billing team, the rather over zelous guy Jesse who took my call only had one suggestion. Find an american who would buy me a game card and ship me it - as the US game cards cant be bought in the UK either...
I asked him if he would do it, he refused, he had no way to enter the entire code in the box, and wouldnt put me through to his supervisor.
As a girl, there are some days a month you really shouldnt anger us, you really do need to (as my friend Andy says) feed chocolate and agree to everything. Today is one of those days. Jesse my friend you really picked the wrong day to do this.
So, after explaining to him that then his company is as good as banning my account because they refused to take payment because while I dont have an american card, they do allow for people ot travel, and that travel is not always short term, and that by denying my card they are telling me that the previous 18 months play is lost, and that I cant have access to it, but, without actually any fault of my own..
After asking to speak to the supervisor and being told no as I wasnt in america.. he kinda hung up.. thus angering me even more!
Thankfully, all girls best friend is their dad. My dad lives in a place with a shorter postcode, it has the blessed 6 digits. His card of course was accepted. So, world of warcrafting can continue.. but blizzard you really really do SUCK.
OK, Im not the fittest person alive, in fact, I swear Id probably a contestant for unfittest. However, since beginning of Jan I have been walking to work, so, Im obviously slightly better than I was, and following my tyres being pumped, today was the first day of cycling for well, with any real purpose.. probably around 16 years.
MY BUM HURTS
Its amazing how theres 2 bones in yer bum, you have no real knowledge of till you sit on a bike seat. I have a slightly gel filled seat so technically it could be harder, but, the instant I sat on it, I knew there would be pain.. I got to work, and it was sore.. but I coasted a lot of the way home by standing on the peddles, building speed, and then staying standing coasting along.. even so, my bum is still exceptially painful..
Sigh..
Id love to cycle in tomorrow, but, somehow, I really dont think my backside is up for the job.
Well, theres a guy who lives in my street a few houses down, his name is Paul (apparently), and hes a great guy, a few years back I bought a push bike, then as I couldnt realistically use it much I let the tyres down.. only to now be in a position to use it and find I couldnt find a pump to pump them up again..
He pumped my tyres for me :) as he had the special fitting thingy to go on the end!
yay!
As a child I *loved* K9. He was the world to me. I was therefore rather, well for want of a better word, traumatised, when the spin off to Dr Who, K9 and company aired, Im not entirely sure how old I was, but, Im guessing 8 or 9, maybe. As I remember it, a kid came out of his sitting room to go to the kitchen, was abducted and taken for satanic sacrifice.
Despite all this, I still loved K9.. wasnt his fault!
This weeks Dr Who had Sarah Jane and K9 in it.. Without spoiling your viewing if you havent seen it, I cried I cried my heart out, what a glorious effort, K9 is STILL my hero.. and Im proud to be 34 this year..
Both hubby and I were verbally mean to our dog, Hubby told him that K9 was a better dog, and I confessed K9 was my first doggie love. Our poor dog, he looked so sad!!!
Bah, we hugged him after..
OK, heres the thing
Ive been told more than asked if I would work saturday, given I had done the easter weekend, I am far from keen, however, a) Im really the only one who could do it, b) Id probably be the only who would do it and c) I was kidna told that anyone whos not flexible wouldnt get a rise, so I dont feel I could say no, even if I needed or wanted to.
The work was due to be an hour or so. An hour midday, and then a couple of minutes later..
Now its get in at 8am.. and pretty much be there 12 hours, and if it goes wrong 5 hours sunday, despite me saying I really cant do sunday..
So my question to myself is am I being unreasonable?
My easter weekend I was asked to be there saturday 5am, was there till 7.30, then called 11.30, 12.30, got in1.30, stayed till 6.30.. and was so tired I dont remember sunday, or much of monday which was a free day off work.. for this, yes, I get paid, but, its like 7 hours.. for wrecking a whole weekend.. and when you're paid like 50p an hour.. the £3.50 aint going to make it any better.. (Ok its more than that but you know what I mean) to be honest, even 300 pounds wouldnt necessarily make up for the lost time. The company does offer time of in lieu, (TOIL) but, unless your friends/family etc can all take the time off, its not time you can spend with them, so its not the same. That and all the things put on over the weekend wont be on either.
Easter was only a couple of weeks ago, and yes, we have a 3 day weekend this weekend but if Im in work all of saturday.. How reasonable is that on me? or my husband?
Husband of course now is ill, so, despite me being grumpy he had expected me to go to the store food shopping on the easter saturday while I was working .. his own words were "cant you do it on your way home" (at 7.30am the damn shop is shut.. so no) Im sure the same will come again this weekend..
I made a new scarf yesterday, remember I made a scarf for a friend it was made of cotton and not very warm, but it was the first one I made. Well, I made him a fluffy usable one too. Only took me last night.. Im dead pleased!!
No, not bingo, House, the rather curious american program about House the consultant who takes drugs, accuses people of sleeping around to provoke them (or at least seems to), misses girlfriend, and applies a Sherlock Holmes style to medical diagnosis.. I love it.
Thats nicely followed by Grey's anatomy, where a bunch of interns spend their lives in yet another american drama.
I like thursday tv
Feeling better today, not so much when I got up, in fact, I think death would have been good first thing, or last thing last night, haven't had major shivers like that since chemo! This morning was more sweating like a hoar, but to the touch was cold and clammy, my skin felt like the merest touch would make me scream, I felt like Id break if I breathed too much.. so, was another day at home. I feel bad, Im not one for skiving off work.
The day passed thankfully quickly enough, I feel a lot better now, pretty much just a cough, paracetamol really is the thing for sweats..
The new crochet project is growing, its about 6" deep now, and of course 50" wide.. its certainly going to be an epic journey
This post is not for the squeemish!
At the moment I dont feel so bad, but, my lungs seem to be full of throthy snot, and my mouth is watering enough to fill a glass quicker than a dripping tap, to the point that talking is almost that reflux of drowning.
:(
I feel like CRAP
So, back to work tomorrow.. not much fun ahead this week, manager now wants meetings on monday to ask what we did, how we did it and what we're going to do, and then the same in paper on fridays ..
The grand prix sucked today, Jenson Buttons is terrible at pit stops, so the team decided he should do 3.. bad idea, and then to make it worse the fuel nosle got stuck and well he finished 7th.
The new crochet project is underway, its gonna take ages though... Ive managed like 1 1/4 inches... sigh.. its 403 stitches wide, and in like the tinyest thread ever.. Hope its gonna be worth it.
Despite having a short week this week with the public holiday monday, Im really happy the weekend is here. Hubby has been away 2 days this week which hasnt improved his mood or mine, and my mood due to work has gone from crap to seething. Our manager started off with weekly meetings where you had to give reports on what you did and what you will do.. now as well as that we have to do it in writing at the end of the week.. I had to ask him "Is it ok to write nothing on it?" as despite being one of the more experienced in our team, I have no work todo. Its not there isnt any, but the juniors of the teem are hogging and causing me greif and issue in messing things up, and taking ages..
sigh.. hence.. Im so happy its friday!
Revenge of jumper is complete. More to the point, this one actually fits :) Well it fits me and its for me! Once again I apologise for the background, but the jumper is here as best could be shown.. Not able to take photo of myself :)
OK, many of us are old enough to remember when "starburst" were called Opal Fruits.
They have recently bought out a new set of sweets, same idea, ususal yellow, green, red, purple sweets only these are sour chews.. and they are awsome.
Opal fruits always did make your mouth water, and most people I know struggled not to eat all available in like one sitting, but these, these make like a waterfall in your mouth.. but much like normal sweets the additional water arriving in your mouth disovles the sweet all too fast, so you find yourself smushing more than 1 together - usually the same flavor, as they are strangely hardish in your hands till you fold them a couple of times and after a little more turn to very soft and maliable.
They are yum !! (buy 1 get 1 free at tesco!)
Computers suck (A non real computer languaged based thought...)
while (My.Status = Alive) { My.UseComputer(); }
print My.Will2live;
end;
Event Will2LiveChanged;
{
if Will2live > 0 My.Status = Alive
else My.Status = Dead;
}
Procedure My.UseComputer();
{
Computer.Start();
if (Hour>8 and hour< 23)
{
Case Computer.Status:
Happy : inc(My.Will2Live);
OK : UseComputer();
UnHappy : dec(My.Will2Live);
Fucked : My.Will2Live=0;
}
}
/run
Will2live is 0
User is dead.
Program ended.
So.. who can guess the status of my PC?
My PC just ate itself. Not just like rebooted and lost stuff, or, blue screen hahahah, no.. this was more big rude gesture, granted, no smoke, no big bang, but, I think it could be terminal.. this will be the 4th PC in about 6 months.. Ive already lost 16 years worth of mails when a HD failed and of course after a backup where it backed up all the corruptness, and like so many I cant afford 300 tapes to cycle them.. so it overwrote any saved copies.. This one stands to lose just as much, so many passwords etc Ive saved and dont recall, or IDs I dont recall coz things auto logged in.. sites.. everything.
Why why why?????
If I see 1 more "Bratz" ad on tv, I will puke, I swear. Im not kidding, theres currently around 8 ads per break, at least 3 are for a Bratz product. Petz, Ponyz, Genies, Bubbles... theres more.. sigh.. its really really really irritating
Well, the back is complete, so is about 2/3 of the front!! This one is flying.. I just hope its big enough!!! Failing that, maybe hubby will have one he can actually wear!
So, I got up 5am on a saturday, and as I often do, I woke up annoyingly fairly quickly, so none of that "just 5 more minutes" feeling, no, wide awake..
So, I got to work for 5.25, was there a couple of hours..
Ive been up nearly 5 hours, so... Is it lunchtime yet?? Im hungry
Thankfully I dont have debt other than my mortgage, so, Im very lucky in that way. However, it really irritates me when you see the following on tv.. (not word for word but this is the story)
Person: Hi, I have 20k of credit card bills and I just cant afford to pay them
company: Why not take out our loan, spread the debt over the next 10 years or so so you pay say half what they're asking now, and then you can spend MORE money you dont have and be tied to this forever more!
All the ads say, get a loan : well if you have high interest like creditcards, yes, I can see a point, but, you really really dont want one over a long term you want it as short as you can, but, trying to pay off as quick as you can, so yes, you will need to push your limit to as close as you can.
All the ads then imply that once you have their loan the fact you still owe tons of money and will do for years that you should blow the cash on holidays and cars etc that no offense, if you havent got the money, you should do without! Yes a new car would be nice, yes 2 weeks in some sunny place would be great.. but if you dont have the money... DONT DO IT
So, I finally finished that thing that haunted me, so, what on earth has possessed me to do me a jumper too???
Started today, I am at least crocheting this! Even so...
(PS, its now 23.50.. and Ive done 15.5"!!!!)
The jumper is made.. It looks like a reject, but, its made..
As you can possibly make out the sleeves arent as lose a knit as the body, so it looks pretty awful.
Now to get hubby to wear it!!! and onto something for me.. lets hope I dont make such a hash of it.
There is something that should be illegal but it isn't. What's that? I hear you ask.
Easter is a free 4 day holiday for most workers, a few have to work, and I have every sympathy, but for example, where I work would pay me a rate of 3x for Friday, 2.5 for Monday and probably Sunday.. But, Saturday is just a Saturday, so, nothing really to help, so, this Easter Saturday I have been told to get to work before 6am!!! 6am on a day off isn't any fun, but halfway through a 4 day off? It should be a criminal act!
My friend has resurfaced. Im still worried for him but hes back at work, and I rest a little easier.
Im not the hugest tv watcher, I watch a few things each week. CSI, House, Charmed and more recently (like last week) Greys Anatomy started which looks like something I could get into.
Today I share with you this thought.
You're asked to search a house, its like 40C outside, sun blazing down almost burning the asfelt off the road.. Do you
a) keep all the curtains drawn (as they always are) and walk round with a pin sized torch
or
b) open the curtains or at least turn the darn lights on....
Aparrently all of us who would use option b... we're wrong. .you *need* to use the pin size torch..
My friend has gone awol again.
It looks like the decision he made has potentially become unmade. Im worried however, as well, I havent been able to get hold of him since wednesday. The decision made doesnt effect me either way, I just want him to be happy. If hes changed his mind, I can be happy for him still, I just want to know hes safe, and that I care for him no matter what he decides. I just wish I knew he was safe.
Before
AfterWell, Im past the base of the arm pits of the jumper from hell. In fact, Im probably 2/3 the way up the arm pits, so, tomorrow should see end of the front, and with any luck, the sleeves will be short lived!!
You have no idea how much Im looking forward to the end!!
Ever had those feelings that days come and go, weeks come and go, months come and go and you just don't have time to make what you want of it?
TV suckers us into believing that you can get up at about 7, run 15 miles, shower, have breakfast, travel to work and still be there for 9.. Have an trip to a restaurant and eat it, without indigestion in a 1 hour lunchbreak, and, go home, have the sun still shine that you can do what would seem to most to be a whole days worth of activities.
Sadly the reality is you get up, you barely have time to get clean and throw some food in your face if you got up more like 6.30, you get to work before 9 coz no one seems to start at 9 now.. Also of course we work till 5.30 often too and it seems companies would much rather we had a 30 minute lunch break.. Oh and of course the reality is a lot of us don't even end up with lunch breaks.. Home time comes, and time ebbs away as you head home, you get home in time to change, eat, and sit down yet somehow now its nearer 8/8.30 and its often far from "light" outside, by the time you've relaxed enough to forget anything that bugged you at work its time to get to bed coz unlike people on TV, it takes more than 3 seconds to clean and get ready for bed, and we need to sleep unlike TV people who can either be at it like rabbits all night and still somehow be awake the next day, or, wake up looking perfect.. Some of us have to work hours to look the messes that we do!
On Saturdays and Sundays of course, rather than relaxing and doing hobbies, we spend a lot of it, cleaning, washing and shopping to stop us starving the next week. A few hours are grabbed late afternoon evening to do things we maybe want to or visit people we potentially have to to keep family feelings alive and well, and friendships in existence.. Sunday night comes all too fast and its Monday and the cycle begins again
PS 15+" through the front of the jumper from hell now.
Well, the walk home from work today was marvelous, the sun shining, cool wind, not too much traffic. If it had been marginally warmer it would have been perfect.
Got home and the trimmers for my dog had arrived, so had to collect them. They work a treat! I love them. I did his head, some chest and a shoulder over the weekend, took ages, did his back, bum, tops of his hind legs, bit of tum in about 15 minutes.. he looks so much happer, he always is with less fur.. but, hes flat asleep.. awww
Work on the jumper continues, Im about 7" up the front now.. I might actually finish it.. just a shame its looking like it would be a great hammoc... its HUGE.. not the 40" expected.
PS my friend has returned, but is quiet. I am worried. Hes special to me, its harsh he lives so far and I cant help him.
Today was a long day.. A server I support at work, died, died good.. The software on it threw a hissy fit, which the guys hadnt heard before, and in trying to fix it between them and me, it died. So, ended up working 2 hours over time.. Got home and Im fixing a server.. not a work one though.. today is a tough server day obviously.
Im worried for a friend who is AWOL. While I dont think he'll read this, my thoughts and hugs are with him.
Well, the back of the jumper is finished.. it looks a little thin and weedy like I have the tension totally wrong.. but, work is now starting on the front. I guess as long as the tension stays the same, it cant be too bad..
So, Ive mentioned it enough, heres a picture. Its hard for you to get an idea of size from that, well its about 18" long from top to bottom. (Under neath is the "small" ball of wool that Im knitting from!)
PS anyone else think I need to clear my desk?
Last night on tv was said one of the dumbest things I think Ive ever heard. To the point Id share it with you. For this you have to understand that much as squirrels are the cutested little things, they are technically vermin. So..
A squirrel is caught in a carwash, theres a chain that opperates one of the bits of machinery and hes got his foot into the chain of it and its stuck.. So, the nice animal man rescues the poor thing, its lost 1 toe, but its covered in oil, and very much in shock from the whole thing.
So, a few days later after lots of anti biotics the squirrel is healthy, the man says "Now the squirrel is healthy, we can put it down" OH MY GOD, they made it better just to kill it?? thankfully, he continues "or give it to a shelter" .. but I ask you, vermin or not, if you were only going to put it down surely just killing it at the time would have been far more sensible.. Im really happy they sent it to the shelter, but, what a dumb thing to say!
I like fridays. Why? well other than the weekend starts here, where I work we only have to do half days on fridays as we work an hour extra the rest of the week, so if you get to work real early you leave at 12 and your weekend starts there. Very nice.
The knitting of the jumper is still going, Im 12 inches up the back. Once I reach 20 I get to start marking arm holes! I might even make that tomorrow! That will seem like record time.
The bit Im dreading is that this thing seems like its going to be a major challenge as it seems to imply you have to hang on to all the bits and join them together using the neck so I need a ton of bits to hold them on while I do the rest.. ick.. I didnt think of that..
Thankfully I just bought a shed load of needles on ebay and can use those :)
I feel like death warmed up, I didnt go to work today I felt that bad. While Im determind to go tomorrow, I have my doubts I'll be good for it.
On the plus side, I finished a knitted scarf for a friend who likes all things pink and fluffy! I swore I would never knit again, but that scarf took 24 hours (less some sleep!) now, Im onto another knitting project (damn his eyes) my husband wanted an aran jumper... so, thats what Im making... wish me luck!
Well, I feel like I have some dreaded lurgy. I must have spent 10 minutes deciding if I was well enough to work this morning, and as long again if I was going to walk or drive. I decided to drive as I felt rough and it was raining, sadly I now wish I had decided not to come.
Last night I thought I was going to spend most of it throwing up, thankfully, I didn't.
I really just want a day in bed, or 2..
I finished the drwho scarf! As you can see from the picture. Its hard to photo something measuring 13.5ft, so I just left it in layers.
I went down hobbycraft and picked me up 14 hooks, 1 of every size they had, and a bunch of wool for making of a dr who like scarf. I am trying to put off my summer thing a little as it has very very long rows, and that will be frustrating to work on. Im also trying to give myself more time to feel confident with stitches, as well as everything else.
So, Id guess the new one is about a meter long so far, it grows very fast because of the size of wool and hook in use.. eg, HUGE. :)
Hobbycraft have some great looking wool, but very very few crochet patterns, and Im determind not to knit again.
One thing I did love the look of was the huge balls of wool, which some contained nearly 900m of wool! I guess its 1 ball = 1 jumper.. Im a large person so I might need more than 1, but, Im guessing I'll want to try an aron jumper later, I just need to find a pattern for a plain jumper.
Well, the scarf is finished! It is 12" wide and 48" long! not bad for a couple of weeks worth of effort. If only knitting had ever happened that fast for me. I really really want to make this next, I have enough thread, but, I do think it might be beyond me, and each row would take forever as everything bar the sleeves seems to be done as a single peice.. Id rather have seams to be honest, just so I could do smaller peices.
Im also worried about the size.. Despite using a smaller hook, my gauge is out, if I made that test swatch (what a waste of yarn!) it would be 5" by 4" not 4x4.. so, to make the right one to fit me according to them would be the size of a tent !!
I guess another scarf maybe in order or something first...
We changed our internal IP addresses today, apparently it clashed with a vpn... We've had those IPs longer than the company has been in existance, it seems stupid that we had to change.. after all, its not like hes paid for the work! My VPN to work still craps out after 10 minutes.. without fail..
So, the queen of mean has been on ebay some more.. I normally have to be parted kicking and screaming from my money but ebay is such a curse.. For everything you can ever think of.. theres likely to be one on ebay..
Remember my craving for a shell suit.. My prayers finally came. I bought a black shell suit (both top and bottom) from ebay.. mind you, at a very good price .. 0.99 for a top + posting and 0.99 for the bottom + posting.. a grand total of about 5! hurrah! result. (it could even arrive soon!)
Sadly on top of that the crochet thread is getting out of hand, I'll probably have enough to keep me going for 2006 by the time this lot arrive (as I have 12 balls of white still, I'll have 8 of beige and 16 of cream and then 2 lots of something else...)
The crochet scarf is doing good, its about 32" long now! I do want it slightly longer though.. I fear its not the warmest scarf ever made, but, I hope its loved. Of course I will bore you with a picture of it when its finished.. However, you'll need to make do with this! (was taken about 4" ago)
Im hoping to finish it this weekend :)
Ok this tv ad isnt new. However, Im sorry, but some stupid dumb blonde woman gets a flat.. Now, I grant you they dont show size OO cleevage, or a skirt that doesnt go down beyond her knickers.. but.. they do show her sitting in her car filing her nails while tons of cars behind hoot and shout at her.. oh and she checks her mirror and fluffs her hair..
Believe me lady.. Do that in front of me and I will break your ass.
I appreciate there is some logic, but I find the following very frustrating. I bought something from ebay, it cost me the rip cost of 0.90 ! (whoohoo!) problem is I fund my paypal via a credit card, apparently this means the other person must have upgraded their account. So despite the big "I accept paypal" .. its not all paypal.. some money isnt the same as other money..
sigh
So, I have etrust, and I have the new microsoft defender anti spyware stuff..
So, some rogue exe downloads itself (I probably helped it, but all the same) the av software didnt say "Hey stupid, you dont want this" the spyware thing didnt say "Hey stupid, this is bad news"
So, I decided to do a full scan, and some hidden baddy file on my system woke up and trashed it. Its an odd thing, it doesnt seem to be running unless you somehow open something to trigger it. It does have a name, but its one where it will suddenly tell you your login has expired it cant do this that or the other and your machine basically just stops..
Whats the point of half this software thats supposedly monitoring my system if it just lets it do it anyway?
Well, today Im quite distracted, a friend of mine (love him to bits) made one of those life altering decisions thursday, his life is now turning hugely for the better but a fair few things need sorting before he can enjoy thats all to come. Im worried for him. Sadly for me hes many 1000's of miles from here and I cant go hug him and help him. Of course there isnt a lot I could do, but, I wish I could be there at least for anything.
Im deliberately not naming or describing whats going on, but I wanted to record my feelings and know that should he wander here (Im wondering if I even told him of my blog now) he'll know its him and he will know I love him to bits, and Im real happy for him Im just worried for the changing period hes going through.
(No hes not gay or having sex change or anything in that nature, although theres nothing wrong if that was it, I just felt a small need to say its not that)
For 2 years I had my CV on job sites, desparately looking for a job, I have a number of skills, and have had very few complaints about my capabilities, so, you'd think finding a job would not be that hard.
Finally, I got a job I wanted near on 15 months ago, so I removed myself from all the job sites, and started with the polite replies to agencies with "Ive found a job, and am no longer looking" etc.
Well, Im still getting messages about jobs that werent entirely suitable ever, but, more to the point, its now got to a point where I have little wish to be polite to them about the fact that they still havent removed me from their lists, or arent even sending jobs that would be suitable.
Todays was the most insulting to date.
Area: not suitable, area of job: development - which I left for a reason nearly 7 years ago I do tech support now, and finally.. the mail was sent to me and started "Dear Sirs"
I wish more job agencies went out of business, as if they are still havent got round to updating their info from 15 months ago, what chance do these people have of finding me a job Id want??
I *lurve* CSI, but, Dalziel and Pascoe has been an old faithful.. It mighty SUCKS that the BBC have placed Dalziel and Pascoe on on monday and tuesdays, and tuesdays clashes with the new episodes of CSI.. argh!
Following the weekend.. I thought the qualifying was ok, it seemed to be confusing them far more than us, given they left it late and many almost didnt get qualifying times. During the race it was a fair bit of interest, much better than previous years where by about lap 3 you could walk off, come back and the only chances were crashes and retirements. I hope this year will continue to be active.
Cant wait for June 11 when we go watch it live again (please, no sun burn like last year though..)
Im looking at my second crochet project, I want to make a scarf (of course by the time Ive finished, it wont be cold any more!) but I started out with 100 stitches but it looks too wide to me. But I cant decide how wide it should be!
Wether you love or hate Ebay, there are a billion things for sale on it, and some of them at good prices and so on. Yes, someones bound to be selling some old sock for 300 pounds, but, often in a month there will be something you really would like.
I try not to bid on too much, but it can be hard not to sometimes, after all once you've seen something you want its hard to ignore it when its up for a pound and would cost you 10-20 to buy.
My only beef with it is "watched" items.. it mails you when theres about 5 hours to go, but thats the last. I want it to mail me at 3hr, 1hr, 15 min, 5 min.. coz of those annoying people you get that wait till like the last minute and bid 3x the price.
As you can see, I finally finished it! (for reference of size, its there filling most of my chairs seat!)
It has mistakes.. sigh.. but only one really obvious one. the rest are all fairly well hidden.
Weekends go by too fast. Im now half way through my crochet thing, 5 hours of my saturday has passed, where? I dont know, I need to do laundry, I wanted to finish this crochet thing, I wanted to read my book, finish my lace thing (for which I have ordered me more bobbins as I seem to have lost most of mine)
Biggest frustration is much like reading, crocheting seems to bring out the neck ache and cramp in my hands.. so I cant stay at it for long. Sigh.
So, the new Formula 1 motor racing season officially started today, with the qualifying. New qualifying rules. New rules go.. every one has 15 minutes to do their fastest lap, slowest 6 cant do any more qualifying, times are wiped, everyone has another 15 minutes to do a fastest lap, slowest 6 dont go through again, the last 10 are then given 20 minutes, and have to nominate their race fuel level, which they do the qualifying with but then get topped back up to that level for the race start (this bit seems a little weird).
The teams seemed as confued as the announcers, it seems fairly simple to me!
I love buying stuff online, no need to go fight for it in the shops, don't need to go there, no parking fees, etc..
Big down point, you cant leaf through it first. I bought a book it sounded perfect, only, it doesn't have the detail it implied in it.. And, as I bought it from eBay, its not the sellers fault, they didn't imply it, the content of the book implied it. So, never fear, no negative stuff for them and its not like it cost a fortune, just, well, disappointed.
Still working through the "beginner" piece.. I'm on like row 6 now.. But it is still a lot bigger than Id say is suitable for beginners, you really want something that you can do in a day, preferably, less.. Otherwise we get too frustrated.
So, last nights efforts on crochet well, were a waste. Apparently at my age, I still cant count to 127!
So, I redid it tonight, and finally counted, and am now on row 5 I think.. its hard work, and for a beginner peice its quite big (IMHO) .. Im making this .. it must be close to 2ft wide!! Its going to be a long peice of work thats for sure. I wish it was smaller though so I could appreciate the effort sooner!
(Sorry, not much else to say right now)
Well.. As you can see, I didn't do too bad. This was my third go, the first ended up as a screwed up knot :P as the instructions I found varied, and missed out a key point, such as like well the instructions, the second I found worked, I have a triangle (about the size of a large dangly earring) but that was a triangle coz they omitted a vital part.. This, this was taken most of the way through, I've actually completed my bookmark.. whoohoo! Now all I need to do, is decide what I actually want to do, I guess next I need to learn a few more stitches and then decide what I want.
If you've ever had a lot of time and limited things you can do, wether that's mobility, noise, health, rules and regulations or lack of ideas. You will know that your mind can do very odd things.
Its the kind of thing such as your ISP craps out, so now all you can think of are emails to send, stuff to download, or, electricity goes and you think of all the rubbish on TV you could watch or videos/dvds.
One of the core reasons kids are destructive is because they are bored. As adults we have generally learnt to control the more destructive elements. However this often only means we don't do them, we still think them.
Yesterday when email at work was down, many of is were bored, and as a result of a slow day today are also funding they wished they had inspiration. Sadly for me, the things I have in my head to do are lace things, sleep, crochet, patchwork or coding. None of which can be done while at work.
I am reading the 2nd Harry potter book at home and I am wishing I had them in ebook form!
In case you have been asleep under your respective rock, Wallace and Gromit, Curse of the were rabbit got an oscar this year!! Major grats to them.
Just in case you thought I was all hot air.. I found this.. Currently run out of pins (sigh, could use more bobbins too.. If I ever stop it twisting..)
This rather poor picture (sorry, colours are unfortunate) shows what's known as half stitch being done using some very very very old thread that fades between yellow and white on a pink card..
So, thanks eBay :) just ordered me more pins!
Well. It seems my website and I have dropped off the face of the earth today, in that my domain's DNS isnt available and so, no spam (whoohoo!!, I seem to get anything upto 200 attempts to mail me spam a minute) no website (boo), no real emails (major downer)..
Everything our end seems to work, but, it seems some firewall or something is in the way.
Heres to hoping tomorrow brings a bit more normality.
Previously I mentioned that I was after a shell suit since like forever.
Now, I guess I might as well tell some more.
In the past I tried knitting.. I sucked. I did patchwork quilts, I enjoyed it, did very well in fact as you can see from the pictures, I made 3. the first (the white, red, black one) was done to spec of a guy I was going out with, took years, the other 2 are actually two sides of the same thing and are around 8 ft square.. its huge. Both sides actually only took me 6 months. I kinda miss it, but dog paws are not patchwork quilt friendly unless you can get some material thats almost like old carpet and thats a cow to sew with.
Before that, as a child and early adult, I did some torchon+honiton lace making, but, my items always had a problem, they would twist when released. So, after many battles trying to achieve this. I half gave up. I still have my stuff, but the will is small as anything I made twisted so I never got onto the pretty stuff.
So, this void in my life has been calling.. and heres the cravings its having..
Crochet and Needle lace
Everyones heard of crochet, its the kinda stuff grannys always did, you have a thing looking like a large tooth pick almost and a ball of yarn.. and well stuff comes out. Needle lace is much like bobbin style lace making, well without the bobbins.. Apparently its a slow as molases in the arctic, but, my biggest problem with so much of these things is I need to be able to put them down.
So, I dont have much info on needle lace, other than you use a lot of button hole type stitches and pray, and I get that, I really do, but, how do you do the outside?? so, not being any wiser Im off on a mission. Crochet. You need so little to do crochet, so, I ordered me on ebay about 800g of yarn and a needle, pretty cheap too. All I need now is for it to turn up before Im not in the mood again :)
You know, all I really want to do is make some book marks!!!
So.. We all know that UPS stands for uninterruptable power suply, well, like heck it is.
My UPS is grumpy, it makes the grumpy people in life look calm, nice and pleasant to spend time with.. In essense I guess it needs a new battery, but rather than go "Hey, I need a new battery, I will just pass power through me and do nothing more than act as a 4 way socket" its been playing tricks on me.
We are a little harsh on electrics, we have so much electrical stuff our house probably hums. However, his air cooler thing has an oddity of its own. It makes a sound like something catching in the fan every so often and Ive seen my lights dim often as its sucking more power to counteract it, I think this was something that irritated my UPS. As it would whine that there wasnt sufficient power, next came the "I dont like this load" act it has, eg I turn on 2 PCs and it starts flashing lights at me as if it were overloaded.. but I happen to know better. Finally last night it started just being making its last final mistake.. Just rebooting stuff every hour.. no loss of battery power, no loss of power, no nothing just "poof" everything rebooted..
so.. this morning wsa the fun hunt trying to find enough cables and stuff to remove the thing from the collective.. (After waiting 2 hours for it to power up 1 machine and it sulking and saying no..)
What a great sunday this will be. (PS queue on the wow test server stands around 4500... with a 2.5 hour wait.. dont the americans EVER sleep?? its like 1am)
EDIT: I should point out here apparently half of the town near us spent 3 hours with out electrics, but apparently this power flux was happening all over.. Sorry UPS but you could have made out there was a real power issue!
I was looking for my bicycle pump (still missing, been like a year now), and found my gloves WOOOHOOO! Now there's a turn up.. Such a good find reminded me of the deep dark and rather lame wish I have.
You guessed it, this is the bad and the ugly.. Its ugly coz fashion police would shoot me on site, and its bad coz I haven't let this idea drop since like forever.
I want a black shell suit. You remember the thing, kinda shiny, very light weight, amazingly popular in the 80s and early 90s. I want one, and I want one bad.. However, I want one that's predominantly black or very dark navy, I don't want some bad quality street looking effect (for people who this mean nothing, quality street chocolates are wrapped in like silver foil and then clear coloured plastic...Like bright yellow, bright red, bright green etc. I want a shell suit coz I feel the cold but I don't want to be wearing 8 jumpers to achieve warmer thoughts.. I once borrowed a friends for a night coz it was cold and for something which felt no thicker than a good quality shirt, the shiny thing was insanely warm.. From that day to this .. I've wanted one.. However, not being one of the thin people.... It would look pretty bad.
When I started work, if you made a really big screw up, or endangered someone or the company, or you repeatedly didn't do what was asked.. They sacked you.
While I agree that you should be able to be sacked for no reason, it seems to me if you are incompetant and you don't seem to not be this way, they should sack you as unfit for the job.
If you were a rock climber you wouldn't accept a bit of garden string as your life line on the grounds it was doing its best would you?
Mind you, if they did sack, I guess this big open plan office I sit in might be pretty empty
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They have re made The pink panther, an all together great film with The pink panther. With Steve Martin an ok funny guy, but lets face it, I haven't seen a great film from him in ages, the guy who played Leon a great film, and he's been in some other stuff, and f**king Beyonce.. Beyonce!!! I ask you.
For the sanity of all I point out I haven't seen it, but, while the clip on TV was mildly amusing.. If the trailer can only contain 1 funny.. It's usually not that funny.
If this film doesn't suck as bad as it sounds like it does, please, feel free to tell me its actually worth watching should I ever see it as a film listed as viewable free where I live on terrestrial TV.
So, for 2-3 people I bought 4 punts of milk and took it in Monday am. Monday night we had used about a pint, Tuesday home time maybe another half. Come in this morning and we have half a punt left!!
I don't mind people using it, but what do they do? Bath in it? I had some soya milk, which is an accuired taste, 2 pints of that went the other week. You would have to be desparate surely?
So, to all you milk fairies out there. Get off yer ass and but some milk and let us use some of it. Work don't provide us with a milk fund!!!!
