ok, been a while.... Retail therapy....

And I've spent far too much money this month.

1) Bought a new oven and hob for the flat. The old oven has slowly been dying. Started off with the element at the back basically blowing a hole in the cover plate (that was last year). This year I've lost the fan assisted facility. So when B&Q had their 15% off decided to buy a new stainless oven. As the old oven/hob combo was white, I really had to buy a new hob as well.

2) Bought some funky alloys for the car. OK, a bit overinduldent. The tyres are nearly completely bald on the car, and it would be like £240 for new tyres, decided to cough up a bit more for some new alloys complete with tyres.

3) After three years of no computer upgrades, decided to do a bit of updating. Fairly recent 64 bit AMD, memory, new mobo, n graphics card. Just waiting for them to arrive. Then I should be able to play Serious Sam II in something better that 640x480.

So, I'm now nearing the end of my 9 days off from work, and I'm now feeling really kinda relaxed, positive, and generally good about myself. I guess the fact I've tidied up a bit, got some DIY done, and generally prepared for all my purchases to come in has helped as well.

Who said retail therapy only works for women???

Funny story.

I was taking a short break in the sun at work, and a couple of women were walking accross campus. As they walked past, they asked where we got our lanyards from.
One of my colleagues says "We work in there for a space company" pointing at the building.
"Oooh, I've got a space that needs filling" says lady number one. At this, the guys stod outside and I start wetting ourselves laughing.
"She's got a bigger one than I have" she says pointing at Lady 2.

I haven't laughed so much in ages. :-)

Birthday Blues

Well, another revolution, another year older.

Today was spent at Bisley. The gun club arranges a monthly shoot up there. This month's was a McQueens shoot. This is a 200 yard shoot at a target that appears in any of 5 holes. The target only appears for three seconds. Quite a challenge, and borrowing a friends gun I managed quite a reasonable score (think I came second among the 5 shooters for the competition). Roll on when I can have my own gun set up for me, I might come first.

Mixed bag

Since I've managed to get Cordelia going again, I've been adding a few bits to her. After wishing I had more of my music at work, I've decided to get her streaming some music so I can connec to to the broadcast from work. At the moment I'm in the preliminary stages of testing, and so far so good.

News on the Physicist Phascination (ok, the girl at work that I like). Still not been on a date. Fingers still crossed. We'll see how it goes.

Apologies....

First and foremost, I must apologise.

I've been a bit lax in reading LJ recently and missed a lot of what was
happening until it was a bit late to help. I noticed that
ended up virtually stranded in Southampton. (admittedly I was at work
when everything was going down)  so wouldn't have been much help.
Just wish I could've been more help than I was. Ho hum.

I just hope that my inane ramblings when I do chat with her takes her mind off things a bit and gives some light relief.

AUGHHH!!!!!!

Quick rant on various subjects.

1) Cordelia's gone down. (for those not in the know, that's my server). Looks like it's the HDD with the boot partition. Luckily no non-essential data on it. Thing is tho, it's my mail server, web server, and IRC bouncer. I might be on IRC, and I might not. Depends if I can be arsed to re-configure my client. Won't be able to do anything till thursday on it, as I have that day off, but I need that to....

2) Change the radiator in the car. Bloody thing has sprung a leak. Fixed the obvious one, but I think another has sprouted. Will have to pick one up on Thursday to fix it.

3) I think I pissed of Cheryl at work today. (the physics girl I get along with, well till today at least) I knew she was stresed today, as I bumped into her earlier on in the day. Said "hi" and all I got was a muted "hi" with no smile. I said "Someone's looking a bit stressed" (probably not the best comment in retrospect) "It's not going right, and I'm running out of time" was her response.
Later on she was trying to explain something to a group of four people. I was talking with a friend at the door. (this room is about 3ft by 15ft or so) and we aren't the quietest of people. We got the evileye, altho more seemed to be directed at me. I will go and apologise tomorrow. I know what I did wrong (makes a change) n hopefully fix it.

So, I might make it back on IRC this week, and I might not. I'll keep y'all posted here.

Targeted guinea pig farm closes

We are facing terrorism in this country at several levels. Here is one of the more disgusting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/4176094.stm

Yes, I am saying that the reason the farm closed was due to terrorism. Now, I'm not calling all those that protested terrorists, just those that threw bricks through employees windows, intimidated the villagers, and desecrated the grave of one of the relatives of the farm owners.

The farmers were breaking no laws. If the animal rights people want to change this, they should get the law changed. No-one should be able to interfere with the operations of a lawful business.