The Contract of Common Sense
I think Meg may be onto something here.. particularly in light of a recent letter I received from.. eh.. someone to do with our gas meter. The letter stated that they would be sending someone round to ‘review’ our meter and ensure it was functioning correctly. If we could just make ourselves available at some point in the week…

No time, or day was stated. Just at SOME point in the week… I had visions of me clouting a gas engineer at three in the morning and telling him to shove his… well you get the picture.

Anyway, I digress, after a rather testing interaction with a customer service department, Meg has suggested a Contract of Common Sense to be entered into between the customer and the service provider/company.

I couldn’t agree more.

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Miscellaneous
I have nothing to say about this: The Prior-Art-O-Matic.
“It’s a series of randomly-generated product ideas! It raises questions about the nature of prior art in patenting issues and is occasionally amusing!”

I have a lot to say about this: When is middle age?.
“If I had to pick numbers, then I’d probably choose the range from 25 to 75. Why? Thinking in terms of myself and others I’ve know, I’d say most of us are truly independent of our families and on our own at least by 25 and most of us are dealing with the infirmities of old age by 75. Everything in-between would be middle age.”

What do the following things have in common?
The song Eye Level by Simon Park Orchestra
The song Half-Breed by Cher
The daredevil Evel Knievel
The actress Margot Kidder
The actress Rita Hayworth
The actor Montgomery Clift
The playwright Arthur Miller
An Earthquake in San Francisco in 1989

The answer will be revealed on Thursday (yes that’s a hint, another hint would be if I pointed you to my Wishlist, but I’m not that crass…)

Diet Contest: Week One
Holy crap. I’ve put on a stone in the last 3 months. Now I wasn’t planning on posting my weight here, but I figure that if you’ve read half of the stuff I’ve written here then my weight is about all you DON’T know (I’m also hoping that mass public humiliation will spur me on).

So, without further ado (or even the hint of a drum roll) my starting weight is….. 16st 13lb.

Now I know what you are thinking (what a fat bastard!) and I have to agree. Never fear though, I have a system, a system that helped me lose 2 stone in ten weeks last time around. It is a cunning system, but I ain’t spilling the beans like one of the other competitors (Note to self: buy a dog).

So wish me luck, I’ll share my winnings with you all!

(OK, the last bit is a lie).

ACHOOOO
*Sniff*

Walking to work this morning I managed to send three cormorants diving for cover to the murky depths of the Clyde with a particularly loud sneeze.

How rude of me
I’d just like to say thanks to everyone who wished me well this week. The cloud of redundancy has thankfully moved on, and I’m aiming to actually get some sleep this weekend.

So if you posted a comment, or emailed me I’d just like to say thanks. It DID help.

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