Month: June 2001

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I was just about to go back and edit a mistake in the June 22nd entry. I managed to omit the fact that it was my beautiful and wonderful Louise’s birthday (she probably hates being 21 again by now… surely…). But now I need to be honest, and anyway, she’s already seen that I missed it… dog house again.

Excellent weekend – Friday night – beer, dinner, beer beer beer. Mainly focussed around the beer garden and the first time Louise had met some of my work colleagues. Yes I was slightly apprehensive, but they all behaved themselves, well as much as usual anyway!

Saturday – Glasgow, shopping, lunch, shopping, then round to S & A’s for beer, pizza, chat, beer, chat, beer, chat.

Sunday – in-laws for BBQ (No beer though, I was driving…).

Now home. Work starts tomorrow (again). Tired. Bed. Night all!

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I was just checking back some notes about my recent redesign, it took me over 4 months to do, not in straight work hours, just took that long to get up enough drive to do the damn thing… Then I find out that I can write tag lines for websites without even realising it. Am I trying too hard? One thing I’ve been meaning to do is throw up what I use for my ‘start’ page, so there it is over there on the right… is kinda work orientated, and needs updated (DeskMod is dead now) but it is my starting point for hours of surfing and reading. Seriously I could easily spend an entire day online surfing and probably not get bored. Well that’s not strictly true, my average ‘internet attention span’ is down at around 15 mins at the moment.. and that’s being generous.

Ohh I’ve just been informed that it’s only 6 months and 5 days to Christmas. Yes my wife is a Crimbo nutter…

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ikea – meant to say, Louise was reading through (actually reading…) the catalogue the other night and noticed that it is filled with little tidbits… for example, one page has a room with a man over at a CD player, and a baby facing the camera sitting in a chair. The captions detail the price and style of the chair, the CD unit, etc etc, the last caption states: The baby is the models own and is priceless… awwwww.. cute eh! The damn thing is littered with them, which is good as it currently resides in the toilet as reading material (always handy when you are *busy*).

N2S: am I the only person who does this? Maybe it’s a bit freaky and I shouldn’t mention it… also update the Visit links – you are missing a lot of people out!

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Tuppence – this seems to be the theme of my week so far – started on Sunday whilst we were trying to figure out how much carpet we would need for our new living room:

“Right, if it’s 25 feet by 11 feet, and the carpet costs £6.99 a sq.metre, and it only comes in 10 feet widths, then… em … aargh!!”

This was followed by RuhBehKa’s post and one of those DIY shows on TV where the builders discussed:

“Well if it’s 6 inches deep and you’re covering 20 sq.metres, then you’ll need 3 tonnes of cement..”.

I’m 6’0 tall (around 1.86m I think) don’t have a clue what I weigh in kilos, and get thoroughly depressed at what I weigh in stones. 1972 was the year we went metric (year before I was born) yet I am one of the majority who work in this strange ‘imperiatric’ system. Oooh think I just invented a new word!

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Started commuting into Glasgow a couple of days a week. I’m in that funny limbo land at the moment where I’m not a ‘commuter’ as I don’t do it often enough, so I am viewing each short trip as, well, a curiosity. I used to love getting the train to college, but it was a longer trip, so you could settle down, and get a feel of travel. The commute in to Glasgow isn’t long enough for that, so I’m not quite sure what frame of mind I should be in for it. I’m not making a big deal out of this, just not sure what I am making of it at the moment. Yes it’s smelly, and dirty, but not THAT smelly and dirty… I think.

And another thing. The white van we saw abandoned in the middle of the road at the weekend. What happened to it?! Shouldn’t there be a public posting of what transpired? How did it get there? Why was it abandoned? Was it, as I suspect, an alien abduction or just a broken down van with a stupid owner… Why should I let this become just another of ‘life’s little mysteries’!! WHY!! I DEMAND TO KNoww…. ahem… sorry about that.