Perspective

I had every intention of popping up to work today, just to give myself a head start for Monday. I screwed up with the bus times, though and couldn't be arsed to hang around waiting for the next one. I didn't get here but that might be a blessing in disguise. I start back on a different shift to usual and least now I know the times of the buses. I may have a saunter out there over the weekend.

There's two other things that I wanted to mention. One is that I was eating a Cornetto this evening and thought how much they'd shrunk since I was a boy. I wonder if this isn't just an illusion. Every single ice-cream or chocolate bar that was on the market when I was young seems smaller now than it did then. I guess it could just be that I'm bigger...

The other thing I noticed is that it does my heart as much good to hear about my Lady going out and having a good time with her buddies as it does to go out myself. And, of course, I don't get the hangover!

Last Straw?

I've been chuntering about the Mobile Phone provider that myself and my Lady use for some time. Nearly all the exclamations of "stoopid phone" can be laid at the poor signal.

She's away with a couple of friends, down by the coast, for a couple of nights. While I was able to text or call to say "goodnight" while she was in Jamaica (over 4000 miles away) there's no signal from our provider where she is.

Growl.

Late, but...

Just briefly for tonight, it strikes me that on the day that using foul and abusive language toward Consumer Electronics fails to solve their inherent problems, I may well have a problem

For now, I go in search of peaceful sleep and sweet dreams.

Novelty

I have the loan of a laptop for a few days!

I make no guarantees about quality but you should see a brief surge in the quantity of posts here, for the next couple of days at least. It's like having a New Toy.

Complications

It's been a while again. Sorry, if anyone has been wondering what's happening.

So I still have no access to the internet at home. This netbook doesn't work with my wireless dongle and the "big laptop" is FUBAR. I'm currently availing of free wifi at the hotel near work.

I'd really like to have a rant here about something at work but that breaches the only form of self-censorship I've set myself. So I can't.

Suffice to say that myself and my Lovely Lady have discovered that someone appears to hold a grudge against us. Consequently, while at work, we're having to steer clear of one another. It's ridiculous, upsetting and frankly, I'm as angry as I can ever remember being. I'm a good friend to have but a poor enemy to make. My Lady and I are easily strong enough to get past this but someone is gonna get theirs one day. Big time.

We both have next week off on holiday and she's taking the chance to catch up with family a little. I approve. I'll miss her horribly but I wholeheartedly approve. She needs to be "away" for a while, I think and her kids will love it. So will she.

So, I will probably spend most of the week reading, sleeping, listening to music and working on my Voodoo Doll. I will resist the temptation to go out and get righteously plastered as I'll only get maudlin and, to be honest, I'm getting too old for that shit now.

There may well be more posts here than there have been of late. It's probably cheaper to pay for an hour or two in an Internet Cafe than to find somewhere with free wifi - that tends to involve my buying pints, just to be polite, you understand!

For now, that's probably all I have for you. I hope that Herself will be finished work soon and we can spend about an hour together before she has to go. The week before last was something akin to Heaven on Earth. This week has been far, far harder to deal with. Such is life, I suppose.

Googled

I seem to have bought into Google wholesale recently. I set up a new gmail account with a more "grown up" address than my previous one and set it to gather all my other email accounts to it. I imported everything into my Google Calendar (apart from shifts at work - gah! I'm going to have to find out what time I'm expected in next Monday) and Google address book. I just switched my feeds from Bloglines to the Google Reader and can now post at Twirling from the new account.

I guess this was prompted by not having a working computer at home. I needed to be able to easily find everything, preferably all in one place. It's helped but it's still very frustrating not to be able get online whenever I want without walking down to an internet café.

At least when I do have access at home again, I'll have the convenience, thanks to the work I've put in.