Hopefully, none of this tonight:
Happy Helloween.
OK, home and then out for a bit of disco dancing.
Archive for October, 2003
Cool feature of Outlook:
If a person hasn’t read an email you sent, then you can recall it. People are raving about this for when you send a fooked up email. However, I have just figured out how to retrieve a recalled email. Think I’ll keep that little nugget to myself.
I’m on a mission to track down and expose as many photo’s with frickin v-signs in as I can. Latest in the hall of shame is Nekkid, well not him, one of his photos. Spot it, bottom left, near the woman who is slightly bemusedly concentrating on the King’s.
Spent the morning learning how to use Microsoft Outlook at work. A load of us were ‘upgraded’ overnight. It’s difficult to change the way you work with email after using the same mail client for years. So far, impressed with some things, and utterly annoyed at others.
Watched the new Italian Job last night. Not impressed at all. The guy that wrote Napster makes a cameo though.
Will be popping out for a while tonight, it’s fun people watching on Halloween, but not in LKF, too busy.
Can’t believe I missed it, I passed 1000 visitors since I put the hit counter on the page. Host stats say 4763 visits since I started this little thing though.
Another phone advert, in light of me being a phone geek.
Just got home. Popped out after work to spend a fortune on DVD’s and CD’s. I got:
Phoenix Nights 2
The Office 2
The Italian Job (new one)
The League of Gentlemen 1
The League of Gentlemen 2
12 Memories - Travis
Absolution - Muse
Cast of Thousands - Elbow
Elephunk - Black Eyed Peas
Also ordered:
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Donnie Darko
Fire - Electric Six
B2 - Brazilification 2 - Fila Brazillia
Blow Up a Go Go Dancefloor 1 - Various
The Sophtware Slump - Grandaddy
Room On Fire - The Strokes
After that, had a couple of quick beers in LKF with a couple of lads from work. The police were out in force, setting up the barriers for tomorrow night - Halloween, when everyone dresses up and tramps around in circles and tries not to get crushed. I think I’ll give that a miss. No sign of any navy boys in LKF.
Doris met me at lunchtime to bring me some more food, spaghetti bolognese this time, or “stop bolonic” as she calls it. Something about Doris: she knows the tunes to nearly every song, but not always all the words. That doesn’t stop her singing though, she just makes up the words. Like this one, for example, from Santana’s song Maria Maria, she sings it at the top of her voice:
Maria Maria
She fell in love in East L.A.
To the sounds of the guitar, yeah, yeah
Played by Carlos Santana
Stop bolonic, stop bolonic
Eh? said I. Stop bolonic? It’s “stop the looting, stop the shooting” dear. So now she uses it as her word for spaghetti bolognese.
Got ya.
This afternoon, we have a little SMS conversation:
“How’s the stop bolonic?”
“Lovely, thanks”
“More lovely than me? It better not be!”
“At least the food lets me eat it”
She didn’t get it.
At lunchtime, when she brought me the grub, she sat there testing out her ringtones as I was talking to a friend. Not too loud, but foooking annoying. Reminded me of this:
Right, I’m off to watch The Italian Job.
Too many people on the pitch against Samoa. Probably get a bit of a telling off, but we could get points deducted.
Currently, Woodward’s side [England] sit at the top of Pool C and are heading for a comfortably-looking clash with Wales for a place in the semi-finals.
Should the five points gained in the victory over Samoa be taken away, the best England could hope for would be second place and a possible last-eight meeting with co-favourites New Zealand.
Say again, over? Feck.
UPDATE: It’s OK, ¬£10,000 fine.
My favourite Lockhart Road 7-11 geezer:
From The Guardian comes news of four friends who have visited 10,000 pubs in the UK over 17 years.
A group of four dedicated drinkers today celebrated the 10,000th stop on an epic, 17-year pub crawl across every country of England, Scotland and Wales by sharing an 18 gallon cask of ale.
Good lads, that’s 144 pints, but then:
Up to 20 friends who have accompanied the four men at various times during their alcohol-fuelled odyssey have been invited to help drain the kilderkin donated for today’s celebration.
Mr Hill said: “If nobody comes, we will have to make a special effort to drink it all, but whatever happens I will be there at opening time, let nature take its course and see what happens to me during the day.”
Jeez, if I’d been on the raz every weekend for 17 years, I’d hope more than 20 mates had been out with me and a few of them would turn up for the 18 gallons!
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