What about you? (/brag)
Actually the fun really started when we hit our local. Lock-in until 5am!! Free booze, finally learned the bar manager’s name – though not her cup size, played behind the bar, toured the cellars! Wandered out into the fog and fell asleep on the N7. Made it home just as my alarm was going off telling me to go to work.. ha!
I did actually venture in – some time around 2pm.
This happened ages ago but I forgot about it. How to make ?18 quickly..
1. Go to Tesco, pick up a ?2.08 sandwich.
2. Proceed to checkout and hand over ?2.10 in change (?2 coin + 10p coin).
3. Wait for checkout chick to fumble with.. “um.. notes?” and then.. “what the?”, hand over a few fivers and some coins and then apologise for not having any ?10 notes?!?!
4. Keep poker face on (easy in London) and with a hint of disappointment say “hmm, that’s okay”
5. Leave as quickly as possible before she realises she just handed over ?18 instead of the 2p she was supposed to!
“It’s the little perks in London that are often the best.”
Oh.. wait.. that’s 3min 7max.
Damn you Mick and TimC for reminding me about the weather!
Thanks for the ‘Santa on the Beach’ xmas card Mum!
I think it ended up around 12 walking trips to move house – some alone, some with Mal and last night even Grant and Sheila chipped in.
I have no internet connection at the new place just yet (how inconsiderate of the neighbors not to leave their wireless unsecured!) but will have soon and might start reading people’s stuff and posting rants again. Moo!
Our block of flats was broken into last week. Not our flat but the two behind us in the same building – between 6 and 8pm Friday night!
We were having dinner at 2nx and the others were away for the weekend so our place could’ve easily been done over too.
Last night I was moving house with Mal – walking down the road with my suitcase full of speakers and an amplifier in a shopping bag – when a guy ran past. Nothing odd there although it did look like he was carrying a camcorder in his hands. A minute later another guy runs up to us and I clock what’s happened and ask the guy as much.
“Did you see a guy running up here? He just stole the stereo from my car!”
“Yeah, he just ran that way. Ahh damn dude, if I’d have known I could’ve stopped him! Sh1t!”
“I only had my socks on so I couldn’t keep up with him”
“Damn!” I shook my head and we parted ways.
Should I consider insurance? At the very least, I think a NAS setup with nightly backup of the laptop would be worthwhile. If they nick the laptop, they might not spot the hidden drive containing my data? What about the cameras? Damn! Too much $$ and ?? to think about. And Ealing seemed like such a nice area..
“A ten-year study found that men who drank three cups of coffee a day had the smallest mental decline as they got older.
A total of 676 men from a number of countries in Europe took tests that measured the effect of coffee on their cognitive performance.
The mental decline in non-drinkers was more than four times greater than in those who drank three cups.”
Right, I want it, now. Tap it to a vein. Pump it through my nostrils. Er, maybe skip the suppository. But bring it on!
Not recommended if you are a PRC fan.. but this site is damn funny.. the bits I’ve had time to read any way: