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This BLOG is now DEAD

2006-05-14T19:36:00.000+01:00

I know, this is strange - a new post...

Dont get to excited - this is just to let you know that this blog is now closed..

I have started a new blog at http://www.degas24.blogspot.com/..

Laters

Money bloody money

2005-08-15T20:49:00.000+01:00

I know this is a shock, 2 posts.... in the same month..

As I said in my last post, we have just brought a new sofa and microwave. Well, not long after I finished that post, the main support bar that runs down the middle of the bed broke (remember waking up the neighbours trying to fix the last one Craig?). So have now ordered a new bed to. We have 2 to 3 weeks of sleeping on the mattress on the floor. I think that if anything else breaks, we are just going to have to move house and start again...

Saturdays trip to Sheffield was not all together great. Lost 1-0 to Southampton so the drive home was long. Try to arrange the next trip up and I can hope that we can put this defeat down to the team still getting to know each other.. On a good note, Sheffield United lost..

Laters for now
Degas

Back to sunny old England (No really, it is sunny)

2005-08-12T21:44:00.000+01:00

As you may have guessed, we have just returned from holiday.. Got back at about 2am on Wednesday morning thanks to Dr Reds Dad.. Thanks for sorting that out Red.. Would also like to wish Mr Grumpy a happy belated birthday.. Hope you had a nice time and sorry we missed it.. Hope our present found you well..

This holiday has costed me quite a bit of cash I can tell you.. Of course there is the normal kind of charges when you are on holiday, you eat out more, you drink more, etc... The problem this year happened after we got home.. Let me explain..

When we brought out flat 2 years ago (this month), we did not have much spare cash flying around so we brought the cheapest sofas that we could find which happened to be from Argos. A great BOGOF offer so we had 2 two seater sofas for about Â£150.. Bargainn..

Anyway, the very first thing we noticed when we got to ourapartmentt in Los Montesinos in Spain, was the fact that the sofa was nice to sit on and did not feel like it was going to give away at any second..(hold the weight jokes please :-)) So one of the first things we did when we got home was to go out and buy us a new sofa.... And then of course, that meant new custions.. Even more money.. To top it off, Sian's parents come to stay while we were away to give our kitchen a makeover.. (looks great and we love you for it) but that was more money and when we were out today, we also managed to come home with a new microwave.... so we have spent something like £900 since we got home.....

Lets leave that one alone for the moment... Wednesday have not had a bad start to the season with 2 draws and Dave, Sian and myself are off to Sheffield tomorrow to see them play Southampton. Early start so we can pop in and see my Grandma first, and no doubt there will be other family memberpoppingng in as they have heard that we are coming up..

Last day of rest on Sunday and then its back to work after a full 13 working days off.. Going to be hell as well as I now have collages out of the office for the next 2 weeks so will be on my own but then again, I love a good challenge..

As you can see from the comments to my last post, there is a general feeling that I don't blog to much at the moment... I will try and change this, but I am not making any promiseses..

Got to go
Long day tomorrow
Degas

Does anyone still read this??

2005-07-23T23:19:00.000+01:00

The title is a real question.. Can you leave a comment if you are reading this......

Not long been home after working today, I know its a Saturday but I don't mind if Sians working and I am getting paid time and a half.. And its not as if the work was hard either. Migration of 22 desktops on W2K to T41s running XP, easy money.
I am starting to wind down now as we fly out to Spain at 11am in Wednesday. Now this could be a bad thing as I have so much to do work wise before I leave but I know when it comes to it on Monday morning its going to be, "Fuck it, its holiday time"
New job is going well and am now taking over more and more projects. I am not the god in sole charge of backups (wooooo I hear you say)
Have been having a look at some of the groups blogs to see, well, nothing really.. It seams that everyone has been just as busy as me over the past month.
Just noticed that my link to Phuts blog is a little out of date so I will update that soon (sorry Phut). Is that your car in your last post?
Welcome back Dr Red and thanks in advance for being airport taxi..

Got to run, need to start packing
Laters
Degas

Happy Birthday Mum

2005-07-12T20:55:00.000+01:00

I know, I know.. Its been over a month since I last posted but I have been run off my feet..

Started my new job on the 20th June but spent the whole of the first week on a course.. Planning and maintaining a Windows 2003 Server environment (network design, what a way to start) and I had so much info thrown at me in the second week, that I had brain ake. Atleast I have swapped changing toner for changing backup tapes.

I would touch on all of this crap that happened on London last week but you all know the score there and I dont think I have anything new to add.

The title is ture, it is my Mums birthday so Happy Birthday Mum (like she reads this). Only 15 days till holiday .. 13 stright working days off... Come on, can not wait. Off to Spain with Sian and my family

More to follow..
Degas

That fucking frog

2005-06-08T21:39:00.000+01:00

About time....

Now piss off you wankers that make gay mobile phone ring tones...

Rant over (sorry to all none UK people)

Degas

We are going up, say we are going up

2005-05-27T18:02:00.000+01:00

If you don't want to read about Sheffield Wednesdays big day yesterday, skip to PART B

Been what seams like ever since I last updated my Blog...
As my last blog was about Wednesday, lets start there. We reached the playoff final and Sian and we set off on our way to Wales on Saturday night to stay over with her parents (knew there was a good reason they moved to Wales). Up bright and early on Sunday morning and dropped off at Port Talbort Parkway train station by Pete (Sians Dad), thanks for that Pete. From there, was just 2 stops till we got to Cardiff, a 30 minutes trip from station to station. Nothing could have prepared us for what we saw next. We walked out of the station and could not see anything apart from a sea of Blue and White. There must have been 15,000 of our fans right in front of us. was about 12.15 and we took a short walk aboud the outside of the stadium before joining the queue at gate 6. We had about 30 minutes to queue before they let us in but we were near the front of the queue so it was not to bad and this is where this photo was taken.. Smile Sian...

So we get in to the ground with no problems and are in our seats by 13.10, giving us plenty of time for Sian to find the loos and a pint and for me to read the programme.. Go through all of the pre-match singing and crap on the pitch and then have the biggest emotional roller coaster that I have ever had over the next 120 minutes. We took the lead just before half time and the stadium (well, just over 40,000 of the 60,000 that were in there) went mental.. Made half time and very happy time.. Second half was not so good.. They came back at us and made it 2-1 to them.. 82ed minute, we get a penalty and they had a man sent off.. 2-2 and we are heading for extra time and I am so praying that this does not go to penalties. 4 minutes in to extra time and we are 3-2 up and my heart is racing.. We had a couple of heart in mouth moments but then we rapped it up in the last minute of extra time and the game finishes 4-2.. and the chants of WE ARE GOING UP, SAY WE ARE GOING UP, ringing round the stadium and then it sinks in that we have been promoted.. Back to Sians parents after the game for a nice Sunday dinner which was really nice and then the drive back home.. What a day. Heres to next season and playing in the Championship.

PART B

Apart from football, what else has been going on? Got my promotion at work. I am now a network and systems specialist so no more dealing with dump arse end users (wwwhhoooooo) and no more shift work which is another bonus, a payrise and loads more training so its all good. Have got another trip to Spain coming up in the middle of June followed but my next Microsoft Exam, Managing and Maintaining a MS Windows 2003 Server Environment and that us followed by another Microsoft course, can not remember which one but thats another week out of the office so have got a busy couple of weeks coming up again.. Can not wait till its holiday time (27th July) which is in Spain again, think I might have spent more time over there then at home this year (lol).

Also looking at changing the car again. Seat are bring out a new shape Leon and I want to have a new one before that change the shape. I have a 1.6 SX at the moment and want to change for the 1.8T FR.. Check it out.. Seat Leon's Home Page

On that note, I think thats quite enough for one post.. Promise I will try and keep this up. Watch this space.
Laters
Degas..
(WE ARE GOING UP, SAY WE ARE GOING UP)

Cardiff, here we come

2005-05-16T22:55:00.000+01:00

A 2-1 win on the night and a 3-1 win over all and we are going to the league 1 play off final at Cardiff...

COME ONE WEDNESDAY

Will be up early tomorrow morning to make sure that we get tickets....

For the first time in 12 years, it feels good to be a Wednesdayite again....

Better get some sleep then
Night
Degas

Busy doing nothing

2005-05-16T16:57:00.000+01:00

As with everyone else, I to have not blogged in a while do to lack of things to blog about..

Have a few things to update you on. Not that anyone that read this will care but Wednesday are playing in the second leg of there play off semi tonight after taking a 1-0 lead in the first leg last Thursday night. (Sian and I went up for that one.. Left home at 2.00pm and got home at just gone 2.00am) COME ON THE OWLS...

The second thing is that I have applied for a new job and had an interview.. It is an internal move from second line support to the Operations department with is network and systems (so servers and not workstations) so I am still waiting to find out if I got it or not... Would be a good challenge and more money (which can never be a bad thing) but looks like the travel will be about the same....

Will let you know when I do..
Come on Wednesday
Degas

And there goes another Bank Holiday

2005-05-02T22:30:00.000+01:00

Well, the end of another bank holiday weekend..

Saturday, got my haircut, washed the car with my new Flash carwash . Did the food shopping and some shopping for bits and bobs..

Sunday I meat up with Dave and Red for lunch before going on into Fleet to do a bit more shopping and get Red some take to fix the arm on his glasses that he managed to break over lunch (?)

Monday was a throw things away day. We now have no videos or CDs at all. Figured as we dont ever use them, might as well give them to charity.

During the weekend, I have upgraded my Mac to the lastest version of OS X that was released on Friday, code name Tiger . It has got some really neat things like Dashboard which is new to OS X but they have also keept some of the best bits from the pervious verion like Expose .

Good news is at the moment that I am not traveling for a while now, well, not for a couple of weeks anyway.. Back off to Spain (work, I promise) on the 24th May (my brothers birthday, doh)

Sians Birthday on Wednesday so going out for dinner, etc..

Tired now, going to bed in a minute.

Laters

Degas

Fleet pub craw

2005-04-28T21:07:00.000+01:00

Was looking for something on the web and came across this.........Fleet Pub Craw
Cool idea. Having worked in 2 pubs in Fleet, some of these faces are familiar
Laters
Me

ET came, and then went home

2005-04-28T19:45:00.000+01:00

Evening all,

Sian was surfing Ebay, as she does, and came across this little gem . Not to much happening in the blogging world. Craig seams to have vanished again, the Dr has been 'reconnected' and Ribby is still recovering and Mr Phut is really looking forward to the release of the next Star Wars film (not).

Have been traveling allot over the past couple of weeks and therefore have not really been in the mood or had the time to blog.

If there is one thing that I have learned from my latest trips, is NEVER, NEVER fly Iberia .

If I am traveling on my own, I always book my own flight and always book BA. If am an traveling to support an event then my flights get booked for me and there is nothing I can do about that. Anyway, we get to terminal 2, two and a half hours early and it takes us this long to check in because they have a problem with there check in system. So, after standing in a fucking queue for two and a half hours, I am already pissed off. Then we get some help from a nice person who works for the airport and she gets us to the front of the queue going through security checks.. So I am a little calmer now, but still pissed. I DON'T do running for planes (I don't do running for anything really). We get to the gate, which has been showing closing for about the last 15 minutes and this member of Iberias ground crew starts having a go about how we have been holding up the plane...And to top it off, he was gay.. Now this would not normally bother me, but he was over gay. Stood there in the 'holding the handbag' pose and with the campest voice you have every heard... He does not know how close he came to being smacked in the face and then we get on the plane and there is on overhead storage space left and they start talking about putting my bag in the cargo hold.. 'FUCK OFF' I think was my response as there is no way that my bag with me Apple laptop, IBM laptop, Camera, etc was going in to any fucking cargo hold...

Right, had enough of that. Just promise me that none of you will every fly Iberia ..

Laters

Degas

Hello from Spain

2005-04-14T12:44:00.000+01:00

Hello all,

I know that it has been a while (maybe weeks, can not really remember). As I said in my last post, my company, Gartner, has just brought out the META group so I have been run off my feet since about the middle of March trying to migrate all of there users onto my kit and then intergrate there systems wuth ours (great fun).

With all of that still going on, I am now support an event in Barcelona.. Would not be to bad if I was not stuck in the basement with no windows and have not seen the sun since I have been here. Land back in the UK on Saturday night and then have to be at another event in London on Sunday monring.. Does not bloody stop at the moment..

So seams that I have missed Ribby.. Unless you are still in the UK mate.. Let me know. There is some strange going ons with Mr Phut.. Anyone know what is going on there?

Better be off.. And because of the reasons above, might be a little while before I can post again.
Laters
Degas

Missing in action

2005-03-30T17:42:00.000+01:00

My company has just brought out another company so have been pulling 40 hour days... (i know).. Everyone else also seams to have vanished off the face of the earth to..

Will try and post something soon,..

Me

England, Bloody England

2005-03-14T20:30:00.000Z

On a course all this week so not going to have much time to blog due to many hours committing to London and back. Going into London does mean that I get time to read the paper which is something I don't normally get time to do. When I do get time, I normally only really read the sport pages at the back and thats it. But today, the headline caught my eye. "Secret Plan To Tax You Home, Labour DO want 40% of the profits of house sales.

Then I started to read through the paper like normal people do. And from what I have seen, I have decide to sell my flat and become a 'traveler'. That way, when I move the goverment don't tax the fuck out of any money that I make, they DO put about 300k into a helpline that gives me free advise on how to use the Law to make sure that I can not get evicted and if they do manage to get to court, it is still going to be about 5 years before I do get evicted..... But I can get round all of this by buying a small piece of land, getting planning permission and then I can just dump my shit where ever I want, not give a dame about anyone else and there is nothing you can do about it.

What else is going on that really pissed me off? Oh yea. Your going to love this one. 9 years ago, a little boy was tresspassing when he fell 40ft through the roof of a container park (what ever one of those is) and suffered head injuries. Four years ago, the family started legal action against the now defunct company Container Care. It was rulled that when he turned 18 (which was this month) he received......... (wait for it)...........£567,000.. So, being that I am now a traveler, I am going to go and tresspass or break-in to some building, hurt myself and then sue..... Now please forgive me for this but the fucking little shit should be locked up for tresspassing and the moment that he broke the law, all rights to sue should be revocked.

Now if I turn the page (all of this is from todays Daily Express) and what do I see "Is this the sneakiest speed trap in Britain?".. This story got me going again. A road in London has been fitted with these new Specs Digtial Speed Cameras. Now, these camaras don't take pictures of your car but they work out your avarage speed between one point and another. Now, I have no issues with these types of cameras being used but the problem is that these cameras are so high that you are never going to see them and all of the speed limit signs are blocked by bus stop signs and being that the speed limit is a bloody stupid 20mph, you can kinda work out how they have made £84,000 in just 3 weeks. If they carry on like this, they are looking at 1.5 million a year in fines... Bloody gits. ggggeeerrrrr

And it does not stop there. Turn to the next page to see a stopr about the planned 40% tax on any profit you make when you sell your house. Now, if you brought your house 10 years ago, then there is a good chance that you could make £50,000 profit on it. That works out that you would be taxed £16,720 on that.. Thanks a fucking lot.. Not that I am to bothered as we have now become travelers.. Guess I better tell Sian about this plan of mine...

Rant over, for now anyway. As I said, I am on a course all week which means that I should have another 4 newspapers to read so might have to rant again.. Whats everyone else been upto then? Well, Craig seams to be having issues with English.. Mr Red seams to have had a date but we are still waiting for him to confirm this.. Ribby, Did you ever get a responce from your doctor about staying at his after your operation? And Mr Phut just seams to be tired all the time at the moment..

Anyway, I think thats quite enough of me talking bullocks for now.
Night
Degas

Sorry Mr Phut

2005-03-08T15:17:00.000Z

Am still alive... Just

I come to you live from Heathrows Terminal 4.. Should have asked Craig if he wanted to meet up for a drink, never mind. Just about to get on a plaine to Amsterdam, back on Thurdsday night. Have to go and look at an office and then say 'yes, its crap and small and I dont think we should keep it..

Yes Red, I think you should get your car checked.. If it was that cold, most of the cars in this country would not be moving now..

Bloody Airports... Good to see Mr Grumpy back again..
Are they calling my flight.. I think so.
Laters
Degas

Ebay what ever you want....

2005-02-26T21:52:00.000Z

Just make sure that you own it first...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005091646,00.html

How can it be...

2005-02-26T12:47:00.000Z

How can it be that every advert you see for a new CD coming out claims that it will be the "Best Album of 2005".. How can they know, its only bloody Feburary....

And every trailer for a new film will claim that it is the best ever... And that claim would have been made by some newspaper or other and these are the people who are ment to provide us with news reports of events happening around the world... How can you trust a newspaper that has said that 40 different films are all 'The Best Ever'... Answers on a post card for that one...

Rant over......

Pizza night tonight, going to go and see a mate and his family.. should be fun.. Wednesday away at Brentford today and we really need all 3 points if we are going to stay in the play offs this season.. Sians singing away washing the dishes with her new Ipod Shuffle still attached to her... Best £100 we have spent in ages...

Ribby, nice stick... But you are going to have hours of fun with that one..

Laters
(grumpy) Degas

Thank god for The Sun...

2005-02-25T17:52:00.000Z

Not only does it provide us with heat and light, it also provides us with funny things like these....

And here is another one of those e-mails.... But this one makes sense and I think is quite true..

What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life?

Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:

If:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

Then:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

and

K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But,

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

And,

B-U-L-L-S-H-*-T
2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

AND, look how far ass kissing will take you.

A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G
1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that While Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it's the Bullsh*T and Ass kissing that will put you over the top.

Laters
Degas

Snow Bloody Snow....

2005-02-23T20:25:00.000Z

Now, the English are great... They have a great Rugby team that won the world cup.. But have not won a game since.. Never mind, Well, atleast we have a great football team, oh, maybe not, guess we can not keep living off the sucess of 1966..

Never mind, I am sure that we are great at lots of things, but the one thing that we seam to have loads of problems with is snow... Mr 'I am more important then you because I drive a 7 series BMW' does not seam to understand that you can not do 110 in the outside lane of the M3 when it is snowing and you can not see more then 5 meters in front of you as you are never going to stop when the old dear in her Mini pulls out in from of him and then we all sit there for the next 2 bloody hours.... As happened on Tuesday when I pulled on to the M3 to this:

Sorry picture is not great, take with the mobile... Anyway, you can guess how delighted I was to see this.. Ribby, I think you must be some kinda god, there is no way I could do your job without killing someone...

And here is another great example of us brits and snow.. Have a look at the part about the gritter truck.

But its not all bad, or so Sian tells me. She found this and I guess some of the pictures are quite nice.

Wednesday playing again tonight.. Half time just finished and we are 1 all as it stands... Really need a win tonight after last nights results...

Anyway, enough about that.
Laters
Degas

One of those e-mails...

2005-02-16T20:24:00.000Z

Got one of these 'test your I.Q' type e-mails....

Try the following, made me laugh

Twenty years ago, a plane was flying at 20,000 feet over Germany. If you recall, Germany at the time was politically divided into West Germany and East Germany. Anyway, during the flight, TWO of the engines failed. The pilot, realizing that the last remaining engine is also failing, decides on a crash landing procedure..... Unfortunately the third engine fails before he has time to attempt an emergency landing, and the plane crashes smack in the middle of "no man's land" between East Germany and West Germany.

Where would you bury the survivors?

. . In East Germany or West Germany or in "no man's land"?

and the answer is even better:

Answer:

You don't, of course, bury survivors. If you said ANYTHING else, you are a real dunce and you must NEVER try to rescue anyone from a plane crash. Your efforts would not be appreciated.

And on another random issue

Random signs can be the best...
Night
Degas

Sex can kill.......

2005-02-14T20:20:00.000Z

Got to surfing again today and found some funny and strange stuff....

Be nice to see Ribby again, even if he is going to be in hospital at the time.. Don't worry mate, we'll come and see you and bring you grapes.... (but your not getting any flowers out of me)

2 Ipod family

2005-02-12T21:30:00.000Z

Well, you have heard of a 2 car family, we have just become a 2 Ipod family.. Mate of mine ordered 3 Ipod Shuffles. One for himself, and 2 to sell on ebay to stupid people.. After selling the first for £135, he let me have the second one for the retail price so I can now claim mine back from Sian and she is happy because she has a nice new shiny 1GB Ipod shuffle round her neck... So everyones happy..

In other news in the the land of Degas... Not a very good day as Wednesday lost at home today, which brings an end to our unbeaten run... Not a bad run mind you, 10 games... Think it been about 9-10 years since we out a run together like that..

Phut, sure Red will update you soon and I hope your feeling better now...I hear you on the DIY thing to mate.. Thanks god for Craig. And Ribby, yes he has, last Sunday night..

Got to go, Sians singing again..

Night
Degas

New car for the Doctor

2005-02-10T15:24:00.000Z

This ones for Dr Red. Short post for now as I am really fucking busy at work...

Laters

Degas

Google, Slashdot and now blogged

2005-02-09T18:04:00.000Z

Got home today and after checking the bank balance (sigh) and e-mail, got a bit board and just started surffing the web (as you do) and started googling.. Check out Ribby and Phut.. Would have done Red but did not really see the point... (no offence mate, car and all). Strange what you find out on the web when your not really looking..

Work is full steam ahead at the moment and have booked well over 100 hours over the past 2 weeks... and bloody feeling it to.. Got a full weekend off coming up. Not really used to that

See Phut is being shat on from a great height just because someone can not do there own job... Know how you feel mate, have been there many times before but I can not beleive that this would be the end of the Diary of Phut..

Anyway, got to go. Mr Dave is coming over for the England game tonight and I need to tidy up the front room (yawn)..

Laters

Degas

London Underground continued.....

2005-02-05T10:58:00.000Z

After a Saturday morning of nothing to do, I found myself listening to the London Underground song again and then surfing the web and came across the flash video that has been made for the song.. Not as funny as the song but made me laugh (as long as ribby has not already posted about this one....)

Wednesday have an ealry kick off today (12.00) so will be sitting down to listen to the football a bit early today..

Nothing esle happening at the moment..

Latrers and enjoy

Degas

London Underground (wankers)

2005-02-01T22:29:00.000Z

Been fucking busy since about middle of last week... Don't know whats going on, just increasing workload. Been at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in Hyde Park since Sunday supporting an event that my company was holding there.. Got back home about 2 hours ago and I am dead on my feet.... So much so that I have taken tomorrow off as holiday

Got sent a couple of great links today....

http://www.ffcuk.me.uk/Lion_seul.mpg

http://www.wibbler.com/files/audio/london_underground.mp3

Ribby, not to sure why but I think you will like the second one...

Have fun with those 2, and I think the second one should win a fucking award...

Night
A very knacked Degas

Shops

2005-01-28T23:26:00.000Z

And staying on the theam of strange shops, found this one on the Suns website...

Keep um coming in if you come across any..

In other news, err, not much really..

Laters
Degas

Arse

2005-01-26T20:18:00.000Z

Could not resist this one.. Mate of mine just sent me this,,, Must be an American thing..

Will leave you to make your own minds up about this one....

Laters
Degas

Mad Day

2005-01-26T20:05:00.000Z

Has one of those really mad days today.. Started off sat around not doing to much, really slow and not much happening, and then SMACK... more work in 30 seconds then you have seen in 30 days. And oh yea, it all has to be done NOW..

Not that I feel this way about my managment but do you ever feel like your boss is doing this to you??

No? Then your lucky.. Traffic seams to be the hot topic at the moment but I really can not be arse to go in to it becuase between Red, Ribby and Mr Phut, I think you guys have it all covered.. The only thing your forgot is that Volvo drivers can not fucking drive......

Laters
Degas

The Broken

2005-01-23T16:56:00.000Z

Got sent this by a friend. A group of guys have made an internet show called The Broken Just make sure that you watch the out takes that are after the credits start at the end

GAY GAY GAY

2005-01-22T19:12:00.000Z

This is bloody stupid

Short post but just had to share this one with you all..

People are this stupid

2005-01-21T22:20:00.000Z

I swear that I did not make this up and this did happen.

Stopped off at Mcdonalds on the way home last night as was far to tired to cook. I ordered a Mcflurry for Sian but I asked the girl behind the counter to put it in a bag and not a cupholder as these things fall over in the car and if its in a bag, it does not go all over the car..

So I watch this girl, who must have been all of 10 years old, do over to the machine with a bag, and start to put the Mcflurry stright into the bag without putting it into one of the Mcflurry cups first. You should have seen how red she went when she worked out what she had done...

Anyway, made me and most of the people in the place laugh..

On another note, things for same on ebay are getting stranger...http://uk.special.reserve.co.uk/n_3336-news.html.

Phut, glad the Fruit and Nut got there in one piece.. If you need any more, just let me know.. Same goes for you to Chris.. If theres anything you miss from over here that can be mailed over to you, drop me a line..

Working all bloody weekend but atleast I am at home I guess.. Just watched Wednesday beat Port Vale 1-0 so its not all bad..

Red, whats this about tipping??

Laters all, Smackdonws on Sky Sports 3
Degas

Joke time again

2005-01-17T22:05:00.000Z

Might post something worth while soon...... Old but funny

Blonde Stewardess

An airline captain was breaking in a very pretty new blonde stewardess. The route they were flying had a stay-over in another city, so upon their arrival, the captain showed the stewardess the best place for airline personnel to eat, shop and stay overnight.

The next morning as the pilot was preparing the crew for the day's route, he noticed the new stewardess was missing. He knew which room she was in at the hotel and called her up wondering
what happened to her. She answered the phone, sobbing, and said she couldn't get out of her room.

"You can't get out of your room?" the captaind asked, "Why not?"

The stewardess replied, "There are only three doors in here, "she cried," one is the bathroom, one is the closet, and one has a sign on it that says "Do Not Disturb"!!

Laters
Degas

We will Rock You (again)

2005-01-16T09:59:00.000Z

Went out to see We Will Rock You for the 3ed time on Friday night. What a great show. Sians parents have been over for the weekend so have been cooking for 4 and have not had a smoke for 21 days now (bloody hell)

Babysat for Darren and Karen last night so that he could take her out for her birthday. Hope when we have kids they turn out like theres. Not a pep out of either of them. They were told/taken to bed and then that was it. Not bad for a 3 year old and a 9 month old.

Anynoe know where I can get a free pop3 mail account with out have to go through a load of crap??

Nice draw for Wednesday yesterday away to Bournmouth. We scored in the 93ed minute so can not be to day. Means we stay 4th and still well in the playoffs.

Bloody headphones have still not turned up.. Going to have to kick some butt soon..

Phut, you know you want to go out an buy a new Mini Mac... They rule the world.

Red, whatgs with all of the names.. Bad enough that you have 2 already. Saying that , heres mine:

Your Porn Star Name is: Hard Head

Get your own Porn Star Name

Your Hippie Dude Name is: Elfin

Get your own Hippie Dude Name

Anyway, enough of that...

Laters
Degas

New Ipod does not taste to good.

2005-01-11T22:10:00.000Z

My friend Mr Red sent me the following link today http://www.apple.com/uk/ipodshuffle/ informing me that Apple has just released a new Ipod called the Ipod Shuffle. Go and have a look and you will see a picture under the title on the left hand side of the screen of the new Ipod next to a packet of Trident gum to display the size of the new Ipod. Now read the note under this picture and you will see that there is a footnote connected to it. Now go and look at the footnote (2). Made me and Sian laugh..

On other notes, day 16 of not smoking and being back at work has not effected me at all. Sold Dr Reds iRiver in the end, went for £216.. Not a bad price..

Having Dr Red and Dave over for dinner and football tomorrow night so might not blog..

Laters
Degas

Joke for ya all

2005-01-10T21:36:00.000Z

True?

Rolling the Dice

Two bored casino dealers are waiting at the crap table. A very attractive blonde woman arrived and bet twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) on a single roll of the dice.

She said, "I hope you don't mind, but I feel much luckier when I'm completely nude." With that, she stripped from the neck down, rolled the dice and yelled, "Come on, baby, Mama needs new clothes!"

As the dice came to a stop she jumped up and down and squealed... "YES! YES! I WON, I WON!" She hugged each of the dealers and then picked up her winnings and her clothes and quickly departed.

The dealers stared at each other dumfounded. Finally, one of them asked,"What did she roll?"

The other answered, "I don't know - I thought you were watching."

MORAL: Not all blondes are dumb, but all men are men.

Tired and can not be bothered to post anything meaningful.. First day back at work today.. and day 15 of not smoking.. (and Wednesday won 2-0 in the end.. Come on you Owls..)

Laters
Degas

Who ate all the pies.....

2005-01-08T15:53:00.000Z

Me, thats who... In bad mood today. Can no longer shop at Burtons as I have done for so many years. Went to get some work trousers today and I can not fit in to the largest size that they can do (sigh) so had to go else where.. On a plus note, Wednesday are 1 - 0 up at half time so lets hope that they can hold on to that...

Reds iRiver is still going strong and with any luch, we should break the 200 pound mark. Sians at work today so board, done the shopping and now plan to sit on my arse for the rest of the day and play Dawn of War on the PC...

Phut, e-mail me your postal address please mate..

Laters
Degas

Happy 2005 and all that,,.

2005-01-07T14:46:00.000Z

Just had to post this one. Was sent this by a friend at work and I think its a great read..

Subject: FW: Thanks to all my friends!

Thanks to all my friends who sent me such important e-mails in 2004! It's so wonderful that you included me in your quest to inform! Because of all of you I stopped drinking Coca-Cola after I found out from you that it's good for removing toilet stains.

I stopped going to the movies for fear of sitting on a needle infected with a disease. I smell awful, but thank goodness I stopped using deodorant because you said it causes cancer.

I don't leave my car in any parking lot even though I sometimes have to walk about seven blocks, because you said that someone might drug me with a perfume sample and then try to rob me.

I also stopped answering the phone because you said that they will ask me to dial a stupid number and then I get a high phone bill with calls to Uganda, Singapore, Tokyoand maybe the Mars Rover.

I stopped eating chicken and hamburgers because you told me they are nothing more than horrible mutant freaks with no eyes or feathers that are bred in a lab so that places like McDonalds can sell their Big Macs.

I also stopped drinking anything out of a can - you said that I will get sick from the rat faeces and urine.

When I go to parties, I now don't mix with anybody - you said that someone will take my kidneys and leave me taking a nap in a bathtub full of ice. However, the police are also after me at present because you said not to pull over as they could be fake policemen trying to kidnap me.

I went bankrupt from bounced cheques that I wrote, in anticipation of the $15,000 that Microsoft and AOL were supposed to send me when I participated in their special e-mail program.

It's weird, though, that my new free cell phone never arrived, and neither did the passes for my paid vacation to Disneyland. But I am positive that all this is because of the chain I broke or forgot to follow and I got a curse. OOPS I ALMOST FORGOT, IMPORTANT NOTE: If you don't send this e-mail to at least 1200 people in the next ten seconds, a bird will crap on you tonight at 7:00 PM.

Here's to an even better informed 2005 !

Laters again
Degas

Board at home and ill

2005-01-07T10:21:00.000Z

As you can see by the fact that I have even changed the design of my blog, I am still not feeling up to doing anything so am stuck in doors on the last day of my holiday..., Back to work on Monday (arse)..

Have even updated my profile, well, in as much as filled it in and not just left it blank,.. The pnly problem is that after I changed the design, I lost all of the changes I had made.. Doh.. Have to go back and fix them now,..

Laters
Degas

And who says we need sleep???

2005-01-06T19:01:00.000Z

Yep, did not get any at all last night. Just feeling crap still so went back to the doctors and now they are telling me that I have a lump growing in my throat so they have now given me drugs.. Now why could they not have done that 10 days ago when I first went to see them and then maybe I would have been able to do something with my time off...

Day 11 with no smoke.. And still going strong

Short one today.. Need Sleep

Night
Degas

2005-01-05T13:35:00.000Z

Day 10 of not smoking and is not really bothering me yet which is a good thing.

Why is it that every time I take time off of work, I am always bloody ill until its time to go back to work again, and this time is no different. Have had this bloody cold for over 2 weeks now but I bet you I will be better by Monday ready to go back to work.

Had the flat valued today and the place has not gone up by as much as I would have liked but never mind. Now need to talk to the mortage company to see how kuch more they will give us so I can start looking..

Going to try and get some sleep now
Night

At last, new headphones

2005-01-04T20:35:00.000Z

Won them at last.. From the US so should be here next week I guess

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5741705660&ss
PageName=STRK:MEWN:IT#ebayphotohosting

Pointless post I know, guess I am trying to hard to make up for lost time

Laters
Degas

DIY God

2005-01-04T19:32:00.000Z

As I have got this week off and as we are looking to move this year, I have started on some of the small jobs needed to be done around the flat.

Have finished laying the carpet in the hall way now and after being here for 18 months, I have finaly put a door handle on the bathroom door... Replaced the flush leaver and the toilet seat as they have both broken over the last few days and finished off by starting to seal the kitchen sideboard to the wall...

Day 9 of the non smiking thing. Had a few creavings last night when I was watching the wrestling as I was up all night and used to smoke about 20 during an all nighter.....

Popped into Romans on my way round town today and have got someone coming round tomorrow to value the flat which will let me work out what we can afford when it comes to buying a house...

Anyway, got to go, Pizza is here..

Laters
Degas

I'm back baby

2005-01-04T04:01:00.000Z

Ok, so it been about 3 and a bit months since I last posted.. Sorry I guess. Bit of a mix of not really having any time and not being arsed..

So, whats been happening since September.. Well, have had another birthday.. Ripe old age of 23 now (sorry red) Had a nice hoiliday in Spain and got engaged to Sian.

Spent Christams in Wales at Sians parents this year and then New Year at the Prince of Wales which would have been great apart from the fast that I was ill as a dog but never mind hay. All of that festive stuff over and done with for another year. Pictures are at www.degas.co.uk as usual.

Going through the whole giving up smoking thing again. Same as last year, just going cold turkey. No problems so far. Have not has a smoke for 8 days now and going strong. Have not really had an problems yet. Lets see if I can do better then the 5 months I lasted last year.

Sold the old PS2 about a month ago. Was sat in the bedroom not doing much so it went on Ebay. Got 180 for it so not to bad. Have been converted from a console gamer in to a PC gamer since I brought the beast that is my home PC. Getting through all of the games that I bought since. Half Life 2 was a great challenge but has since been completed. Full Spectrum Warrior was again a great game but has now been completed. And I have just finished one of my Xmas presents from Sian, Medal Of Honor Pacific Assault.

At the moment I am playing UT2003 and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War (another Xmas present from Sian). And on the bench we have UT2004, Black Hawk Down and Hidden and Dangerous which I brought today with out even meaning to but it was ok because I got Sian The Sims 2.

As we are planning to move house this year (with any luck anyway) I am trying to get rid of all of our crap by selling it on Ebay at the moment. I am also selling Red's iriver for him which has attracted much attention i must say. Click on the lick below to see what I am selling:
http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQgotopageZ1QQsassZpevans3045QQsorecordsperpageZ50QQsosortorderZ1QQsosortpropertyZ1

Am also trying to get hold of a nice pair of headphones at the moment. As the PC is in the front room (due to lack a space living in a one bedroom flat) it is really hard to use if Sian is watching TV. I have an old pair of crappy ones but would like some nice new noise canelling ones.. These have not been released in the UK yet from what I can tell.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5741705660&ssPageName=STRK:MEBI:IT

Anyway, its now just gone 6am and I am going to go and finish watching the end of the second Matrix..

Laters
Degas

A real shock

2004-09-14T19:16:00.000+01:00

Had to travel into London today and was not looking forward to it as I was having to us the bloody trains.... I must admit, it was so much nicer then it used to be.. This was a brand new train, none of this slam door stuff.. Clean and really tidy.

Scrolling boards with the time and the list of stations coming up and they have got rid of the driver coming over the PA sounding like he was half asleep and letting us know what the next station was but the problem used to be that you could not make out a word that he is saying and they have replaced it with a per-recorded computer type voise.

Nice fast train service to, only 2 stops now to London Waterloo and no need to use the tube..

Really messed up week coming up. Was in the office one Monday, In London today. Have to go to basingstoke tomorrow to do a site visit for an event in October that I am ment to be supporting and on Thursday, I am off to Lichfield for another office visit and then plan to skive on Friday as we leave for holiday on Saturday and we can not wait...

Most of the shopping has been done and now all we have to do really is pack....hhhhmmmmmmm, think I will leave that to the misses as she is sssssssoooo good at packing (don't you think so darling??)..

Anyway,

Laters
DeGaS

Holiday Shopping

2004-09-11T22:10:00.000+01:00

Today has been a day of driving and carring shopping bags.... Yes, thats right. The misses has decided that she needs a case full of new clothes for our upcoming holiday.. Today we have covered Fleet, Farnborough, Wokingham and Camberley and I an knackerd.

Anyway, after that and the news that Wednesday have drawen again today I am now sitting down waiting for Smack Down to start after cooking a nice Pork Chop and veg dinner for the 4 of us..

On another note, I can not beleive what some people will do in car parks. I was sat in my car waiting for Sian as she was shopping at M and S at the Meadows and I noticed a 51 reg 5 series BMW pull up at the far end of the car park. A young couple (must have been no more then 18-19) got out of the front and got into the back of the car. For the next 10 minutes, that car was bouncing about like anything. I could not beleive what I was seeing. It was a Saturday afternoon and the place was packed. They were at the end of the car park but there were enough cars coming and going and even parking next to them. Afterwards, they got out of the car, had a kiss and a hug (it was a little more then that I guess) and then got back in tyhe front of the car and drove off... The other question here is how is a kid that age driving around in a 35k + car???

Rant over, not that I have a problem with spicing up your sex life but not on a Saturday afternoon in a very public car park when there are more then a couple of young children walking around...

Had enough now, going to watch Samck Down..

Laters

DeGaS

Thank god thats over with

2004-09-10T20:07:00.000+01:00

I have been on a Windows XP course all week in London which has meant having to do one of the things that I hate most in this life........ Using London Underground.. Leaving home at 6.00am and then getting on a train that smells of piss and then coming home at 5.00pm when the train is so packed that all you can smell is BO.... Not my idea of fun. On a plus side I guess, there were no late or cancelled trains which was a plus I guess. Just feel so unsafe on those bloody things as they bonuce (yes I do mean bounce) its way down the track.. Top that with having to visit the M3, M25 and M4 twice a day with a total travel time of 2.5 to 3 hours each way and I have had enough of it this week.....

On a better note, only a week and a day until we are off on our holiday and we can not wait. Bearing in mind that we have not really had a real holiday in 3 years as we have been saving for the flat that we now live in and then spending money on doing it up so can not wait for a week in the sun.

Other halfs parents are down at the moment and have a lot of holiday shopping to do over the next 2 days (or so I am told)

Laters

DeGaS

Call me DeGaS

2004-09-06T21:50:00.000+01:00

Ok, so it has been almost a month sine I last posted..... and quite a lot has happened..

One a strange note, this is my first post from a Mac, yes, I said a Mac.. A couple of weeks ago I took a mac course and exam and I am now a (wait for it) An Apple Helpdesk Engineer (what ever that means).

My very good friends Von and Craig got married last Saturday. It was a great day. The sun was shinning and no one forgot there words and the food was great... They could not hopped for a better day.. They are now off on there Honeymoon for the next 3 weeks...

This week I am on a Windows XP course.. Knowledge overload at the moment

Now, the title needs come explaining.. I was on the underground this morning on the way to my course and saw this written on one of the windows as someons Tag as they call it and throught that it sounded good so I am going to knick it as my own.. Miost of my usernames and nicknames for websites etc is pete3045 and there is no fun in that now is there.

Is was great to see Phut and Chris as well this weekend as they came over for the wedding. Phut is now living in the US and Chris in Paris... They have both gone back now but hope to see them again soon....

Any way, I am going to go and read Chris and Phuts blogs now..

Laters

DeGaS

Back home now

2004-08-06T22:08:00.000+01:00

Well, back in the UK now after my week trip to Cape Town. The conference itself went really well and made some new friends from a company called Icat who do all of the tech stuff for the conference center.. They were all really nice and a great help to. Got taken out on a trip up Table mountain in the eveing and the view from up there is great. Seeing Cape Town from that height at night was amazing..

Now hows this for luck? The show finished on Wednesday but I was not flying out until Thursday night so had most of Thursday to do the sights and stuff. Came down to the lobby of the hotel on Thursday morning and could not really see outside because it was raining that hard... Just my luck. Still managed to get to the water front and have a look around..

Shrek 2 was the only flim worth watching on the way back..

Off now, am starting to get tired as I have not sleept for 2 days now

Laters

Forgot to post this

2004-08-06T22:06:00.000+01:00

Wrote this on the plane on the way over the Cape Town but then forgot to post it so here is it:

Another couple of days since I last posted but have been busy at work trying to get everything ready for my Cape Town trip… I am writing this offline at the moment as I am about a third of the way through my flight..

Got to the terminal far to early. Through that I might be able to swing an upgrade but no luck there, just had to sit around for 5 hours… and because I am in cattle, no BA lounge access either.. Had a bit of lunch and then brought Alex Fergusons book to read. I have just strated Vinnie Jones book but forgot to pack it… DOH.

Have tried to call Sian from the plane phone but with no luck. I have tried a couple of times and I can hear her fine but she does not seam to be hearing me at all.. Never mind.. Just wanted to let her know that my flight was an hour late taking off so I would be late calling her when I land. With any luck she would have been checking the flight on the Heathrow website and already know about this… We have been delayed about an hour because some git checked in his bag and then did not manage to make the flight so they had to go through over 300 bags and fish his out…. What a pillock…

Spoke to my parents this morning, they left for Spain yesterday. A 2 day drive through France and then onto the south of Spain…

Going to watch a couple of films on the laptop now. Have managed to get 3 Ultrabay batteries all together and 3 normal batteries so that should last the flight without a problem bearing in mind that I have already done about 2 and a half hours of it..

2004-07-30T15:42:00.000+01:00

Spoke to my parents this morning, they left for Spain yesterday. A 2 day drive through France and then onto the south of Spain…

Getting ready for Cape Town

2004-07-26T21:15:00.000+01:00

Not posted for a couple of days.. Spent most of the weekend cleaning the flat as it was a right mess and food shopping as the cupboards were as bear as they could be..

We have entered a quite period at work as the school summer holidays have started so alot of people are away on holiday and the timing is great for me as I am trying to tie up all of the lose ends before I leave for SA on Thursday night but my last day in the office is Wednesday... Am going in late tomorrow so I can drop my suit off at the dry cleaners.. Was really shocked that I can still fit into it as I brought it last November and if you know me, you would know that I have packed on a few pounds if you know what I mean!!!!

I managed to get my server back up and running without losing any data.. The strange this is that every time I tried to reinstall Windows 2000 or 2003 server, my server would give me a general memory error on boot up every time.. Strange... This looked like a hardware issue but I put Windows XP on and it now runs linke a dream (well, as sweet as a windows machine can)

Still waiting for my speakers for my Ipod to trun up but I got a mail last night to say that they have been posted but they are coming from NY so don't think they are going to get here in time...ARSE...

Anyway - am off now

Laters

Bloody Servers

2004-07-23T18:12:00.000+01:00

I have old Compaq Prolient 6000 server at home. I got it from work. It used to be a mobile exchange server for events and such like. I have been running Windows 2000 server on it and it has been running fine for about a year now. It has 2 drives on it. One was full of 18.2gb drives and the second one was 9.1gb drives. I came across a load of 18.2gb drives at work and have swapped them for all but on of the 9.1gb drives... So I have now got 3 drives.. 2 with the 18.2gb drives and one drive that just had 1 9.1gb drive... I managed to find 1 more 18.2gb drive so I deleted the 3ed drive and replaced the last 9.1gb drive... Next I had to add this drive to one of the volumes that was already one the server but this failed half way through and now my server will not boot... DOH.. The second problem is that I do not have a monitor on my server as I always connect to it through remote desktop... So I have had to borrow a monitor from work and have managed to get it to boot.. My primary drive has failed so I have having to rebuild it now.. what a pain in the arse... At least I don't seam to have lost any data...

Enough of that.... Quite a slow day today.. Swapped out a couple of printers.. Nothing much else.. Spent half the day on the web which makes a nice change. A great games site is www.itsyourturn.com. You get to pay board games I guess with people from all round the world.. Also got my new car kit today. I have a fully wired kit in at the moment for a Nokia 6310i but I have upgraded my phone to a Nomia 6230.. So I now have a bluetooth car kit which is being fitted when I get back from South Arica on Monday 9th August.. Nice new toy..

With the South Africa trip in mind, I today received The Sims Double Deluxe for the PC.. My sisters birthday present turned up as well, Charlies Angels - Full Throttle on DVD... Thats another birthday taken care of..

Not much planned for the weekend... Mainly cleaning the flat as it is a real mess and really need to do some food shopping as we have nothing in the house.... And seen as I have a monitor at the moment, I think I might do an OS upgrade on my server... I have a copy of Windows server 2003 Enterprise... See what happens

Anyway, Sian will be home any minute now so got to go..

Talk to you later..

Pete

All those funny e-mails

2004-07-22T17:34:00.000+01:00

Another day, another doller, or so they say...

Today was a day for receiving funny e-mals from work collages and old friends. Here are a couple of them..

http://www.funnyheck.com/shakeass.html

And this one is really good

http://www.gluelondon.com/creativeshowcase/hysterical_girlfriend/main.html

You have to hide the pot nuddle and hop the misses does not find it, if she does, your in trouble.... Both need sound and make sure your boss is not around when you open them.

I seam to have spent over £50 in the last couple of weeks on cases to protect things as I keep dropping things. I have brought one for my Ipaq, Oakleys, my Cybershot Sony camara and today I have just brought one for my Ipod (before I drop that to).

With my trip to South Africa and our holiday to Majorca coming up, I have also brought a Altec Lansing inMotion Portable iPod Speakers off of ebay...

Cost me £60, which was not to bad and it looks so cool..

T.V night tonight.. We had been watching 24 as I have seen both of the first 2 seasons and have them on DVD but we have missed to many of the 3ed season that is showing on Sky One now so we have stopped watching it and I know that Sian will get me the DVD boxset for my birthday. Insaid, we have now started watching Bad Lads Army on ITV. I think it is a great idea. They have taken a group of lads that all have records with the cops and they are putting them through 1950's national service. If you ask me, I think that everyone should still have to do this by law. Every young lad, at the age of 18 should have to go through this. I think I would have turned out for the better if I was made to do this. It would also help to issue of kids today being so unfit and spending all of there time indoors playing on computer games or watching T.V or outside up to no good.. I say, bring back National Service.

Anyway, enjoy the funnies and talk to you soon

Pete

It will kill you, you know

2004-07-21T15:41:00.000+01:00

I gave up smoking at the begining of the year. It was not planned or anything like that, just wanted to stop after New Years day. I had been smoking for some 9 years and has tried to give up a couple of times before, but every time I did, something happend.

The first time, Sian, my girlfriend, went into hospital with what turned out to be a kindeny infection in the end.. I must admit that I am smoking again at the moment but do plan to stop again soon (I hope)

Anyway, enough of all that... Whats been happening today then?? Have had a meeting about my trip coming up to Cape Town in South Africa.. All good stuff.. As long as all of my stuff is set up and everyone can get hold of me, I can pretty much come and go as I please which is great.... Get to go and see all of the sites and get paid to do it. Can't be bad at all (sorry baby, will stop going on about it in a minute)

Have not really managed to get much done today as I have been in meetings all bloody afternoon. Last year they oursourced our first line support to India and then they did the same in the US so now they are trying to get one helpdesk for all countries to run 24 hours a day, 5 days a week so we are just having meeting after meeting about how we can do this.... Strange but after being in these meeting with Americans, I have noticed that all americans do is just repeat what you say and never bring anything new to the meeting...

Anyway - rant over - Back to work now...

Pete

Hello All

2004-07-21T05:39:00.000+01:00

Well,

Some of my friends have had web logs in the past and a few of them have been doing them for years. One friend of mine has found this site and for once, I said that I would give this a go.

For anyone who knows me and I have lost touch with, and thats a fair few as I have moved around a lot in my time. I am doing fine and now own my own flat with my lovely girlfriend of almost 4 years, Sian.

We have been in here for almost a year now but we have been living together for going on 3 years now, renting rooms in friends places for the first 2 years. We have 2 new(ish) 53 reg cars and have quite a few nice things.. Nice big Sony TV, Ipod, Ipaq, a couple of IBM T30 laptops, Oaklay sunglasses and have just booked out holiday to Manjorca in September. So as you can see, we are not doing to bad for oursleves.

I am working for a company called Gartner as a Sr. Techinal Support Specilist and have been for about 3.5 years now and Sian is a Supervisour for Bracknell Forect Council working at The Lookout in Bracknell and has been for about 7 years now. Works not to bad and I get to travel about abit. I was in Swizterland last week and have been to Amsterdam and Spain this year and am leaving for a 10 day trip to Cape Tonw next week for a conference. I am part of the hosting company so it is going to be more hard work then it sounds...

And before I forget - I love you baby (I know Sian is going to read this)

Going now after my first post... That was not to bad. Now lets see how long I can keep this up for.

Laters
Pete