Month: April 2001

Neddie Seagoon dies. One of the most distinctive voices and laughs you will ever hear.
Originally posted 12/4/01 at 2:14pm

Several people are discussing communication, and the inherent problems that communicating has. My advice to all is this: decide what your message is (which is often the hard part), and then communicate it using an appropriate medium in the simplest terms possible.
If only I followed my own advice.
Originally posted 12/4/01 at 11:52am

There are things I’d like to say here, but it would not be politic to do so.
Originally posted 12/4/01 at 11:07am

Last night, after fitting my new loo seat and scrubbing the bathroom from top to bottom, I lit a whole load of candles, filled the bath, threw in a bath ballistic, set a large glass of cranberry at hand, turned the radio on low in the next room and clambered in. At first my head was full of thoughts about the day, the week and things that have happened in life and in my head, but then as the warm water lapped around me, the gentle light of the candles flickered against the wall and the soft sounds floated in from the living room, tiredness took over and I laid back, relaxed and dozed for nearly an hour. Absolute bliss – there is no finer way to end the day (although a massage would have really been the icing on the cake).
originally posted 12/4/01 at 10:21am

Seamus update: he has a badly bruised tail, possibly broken. He is on antibiotics for a few days. Hopefully it’ll clear up and he’ll get full use of his tail back, but there is a possibility that he may have to have his tail docked at the point where it is injured (about a third of the way up). Let’s hope not.
originally posted 12/4/01 at 10:19am

somebody on the missouri.edu server has searched my site for “three Sarahs and a Sacha” – sure enough, you’ll find them here (actually more than three Sarahs), but I’m not sure in the context that you are looking for. Unless of course somebody has described Grayblog to you as “a site about three Sarahs and a Sacha”. Although I’d hope that there would be something more memorable than that about my site (like, for example, “the picture looks like it was scanned from a Next catalogue…no, really, it does!”).

“Plug and Play” modem, my arse. Just spent the last hour fiddling with a freshly purchased modem, trying to get the thing to work. It seems to work fine up until the last stage of the installation of the driver, when it asks for the “region” that I am in so that it can set up the dialling parameters. It offers a pull-down menu of options – or at least, that is what it should do. Only the pull-down is empty, and it will not let you bypass the window to the next stage of the process, or manually type in your location. Pants. And, to top it all, the box says there is a telephone helpline – however, it fails to actually give a number. Customer service at its finest, I’d say. There is a number for head office of Modular Technologies, but when you dial there is only a machine – “we are open from 9am to 5pm” – so will have to call them from work when I do not have my machine in front of me to describe the problem. Pants.

watched the BBC news at lunch time. The national news featured a Mr Fudge (a solicitor, would you believe! I mean, if you were up before the beak, would you feel happy with Mr Fudge on your case?) and a Mr Ferret (representing the interests of country folk in the New Forest). Fudge. Ferret. Well, it made me laugh.

it’s funny how things sometimes do not turn out how you hoped, but actually don’t turn out too badly. I’m in that situation today, and I feel ok about it. And who knows what’ll happen in the future? Whatever happens, I know a strong friendship and bond is being cemented at the moment, and that is a good thing.

TPL update: a feeble 5 points (mainly due to most of my team not playing) taking my total to 826. Transferred Solksjaer and Rowett out yesterday (just in time for Solksjaer to score a goal last night – guh) and replaced them with Stewart and Silvestre.