Category: old blogging

Grayblog: parody or boring. You decide.
Meanwhile, gratuitous link to Audi Olympics, which is entertaining.

I’m having one of those days where nothing much seems to be going to plan. I’ve been running around and haven’t been very productive. Much time has been wasted over the matter of the phones (still waiting for the BT engineer), the nursery’s PC (the persistent problem it suffers – it keeps resetting itself – power supply problems?) and the lack of dialling action on my laptop’s modem (may have to contact Dell about that, but not this week, as far too much to do).
Tonight, I’m going to go home and just flop on the sofa and do nothing.

I can’t seem to get my laptop’s built-in modem to work. What am I doing wrong?

Oh great. PFE’s phones, all of them, were knocked out by last night’s storms. Marvellous. God knows when I’ll get an engineer out.

When I was in California, I saw literally miles upon miles of rows of grape vines, so this news story doesn’t surprise me, particularly as my hosts Geoff and Maureen told me that most of what we could see had been planted within the last couple of years.

Another storm outside. I love summer storms. I might go for a stroll if the rain doesn’t get too heavy.

Anyone likely to be going near a branch of Zara? If so, would you pick up a few items for me and send them on? Full costs reimbursed, of course. Let me know if you can help.

There was a thunder storm here this morning, and I was hoping that the rain might lay the pollen and dust a bit. But I seem to be sneezing more than ever. Last night I was really struggling, as my eyes were itching like mad, but a few pints seem to ease that problem (or at least I didn’t notice it so much).

One of my neighbour’s burglar alarms is currently ringing. Well, not really ringing as such, but making that irritating woowoowoo noise. If it isn’t turned off quickly, they may find that they have something to be really alarmed about.

Beer tonight with Sarah and Paul, plus the W2 regulars. And Arron: well, what can I say?