VISTA.........SHISTA.........

Well finally got my new laptop....... wot a pain to set up this Vista thingy is....give me XP anytime! Once you get it sorted it's not too bad........ got a couple of features on it I didn't know about like speech recognition, which is great as long as you ignore people who tell you what a prat you look talking to a computer (PAULINE!!!) also a 7 in 1 card reader and infra red ........ not sure about the touch pad but I have a spare mouse to use with it. Managed to set up the Wi-fi easy enough, had to re-name it because Vista would not accept the old password, so it was delete it and re-name and put in new password.

Tempest flies lolol.........

Gawd a week has passed already, seems like only yesterday I did my last blog..... JG has finally passed on to the great BB house in the sky, thank you! ..... I don't mean to be unsympathetic but it was getting a bit much .... I am sorry she didn't get to see her kids on Mothering Sunday. Spend last night at work out and about as I was playing Ops Support.... legs feel like I ran a marathon today..... Contacted Staples about a replacement for my SanDisk Cruzor Micro which gave up the ghost for no apparent reason.... looking forward to the new laptop arriving tomorrow morning.... my mate in work gave me some Venison sausages to try .... they are lovely bet they'd be great with some gravy and spuds.... Pauline has made chicken curry for us twice and he wanted to say thanks..... also gave me a bottle of Merlot but as Pauline doesn't drink wine that's all mine ..........well off to work now I suppose .... still only 2 more nights to go.

LOLOL some people are so gullible!

I have just had the biggest laugh in a long time..... for a while now I've been thinking about trying to catch people out with a made up name ...... someone like a DJ ...... any way I had a survey email the other week and I filled it in using this name I'd thought of ....... a man phones this afternoon asking to speak to ..............IVAN ICHIBELLI..... lolol never thought it would happen.

you've got to laugh................or die crying!

After having a lovely sleep last night because Pauline stayed up late watching Jade Goody get married on Living TV, it was very difficult to get my backside off the mattress this morning.... my 3 bits of bad luck this month have happened in the last couple of days.... 1/ my car key battery goes tilt, got new battery, got to have the key re-coded.... 2/before leaving the car park to come home yesterday I find my n/s/r tyre extremely flat at the bottom........ 3/ my Scandisk 4 gig data stick has just given up for some unknown reason....it's not very old either. Was late leaving tonight because I had to cone and tape off half a car park cell..... we've got some subsidence and men are coming to do a GPRS survey. Today has been a normal manic Sunday... had one laugh though that brightened up the day..... the help buzzer sounds from one of the barriers ....."Hello! can I help?" angry voice replies "YES!, I'm at the barrier and pressing the button and I can't get a ticket to enter the car park!".....quick check on the CCTV..... "There's a VERY good reason why you can't get that barrier to open or give you a ticket sir!".... "OH YES! and what might that be?"...... "You are trying to enter via an EXIT SIR!".............. SILENCE!!!! lolololololololololol

New laptop....

I'm finally getting a laptop.... the one advertised on TV from Dell...... Inspiron15...got a Pentium Dual Core T4200(2.0GHz) processor... 3072MB RAM 800MHz DDR2 250GB(5400rpm)Serial ATA Drive.... 3 years McAfee..... and WiFi(802.11 g/n) .... only bad thing ....it runs Vista Home Premium..... means P can use the PC for her 'hidden object' games while I do some serious stuff (LOLOLOL) on the laptop. Poor ole Pauline, she's got a very bad head cold after getting caught in a rain shower Saturday night after work (her niece was waiting in the car park but she missed her) on her way to catch a bus home. I had offered to take the Metro to work Sat but she said it was okay as she had a lift arranged..... best made plans of mice and women huh!

some not so good some better....

Well it's been a while since my last blog, due mainly to work...... sat my CPC exam again on the 6th.... a bit disappointed, I only managed to answer 6 of the 8 questions.... having said that I think I did really well on the first four which is the important ones.... you need to get at least 65% on those and make up the rest of the mark (to average 50%) over the last four..... marks are divided 45 /45... so I need at least 29/45 on the first bit and at least 11/45 on the second bit.... so if I can get 38/45 on the first bit I only need to get 7 points off the two I answered in the 2nd part...... Some really good news ..... Pauline has been worrying that she had her cancer back as she had 'found' a couple of small lumps and they have been very itchy!..... she's hardly slept for 3 weeks waiting for her appointment ....she was sick (literally) with worry this morning .......seen the doctor ....comes out with a smile on her face like a Cheshire Cat that's got a lifetime of double cream.... turns out the problem was an infected hair follicle...BIG SIGH OF RELIEF.......... damn public hairs lololol

It was good until................

I'm feeling very pleased with the fact I don't have to go to work until Saturday night, the boss kindly gave me two study days off to prepare for an exam on Friday. Had some wonderful pictures of my grandson emailed to me from my son. I've just had an annonymous email from work from someone complaining about the state of the 'George'. I replied with a few choice things like ...I can at least spell George (they spelt it GERGE) and a moan about the state of the Microwave......expecting another dig back because I deliberately mis-spelt annonymous as annoymous...see if they pick up on that.... I doubt it! Pauline's sister just came banging at the door..... she's come out in some sort of rash ...... Chicken Pox is rife up here at the moment and it looks like she's got it...... she's a bit upset about it because she is in her 40's...... Pauline has just taken her to the local NHS drop-in centre. I think I might open a couple of tinnies....... JS Extra Smooth or Carling?....hmmmmmmmm