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I'm super-pissed off today because First Great Western ahve changed their policy on bikes on trains as a result of more people wanting to cycle/ train to work. So, because loads of people want this service... they've removed it. For fuck's sake.
I've even written a letter of complaint, and written to my MP. I've never done that before and it's a completely depressing experience that just serves to highlight how helpless you really are.
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I'm a bit hacked off too. Just laid a patio for my parents, spent all morning doing the damn thing. Digging up the turf, turning the soil, packing down, laying shingle, etc etc. Got it all laid out, looking good, stood back to admire my work and one slab was slightlly on the piss. So I take my mallet. go to tap it down on a corner and *crack* the bastard corner broke off the bastard slab.
Also, my mate was suppposed to be giving me a hand. I rang him beforehand and he said he was on his way, he was just going to pop into the garage to get some oil for his car so we can change that while he's here. I say ok, I'm going to start anyway and he can help when he gets here. Halfway through I ring him again, asking where he is. "oh, sorry mate, had to sort out some insurance. I'll be over in a bit" I tell him to hurry, since I'm halfway done. I've just finished and he's still not here, clearly jewing his way out of helping me out by taking as long as possible, and now he's going to expect me to change the oil and filter in his car, then pay for snooker afterwards. Chisky fucker.
And this is how I choose to spend my week off work
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Hello, Im helluva pissed of as well, because I was supposed to go and collect my new bike after work, but the cunry on the phone when I orderd it put 18th June in 'the system' instead of May so it isn't ready yet.
I have done a lot of work this week, so am now available for idle banter...go!
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Actually despite the bike fiasco Im not that pissed of because it is Friday, and I have managed to nearly finish the paper I am writing despite that looking like an imposible task at the beginning of the week. So I will probably be too drunk to ride a bike for most of the weekend anyway.
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It's now raining a monsoon upon my freshly laid patio, so I expect that'll have sunk into the ground within half an hour or so.
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I had a dream about Abby the other night. I was trying to fuck her, but Bill Sikes and Fagin were also in the room and kept criticizing my performance and complaining there was nowhere to sleep.
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I'm afraid not - it was incredibly disappointing. It was largely due to Fagin and Bill Sykes, although you were partly to blame as you brought them along. Also I don't think you were that up for it, or realised was I was pitching for. You had this kind of weary tolerance of me getting a bit hands-on because you and your friends needed a place to stay, but I don't think you were going to go for it.
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I had a (slightly) TMO related dream the other night where Soph from attachments was a female officer in the army, who would get her breasts out to fire up her troops. Because of this they were fiercley loyal to her and would do anything she asked of them, which mainly consisted of them driving like bloody lunatics while drunk and naked, causing mayhem for the civil police, and making her laugh like a loon at the power she had over them.
I am thinking of developing it into a film script. With the exception of the naked squaddies - I want Ringo to direct the car scenes.
I am also thinking I really need to try and get more than three hours sleep a night as it is obviously driving me round the bend
quote:Originally posted by Amy: what's everyone doing this weekend?
Same as most weekends from March to November... hacking away at this lot like I was Harrison Ford out of The Mosquito Coast or Gerard Depardieu out of Jean de Florette or something. (Just the tragic and futile hard slog bits, not the rugged and romantic bits.)
Mind you, I can go inside and watch a bit of telly at the end of the day, which I don't think either of them could, so maybe it's not so bad really. In fact, it's basically a bit of gardening.
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My day just got marginally better since my mate has said he's not going to come over after all, as it's raining and he doesn't fancy doing his oil in the rain. Also, I had forgotten that it's someone's birthday tonight and I'm supposed to be going to a house party at his place instead of buggering off to play snooker. Which is a shame as the party is going to be half filled with his girlfriend's mates who are all like teenagers who wear baggy jeans and 'nu-metal' band t-shirts. The other half will be comprised mostly of my friends, who I have managed to somehow alienate over the past 6 moths or so. To compound the problem, his house is about 7 miles away and my only way of getting there is by bike (I'm not paying for a cab, that's just silly money) so I'm not going to be smelling too fresh when I get there.
On the plus side, as I've stopped drinking I'm not obliged to bring any alcohol and I can be relatively happy about cycling home in the small hours without having to crash into a bush and sleep by the side of the canal. Which, y'know, is nice I guess.
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Annoyance reasons: 1 working for moronic clients who wouldn't appreciate decent graphic design and editorial if it bit them on the arse; 2 trying to get an appointment at the hospital re being barren is proving more complex and difficult to fathom than the plot of Syriana, watched while on acid
Weekend: 1 chinese meal in Stratford with girls from am dram (4/10 to 6/10 on enjoyment scale, depending on proximity to annoying girl who drinks like fish then wonders why she's so fat); 2 quiz night and/or walthamstow dogs tomorrow (7/10); 3 driving to R's friend near Oxford for lunch (7/10 - would be more, but I'll be sober)
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I'm going to the launch of some bar tonight, whihc looks like it will be fun. No plans for the daytime tomorrow, I don't think, and then in the evening going out for dinner at some place called Branca that I keep calling Blanka, after the green fellow from Street Fighter II.
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I'm sure it'll be magical. I'm going to a party tonight, dicking around with a video camera tomorrow day and going to a party tomorrow night and then, like craig david, I'll chill on sunday.
I'll be around on xbox on sunday thorn, if you fancy a rumble. Got the halo3 beta yet?
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I am, as I said, going to a party tonight. It is in the function room of a pub on my road which inevitably means that it will move back to my house afterwards and chaos will ensue. Saturday is likely to be sleeping followed by gentle pizza eating...though I do like the picnic idea...
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ringo's life seems a bit depressing. Oil, patios, alienation, snooker, rain, sobriety. Nothing wrong with any of them on their own, but together, that's quite chilling.
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Babysitting tonight, which I might do while on the golf course. Then I will cook some spicy fish and drink alcohol. Don't know about tomorrow day. Evening is curry with parents then to a bar (voted "The Best Place to Drink in Britain 2006!" by The Observer readers, fact fans) (fact: it's not all that) where a mate is DJing. Sunday: hopefully work out how the hell to join two video edits from two tapes onto one DVDable final version using Pinnacle Studio.
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I've had a pretty shit week. After the brake disc fiasco the other day, I took my cat for its MOT -- it failed. Apparently, the exhaust system needs replacing. I'm too scared to get a quote just yet, so I'll deal with it next week. Don't know what I'm doing tonight. Supposed to be going to some breakbeat night but I'm really not in the mood, so might just make a start on my Johnny Walker Green Label and read until the words become a mish-mash of squiggles.
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quote:Originally posted by Zygote: After the brake disc fiasco the other day, I took my cat for its MOT -- it failed. Apparently, the exhaust system needs replacing. I'm too scared to get a quote just yet, so I'll deal with it next week.
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I'm trying to work out if I can put a satellite card capable of picking up full HD into a Sony VGX-XL100 as thy have one knocked down to a grand at a local shop..
I think the thing only takes PCI cards though not PCIe..
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Dammit, the MD Just came over to my desk for a chat, right after I'd guffed into my chair. So I had to hold a conversation with him whilst smelling like I'd just shat my pants.
How could life be any worse.
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