Talking
on Bullet this lunchtime about rac trying to clear a paper jam on her printer,
Grim and piglet decided to make a playful set of inuendo about screwdrivers
and pressing knobs and buttons followed by piglet saying:-
piglet: insert tab A into slot B
This prompted the idea of sexual origami to pop into my head.. sort of the karma sutra meets Paper Play.. I just had to spread the meme a little further. 🙂
This evening I had planned to go and see the latest Harry Potter film at one of the main cinemas in Oxford along with a friend, Paul. I had thought that seeing that the film’s been on release for more than a month now that there’d be no problem getting a ticket on the door. How wrong we were!
When we arrive we find notices plastered up all over the cinema “All showings today fully booked” with the names of all five films being shown at the cinema being listed.
The last time this happened I was told by the bored person on the ticket desk that the Oxford language schools had block-booked all the cinemas in Oxford as a going-away present for their students at the end of the their course. I’m guessing that’s what has happened again.
If you ask me, this is wholey anti-social.
Anyway, I’ve now still to see that film. Maybe I’ll just wait until it comes on Sky Premier in a couple of years or so.
So, to continue the story, we came back to my house (via Tesco’s for comestibles.. ok.. nibbles) and watched Shrek on DVD as he’d not seen it yet.
As for the other things today. I did manage to pick up a heatsink and fan for my Celeron 300A processor though it was a close call. ONly one stall had such a thing and that only had 3 of them in battered boxes. Oh, and it cost me 1 pound more to get into the computer fair than it did to buy the things I wanted. It cost me 7 pounds in total, so you can work out how much the entry fee was using simultanious equations.
I also ordered a new sofa bed to replace the two pine single beds in my spare room/guest room/machine room.
Anyway, the day’s not been a total loss, as you can see.
Well, I’ve made it through the week. Well, almost.
Due to someone not being here this afternoon I can’t get on witht he job I wanted to do so I’m feeling a bit bored.
The plans for the weekend are becoming firmer. I’m not, after all, going to see the Harry Potter film this evening as I’m going to go tomorrow afternoon/evening instead. However, this evening Paul will be popping around so I can give him the key to the dept. annex which I have been given by the dept. administrator to give to him so that he can move his stuff out of his current office and into a storeroom in the annex.
Tomorrow’s firmed up. The Computer fair is on this weekend so I should be able to go searching for CPU fans. I’ll then probably go shopping in Sainsbury’s as fast as possible and return home. Hopefully, this will be in time for me to wash the car before lunch. I’ve still got to discover the times at which the Harry Potter film is being shown so as to meet up with Paul to see it.
As for the rest of the weekend, well, it’s doing the washing, fitting the CPU fan (if I find one) and not a lot else. I may go out for a walk somewhere if the weather stays fine, though after all the rain recnetly I guess it’s goingto have to be some paved route.
I’ve just got back from the dentist where I had three fillings replaced.
I now have a completely numb and paralysed lefthand side of the face and
a partly numb right-hand side. The left hand side is affecting my eyelid
now and starting to deaden my tongue.
I doubt I’ll be able to eat or drink anything tonight as although I can swallow I doubt I can keep anything inside my mouth.
This
morning, while eating my breakfast, I got bored with the BBC Breakfast News
program and changed over to CNX where “Batman of the Future” was on.
The evil characters this morning were a woman made of ink and a crime boss who was radioactive.
I cought myself thinking.. “How does she eat and drink?” and then stopped
myself… it’s only a flippin’ cartoon.. it’s not supposed to be logical!
Oops. 🙂
The most exciting thing I can think about doing tonight is the laundry.
Is this a sign of the times?
Dispite
my sub-concious wanting it to be Thursday today (it’s going to be well disappointed
on Friday then when it’s forced to work what it thinks is a Saturday) things
are OK.
As usual, nothing exciting happening at work.
I’ve decided to go to see the latest Harry Potter film on Friday evening.
I only had two replies from the e-mail I sent out asking if anyone wanted
to come along. One was a flat, sorry, seen it and don’t want to again and
the other was a probably, but work may get in the way. So much for trying
to jumpstart the social life around here.
Looking forward to the weekend, I believe the computer fair is visiting Oxford
this Saturday. If it is I can pop in and see if I can pick up a new heatsink
and/or fan for my Celeron 300A processor sitting in my server. The poor thing
had the fan seize up the week before I came home so I’ve not been able to
switch it on since.
The rest of the weekend is pretty empty. I will try to get replacement pips
and joint for my kitchen sink to fit them properly. As it turns out, just
before I left for Christmas the waste pipe sort of became disjoint after
the glue broke in one of the fittings. You may wonder how this happened..
well , the fitter who installed the sink obviously cut the pipe about 1″
too short, so rammed the whole lot down until the flexing of the bottom of
the sink and the other joints made up the gap and then he glued the joint.
If the weather is half decent (which it looks as though it isn’t) I want
to wash my car down. It’s very mucky and got a lot of salt on it during the
journey back from Cornwall.
I keep on thinking it’s Wednesday for some unknown reason. Maybe it’s just wishful thinking of some kind?
Fun things happening at work have been:-
What fun, eh?
Well, it’s the first day back at work.
So far it’s been surprisingly quiet. Just a couple of printer problems, nothing
which wouldn’t happen on a normal Monday. The only extra work necessary has
been the clearing out of my mail inbox. I’ve yet to go through my spam
folder to see if there are any messages which were mis-filed by spamassasin.
I’ve put out an e-mail to a number of local people asking if anyone would
like to join me in seeing the latest Harry Potter film at the end of the
week but have only so far got two replies. One said that they’d already seen
the film and didn’t want to see it again and the other said possibly Friday
is he doesn’t have to do overtime. At least I got some replies.
The weather today is bl**dy freezing! My face got frozen cycling in and my
legs started to seize up by the end of the trip. How much of the leg problem
was due to the weather and how much was due to hardly using my legs for a
fortnight is hard to tell. I’m sure after about 4 weeks both my legs and
my girth will be back to the way they were before Christmas. (I put on about
1-1.5 belt notches around my waist over the fortnight!)
I’ve decided to put in more of an effort into getting a social life this
year by being a little more proactive and suggesting things to do to people
around here. How long I can fight against apathy is questionable, but at
least I’m going to make an effort.
Maybe I’ll even meet the love of my life.. though this is probably as likely
as Saddam Hussain inviting George “Dubya” Bush and Tony Blair to tea and
then asking them to run his country for him for a while so he can have a
nice holiday in Hawaii. (I’m sure Dubya would even then find a reason for
going to war, such as the evil way Saddam served the crumpets with the wrong
sort of butter or jam.)
If you’re interested, the previous entry arrived thrice due to proxy problems when I submitted it making me think it never got posted.. so I retried, twice.. I was wrong. Oh well.