looking the part
Keeping connected
Been out shoppping today - it was an early start too, well not so early as I didn't have time to accidentally put my mobile phone in the washing machine and stick it on a 30 degree daily wash cycle. Stupid me. I did wonder when I rang my number from the landline to try and find out where my phone was why it diverted straight to voicemail and happily the clunk, clunk, clunk around the washer drum was as gooder indicator as any as to the location of my now newly laundered Nokia.
Oh well, it is now drying out in the vain hope that it will start again, if not I suppose I can live with one of the miriad of random disused phones we have hanging about.
Anyway. So I went shopping today with the prime aim of purchasing a work wardrobe - I have outgrown many of the smart items I had previously and so need some new stuff so I look semi respectable in my new job. Its a bit odd this job you see because instead of working for an IT company it'll be working for a marketing company that does IT, so a slightly different atmosphere no doubt.
Suffice to say after much foot pounding of the streets I've mustered up a few outfits that hopefully I can mix and match throughout the week. I failed miserably however to get an additional pair of smart shoes that are comfortable, I suspect I'll have to either order online or nip into my other favourite shopping centre to get that.
On the way home I had a few pit stops, one at a craft shop to pick up some things to help make my packaging look cool for the xmas stall, and the second stop to pick up some new telephones for the house since the old set are truely broken.
Posted by tBt on October 1, 2008 8:54 PM
grinding my patience
Nearly done!
Well, the plan today was that I was going to go shopping in Reading to buy at least 5 different workwear outfits for my new job. I almost got there too, up until the point where I looked outside and figured instantaniously that the onset of a very british monsoon was perhaps not ideal conditions to be joyfully burning plastic.
So instead I decided that I would stay at home and get on with some more stained glass stuff for this stall that Twiglet and I are doing in November. I have therefore spent the best part of today perilously close to grinding my fingers off and loosing any resemblence of fingernails at the end of said digits.
What I've produced I have to say is probably stretching the bounds of what you are suppose to do with stained glass and has probably taken another 3 hours off the life of my grinding head, but it's pretty. And if I sell it, it will raise enough cash for at least a pie and a pint at the pub - and if I don't? Well, it will look lovely as a decoration on our tree!
Posted by tBt on September 30, 2008 5:23 PM
so here's the plan
I've been faffing with this site for ages but what I've neglected to do is actually try and catch up with any of the content that has been missing for the past 2 years. So, what I have decided to do is to continue to blog as normal as if I have never been away - i.e. I will start to blog from today. What I'll also do at the same time is try and catch up with the entries that are missing. I have a skeleton document outlining as much of it as I can remember so I will try to fill the blanks in.
If you want it put simply then, I will be writing in this blog in both the past and present tense. What I will also do is dump the past entries in a category, lets call it "AWOL" for clarity sake :)
Posted by tBt on September 30, 2008 5:16 PM
a ha!
And I'm not talking about the flakey 80's band (though I confess to harbouring a long lasting fetish about the lead singer well into my teens)! But I think I'm 90% there (sound familiar that phrase eh? You techies know what I mean!). Anyway I am, I just need to sort out the comments stuff (ok, ok, so Phil needs to sort out the comments stuff). But apart from that the only other skill I need is to learn how to type again :).
Oh, and search, I've a funny feeling that is currently cross branded with 3 different designs.
Joy :)
Posted by tBt on September 18, 2008 4:41 PM
another suprising IE disappointment
Ok, so I've been trying to skin this blog for the past week. And considering this should be a job that would take someone of my "skinning" experience probably the best part of a day, you could say that my performance so far has been somewhat lack-lustre. But it isn't due to my being a lazy cow. No. It is in fact because of the innate inability for microsoft to create a browser that doesn't run like treacle.
We are using the new version of MT and after waiting for seemingly hours for the templates to load so I can edit them, and then waiting a further day or so for the browser to actually let me edit a character, and then waiting for a further week for the browser to actually recognise I typed something two days ago I decided that perhaps I would just give up and forget the whole idea.
But you know I actually want to finish this site, it's getting under my skin and I'm pissed I haven't got as far as I liked so I decided to figure out wtf was going on and if there was anything I could do to make my life a bit easier. Strangely there was. It's a complicated and virtually unheard of solution but for all you others out there suffering in the same way I herald this advice:-
USE FIREFOX
Posted by tBt on September 18, 2008 1:03 PM
slow progress
Getting somewhere, don't know if you'd call it manga or muddle, but hey it's funky!
Posted by tBt on September 16, 2008 10:01 PM
Scuse the mess
but after a what... 2 year absence I've decided to try and start this blog again. I'll be mashing it up for the next couple of weeks i suspect so expect an eyesore :)
Posted by tBt on September 15, 2008 12:11 PM