Stand and Deliver

On a TV theme again, I’ve kept on meaning to mention BBC2’s Your Money or Your Life with Alvin Hall. He’s a very good motivational speaker, and a financial “guru” – each of the programmes I’ve seen has included a neat way of illustrating people’s debt. In fact, it’s an all-round interesting programme, and worth watching if you’ve a spare half-hour or so.

One of those days

You know those days where staying in bed isn’t just an option, it’s the only sensible option? Today’s been one of those days.

It started off with managing to slash my face with the razor while shaving. Not just a little cut, but the full length of the blade. Don’t ask how, I’ve no bloody idea.

Half the morning was then rapidly fucking wasted productively occupied with a meeting – now there’s a shocker. I swear, local authorities could do so much more if they had some decisive people working for them, instead of the chuffheads who insist on either a) doing everything by committee, and/or b) making sure that if it all goes wrong, they’re not to blame. Fucking time-wasting indecisive responsibility-dodging card punchers, the lot of ’em.

Then the joys of a visit to the dentist. Except they’ve got problems today, so I got precisely half the work done I needed to. And now the other half is being done tomorrow morning at 8.30, before another full day of work. Oh, I can’t wait. I then got whacked with the bill for the dental stuff as well – and frankly that’ll have to wait ’til Friday.

I’m waiting to see what else happens today. It started off so well, with the insurance documents, and just went downhill at a pace equivalent to Franz Klammer. But I’m not holding out much hope of it improving.

30-second Ice Cream

Over in Popular Science, a man makes perfect ice-cream. His secret ingredient? Liquid Nitrogen

Always a fun way to end a dinner-party. *Grin*

That’s the way to do it

Yesterday, I rang a recommended company about the proper business insurance I need, rather than the sack of shit I got sold by RBS. They said they’d get the paperwork out to me ASAP. It arrived this morning.

Sometimes I begin to believe I must be being unreasonable in expecting things to run smoothly, to see documents arrive on-time, be the correct documents, and generally for everything to work the way it should. It seems like the simple smooth running of things is an insurmountable problem for the great majority of companies. Then along comes something like this, and my faith goes a little way towards being restored.

I suspect it’ll take longer for RBS to cancel the existing insurance than it will for this new lot to get a new policy started and working.