Mistaken Location
Posted: Wed 23 June, 2010 Filed under: 1BEM, Domestic 1 Comment »One of the better questions from brother-in-law while we were at the O2 to see Bon Jovi over the weekend…
“Where were we sitting when we went to see AC/DC?”
“Wembley”
Hectic Fortnight
Posted: Tue 22 June, 2010 Filed under: 1BEM, Animals, Domestic, Driving, Getting Organised, The '10 Writing Project, Travel, Writing Leave a comment »The next two weeks are – to say the least – pretty damn busy.
Among other things (and not all at the same time, obviously) it will involve :
- Giving (another) statement to police re Emma Ward
- Driving down to Berkshire to put Hound in Kennels
- Driving to Peterborough to collect Herself’s brother
- A big birthday party for Herself’s grandfather
- Driving down to Berkshire to collect Hound from kennels
- Finishing off a couple of short script ideas
- Seeing Pink’s gig in Ipswich
There’s also a number of work-related things in the same timescale, which isn’t helping much.
So all told, a fairly busy couple of weeks…
TV Scheduling
Posted: Mon 21 June, 2010 Filed under: 1BEM, Cynicism, Thoughts 1 Comment »Apparently, Wimbledon starts today.
So at the moment we have :
- The World Cup
- Wimbledon
- Big Brother
What the hell? Which kind of numpty fuckbag came up with having all of that shit at the same time?
Additionally there’s also some rugby thing, and probably other bits too.
And don’t forget there’s also the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on 11th July – the same day as the final of the World Cup. Doh!
iPhone v4
Posted: Fri 11 June, 2010 Filed under: 1BEM, Geeky, iPhone, Thoughts 3 Comments »As regular readers know, I’ve now had my iPhone 3GS for a couple of months. I’ve been surprised by how well I do get on with it in a lot of ways (although it does have some epic frustrations as well, mainly based around the keyboard) and how much more I use it than I expected to.
But I’m still not an evangelist on the thing. I’m not addicted to it or obsessed with it, and if something better came along, I’d have no problem with moving away from the iPhone.
So – as someone asked yesterday – would I want the newly announced iPhone 4 ? Am I envious of the people who will have one? Do I feel the need to upgrade as soon as possible?
In short, no. There’s nothing really on the new iPhone that is a deal-breaker for me. In fact the only thing that I’d like from it is the more advanced/powerful battery. I don’t need/want any of the other little doohickeys. I don’t make video calls anyway – never have – and the rest of it was all a bit underwhelming, really.
So if this one breaks, I wouldn’t have an issue with replacing it with a v4 iPhone. But I’m not going to go out and upgrade for the hell of it, or to have the latest/greatest. It’ll be updated again in 6-12 months anyway.
Daft Sods
Posted: Fri 4 June, 2010 Filed under: 1BEM, Advertising, Work-related Leave a comment »The directors of the company I’m working for are, it has to be said, daft buggers on occasion. In a couple of weekends time they’re going to Le Mans, which is apparently a bit of a yearly tradition. Part of this tradition is also decorating their cars with stick-on decals and the like.
This year, this is what one of them has done to his Bentley for the weekend in question…
Car decals for Le Mans 2010 trip
From the front it’s even more done up…
More car decals for Le Mans 2010 trip
Utterly utterly daft – but bloody good fun, too.
Parking – Mini
Posted: Sun 30 May, 2010 Filed under: 1BEM, Driving, Parking 3 Comments »Another spectacular piece of parking.
The Tesco store in Dereham really does appear to be a mecca for people who can’t park their cars within the lines.
That really is quite impressive, AO 06 ORK
Putting the “ORK” into Dork.