Be Excellent To Each Other

w00p! Drinks on TheVision!

Nice one! Congrats.

So, so very well done. You should celebrate with more than just Xbox time. You have an awesome weekend and good luck in your new job!!!

Well, that's a bit of a result. Well done.

That's fantastic news! Well done. xx

Many grats

Nice one!

*throws spread sheets in the air*

I ordered a new monitor from John Lewis. It arrived and there was a paper cover over the screen so I left it on there, fitted the stand and then set it all up plugging everything in and routing the cables all neatly.

Then I peeled off the paper and there were four huge scratches on the screen itself. One was so bad that at the end was a stringy bit with the plastic that had been gouged from the screen I phoned John Lewis immediately and they told me to email pics to technical support. The next morning the phone rang and it was John Lewis and they arranged to collect the damaged monitor. He said that I would hear about the delivery of the new one later. I then followed the correct RMA procedure and filled in the back of the original delivery receipt with the RMA number he emailed me. However, I read the terms and conditions and it said that basically they don't send the replacement until they have received the damaged item back. Fuck ! what made it worse was that in the mean time I had sold my fucking monitor and shipped it out so now I have no monitor.

Any way this morning as he told me I would I received an email from DPD saying that they were collecting between 12:56 and 1:56 PM. Then about two minutes later I received another email telling me DPD would be delivering between 3:12 and 4:12 PM. A bit confused I phoned John Lewis and the replacement is coming today.

Yay !*

*I hope that's not too early. I also bought an external sound card because I could not hook up the front audio sockets on Mrs JC's computer and it too arrived damaged.

Sod's law I sold my old 4k monitor for £200 plus postage (it cost me £515) as no courier now will insure monitors (the price was low to reflect the risk the buyer had to take) and the fucking thing arrived in pristine condition lmao. Still though that's another yay, as it's out of my hair now.

My wife went out for a few hours last night, so Sods law kicks in and my son is standing up in his bed shouting for his mum and taking his clothes off

So I go up and straight away he is "want daddy bed" so we go on our bed and read some books

Then my wife calls (she was been watching events on her phone via the monitor) and tells me to read him some books for 15 mins and put him back down

2 hours later she comes back to find us still in the bed giggling and messing around

He went to sleep for her in 5 mins, she is not happy as he has school today. Have to say best 2 hours I've had for a long time though!

Crumbs, I haven't been here in *ages*.

Since I last posted I have:
* Moved to the country!
* Moved Jobs!
* Got some fish!
* Tried Clay Pigeon Shooting!

What's gone on around here?

Welcome back Squirt.

How's the country moussaka compared to the city moussaka?

That all sounds good to me. Welcome back.

Where did you try shooting? How did you do?

At the West of England Game Fair 2016! I hit half my targets ( 6 out of 12 ), which I thought was pretty good seeing as I'd never held a shotgun before. A BASC instructor at their stand gave me a beginners lesson, which was fun. Definitely going to do it again.

How do we know you're the real Squirt and not some gun crazy redneck who has taken on his identity after you killed him for crossing your lambing field?

10 Aim at target
20 Fire
30 Goto 10

?

I think he managed to get his 'I' in.

Largely, yes. But also quite a lot of
DO NOT aim gun at instructors face.
DO NOT aim gun at own face.
DO NOT hurl loaded gun at clays
DO NOT hold loaded gun by barrel and use as primitive club to attack clays
DO NOT call it a rifle
DO NOT turn up with a over-and-under at a grouse shoot, you bloody peasant.
and so on.

It was just a BASC joke

I was stood in the back garden (wearing shorts, a hawaiian shirt and wearing flip flops) of a methodist preacher's (big Thatchwr fan) house in the arse end of Iowa nursing a heavy hangover (and having just ridden "the tamer horse" he had about a bit) in 100 degree heat when he produced a shotgun (unregistered) and got his 9 year old to throw old crockery in the air to shoot. It was fucking loud, and I missed but a large bit of tree fell down because we weren't using shot. Ah, America.

Oh yeah! Brain fail. However, I don't approve of GOTOs, even in jokes.

This, that.

Nice to see you again.

You're my GOTO guy.

Wow, we can't even wait two months before recycling jokes now.

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Hey man good to see you

BASIC always did have really poor garbage collection.

It's not Thursday

Squirt!

Hiya.

Wow. I didn't expect anyone to be that pleased that he's back...

You're my GOTO guy.

A white hole?

Ah, the halcyon days of Squirt being eaten by a wall...

Today at work, a colleague brought in a microwavable moussaka, and it reminded me of you. (True story)
Then you post. Coincidence? Or proof of a moussaka based deity?

Moussaka for the Moussaka God!

Oh right, so you answer HIS moussaka question.

Isn't a mousaka just a nice lasagne that somebody has ruined by taking out all the lovely carbs and replacing it with health? Or am I thinking of something else?

I made one, once.

Goodness me, you look young there!

Yeah. Something changed.

The year?

Pretty sure the early 90s had a moussaka craze.

That was 2008. Heavens. I must've been with MrsA only a few months.

Also look quite unsettlingly like George Osborne.

Don't you start as well. The woman in the Co op calls me george.

I've often thought this.

When on the vinegar strokes

Only when I want to hold back

Thanks for all the Hellos and Welcomes backs, all!

Who are you?

(Welcome back X)