Be Excellent To Each Other

I love my Macs, I love my iPods, but the Mighty Mouse is fucking, fucking shit.

Steve Jobs will haunt your dreams.

Tonight I am ushering in the New Year at the Casino! This could mean that 2009 kicks off in a most wonderful way for me, but will more likely mean that it'll start with me more in debt than ever and really pissed off.

Happy New Year!

Pick Red.

I still have no clue what's happening later! Pesky kids.

Use the Martingale system! Stick a bet on red, and if you lose, next go double your stake. You're guaranteed to make a profit*.


* guarantee dependent on you having an infinite amount of money and no table limit

I actually do have a 'system' for playing Roulette, based on my complete and utter distrust of casinos. Take, for example, tonight. There'll be lots of people there gambling away stupid amounts of money. Then there'll be me, who rarely bets more than a fiver on a spin of the wheel. I always just bet on the numbers, thirds or colours that the rich folks with money to burn aren't, since I figure who are the casino more likely to pay out for - the guy who's laid out £100 on black or the guy who has £5 riding on red (if you see what I mean)?

It may sound like nonsense, but genuinely it has a tendency to work. Whenever I go in there on really busy nights, when I stick to this tactic I normally leave with more money than I started with (but never a huge amount, since I never bet huge amounts - I go for fun, nothing else). But if I go on a quiet night, where few others are laying out big bets, I always end up losing out.

On the drive into Bristol this morning the draw distance was rubbish.

I shouldn't have got the PS2 version.

That it certainly is. And icey.

We're closing at 3.30 today, which is nice.

I'm sat in shorts and T shirt thinking about going to the beach, if it's any help.

I was going to go to PC World today to see what cheapness could be picked up. AFter looking at the fog and ice I've put the heating on and am cuddling a gippynig instead.

I have just discovered the swear filter. It's fantastic. I love Fudge.

Why do you wrap Guinea Pigs in masking tape?

So they don't burst when you (SNIP!- taste Ed)

Cornwall is -3 at the moment (or so Pirate Radio told me)

Malc

Except that I have now internalised it so when I read 'sweet' I immediatly replace it with ['snip' - Jacqui Smith]

I'm a real man's man.

Not something I find easy to prove at -3. More like 99% man 1% acorn.

I have sprayed some mildew remover in my eye....it stings a bit, but at least the bathrooms nice! All this for you Ace! *rubs eye*

I'm going to the pub soon, NOT to drink-sadly-but to sort out the entertainment for tonight then I have to go shopping and stuff with no car :/ poops

On the bright side, mildew-free eyes.

Ooooh all shiny and clean!


Oh yeah and you, Mister! 'I'm too good to reply to messages' Dudley-face! Where were you t'other day when we had worms, huh?!

I don't have Worms.

I do have Fallout 3 but no-one will play that online with me will they?

There was 4 of you playing it yesterday and it's not a co-op so I can't play with you can I

Stoopid! Get Worms and Bomberman.

Zaphod? (hails him from the dark) have you found Mike yet?

You've always got some excuse!

Mike has been found and is hanging next to the chair (Alas)

Oooooh

...I know! Great, aren't I?

I can't believe I've read Nox already!! I may re-read it again tomorrow as it was a good book-not as great as th eothers though, but there was a large gap between him writing them. Lots of sex though


Ah that's ace!! I'll be on at some stage and you can shout back at me when I give you AIDS

Wesley Snipes disagrees!




...but I'm too lazy to find a photo of him from 'Passenger 57'.

Just nipped upstairs.. I ahve actually done more work at home, than i have in the office.

Just rebuilding my linux machine with mint, not surte if i prefer it to unbuntu yet...

Well I've had a productive day in the office at least - read volume 2 of The Walking Dead that a friend lent me, so I can give that back to her tomorrow now.

I've returned from town with face paint, a blonde bob wig, 2 tommy guns and a hat.

Bloody post office shuts at noon, though.

Two hour lunch with tops work people, and will be off home at 3.30. Sorted. Cheerio, 2008!

It is FLIPPING COLD out there... and the car is protesting whenever I have to start it after it's been sitting out overnight, so I reckon it might need new glow plugs or something (Skoda forum suggests timing) as the comedy cloud of smoke is a bit embarassing.

My colleague wandered off home for New Year's without his keys... only a combination of my quickly spotting them and his corpulence enabled me to catch up with him before he got on his train.

Someone I know has set up a "comedy" auction for the nation of Belgium. What japery!1

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0298681916

Thats the kind of thing that would have been hi-larious 10 or 11 years ago back when the internet as we know it was still young.

Well, borderline amusing to sixth form kids of that era. Not something a supposedly well-adjusted 40 year old woman should be doing on the brink of the space year 2009.

I have to admit to being particularly proud* of the farts I've been doing all day.

Which is to say that you would all be advised to stay at least 4 or 5 buildings away from me at all times. As a reasonable minimum.

* Simultaneously horrified and amused. Mostly the former.

Is there going to be a BeeX YearZ?

Ace has just left for his journey back home, hopefully he had a good time while he was here. Me being a bit of a shut-in at the best of times means I'm often left stuck for things to say, so it was nice to be able to fall back on our common interest of automobularmobiles, although Ace has a far wider knowledge than myself.

Shin was her usual self, I don't believe any more needs to be said.

Tuesday morning, Darryl said "It was ace yesterday mum, it was like having the IT crowd in our living room.". He was including you there Mr Chap.

The new Krypton Factor has just started but they have not used the original theme music, which, as far as I'm concerned, is just FUCKING BOLLOCKS.

I know it was a typo, but The Kryten Factor would be fantakka.

Well, that was total bollocks. No Gordon Burns, stupid sound effects, stupid presenter. The assault course is conducted two contestants at a time and the constant jerkyness of the camera work gives you no feel for the course and doesn't give any sense of continuity.

Ultimately a pale imitation, I won't be making time for it again. Boo-urns.

Doing us midlanders proud there.

*Nottingham clique alert*

People present at Myp's house way back in August may remember our former leader Grim... messing around with his tv.
Although the picture (taken last night ) below doesn't show it too clearly, you can see from the text going across the bottom that Myp's tv picture appears to be slightly slanted.
Apparently jiggling the scart lead didn't fix it.

Decent enough in a crappy kind of way to even bother downloading? Didn't even realise it was on.

Depends why you want to watch it. If you're looking for the awesome that reminds you of the original series, it's not there. If however you're just looking for a generic game show that happens to feature similar puzzles that test a variety of attributes, then sure, give it a shot.

Yeah, well...I aint coming back! That little bugger that was your sons friend was MEAN to me! He was like...8? And he was MEAN and picked on me

I was brought Haribo though by both of your kids this makes me happy inside.
I tried to call you again last night...but it was noisey and I was drunk! On the other hand I got Jamesoff (not as in 'got him off' ohh err FNARR) but I rang him as I had a rather interesting textual message off him and Mr.Dudley was ignorant as per usual


Really glad you had a nice time Ace feel free to come again anytime-YOU were a slugasofa