• 15Aug 08

  What is your name?

  Oh marvellous! I saw an excellent episode of Family Guy yesterday. Maybe I'm easily pleased or something, but there was such a funny scene that I almost couldn't breathe for laughing.

  Brian had to go into rehab for his drug addiction, so Peter decided to go on vacation at the rehab clinic(?) Good choice, my man. Of course, he ended up annoying the staff there, and one of them accused him of not being addicted to drugs or anything. She went on to ask him what his name was.

  As they were in the canteen, Peter looked around for things to use so he could invent an alias. First, he saw a plate with a pea on it. Then he saw a girl who was crying, and then rather randomly he saw a mythological creature flying around the room:

  "Errrm, Pea.....yeah.....pea. Errrm, tear. Yes, Pea-Tear....errrrm, Griffin. Yep, my name is Peter Griffin. Oh cr@p!"

  In case you don't know, that's also his real name! Absolutely ludicrous, but hilarious. I can't believe I never watched this show for years. I have to say, Stuwie is the one who tickles me the most. Blast!

  Well, back to other things. Where does the time go? I think I need a few more hours in the day.

  Laters...

  • Posted Aug 15, 2008 2:50 pm PT
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• 23Jul 08

  Well, as Will Rogers said:

  I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

  If you don't know who Will Rogers is, he's got a page on Wiki! But anyway, I'm referring to the taxman and my power supplier from the last posting I made. Methinks the taxman is after bigger fish than me, thank goodness, so I only got stumped for a bill for class 2 national insurance (yep, another tax we have to pay!) And my energy supplier didn't duplicate my account, they transferred it from my landlady to me - and she's quite fierce!! May the Lord have mercy on their souls!

  Very, VERY pleased that the McCann parents got their arguido status lifted this week. Hopefully, that will lead to some better fundraising to help find Madeleine, and a whole bunch of other disappeared kids. No doubt, there will be loads of other related stuff out in the press in the next month or two relating to the investigation. Oh, and the book published by Chief Inspector Cloucao (sorry, don't know if I've got the font to put a Portuguese cedilla on the 'c' ).

  I do have the very discomforting feeling that nobody was really ever looking for this girl - they were too busy trying to pin a murder on the parents.

  Also in the news, as I mentioned a long while ago, there was completion in the case of the mystery canoeist today - the bloke who faked his own demise, and hopped it to Panama. Six years each in prison for him and his missus, for fraud (amongst other things). Surprising how the wife got a longer sentence. She only play-acted the grieving widow. He did the fakery, stole a dead baby's birth certificate and identity and fraudulently obtained a passport. Oh well, in the UK, you're best off committing mass murder as you'll get a shorter sentence - woe betide you if you dare steal money from the government or insurance industry; you'll get locked up for life!

  And on that, errr, cynical note, I bid you 'good day, Sir'.

  • Posted Jul 23, 2008 6:28 pm PT
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• 13Jul 08

  Wolves at the door!

  Things haven't slowed down for me recently, hence I seem to appearing on this site less and less. But don't worry, I won't be disappearing for good!

  The whole getting made redundant from work thing, and going self-employed (in a manner of speaking!) has presented problems I hadn't thought about. In a regular job, you know you work a 9 to 5 and then it's 'me time'! Everything's nicely compartmentalised. Now, I sort of potter about, doing stuff - LOTS of stuff. I do get up late, at 9am, but I also work until 3am seven days a week. Absolutely relentless, and I feel kinda guilty if I stop and watch TV or something.

  I then found out I'd been badly advised by an alleged financial expert, which opened me up to a hefty penalty from the taxman - did I already mention that on here? Can't remember. Hopefully my forms got in on time, but I still await the knock on the door, and the getting dragged away scenario!

  I have also been getting pecked at by my energy supplier, who thought I wanted a new account opening when I moved into my new apartment - actually there was already one set up, so they want me to pay twice, despite me explaining THEY'D made a mistake. Oh, well. I also await them either cutting me off, or selling my 'debt' onto some big men with baseball bats. Yippee!

  And on that knee-cracking note, it's 2am already and I've got loads to do - been looking into doing some fundraising for a tiger conservation charity, but there are details to sort out first. Anyway, just time to rummage around for info before collapsing in a heap!

  Ta ta folks!

  • Posted Jul 13, 2008 5:59 pm PT
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