Another Year

Oh well another year is over and one is about to begin.. hmm what to attempt to be this year aka NYR's
Hmm - nope no point I never think of any really good ones or ones that are so obviously going to be done..

Three Things.....

Okay This is due to my "good" friend moogie putting my name in the last section on her quiz...

Three names you go by:
1. Gordon
2. Gopher
3. G man
There are others but let's not go there shall we..

Three screennames you have:
1. Gopher_The_Angelic_Uncle
2. Gopher_Yarrowzoo
3. Gopher
I know I got more but they are on the same vain lol

Three things you like about yourself:
1. I'm sorry I'm not vain at all
2. Nothing
3. and erm nothing

Three things you hate/dislike about yourself:
1. I told you I'm not vain.
2. Nothing
3. oh nothing.....

Three parts of your heritage:
1. Scottish
2. Scottish
3. oh and did i mention scottish

Three things that scare you:
1. Heights
2. Drowning ( a little bit)
3. ?
and no it's not death, death doesn't scare me at all.

Three of your everyday essentials:
1. Tea (real tea not the iced crap)
2. My Mobile phone
3. Multitudes of Music

Three things you are wearing right now:
1. Jeans
2. Tshirt a "T in the Park The 10th Year" very good weekend
3. Socks

Three of your favorite bands/artists at the moment:
1. Snow Patrol - Irish band based in Glasgow nice sound - Album : Final Straw
2. Embrace - Good band, this is a comeback Album and it's Good - Album: Out of Nothing
3. Scissor Sisters - Nice New York Band - good sound I don't know i just like it - Album : Scissor Sisters (try saying that on the radio)
Actually I could easily add 4,5,6,7 and probably 8 there is a lot of good stuff out and I got a shed load of albums to

Three of your favorite songs at present:
1. "Chocolate" Snow Patrol
2. "Glorious Day" Embrace
3. "The Blower's Daughter" Damien Rice + many many more

Three things you want to try in the next 12 months:
1. Write more in my Online Diary
2. Get a life
3. God only knows

Three things you want in a relationship (love is a given):
1. Respect.
2. Companionship.
3. Intellect.

Two truths and a lie:
1. I'm cute
2. I'm modest
3. I can go eye to eye with Micheal Jorden without using a stepladder or the like....

Three physical things about the opposite sex (or same) that appeals to you:
1. Brains
2. Eyes
3. Body

Three things you just can’t do:
1. Sit up dead straight - goggle Scoliosis and you see why
2. Liftin' and thing heavy see above
3. I don't know honest

Three of your favorite hobbies:
1. music - I can play a little
2. cross-stitch - don't ask I do good at it.
3. graphics

Three things you want to do really badly right now:
1. sleep it's late

Three careers you’re considering:
1. none spring to mind

Three places you want to go on vacation:
1. Vacation what are those, can I buy them pre packed?

Three kids names:
1. I don't got none

Three things you want to do before you die:
1. I have no asparations like that.

Three people who have to take this quiz now or die a slow painful death:
1. Noone - Im not that cruel

Holidays

Hmm must remember not to drink so much makes me wanna say stuff to people - hmm and nope don't get hangovers - unless I drink bacardi or maybe it's cos i mixed it with something else hmm that will be it..
darn it, I think I'll just write "it" all down on a piece of paper.. Oh affairs of the heart never run easy or smooth..

Christmas Day

Well what a fun day this has been, got up erm "late" - it was just morning, just ;)
Opened all the presents I had- hmm 5.1 surrond DVD + TV (got that earlier), Bottle of Bailey's - hmm that will go down nice, Sweets - hmm well everyone gets the munchies now and then.. some PJ's won't go there, Shower gel and the like - hmm people trying to tell me something oh yeah they didn't quite know what to get me lol. Hmm Went to see nephew - that was fun hmm i'm sure he was cheating when I was racing him around his new scaltrix track hmm, got a bottle of macmillan single malt whisky hmm more alchol for me ;) and a robot shaped radio alarm clock from my newphew who has gone a bit robot mad this year..
He got one of those really cool robosapiens from santa but it don't wanna play ball (might just have to call santa and tell him off) oh well time to crack open the bailey's - oh did I mention my mate is here and he has even more baileys oh hope I don't run out of ice...*hic*

Useful day maybe

Hmm managed to finally solve a problem we were having at work.
I finally got to go and see the other end of the connection that was the problem, hooked into the router at that end - told it to behave, gave it some more info to make it play nice and it did, well port mapping external to internal ip will do that lol (maybe I shouldn't have stuck it in the DMZ) but it worked when we tried it and keep stable for hours lol I go to try it just before leaving as we have to check the remote camera only every so often - and "Nothing" NO... can't be
oh well it was a useful day upto that point
God darn it it will be something equally STUPID (like me!)

Feelings, all my life is feelings....

hmm do I, don't I, Argh I don't know what to do...
Do I write a letter to someone explaining how i feel about them and be made a fool of maybe due to the minor fact that sometimes they let slip things i've told, okay maybe not what i wrote maybe I hope.

or do i not, do I hide my feelings once more, like i'm doing now - I don't know what a moral dilemma...
Do I tell her that i'm the shoulder she can cry on, the shelter in the storm, the tower of strength she can draw on.. or do i not..

Xmas Day

Going to be an interesting xmas day as my sister and my parent ain't talking to each other.. oh well I guess I'll still see my nephew at night lol after I've had dinner I'll probably pop along and open some more presents and get thanked for ones i sent (hmm must remember and actually take my sisters gift with me)
Hmm don't say it - xmas is a family thing ~ not in this family it ain't ~ unless you wanna count a couple of stubborn people as stubborn as mules that is ...

Lazy Day

Decided after all the exitement yesterday and with the extra time I've done at work to have a day where I didn't go anywhere - just relaxed at home, played some music, what some tv & generally chill out...
Remind me not to include alchol in that equation next time - ended up about 1am depressed due to alcohol (darn it sucks)

Crash, Bang, Ouch!

Hmm next time I get the urge to take down a large whiteboard, kill me it will save me doing it later. NO i didn't kill or injury myself or anyone else when taking it down, well i did but only a smallish bruise I hope... it Hurts like hell because it's on the upper arm..
Had the idea of taking it down
Me - boss this board is off no use here can I take it down?
Boss - sure, no point in it being up there if it's not being used...
(or words to that effect)
Me - Ok..
Took all the screws out bar one, yup it was the last one that sunk me, oh that and a minor problem with a barrier being "UP" that I went to take down... Brain in "neutral" for sure...
you can imagine what happened next...
the screw holding it to the wall was only just slackened... it moved sideways and down on this...
nothing to worry you thing nothing in the way I've been sensible and cleared it all away - wrong "Blonde" moment.. didn't move Computer monitor out the way 1st and you guessed it , it went for a flying lesson straight to the floor. Now it don't work and makes noises that it shouldn't oh well have to figure out how to replace it temporaryly.. darn my shoulder hurts cos I got the board on the shoulder as I had to lever it out ..
Darn it call me BLONDE for sure..
had to laugh like either that or cry - oh well it wasn't one of the companies monitors anyway it was someone elses and they ain't got no spares oh well..

Panic !

Hmm got home like normal - later than normal did some overtime, went down to shop to get stuff and also to get a pizza from place next to shop and.....
It was closed - not normally closed on a wednesday kinda went "eh!!"
food what am i gonna eat - was looking forward to a ham & mushroom with peppers pizza but no I'll have to settle for a Microwavable Cheese burger and some chips well actually I passed on the chips couldn't be bothered..

Roadworks

Don't ya just hate them, on the way home from work taking another route because I fill up my car on a monday, nice simple and easy to remember if i do it every week. Done that expected a little bit more traffic than normal it being close to christmas and all but no - STANDSTILL! well rolling standstill and of course by time I realised there was a problem I was on the slip road and couldn't get off..
Took me 40 minutes to go something like 3 miles or something like that.
Didn't know there was roadworks on the road did I - thought I'll take the next slip road off but no that's the one they were working on :| God Darn It oh well after that of course road cleared was able to get up some speed - journey that normally takes 15 minutes took 50 was not best pleased shall we say.

Re: Website

Woo hoo got around to the last few pages tonight and it's all complient well
not really but the 1 page that isn't won't ever be unless do a minor re-write of it and that's gonna happen anyway as I'm tweaking that page and removing the code that is causing the fault to another page and doing the same thing in a different way. I'm toying with merging the entire sidebar + the "clock" - which is causing the problem because of the way I coded it - don't ask HTML complience is a royal pain in the rear but useful if people see it and say well I wonder if he can help me :D
so if you wanna go and visit this site and see (oh and feel free to leave comments private / public it don't matter)
http://www.yarrowzoo.freeserve.co.uk
updates coming soon - it's all there just some pages need refreshing they are a bit stale lol (go on say it why didn't I update them when I was getting them complient - because I don't know what to add / tweak yet lol)

Waste of Space

Hmm ever have a colleague at work who is a complete "waste of space" sometimes, useful to have around but sometimes ya just wish they would "**** off and die" or words to that effect....
Thankful he was out the office doing some "work", i put it in quotes cos that's what it was - meant to go to one place and fix something but it needed something arranged and he didn't check to see if this had been done.
thankfully however he managed to go some place else and fix something else on the list of things we got to fix 1 down so many to go...

To make matters worse we had a Work Inspection to allow us to continue to say was are approved by blah, we past thank god...
Roll on Friday

Re: A random entry

Remember how i said I'd be back to fix the network I was at last friday
Knew I'd be back as "the muppet" forgot to pick up the network switch from IT (and the RJ45 crimp tool + crimps just incase I'd mucked up one of the connectors), install it, move the wifi box from downstairs, test that it all worked correctly and tidy it up. I know for a fact he hates working with RJ45 connector. So i went down to discover that he was trying to get a Digibox (Digital TV down the co-ax kinda new in the UK) to stay tuned in and not have any picture loss / breakup / drop out and the dude who was helping him snapped the main TV ariel so a 10 minute job became 2hrs as my mate who was driving had to go get a new ariel so ya can image what I was like, got the whole thing tested as best as I could - plugged in the wifi unit and saw there was a connection to the socket it was going to, tested the other it failed - darn it if one of the pairs hadn't flipped around :-S oh well fixed that and it worked nicely - got the laptop with wifi built in to it and instant connect and a perfect connection.. Saved the day, then i had to get back to work asap as someone was covering why me and my colleague (we share the shift between us see previous entries for pattern) and thus I wanted to let them go home..
What a day - got the TV tuned perfectly (God Im a genius ta boot) :P

Website

Well I decided today that my site really could be better so I thought right what's the best way to see how good it is, check it for complience at the CSS / HTML checker on the w3c site.. this is gonna be fun I only got like 20 pages to check (and fix - probably)

Xmas Shopping

Had the idea that I'd get up early, wash my car (it's silver well it used to be silver) and then do most if not all my xmas shopping in town..
Didn't get up early, went into town and erm well let's see got most of it just got 1 person to get and then I remember "my colleagues" at work - eek oh well there is always next week or some personalised CD eh...

A random entry

This is a complete random entry just for the sheer unadulterty heck of it...
well not so random..
Got to love being able to get out the office and do some "field" work..
well heck all i had to do was pick up a couple of RJ45 couplers and put on 4 or 5 RJ45 connectors and wire up a couple of network points - cable had been run
dead simple - couldn't test it cos didn't have a 10/100 Switch as someone forgot to mention the small fact when I was going for the couplers otherwise I'd have gotten a nice 5 port one at the same time... oh well no doubt I'll be back to test it next week.. should be fun Cat 5 is such fun to work with (more fun then who I was working beside - *mutters something about a muppet*