Well it was a nice day off I had yersterday even although I did have plans with a friend to go see Star Wars 3, but that fell through. Got car derusted and spray painted over the weekend, ignoring the rain on saturday :|, finished off yesterday. So car now all nice and shiny again...
Well work today was a drag but it had it's moments, like getting paid MORE money :D ya... Me Happy bunny again, got Cash ££££ for 5 minutes again... Oh well time to sign off, finish up on my PC and head to bed..
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Saturday, May 28, 2005
Re: We Completly 0w3nd th3m...
Hmm I can see 1 confused commenter... hmm well how can I clarify this..
my Clan 7.62SQ play a game called Joint Operations which has 2 versions, one is an add-on to the other basically.. Now given that. If you say your "0wn1ng" someone it means your killing them repeatedly in whatever game your playing, but giving them a sporting chance to fight back.. so when I say "We Completly 0wn3nd" them we did just that kept killing them, kept them out of the scoring zone aka the "Hot zone" as there are various map type you can play on the game and the one we were playing is called "Team King of the Hill" where the "hot zone" is the hill and you score points for being in the zone and for killing the enemy who are attacking the zone or who are in the zone defending and a whole lot of other things too, like reviving people if your a medic.. Plus things like killing them with a headshot and double kill (a rarity - 2 people with 1 single bullet).. I hope that clears this up...
If not please feel free to go to the 762sq link on my sidebar..
my Clan 7.62SQ play a game called Joint Operations which has 2 versions, one is an add-on to the other basically.. Now given that. If you say your "0wn1ng" someone it means your killing them repeatedly in whatever game your playing, but giving them a sporting chance to fight back.. so when I say "We Completly 0wn3nd" them we did just that kept killing them, kept them out of the scoring zone aka the "Hot zone" as there are various map type you can play on the game and the one we were playing is called "Team King of the Hill" where the "hot zone" is the hill and you score points for being in the zone and for killing the enemy who are attacking the zone or who are in the zone defending and a whole lot of other things too, like reviving people if your a medic.. Plus things like killing them with a headshot and double kill (a rarity - 2 people with 1 single bullet).. I hope that clears this up...
If not please feel free to go to the 762sq link on my sidebar..
We Completly 0w3nd th3m...
Well as some of you may know I'm a member of 7.62SQ Clan. I decided after much deliberation to rejoin after I left, Call me INSANE but well it had to be done. Played for a few games in a match last night and did not bad.. We had another match tonight and well what can I say we totally 0w3nd them, that is to say we beat them hands down..
Now what is so special about this as we normally win every map we play? Was that the other squad was ex-7.62SQ members that had erm left cos the didn't like Team Leader Freak's way of doing things, ya see he'd been busy and left them in temporary charge of things and well the power went to their heads, when he came back they weren't happy said that he wasn't doing enough for the squad as in getting match play and such so they left and formed a new squad called TAF - Tactical Assult Farce sorry Force... well they came on our server a while back and talked shit about "owing" us when in fact they joined when 1 side was winning and basically did no real work. So we went into thier Server with spoof names and took the piss, they banned basically all of us and wouldn't accept a friendly match, so we got another squad to challange them and borrowed their server for the evening and went in with thier tag on, and different names I went from being Gopher 7.62SQ to F.A.R. Jesus , well I was a medic and we all know "Jesus Saves" :D. Well we won 3-1 and in the map we lost we won over all on kills it was only because they managed to get to the "hot zone" and keep it they they won, it was a narrow victory a matter of 10 seconds zone time... but after we won the 4th map, Freak said "You've Just Been Owned by 7.62SQ" and then we all went and said who we were, lets just say SB (TAF leader) then said we was "cheater" but we 0wned them TOTALLY... It was funny to say the least....
Now what is so special about this as we normally win every map we play? Was that the other squad was ex-7.62SQ members that had erm left cos the didn't like Team Leader Freak's way of doing things, ya see he'd been busy and left them in temporary charge of things and well the power went to their heads, when he came back they weren't happy said that he wasn't doing enough for the squad as in getting match play and such so they left and formed a new squad called TAF - Tactical Assult Farce sorry Force... well they came on our server a while back and talked shit about "owing" us when in fact they joined when 1 side was winning and basically did no real work. So we went into thier Server with spoof names and took the piss, they banned basically all of us and wouldn't accept a friendly match, so we got another squad to challange them and borrowed their server for the evening and went in with thier tag on, and different names I went from being Gopher 7.62SQ to F.A.R. Jesus , well I was a medic and we all know "Jesus Saves" :D. Well we won 3-1 and in the map we lost we won over all on kills it was only because they managed to get to the "hot zone" and keep it they they won, it was a narrow victory a matter of 10 seconds zone time... but after we won the 4th map, Freak said "You've Just Been Owned by 7.62SQ" and then we all went and said who we were, lets just say SB (TAF leader) then said we was "cheater" but we 0wned them TOTALLY... It was funny to say the least....
Friday, May 27, 2005
hmm Darn what a chapter....
Hmm gosh darn it, Pammy has managed to out do all the others with her chapter this just gets better and better, I look forward to next weeks installment...
A Blogger Western Latest installment
All I have to say is "ouch"& "squeek"...
A Blogger Western Latest installment
All I have to say is "ouch"& "squeek"...
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
A little more about me...
Hmm well I was thinking and my blogger profile doesn't begin to really tell you anything much about me.. It's a little too analytical, impersonal and right now I can't be bothered to mess around with it and change it so it reflects me more...
Just flicked through my music collection and realised I have everything from
Punk Rock to Modern Jazz To Dance, Hip Hop to Folk to Classical to Country to pretty much anywhere and back again.
From Greenday, Daft Punk & Linkin Park to Jamie Cullum, Joss Stone, Norah Jones, Katie Melua. From the Chemical Brothers, Faithless Outkast, The Streets, Eminem, Ian Van Dah & DJ Tim Westwood to Local Folk Artist Bruce Davies. From Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven to Faith Hill, Toby Keith and Little Billy Gilman.
From Queen, Athlete, Kaiser Chiefs, Lost Prophets, Keane & Ash to the Foo Fighters, Damien Rice. From Delta Goodrem to Dido to name a few of the artists I have on CD..
Right now I'm listening to the new Faithless Album - Forever Faithless it's good, nice and relaxing like most of the stuff I have, I have the songs in there that are for sad times, good times, bad times and I think I have music for ever mood...
Just flicked through my music collection and realised I have everything from
Punk Rock to Modern Jazz To Dance, Hip Hop to Folk to Classical to Country to pretty much anywhere and back again.
From Greenday, Daft Punk & Linkin Park to Jamie Cullum, Joss Stone, Norah Jones, Katie Melua. From the Chemical Brothers, Faithless Outkast, The Streets, Eminem, Ian Van Dah & DJ Tim Westwood to Local Folk Artist Bruce Davies. From Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven to Faith Hill, Toby Keith and Little Billy Gilman.
From Queen, Athlete, Kaiser Chiefs, Lost Prophets, Keane & Ash to the Foo Fighters, Damien Rice. From Delta Goodrem to Dido to name a few of the artists I have on CD..
Right now I'm listening to the new Faithless Album - Forever Faithless it's good, nice and relaxing like most of the stuff I have, I have the songs in there that are for sad times, good times, bad times and I think I have music for ever mood...
What color are you?
I snagged this test from Sharon, The Domesitic Engineers site...
#AFEEEE |
Your dominant hues are green and blue. You're smart and you know it, and want to use your power to help people and relate to others. Even though you tend to battle with yourself, you solve other people's conflicts well. Your saturation level is low - You stay out of stressful situations and advise others to do the same. You may not be the go-to person when something really needs done, but you know never to blow things out of proportion. Your outlook on life is bright. You see good things in situations where others may not be able to, and it frustrates you to see them get down on everything. |
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Letter From America
Hmm well I got up today, had a showere, went downstairs to discover the post had actually arrived before I'd even got up. Where I stay this is a sort of regular occurence well it's sometimes here by 8:30, but today it surpassed itself it was up before my parents got up at 7:30...
And there was two letters for me.. One I was expecting which was a DVD of a Precussion Extravagnsa by a member of the Salvation Army called Johnathan Whitmore and my best mate stu was doing all the video work to record the event... which for what I've seen of it, it was a good night.. Stu had the unenviable task of splicing all the video footage together from the various cameras at the event and getting it to syncronize in with the Audio - a definate plus.. the finished product is polished to say the least..
The other was expected just not quite yet.. it was from Sharon and I didn't expect it that soon as well International mail can take a while... I then spent the rest of the day at work with "The Proclaimers - Letter From America" chorus and bits of the song going around in my head.. Thank you sharon for brightening my day :)
And there was two letters for me.. One I was expecting which was a DVD of a Precussion Extravagnsa by a member of the Salvation Army called Johnathan Whitmore and my best mate stu was doing all the video work to record the event... which for what I've seen of it, it was a good night.. Stu had the unenviable task of splicing all the video footage together from the various cameras at the event and getting it to syncronize in with the Audio - a definate plus.. the finished product is polished to say the least..
The other was expected just not quite yet.. it was from Sharon and I didn't expect it that soon as well International mail can take a while... I then spent the rest of the day at work with "The Proclaimers - Letter From America" chorus and bits of the song going around in my head.. Thank you sharon for brightening my day :)
Monday, May 23, 2005
Don't you just hate....
Don't ya just hate when you talk yourself into something. Hmm I've made that mistake a few times you would think I'd have learned by now. Nope, talked myself into helping someone set up a database to consolidate several excel workbooks into one file, now I need to be able to query this database with all the data and I think I had better include a "delete" recovery option so as to be able to recover data that has been accidently changed or somehow enable "user" levels. Oh the joys of Access Databases, which I now need to learn how to set up and manage properly. The Set-up looks easy enough but it's the switchboard, the layout of the data to be displayed etc that will be the fun parts of this but I think I'll get by need to practice a little, I'm sure I'll get it... If you hear a funny noise one day it's okay it'll be my beating by brains out with a wooden spoon..
Friday, May 20, 2005
An intresting dilemma
Hmm well that was an intresting week, if not a little on the boring side, I know I just basically said an oxymoron in a kinda way but what the heck.
Now it's one of my sisters silver wedding anniversery this year, on 16th of July, this is gonna prove interesting because we'll have my cousin, her husband, their complete mental english springer spaniel and my aunt staying, now this means it's going to be intresting, it also means I get turfed out my room as it has a nice double bed in it, and by the looks of things I'm gonna be sleeping in the attic beside all my PC's which isn't that bad but my colleague at work's wife is due to give birth on the 17th of July but it could swing a few days either side and obviously he'll want time off for that.. I also worked out that the week leading up to the 16th I'm working 7am to 4pm and the week after it 10am til 7pm, now I can see me not getting much sleep as it is but I may have to work 7am til 7pm if my colleague needs time off... ARGH - it will be wake, work, home, eat, and not much sleep... Oh boy gonna be rough can see me going to work asleep, driving with my eyes shut - oh dear...
Now it's one of my sisters silver wedding anniversery this year, on 16th of July, this is gonna prove interesting because we'll have my cousin, her husband, their complete mental english springer spaniel and my aunt staying, now this means it's going to be intresting, it also means I get turfed out my room as it has a nice double bed in it, and by the looks of things I'm gonna be sleeping in the attic beside all my PC's which isn't that bad but my colleague at work's wife is due to give birth on the 17th of July but it could swing a few days either side and obviously he'll want time off for that.. I also worked out that the week leading up to the 16th I'm working 7am to 4pm and the week after it 10am til 7pm, now I can see me not getting much sleep as it is but I may have to work 7am til 7pm if my colleague needs time off... ARGH - it will be wake, work, home, eat, and not much sleep... Oh boy gonna be rough can see me going to work asleep, driving with my eyes shut - oh dear...
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Close to the heart...
I heard in the news about the singer Kylie Minogue having been diagnoised with breast cancer and thought hmm there are many things in live that can appear and don't respect any kind of barriers of race, creed, color, sex one of these is cancer. Delta Goodram had non hogkins lymphoma - but she's cured now and back to singing.. I wish Kylie all best and pray she recovers quickly - I know she has the love of her family around her..
Now lets get to the meat of this post why is this post close to my heart, why am I waffling attempting to fill the space up with almost meaningless words, well hmm as I said Cancer has no respect for age, race, color,creed, sex.. I has visited my family, my mother had cervical cancer, now okay this was a few years now, she's fine now, got given the all clear after the course of treatments she recieved and only need to go back for check ups now and then, she is a fair age.. 70 this year. I came along late in life, but back to my mum.. I did think for a while what if!? what if I lose her, I knew deep in my heart I wouldn't, not to this as she was a fighter and had her faith in god, the doctors who cared for her and the surgeon who operated on her to remove the cancer, she said once that god's hand had guided the surgeon to remove it as she'd prayed for help.. I knew then she'd be safe, I gave her help around the house as she recovered but that dropped away. But she's better now, healed, proof that there is life after cancer. Proof there is a god, an angel watching over us, the ones who have lead selfless lifes, do selfless acts.. those who are mothers, who care..
Mind you there is another thing that is tearing her apart now, but I'm working on sorting that out head on... If you want some info on it read here and maybe read a few of the next entries as well, it might not make any sense but trust me it hurts..... but I'm gonna fix it now...
I have an idea, take the bull by the horns, the only one who is gonna lose out if it all goes wrong is me.. but i matter little, if I can get my sister the boneheaded one and my mum talking again.. if I lose what will I lose, I'll never see my nephew again ever.. but it's a price I'm willing to pay, He'll miss me I know it's not fair on him, he's 7 and I don't wanna do it but I must... Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna have to go dry my eyes..
Est Sularus oth Mithas - My Honor is My Life (Old Solmanian - Dragonlance)
Now lets get to the meat of this post why is this post close to my heart, why am I waffling attempting to fill the space up with almost meaningless words, well hmm as I said Cancer has no respect for age, race, color,creed, sex.. I has visited my family, my mother had cervical cancer, now okay this was a few years now, she's fine now, got given the all clear after the course of treatments she recieved and only need to go back for check ups now and then, she is a fair age.. 70 this year. I came along late in life, but back to my mum.. I did think for a while what if!? what if I lose her, I knew deep in my heart I wouldn't, not to this as she was a fighter and had her faith in god, the doctors who cared for her and the surgeon who operated on her to remove the cancer, she said once that god's hand had guided the surgeon to remove it as she'd prayed for help.. I knew then she'd be safe, I gave her help around the house as she recovered but that dropped away. But she's better now, healed, proof that there is life after cancer. Proof there is a god, an angel watching over us, the ones who have lead selfless lifes, do selfless acts.. those who are mothers, who care..
Mind you there is another thing that is tearing her apart now, but I'm working on sorting that out head on... If you want some info on it read here and maybe read a few of the next entries as well, it might not make any sense but trust me it hurts..... but I'm gonna fix it now...
I have an idea, take the bull by the horns, the only one who is gonna lose out if it all goes wrong is me.. but i matter little, if I can get my sister the boneheaded one and my mum talking again.. if I lose what will I lose, I'll never see my nephew again ever.. but it's a price I'm willing to pay, He'll miss me I know it's not fair on him, he's 7 and I don't wanna do it but I must... Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna have to go dry my eyes..
Est Sularus oth Mithas - My Honor is My Life (Old Solmanian - Dragonlance)
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Mates...
Hmm well had a really good fecking day yesterday... My good friend & his girlfriend were meant to come over and visit me... I even got a bottle of Tia Lusso in (It's like Bailey's Irish Cream but with Tia Maria instead of Brandy - quite nice on the rocks)
But they didn't turn up, no phone call, no message, not even a simple text message to say sorry mate can't make it over and I still don't got a reply to the text message I sent him wondering where he was from last night...
To say I'm a tad fecking bloody annoyed would be a minor UNDERSTATEMENT...
But never mind I had something to fill my time in with, chating away to a good friend about how her and her boyfriend are doing.. Hmm can I say happy yeah I can say that word.. Now here I am sitting typing this and printing of Silver Wedding Invites 10 at a time (no more my printer gets kinda warm and the inkjets start to clog up and it stops printing in one of the colors which isn't good at all..
Oh I might just mess around with the template some more... darken the colors slightly..
But they didn't turn up, no phone call, no message, not even a simple text message to say sorry mate can't make it over and I still don't got a reply to the text message I sent him wondering where he was from last night...
To say I'm a tad fecking bloody annoyed would be a minor UNDERSTATEMENT...
But never mind I had something to fill my time in with, chating away to a good friend about how her and her boyfriend are doing.. Hmm can I say happy yeah I can say that word.. Now here I am sitting typing this and printing of Silver Wedding Invites 10 at a time (no more my printer gets kinda warm and the inkjets start to clog up and it stops printing in one of the colors which isn't good at all..
Oh I might just mess around with the template some more... darken the colors slightly..
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Template Changes
Well I played around some more with the template and I got it looking just like I want hmm mind you I think I may increase the width of the whole thing as it looks small on my 1024 x 768 screen *grins* I'll play around some more with it, I'll find a background to suit me soon... Hmm might use the one from my website - hmm but which 1 I have a few which you can set to your own liking (well works in IE / NS / Other browsers flaky support )
NB: It's not actually changed size in any way shape or form all though it does look like it...
NB: It's not actually changed size in any way shape or form all though it does look like it...
Thursday, May 12, 2005
A Review
Okay Dax ya got me - true indeed, don't worry that's just me being "Random", see my title does make sense...
Well actually i don't know why I wrote that, I blame Moogie, it's all her fault to start off with, well actually it's a friend of hers who doesn't have a blog but is in the same team that is Free-dc.org (note to self add link to sidebar for that..) well actually friend and an old tutor of mine who kinda persuded me to do the whole Distrubted Computer approach when SETI was new so blame the nameless one (you know who you are).. Then Moogie pointed me to her blog, then one day she said read this blog it's very touching and thus sharon got added as a friend and they both worked on me and persuded me to move(hmm mind you an old friend made a note that she did suggest blogger to begin with lol)...
Hmm Well I was at dear diary for a while since someone persuded me thus...
Dax your added to the sidebar for your comment :P - feel free to link back to me if you wish...
Onward and upward
Well actually i don't know why I wrote that, I blame Moogie, it's all her fault to start off with, well actually it's a friend of hers who doesn't have a blog but is in the same team that is Free-dc.org (note to self add link to sidebar for that..) well actually friend and an old tutor of mine who kinda persuded me to do the whole Distrubted Computer approach when SETI was new so blame the nameless one (you know who you are).. Then Moogie pointed me to her blog, then one day she said read this blog it's very touching and thus sharon got added as a friend and they both worked on me and persuded me to move
Hmm Well I was at dear diary for a while since someone persuded me thus...
Dax your added to the sidebar for your comment :P - feel free to link back to me if you wish...
Onward and upward
A Western Blog
Hmm Wow is all I have to say for the Chapters 1 to 4 (See Side bar for links to them), I found myself today writing out the opening for chapter 5 in my head, not something I normally do but darn it somehow my brain is working on stuff that it normally don't do.. I normally work on problems I have for work / home / blog / elsewhere. I'm not that a creative writer well I can write and write if i find a topic that interests me. Quite the puzzle am I as Yoda would say.
I'm not going to utter another word about what I have in my head for chapter 5.
Good Luck to Eric - you gotta hard act to follow
Dax :) - Great Start;
Moogie - it's all your fault I got a blog in the 1st place (Well actually you and sharon but you've wrote a chapter:P);
NitWit - Superb follow on
Kelley - Wow is all I can say didn't know where it was going to go after NitWit finished almost everyone off..
I really should like erm read more peoples blog that just Sharon and Moggie's (thus only a limited Amount of Other Blogs listed on my sidebar)
but erm I don't wanna pry into anyones space that I don't know that well...
I'm not going to utter another word about what I have in my head for chapter 5.
Good Luck to Eric - you gotta hard act to follow
Dax :) - Great Start;
Moogie - it's all your fault I got a blog in the 1st place (Well actually you and sharon but you've wrote a chapter:P);
NitWit - Superb follow on
Kelley - Wow is all I can say didn't know where it was going to go after NitWit finished almost everyone off..
I really should like erm read more peoples blog that just Sharon and Moggie's (thus only a limited Amount of Other Blogs listed on my sidebar)
but erm I don't wanna pry into anyones space that I don't know that well...
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
An interesting day.
Well it was a lovely sunny day to day, cold but nice and sunny, but most of all quiet, got a few things done at work... One day soon I'll actually have a proper complete list of all the stock we actually own and whats needing fixed and whats needing thrown away...
Hmm Time to chill out to some random cd, correction mp3'd cd :D gotta love being able to make a legal backup of a cd onto hdd / another cd ;)
Hmm Time to chill out to some random cd, correction mp3'd cd :D gotta love being able to make a legal backup of a cd onto hdd / another cd ;)
Sunday, May 08, 2005
A quiet Tuesday
Hmm today at work...................
That's right nothing happened, day went kinda slow but thankfully gave me time to think and plan, well since no-one else was in office but me and my friend we were able to just chinwag at times, hope there is something on at cinema this friday so I can finally go to cinema with friend (darn it Nth time lucky) said I'd pay for everything since it's her birthday etc... She don't know about the flowers and hopefully she never will, might just have to erm arrange to have them with me on friday - hmm a possibility *one that saves me fuel - only a little but well maybe I might just surprise her*
That's right nothing happened, day went kinda slow but thankfully gave me time to think and plan, well since no-one else was in office but me and my friend we were able to just chinwag at times, hope there is something on at cinema this friday so I can finally go to cinema with friend (darn it Nth time lucky) said I'd pay for everything since it's her birthday etc... She don't know about the flowers and hopefully she never will, might just have to erm arrange to have them with me on friday - hmm a possibility *one that saves me fuel - only a little but well maybe I might just surprise her*
Hmm Well that's me caught up with the past Week (that's right from 1st March till now all written today) It's now 11pm and I'm gonna get some sleep (since I have to be up in 6 1/2 hrs)
Saturday, May 07, 2005
My Nephew and Me...
Well I had fun last night, sister and her boyfriend went out last night for his and another friends birthday so I was looking after my nephew all last night, picked him up from football practice which is on the site of my old high school - well the high school is still there I've not been into the new building they put up yet, I still remember the old one... so got him home, had fun building models with megablock bricks (similar to lego but erm not lego) and watch jetix on Sky - well he likes watching Power Rangers and Robot Wars (which I like watching too) he is 7 (although him reaching next birthday might be a challange - Im sure a lot out there know what I'm on about).
Well let him watch Robot Wars, ran a bath for him, then hmm the darling some how managed to con me into let him stay up till 9:30 by which time it was getting dark so the blinds and everything were shut and he turned off the sky / TV / dvd with surrond sound - which I had to turn back on later... and then I had to read him a story with a voice that was starting to sound like kermit the frog was in there - it was a little croaky.. that took us to 10pm when I told him to sleep! which he did was a fun night, sat up waiting for them to come home which they did around 1am hmm randomly surfing sky channels - 800+ channels and All I could find was a James Bond Film that was on a channel I can get at home (I don't got sky at home - kinda expensive).. then I watched some Family Guy, some really far out South Park episode and then randomly surfed around... got home around 2 and went to bed hmm woke up about erm 11am, got up then though hmm no and went back to sleep for 5 minutes (2 hrs more like) lol... Lazy Saturday
Well let him watch Robot Wars, ran a bath for him, then hmm the darling some how managed to con me into let him stay up till 9:30 by which time it was getting dark so the blinds and everything were shut and he turned off the sky / TV / dvd with surrond sound - which I had to turn back on later... and then I had to read him a story with a voice that was starting to sound like kermit the frog was in there - it was a little croaky.. that took us to 10pm when I told him to sleep! which he did was a fun night, sat up waiting for them to come home which they did around 1am hmm randomly surfing sky channels - 800+ channels and All I could find was a James Bond Film that was on a channel I can get at home (I don't got sky at home - kinda expensive).. then I watched some Family Guy, some really far out South Park episode and then randomly surfed around... got home around 2 and went to bed hmm woke up about erm 11am, got up then though hmm no and went back to sleep for 5 minutes (2 hrs more like) lol... Lazy Saturday
Thursday, May 05, 2005
The Service....
Well this took a little longer to post as well erm I kinda took the night off doing much but printing A4 Invites for one of my sisters "Silver Wedding Anniversary"
Hmm don't ya just love it when you set your computer to do a repeat copy run of something and it decides to stop using black to print out even when it's not out of black, it did that on me got 10 out of 20 done and it stopped using black I was watching a dvd at the same time in another room - Multitasking or what lol and generally not really doing much as I was to put it mildly "In SHOOK"..
It's a Annual Car Service, car was in good condtion I hear you ask, YEah it was in good condition a little bit of rust starting to appear (but that's not done at a service)
NO I get a call at work after they had picked it up and started the service..
Service Company > SV
SV: This is ......, .... speaking, Sir the lower armature bushes on the front of the car need to be replaced as they are badly split, and the wheels realigned that will be £167.
ME: I go how badly are they split..
SV: Well they engineer has marked it in red sir, its needing done urgently.
ME: Okay go ahead
SV: Also sir they engineer recommends that you change the brake fluid out as well.. that will be another £22..
ME: I go Okay do that as well...
End of Conversation...
Brain starts adding up... 167 + 22 + 100 (what I though I'd be paying for service)
£ 289 - EEP!!!!
They phone back saying that's your car ready sir we just to have some form of payment before we can get the car back to you... that will be £330
ME:Will ..... do
SV: yeah
ME: (procededs to give card details over phone) and Baulk at the price
They then phone me back saying they need me to come in and swipe my card as it's one of the new ones that requires fraud prevention authetication (It's one of them new [to the UK] Chip & PIN cards) and until payment is recieved the car ain't going nowhere..
I attempt to phone parents to get dad to collece me - They don't answer (and later claim to have been in at the time - but outside - Expletive)
So to say My bank account is a light is an understatment that's practically all my spending for this month GONE already and my mum only just put my wages check in the bank on tuesday and it's spent - £860 for a month and most of that spent on the car, well I still got another 200 to shell out between insuring in and paying back the loan I got out to pay for it...
Hmm don't ya just love it when you set your computer to do a repeat copy run of something and it decides to stop using black to print out even when it's not out of black, it did that on me got 10 out of 20 done and it stopped using black I was watching a dvd at the same time in another room - Multitasking or what lol and generally not really doing much as I was to put it mildly "In SHOOK"..
It's a Annual Car Service, car was in good condtion I hear you ask, YEah it was in good condition a little bit of rust starting to appear (but that's not done at a service)
NO I get a call at work after they had picked it up and started the service..
Service Company > SV
SV: This is ......, .... speaking, Sir the lower armature bushes on the front of the car need to be replaced as they are badly split, and the wheels realigned that will be £167.
ME: I go how badly are they split..
SV: Well they engineer has marked it in red sir, its needing done urgently.
ME: Okay go ahead
SV: Also sir they engineer recommends that you change the brake fluid out as well.. that will be another £22..
ME: I go Okay do that as well...
End of Conversation...
Brain starts adding up... 167 + 22 + 100 (what I though I'd be paying for service)
£ 289 - EEP!!!!
They phone back saying that's your car ready sir we just to have some form of payment before we can get the car back to you... that will be £330
ME:Will ..... do
SV: yeah
ME: (procededs to give card details over phone) and Baulk at the price
They then phone me back saying they need me to come in and swipe my card as it's one of the new ones that requires fraud prevention authetication (It's one of them new [to the UK] Chip & PIN cards) and until payment is recieved the car ain't going nowhere..
I attempt to phone parents to get dad to collece me - They don't answer (and later claim to have been in at the time - but outside - Expletive)
So to say My bank account is a light is an understatment that's practically all my spending for this month GONE already and my mum only just put my wages check in the bank on tuesday and it's spent - £860 for a month and most of that spent on the car, well I still got another 200 to shell out between insuring in and paying back the loan I got out to pay for it...
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Hmm Time for a Service
Hmm well it's that time of the year... The Annual Car Service is due, well this is 1st service of my car since I bought it back in October (See Previous Entries Once I get around to porting them over from the XML file I have of them it's slow job copy and pasting)...
Well My car has sticker on the drivers door which has a date / milage that the service is due on it, well It was due on the 23rd but that day was fully booked, so I said okay the saturady after would do but got a call on thursday from the nice dealership place I bought from saying that one of the people that did the services had a funeral to attend on the Saturday and with it being a holiday weekend cover was not possible so I said yeah so they are picking up my car from my place of work tommorrow and bring it back all nice and serviced (with no bits needing replaced - I hope) before I finish up - how nice of them... Oh the joys of motoring.. I could technically do this myself but erm I have neither the time or the inclination nor tools to do all the required service checks and as it's a new enough car I'll let them do it for me...
Well My car has sticker on the drivers door which has a date / milage that the service is due on it, well It was due on the 23rd but that day was fully booked, so I said okay the saturady after would do but got a call on thursday from the nice dealership place I bought from saying that one of the people that did the services had a funeral to attend on the Saturday and with it being a holiday weekend cover was not possible so I said yeah so they are picking up my car from my place of work tommorrow and bring it back all nice and serviced (with no bits needing replaced - I hope) before I finish up - how nice of them... Oh the joys of motoring.. I could technically do this myself but erm I have neither the time or the inclination nor tools to do all the required service checks and as it's a new enough car I'll let them do it for me...
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