Re: Happy Blog Birthday

Melonie anytime, like I read in the comments on your blog, I am a gent of the old school that's for sure. I figured that well a having and keeping a blog going for a year even on sparse postings is hard, so between that and the 7 kids (well hmm men are just big boys lol) you deserved a little something on it's birthday (even if they erm arrived late - ophs)
Confession time: I did truely mean to have them delivered on the actual date but erm I forgot to "confirm" the order, complete the last step either that or I did and navigated away before it was completed - my bad. See Honesty is best way..
Glad you liked them. Imagine the only time you get flowers is when someone's done something wrong... That is NO good (hint to somone!!!)

Happy Blog Birthday

Happy Blog Birthday to Melonie :)
Congrats Melonie, your now the proud owner of a 1yr old blog :)
Hugs to ya..

Just found something out.

I just found out a good friend of mine, even although we have never actually met was killed last month. I did wonder why I hadn't seen him online but thought maybe his pc had died and he was saving up for a new one didn't know that had happened..
The Story. He loved his bike, he was always cleaning it, adjusting it here and there, making sure it was in 100% top notch condition, he had all the gear, he did speed but only when he knew the road was clean and it was safe to do so, he was young but not stupid, he could be a pain in the ass but somehow always managed somehow to get back on my side.
So Long Russell mate, take care, shame I never got to meet you I just know we'd have gotten on..

Happy Birthday to Me..

Ha Ha Ha Guess what day it is today :P Bet you can't..

Re: In Honor of WBF

Okay some of y'all said ya couldn't hear anything it wouldn't play
Star Spangled Banner
A Direct Link (will open in a new window).

In Honor of WBF

All rise for the National Anthem of the United States of America.
As before please not this is a popup window and filesize is approx 1.2mb in size but please note I'm hosting this on my personal webserver at home and the outbound stuff can only go out so fast so please right click and save the file or be patient as it may take a while to load, also you need to click play to play it (I've turned autoplay off).

Star Spangled Banner

WTF

I'm sorry y'all but I don't have none of them thar pictures to show ya, I guess that darn well means I might not be consdiered trashy enough for y'all..
Hmm let me think....


Is that worth of WTF or not?

Re: A dangerous thing..

Okay someone posted a song I know and that I have in my collection just need to source it without the vocals in it so I can sing along to it :)
Some people that blog have been luck and have heard me but that was before I made that post, the inspiration almost, so if this all goes "a bit pete tong" then you can blame me, melonie and sharon (only kidding ladies)..
Jackie - you will hear me sing.
Heather - you will hear lonestar - I'm already there. It's gonna be tough I may just cry a little.
Oh and a rendition of Star Spangled Banner is also in progress, I was gonna do all the verses but erm I'm finding it hard to do verse 2...

Catch y'all later.

Honesty

What a random post topic this is, on reflection i suppose I got the idea from the word pictures on Sharon's site, the word popped into my head this morning at work, so while still at work I wrote out on a few sheets of A4 paper the entire content of this post minus basically this paragraph.

Well I thought it was about time I wrote something like this, time to be honest with you, I've seen what happens when others are honest on their blogs. Well what to can I say about me, in no particular order since this is my thoughts and my thought patterns here.

I'm not really a morning person, on the weekends I like to wake up around 11am, but during the week depending on what shift I'm on at work, I can be up at around 5:30 or around 8:15. Obviously At 5:30 all your likely to get out of me is "mornin'" and maybe a yes or no answer to a question or a nod / shake of the head, until I've woken up but that which doesn't really happen till I'm at work. I'm a bit more responsive at 8:30 after I've had a quick shower Im obviously more awake. Breakfast for me is a nice slice of toast and a nice fresh made cup of tea.

I get cranky when I'm hungry or tired , worse if both. This is very true, to some people im more cranky than with others, also if you annoy me enough your gonna get it with both barrels right between the eyes.

As I kid I used to have a quickfire temprament, but quick I mean quick basically if you'd annoyed me in the time it's taken you to read this I've acted on it. I calmed down a lot in the years since then.

Also as a kid all you'd have had to do was ping my nose and it would start to gush the red stuff, that has calmed down now as well only goes off if I've got a bad head cold.

I'm only 5'2" but like I've said ya don't wanna mess with me. I have a spinal condition called "scoliosis" basically it means curved spine, hmm so kids don't slouch unless you wanna end up with a spine shaped like a helter skelter which is basically what happens or can happen. I could have an operation to fix it but well there is a good chance I'd end up in a wheelchair so Im not doing it unless it starts to cause me constant pain. I only occationally bothers me normally it's my lower spinal muscles that lock up only i've i've been lifting something heavy or leaning over something for a long time that it annoys.

I'm 30 soon to be 31, well in 5 days from now to be precise and honest.
Thus im a librian and as such I can rarely decide on things, it makes life a little tricky / interesting as some of you can imagine being librians yourself or being married to / engaged to / going out with one.

I like people to tell me the truth when I ask them even if I might not like the answer. I dislike when people lie to me unless there is a valid and good reason behind it, sometimes it is required. Believe me being honest at the start is more often than not better thatn being found out in the end!

I may actually put a scan of this handwritten post I don't know yet.

I have two sisters who I love even if they are a bit of a pain at times. I have one nephew (see previous posts about him :) ) whom I adore. I have NO brothers that I consider alive, I have one but well he's dead as far as I'm concerned, don't ask why, just know it's something terrible enough that I'd disown him (previous post kinda fills it in).

I am my own worst critic, I hate many things about myself but I live with it, I also hate those aspects in others.

I once did one of those tests at school where you fill out a big list of questions about your likes and dislikes by colouring in boxes where 1 was strongly like and 5 was strongly dislike and it did come back with some interesting results from what I can remember of it, it came back with professions such as "nurse", "social worker" and the caring kind of work, I dismissed them all at the time well this was around 18 years ago. It took me 2 years of Uni (which didn't work out - I only have my friends from then and only the basics of memorys of the good times) and 5 years of being out of work and doing training courses to figure it out and find myself again. I found i was a good listener somehow and that I'm kinda alright at looking after people. So maybe it was just about right after all. I like helping people, again a few of you know this already :). Maybe I should change a few things here but no, I don't think I'll do that yet. "Councilor Gopher" has a ring to it no? but then again I could never charge anyone for the advice I'd give out, so maybe no-one would take my advice seriously.

You'll no doubt have noticed im well versed in the subtle art of sarchasm, it's the way I greet people with a joke in my heart and well sometimes it works, I'd say it works rather well. I mean I'm sure you can tell when I'm being serious and when Im being sarchastic. Oh say I don't think I will post this pencil written script online as well you'd have to take 3 days to decypher and decode the writing and well (this is page 3 halfway down or so).

I hope this helps you to understand me and the way I think a little more afdter all a little honesty goes a long way. Im sure a few of you can relate to that :)
Time to write post: 39 minutes

Like My New Clock?

Well I thought I'd put a clock on my blog just so you guys know what time it is over here in the UK (well +/- 1 hr - I ain't doing a 3hr recode just to get DST figured out lol)
It also tells me what time it is in the BWTP, a bit simplistic but simple works best ;) notice the 2 different date styles English for the UK and American for the BWTP ;) just my way of helping take the confusion out of things..

Sunday Mornin'

Well it's a nice enough day here in the wilderness (well it is a bit wild sometimes)
According to my Weather plugin for Firfox it's a nice 15C(59F), Partly Sunny and with 17mph wind from the WSW. I suppose this isn't really that bad for this time of the year. Well I'm gonna get back to my nice cup of fresh ground coffee and sit and read a few or more blogs..
Y'All Take Care now.

A song I heard on the radio

I was on my way home this afternoon when this song came on my local radio station.
Okay Westlife is kinda cheesy but I don't care it's not the band it's the song
Westlife - Flying Without wings

Everybody's looking for that something
One thing that makes it all complete
You'll find it in the strangest places
Places you never knew it could be
Some find it in the face of their children
Some find it in their lover's eyes
Who can deny the joy it brings
When you've found that special thing
You're flying without wings

Some find it sharing every morning
Some in their solitary lives
You'll find it in the words of others
a simple line can make you laugh or cry
You'll find it in the deepest friendship
The kind you cherish all your life
and when you know how much that means
You've found that special thing
You're flying without wings

So impossible
as it may seem
You've got to fight
for every dream
'cause who's to know
which one you let go
would've made you complete

Well, for me it's waking up beside you
to watch the sunrise on your face
to know that i can say I love you
in any given time or place
its the little things that only I know

Those are the things that make you mine
And it's like flying without wings
'Cause you're my special thing
I'm flying without wings

And you're the place my life begins
and you'll be where it ends
I'm flying without wings
And that's the joy you bring

I'm flying without wings
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Read the lyrics hear the song in your head and say you can't relate in someway to the words..
I'm flying without wings - reason everyone of my friends who I know all around the world that's you guys that is :)

A dangerous thing..

Okay I thought it was time for another audio post from me but erm with a twist.
Now a lucky few people outside my family, around the world have heard me sing, even although I think I'm not great they insist I am. Well here's the thing I had this Idea I'd put up an audio post of me singing something but well let's just say you vote on it :) that's right you get to pick what I do, it's got to be something I can find the words to and more importantly something i can find the music too so I can learn it, so if you pick something I don't know well it will take me longer as I've gotta learn it..
Me out got an early start and a longish day ahead of me..
Oh Chase thank's for the invite fix :)

This one's for chase

Chase, you seriously wanting a kilt?
If so Hector Russell in Canada is a possible, White Thistle in California is another.
A How to measure yourself Guide can be found here

For more try Google - Kilt+Maker
Right Im off to bed I got work to do ya know.
Funny I was thinking about something scottish for your wedding don't ask me why was thinking of a piper (don't let suzanne see it - if your lucky you maybe able to make it a surprise lol)

Found: Set of Trailer Keys

Has erm anyone lost a set of key to a trailer?
Which one of ya lost their keys and has been stuck in their trailer afraid to come out incase someone up and moves ya...
Just let a message I'll get them too ya.. but don't try and get 'em they is secured someplace.

Only in the US

At work today, having lunch so decided to have a quick read a newspaper that had been left but they weekend staff, it was in the "Sunday Express" so it's their story which I going to run snippets from and since they don't appear to have a "newspaper archieve" I'll have to just read it from the A3 > A5 copy i have in front of me.
Now it looks like a normal shop, 3 stories high on 5th Avenue, nice swanky place. Wait what's that it's a Toy Shop "America Girl Place" where the only thing they sell cost you $85 and well that's just the begining, you have to accessorise don't cha?
Well each "doll" is themed to corrospond with a particular era of American History. That's right folks it's a Doll store. It has boutiques, beauty salons, restraunts and even a thetre but its still a doll store, oh and the beauty salons are for the dolls to get a cut n blow dry in. I'm serious folks.
There are full wardrobes, pets, even a health and beauty spa - by appointment only no less. I'll quote some of the prices for things for a doll bag - $58. An escaped civil war slave doll who has to have her $159 trunk to accompany her. I mean you can go to a dolls tea party it'll cost ya though, a birhday tea will cost between $32 and $60 a head. It's a day out in itself just to see it all but if you go make sure you've just remorgaged the house or inherited a bundle...

Another Idea..

Wow two ideas in the same 24 hour period.
Another though for the "management" to consider is moving the trailer park but not moving it.
Thought about it to somewhere like "http://www.blogworldtrailerpark.net/" it's only an idea but let me look into how much it will cost to host and the restrictions on how much space / bandwidth there will be for it.. I know a few places hmm.. Gonna look on webby.com because well if heard really good things about them and the Guy who runs it is a good guy, has a humor letter, hosts numerous e-card sites like angeleyes.com to name one...

Let me look into it tis only an idea.
Oh and erm how do I put a post on to the trailer park if I wanted to?
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I've had an Idea (strange but true)

Okay as I was driving home from getting a few things, more PC games, a new battery for my mobile phone and a few b/day cards.. Oh and a 12 pack of coke..
I had an inspired idea. a Tartan template but hmm I can find one anywhere. Then I though if I could find a tartan I'm sure with my graphic skills I could tweak the template melonie uses but with a tartan theme I tried but erm it well just didn't work at all :( HELP! anyone wanna try and find me a color scheme that will go with "flower of Scotland Tartan" or suggest how I can manage to incorporate it in to my template?

Drinks are on me...

Okay folks, It's FRIDAY..
Bar is open outside ma nice abode in the World's First Blogger Trailer Park..
Expert bartending done by yours truely that's if someone will do the BBQ.
Drinks mixing by The Drinks Mixer, got a jug of Margarita, one of pina colada and well I can mix a few other things if ya want as long as I don't run out of ice.. just need to keep ice machine topped up with Water.
Y'all Invited

Man whata day.

To borrow a phrase from Mr Dax..
Just Damn, that's how I kinda feel right now my lower spine is protesting lots.. Hmm muscles in that area feel like they wanna lock up.. :( well I did get out the office in to the fresh air I suppose. Screw that, that's not gonna happen again for a while, mind you not gonna be needing to go to that site again for a while at least. Well until they move the portacabin we have all the gear in..
Hmm now simple job todo really: Move Monitor, DVR, adsl modem, the phone line and power for a camera and the coax for it as well.. Simple enough well hmm
1st I find out that instead of being a secondary socket which I can take off the wall, replace with a junction box and move the socket else where it wasn't It was a master socket and well in this country you ain't allowed to touch one side of it, you can wire into it as it's got a connector block in a part that can be taken off to allow for this. The route we had roughly planned out to take the phone cable (for which I used Cat 5e - well it's up to spec enough) couldn't find a way to get the cable that way, ended up having to take it the long route around a solid wooden fence.
2nd Typical of a now EX-employee there was cabling everywhere, nothing marked up on nothing so I had no idea what was what, thankfully nothing was really needed so I could disconnect it all.. Which took time..
3rd I though there was like normal a power switch at the bottom of the camara pole as I need to supply power to it to allow me to move it.. was there erm... NO! had to put a join in that well I wasn't happy about but it's done
4th Again thought there would be a join the coax cable at the bottom no had to make one myself, I then had to feed those two cables through a piece of flexible conduit to hide it as much as possible..
I then had to take all 3 cable: phone, power and coax to the portacabin and in, had to take the cable up on to one portacabin, across to another and then finally on to the one where the equip was going, tidy it all up cable ties every so often, some stuck to side of the cabins, going around the cabins avoiding the mains power from the generator as much as possible..
I then have to find a way of putting the cable through the wall of the metal cabin, found a space thankfully. I was then about to connect it up and well it was break time for the guys on site. We got part of the site canteen to put our stuff.
We wait, finish tidying up stuff, packing stuff we don't need and stuff that's going back in the van.
Finally able to get it, hook up the phone, test it. Thankfully it worked, otherwise me would have been well I won't swear but you can imaging my words.
Then got the system set back up again, it fires up, camera movable, remote connection up, remote movable :).. Done, dusted, tidy up and go home
I arrive on site: 10:30 am
I Leave the site: 4:30 pm
I finish work at: 4:00 pm
Thus I came home, having not eaten a thing since 9am when i had a rather nice roll on sausage.. No Coffee, no Tea, no nothing.. Im amazed I was still able to operate at 3:30-4pm. Hmm need to appologies to colleage who was with me and who finishs at 7pm was a bit short / rude by that end.. But I was totally fucked..
Anything said about it tomorrow will get THAT LQQK..

Y'all Here?

Thank ya chase, man. I move right in, Wow Nice lot, Nice Plaid :)
For those who don't know where I'm talkin' about head to The Blog World Trailer Park. Stop by and say Hi to Chase, Suzanne, Moogie, Sharon, KB, Garrison, Chewy, Jackie, The Chief Slacker, Kim in her double wide or is it 2, everyone else and don't forget Blog Ho in the alley out back.
Hmm now where did I put the Banofee Puddin'. A found it, hmm sweet.
I think I might just have cook out.. Anyone for grilled whole scottish trout - it's real nice, just don't tip the whisky sauce on it while it's still cookin' otherwise you gonna end up will like you been to the beauty shop and had your eyebrows all plucked out..

Well what a month to come

Well let me see here, gonna kinda review what I've got on this month, well let see now
18th and 23rd are friends birthdays, 19th is my godmothers birthday (heck I might just send her a card this year I keep forgetting - I know my bad).
On the 27th is Melonie's 1st Blog Birthday, A minor event I know but none the less one for us bloggers to remember.
Now there is something happening on the 26th but I'm blowed if I can remember what it is, hmm can't be important otherwise I'd remember it must be some date for something I said I do or something.

Got a tune in my head.

I've got a tune i heard on the radio stuck in my head, I can't from the life of me remember what it's called and well I can't also remember where I heard it so I can't like go look up the show's tracklisting online
ARGH! Oh well I think a few small bottles of something nice should clear that up..