A pittance of time

I got this link sent to me today in my daily humor letter.
Watch, listen, understand and remember.

http://www.army.gc.ca/chief_land_staff/remembrance/English/Docs/TKeng6mb.wmv

Anyone for a Q & A?

I've got ideas for postings but well they aren't fully formed adn well don't always make sense often I read something and bang post idea in head busy working itself out by the time I get around to maybe posting it's gone so time maybe for a Q & A session or a meme. That means you can read this and please do post a comment.
On another note the 3rd link I have on my page which is the click for breast cancer thingy I've reached the summit I think I actually did this a while ago I've taken 1116 steps so far Im not sure how many steps a click I do i believe it's 12 steps a day which is not bad I've been doing it a while now the other links are doing well too :).
The floor so to speak is open.

I am a Hazelnut tree

You Are A Hazelnut Tree

You're a charmer with a killer sense of humor. You are very demanding, but you can also be very understanding. No matter what, you always make a lasting impression - you're quite popular. Passionate, you are an active fighter for social causes and politics. In general, you are moody, honest, a perfectionist, and very sexual.

What's Your Celtic Horoscope?

Hmm How true is that, thanks to Heather for the pointer :)
P.S. I love hazelnuts :)

It's someone's birthday Soon...

Hmm what can I say it's that time of year again almost, we Brits remember the attempt that was made in 1604 buy Guy Fawkes to blow up the House of Parlament with the current King and all the political types inside. It of course backfired they were caught and killed the charge Treason.. So we build fires and set of fireworks to celebrate the failed attempt.. However that is not what this post is about it's about the one person in my family that well I really do care about a lot, my dearest Sister.. It's her birthday Sunday, see I can never forget her birthday now can I.
Thank you to Sharon for the wonderous gift which I am now in the process of finishing wrapping.
Don't worry folks I have photos of the artwork in it's frame taken just before I wrapped I will post them soon. I doubt I'll be able to post the expression as well erm I'll probably forget my camera..

re: "emotionally fragile"

Hmm well i posted that the other day and I suppose I am,it's kinda hard to explain but I'll try to. I don't need anyone to beat me up I pretty well on my own. For example I've been beating myself about the head because I screwed up when I swapped hardware out a week past saturday and the Power Supply went or appeared to, having it checked over still. So i had to reinstall windows but i was cracking up at having to forced into reinstalled because the "smart" O/S that is XP can't handle massive hardware changes only little ones. Im not gonna fire up my Network Attached Storage(NAS) device im gonna get someone else to do that as it's doing my head in, it won't see the almost 500gb over the 2 Hard disks that are in it as drives...
I do sometimes wake up and wonder if it's worth it any more. I was all for quiting the net totally - I was gonna make one last parting post on here and then just leave..
I couldn't so I left it, someone said something that made me think and it then struck me today they were right. Who was that person well it was "shyandquiet" although she is neither.. I got the big hard assed mental slap I required. Thank you shy :)

Yours
Chemically imbalanced and other things

G

P.S. I wasn't gonna mention it but I got some artwork from this lady and it's great was going to be a birthday present but I don't know now, i don't know if I'll be able to find a frame to do it justice in time but I'll try if not it's 1 christmas gift for a sister in a million.. ** Hugs Sharon ** Thank you.

Hey y'all Im back

I've been quietly catching up on some peoples posts i still got catching up to do. Im doing okay.
Heather the last post i read of yours made me think real hard. What cna I say the best way to describe me is "Emotionally Fragile" Im serious, I may look dead tough and mean, I may look like I'm meaner than a junkyard dog to borrow a phrase a good friend of mine uses shy but that she isn't once she knows you :)..
I found out today that okay it's a big state but It's a small world I know 4 people in WV now, the 4th is my good friend Patrick aka Tmbr Wolf I've known him a good while and didn't know this till know and well I think I can safely say I've chatted with him for 5-6 yrs. Go visit and swing by shy's pages they'll both appreciate the visit. I won't say which county in WV he's in but it's in the south.
So dear friends who are few and far between I think I'll sign off now.
Take care and catch ya later.

G

I'm Alive......

I'm alive...
My Computer is back up and running, behaving now too.
I didn't have to replace much - just the Power Supply as it went dead on me. I've taken this opertunity to clear out all the old crap I had kicking about, in readyness for all the NEW crap that will no doubt be getting install via windows update..
I'm in the midst of re-install all my applications so It will be a while before Im fully back up to speed just thought I'd let you know..
I've too many apps to mention to reinstall which is why I was reluctant to have to do this.. 98 was so much easier to do this on, you lost nothing..

So I'll see you around..

G

Just not My day :(

Here I am it's like 2am Sunday morning and Im writing a blog post..
Now not the post I'd been musing about yesterday after I read something that may appear at a later date once I remember exact what it was, it's been a long week!
I am not however on my now PC, Im on my backup PC (god bless backups) Okay I have more than 1 PC but I have MY PC and 3 others, if you get my drift... Someone I know from Free-DC was kind enough while doing a "spring" clean to send me some of his older parts (IF only I'd know I'd never have gotten that new mobo / memory - but I can still use that :D). My car was due it's Annual Checkup (Read MOT for those in the UK) and well I figured a few minor points a bit of welding here and there but not quite just that, one of my front spring is going so it's booked in for next weekend to get sorted.. To go cheer myself up I go to a mates and see if he's in, and have a coffee or 4 :P I end up with a DVD writer, some blank DVD discs and a Virtually Silent PSU - which doth not fit in the case style I have :-S. I get back and proceed in an orderly fashion to shutdown my nice machine, take out the mainboard and replace it with one that had just been shipped to me complete with memory and CPU + HS/ Fan to match.. I boot it up windows XP goes "NO!" and reboots, I get the "safe mode options list" I choose one, it does the same and just sits at same place..
Time for XP Install CD... I get that out and try and get it up and running - alas nope I do manage to repair XP and try that no luck what so ever.. I think sod it replace it with old kit that I know worked with that Install of XP..
Well erm "no", "NO" and double "NO!", it boots up, coughs almost and reboots, I TRY to go back into windows CD at which point the machine switches OFF with out warning, no obvious reason why it shouldn't fire back up, no joy at all as you can probably imagine even although I know my stuff Im at the "mild PANIC" stage, thinking the worst - no life from system means either a) The CPU has expired (NO please don't let it be that not my faithful XP2600) or b) The Power Supply has gone , thankfully it was b) this is the point I discover that the new Silent PSU I got don't fit so I had to go borrow one from the same mate and I handed him the old one to see if he could repair it possibly. I get one it's a smaller capacity but it will do, I power up.. No Primary Hard Disc, the one with windows and all my applications and erm GAMES on.. I switch off, unplug a few things make sure it's bare minimum plugged in to get it running nope same thing.. The Drive hath died or ain't wanna play ball..
I've managed to get it "running" but well we'll see how long, copying as much as I can to other places, til i can get another drive to replace.
Wish me LUCK, I think I need some.

Anyone tell me what day it is?

I only ask as well im not really sure myself. Why may you ask well lets look at the facts:
Monday & yesterday I worked 4pm to midnight, today I worked 8am to 4pm now you do the math - 24hrs within the 48hour period (4pm to 4pm) I've been at work, go me..
To say I'm a little fuzzy would not entirely be too far off the mark.. I really Love covering other peoples shifts even if it is only so that my nice averaged out wage that was calculated on a week that is 2 1/2 more than Im doing now, you do the math it's not much but they company has to either a) recalc my average and rejig my pay cheque to match it or b) I do the extra hours to cover which I'd probably have to do anyway..
Roll on NEXT April when they are recalc'd - okay maybe less money but i won't be doing silly sh-tuff mind you I hope they won't need to recalc it down I may get a payrise depends on what work the company gets in as a whole...
The joy of it all...
Another thing is Im kinda glad I decided not to do the "autopilot" home trick as I'd proabably have had to pick bits of fox and rabbit out my bumper and other places (yuck!), oh I know my car has good brakes I was able to avoid both.. I was kinda wired so you can probably imagine the number of hours of sleep I got between approx 1am and 6:30am..
Roll on the weekend so I can get some rest, I hope!

Listening to: Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway - I Hate Myself For Losing You , Keane - Everybody's Changing Winamp 5.09 Random picks..

Where do we go from here.....

Well the day I never thought I'd actually see has well happened...
Think back 2 1/2 years - I've posted about the "event" a few times but well the thing I never though would happen has indeed happened.
My parents got to see my nephew today, under a strict set of rules mind you which will be relaxed once my sister feels she can trust them again..
So any time they want to see connor is fine, as long as they 1) phone to make sure it's okay and 2) it's at her house until further notice. These rules are non-negotional..
Nephew didn't quite know what to do as well like last time they were all in same room was other sister's silver wedding anniversary and well it was like "not allowed".
I had an inkling this was happening when I got a call from my sister saying hang on I didn't mean to phone you, what's my other sisters number to which I said I don't know I'd need to check my phone which I was talking on at the time she went okay I'll just check mine.. I did think weird but I knew she'd been thinking about this and thought hang on why would hmm no and put it at back of mind.
Roll forward about 20-25 minutes other sister calls me saying parents might be a bit upset when I get home as they are getting to see nephew I went okay thanks for the warning..
Queue around 3:45 - sister calls me saying that all had went well, nephew was a bit strange, mother kept I don't know exactly how to describe it but "wringing her hands" I don't know how else to say that, dad kept giving sister strange looks.
Now both sisters in same room, my older sister is normally the quiet one was busy chatting away to cover the silence as mother didn't quite know what to say, a first not really..
My parents are downstairs at the moment "recovering". Who knows what will be next but OH boy are they in for a shook when he does eventually come down here and Im not in.... They won't be able to keep up...
I think that pretty much covers it can't think of anything else apart from hmm erm hmm interesting.....

G Dawg

Listening to: Buffy the Musical - Where do we go from here, My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade Winamp 5.09 Random picks..

Anyone see where the last week has gone?

Wow what a week I've had I know this is tuesday but between now and the last post it's been some week. Working hard at work which is good, what I don't like is when I find out I may as well have beaten my head off the proverbial brick wall as the bit of kit that's meant to work doesn't, gotta love it when people say oh well it's been back to the supplier 4 times and is still playing up! Thank god we had a unit on loan that we could put in place to get everything back up and running again until we get the other unit BACK from the supplier FULLY WORKING! I have been various other places as well just.
Now what can I say about saturday but erm can we go back to that one and START AGAIN!
Im not saying it was a particularly BAD day but having gotten up at 6:30 all week It would have been nice to get a longer lie in bed other than an extra Hour! I had my nephew to take to football and well I will only say this about it they lost 5 or was it 6 - 1 when the week before they won 3-0 they did play the match later than normal but that should have worked more in their favour it didn't of course my nephew started to lose it big time after they managed to put 3 past him and I couldn't go over and calm him down (see post about previous match darn ****ing asshat coach!) He calmed down in 2nd half but well erm half asleep is all I will say to most of the team. I looked forward to meeting up with my mate stu for a chinwag again, while he dropped of my new toy - Me got me some Network Storage now, think small box with Drives in it that attached to the network and thats it..
I then was informed did I remember I was helping pick up my other sister from the air port (and what time was the flight) I thought it was today but no SATURDAY! BANG went the plans I had of going to Racewall as well my father may as well wear shades at night, he'd probably see better!
Sunday was just crash and recover day so zippo got done.
Monday was a holiday at work so I was able to just pretty much relax, catch up on stuff, read the paper fully etc..
Today has been fun too, just HOPE when I go in tomorrow Morning that there are a few e-mails waiting for me with PRICES on them from companies I've asked to send me a QUOTE on stuff for if not me not gonna be a happy bunny!

... what was that ...

Hmm well I think that was my birthday going whizzing past...
Nice quiet day at the office it wasn't, it was a nice drive around the countryside trying to find places, with "vague" points of reference...
I can conclude that my bosses Motorola Razr is for want of a better word CRAP, he agrees but can't change the phone till decemeber (gotta love contract phones).
On another note, if you've tried e-mailing me on my "newer" address and it's bounced the old one is still active, but both should work - must be my stupid ISP bouncing it as an "unknown" sender to a known address or some such crap I guess it's time to get a domain and set it up.

Come on You Reds........

Well my nephew's under 9's team does play in red :>.
What can I say a solid 3-0 victory over a team who's coach well I've not met him (thank god) but he's a bit of an ass. I was meant to go and cheer him on but read previous post no way, tired slept till about noon (I know some people wish they could sleep till then) and I felt like crap - darn cold. So I went along today to swift kick the pc and other electronic equipment.. I got told the full game :D. Nephew in goal 1st half - saved everything, out in the 2nd half and his replacement in goals did the same. Connor did manage to score a goal even. A few moments of contravercy, the "coach" said something was a free kick on the edge of the box, when everyone else knew it was a penelty which the other stricker took and scored with. Now to let you in on the "asshat" coach's attitude: He didn't like when someone stood behind the goals to encourage the keeper (read give pointers also) so it was all on the sidelines, being "quieter" than normal, ya right as freaking IF, now I mean there are only 7 or 8 in the team so maybe 10 or 11 parents and others there - more noise than normal.. Other coach could say nothing :D Rep from Soccer 7's was there (they kind do the rules for these things). There was 1 nasty incident funnily enough involving nephew, they had gotten a free kick near our goals so all team was back, the "wall" was set up, so they could directly score, a few players far enough away from the wall to maybe score if they got the ball. Now back to the act, an act if carried out in a normal match would have seen the player red carded, the opposition captian elbowed (quite deliberatly from all descriptions) connor, who of course went down, now normally sister would have went over to make sure but because of the asshat, had to stay put. He was fine, the captain was hauled off in disgrace - ha ha and the free kick well they didn't score from it, don't think they got close :D All in all a good game and well it was a case of "total silence" from the asshat he couldn't say a word. What can I say 2nd game on the trot they've won, they won 4-2 last week against another team that had previously beaten them. The Last match is next week and Im gonna have to juggle that with other stuff happening next saturday namely a mate who I've not seen in a while coming up for one last visit before heading off to Norway to work and stay.

G Dawg

Oh Look it's almost that time again and other things

Is it really a year since I had the last one, no can't be oh darn yes it is. Folks it's almost that time again, that time everyone either hates or loves or both. It's my birthday Soon - okay I know maybe 3 days notice isn't much but lol it's me we're talking about here Mr Disorganised Choas.
I helped drop my oldest sister and the BIL at the airport this morning for their 6:30am flight - they had to be there 3 hrs before hand (darn laws). We had a fun time getting there as well she was driving my dad's car, she's fully allowed to as she's on the insurance for it. One thing I should mention is for some reason I don't know why she hates going across bridges - maybe it's just the "Forth Bridge" she hates i don't know. Well the road to the airport is pretty straight forward - just follow the signs but Oh no dad knows better that's not the turn for the airport there is one further up - no there wasn't so we kinda went the tourist route in. Driving back was far easier, I knew where I was going, ignored my dad basically :P, only reason I was driving dad hates driving at night now, and I am allowed to drive the car IF the main driver isn't feeling well due to fact the way it's paid for it's a "mobility" car so there are rules such as you need to be on the "insurance" for it proper to be able to drive it yourself. We did get home pretty quick thanks to my driving safely at top speed ;)
However someone appears to have given my the cold or the flu or something Im feeling crap :| - bet it's a colleague at work. Speaking of work I got Monday OFF :D since there is a holiday the Following monday and Im working it, the monday after that when I would have had the day off Im covering for someone else on a slightly different shift (4pm to midnight) doing that on the tuesday as well but back to normal wednesday :-S gonna totally screw me up but never mind...
:)

What a Week

Well I've survived the 1st week back at work, new work schedule 8am to 4pm works out nicely actually, gaurenteed days off, if there is a public holiday I will get the next monday off. I have to come and go with it, some overtime is involved like i may have to cover the shift after mine sometimes - 4pm-midnight (but i don't need to come in at 8am that would be a bit MUCH!). I've been playing catch up all week as I expected but it's been fun (or rather not as dull as it was).
Mind you one small niggling ANNOYANCE the office got a small re-arrange - my desk was CLEARED! of all paperwork (it was apprently a mess - I could find everything on it I rarely sat at it as I was always at my other desk :P
It's been tiring all the same.

The Loch and others

Well I thought I share with you a few photos I recently took..

The Minehead, originally uploaded by Gopher.

The Loch, originally uploaded by Gopher.

The Loch 2, originally uploaded by Gopher.

Sorry for the previously negative post

Well folks i've just censored my own blog by nuking Monday's post. It's gone never to be seen again..
I'll go grab some coffee maybe even some sun not that I need much of either.

** EDIT **
Junebugg you were right. I took myself for a brisk walk that worked..

G

Well Im relaxing...

Hey guys, i do feel more relaxed, I do honestly, heck im even looking forward to looking after nephew which I do enjoy but if i've been working I just wanna crash and not be bothered by anyone till like NOON...
I now know this is not good for me, why I hear ya ask well I figured this all out myself Im so proud of myself...
I've been sleeping long hours for me this is like more than say 6hrs and been waking up with a headache like i've been drinking the night before now sometimes I had and put it down to that, it goes away after some tea / coffee with milk n sugar sorry gotta sweet tooth.. So Im trying to keep myself hydrated enough so I don't feel like **** in the morning which I've manage even if I was up till 3-4am and get up at like 10...
I treated myself tonight as well to a movie, of my choice at the cinema, my mate and his girlfriend (she who is obeyed :P) went to go see "You, Me and Duprey" tonight so I thought about it looked up what was showing locally, saw that film looked it up and well went no, not for me tonight, I went to see "Crank" all I will say is it's a totaly andrenalin junkie rush type film in more ways than one..

Oh while Im on the subject you may notice a few new links below the main kids link which has now been fixed so that that clicks are added to my running total, they were counted before so your clicks haven't been wasted :)

Toddles

G Dawg

Okay Someone shoot me please...

Day 4 of my holiday..
The story so far..........
Sat: Woke up played WoW or Battle for Middle Earth 2 all day..
Sun: Repeat stayed up to midnight...
Mon: Repeat stayed up till 4am though...
Today: As before...
No Money to do anything else, I am bothered but I've just resigned myself to my fate of being a nobody nowhere in particular..

I'm done...

Im now on holiday for 2 weeks... harrah.... can ya tell im excited, not really i tired, can't be bothered doing anything and probably won't no cash which of course sucks.
I'd have prefered an easier past few days at work but fat fooking chance, my colleague who I covered for the 2 weeks previous to this one announced on monday that he was leaving for another job, not too bad, unless you consider during the 2 weeks he was off 2 of the night/weekend controllers left as well as the driver who went around checking remote sites, we knew he was going, figured the other 2 - they left without so much as a bye, or good luck. The new driver we got lasted 10 days :| not really a hard job, check 5 places, lock up the main office, set the alarm, unset in the morning and open up..
So last week I was busy showing / training as best as I could the 2 new starts, we had a 3 man nightshift team that works 7 nights + 2 weekend shifts between them.
Of course with my colleague being off didn't have access to the material he handed out which meant EVERY PROCEDURE that is carried out in the control room had to be written out and then checked and reworded to LOW IQ level or there about which PISSED me off a TAD. I mean I could just write 1 procedure to cover all the sites, that could be handed to them, site numbers are all in a folder... NO HELL FUCKING NO! I had to write: One for Intruder / Vehicle on a site, One for a fire on a site, duplicate because we have working / non-working (mothballed) remote sites, get all the site number, all the managers names & number. How the barrier is worked the PHONE numbers of Both the RT (which are speed dials on the phone in front of them). EVERY MINUTE FUCKING DETAIL had to be written down and logged..
I mean Im not the freaking supervisor but I HAD to do it, my colleague was that and he done a little.
Oh this was on top over all the other work I had to do as well like :
Test bits of kit, wire stuff up, figure stuff out, drop kick a customers alarm panel so that it would set properly without a long winded way of setting it..
I was meant to go today and program another alarm panel for the same customer on a different site but that went out the WINDOW cos of these PROCEDURES, it's all PROCEDURES, PROCEDURES, PROCEDURES with someone and it's to be done HER WAY! no matter how well it worked before.
I was gonna do another post about me but Im just a neurotic fuck up, maybe my mother should have listened to the doctor at the time and got rid of me..