The catch up thread

Okay I do apologize for not posting this past week but well I've been busy
I've had my aunt up for the week and I've sorry but I've probably updated people on Facebook more often...
Well Tuesday was mum's birthday, I won't tell you her age, just old will do..
I must admit she is getting worse, imagine your kid when they were oh 3-4-5-6 yr old and wanting attention more and more, this is what mum seems to be doing if she's not center of attention she'll do something nothing drastic just something so she's center of attention once more and well I thought I could go from, if you'll pardon the expression here, 0-bitch in 2.2 seconds, mum does it way faster and later on looks like nothing has happened, and probably wouldn't remember if asked.... No wonder my wonderful sisters, oh how I do really LOVE them honest, don't want to come near.
I mean there are ways of sighing, it's a long drawn out one and well it really gets on probably both my sisters nerves when they are on the phone...
I'm not making it up here but I do believe for week my aunt was here she actually got worse..
I mean take for example Sunday there, we'd just come back from shopping and I had already said to my sister I'd take the nephew bowling, now mother knows most if not ALL weekends at some point I take nephew out somewhere, I said to her where I was going, I named the town where my sister says, I say town more a village squished between 2 towns really, and she though I said Rosyth, now how she got that from what I said I've no Idea, I said no not Rosyth, and said the name again a little louder,
so your going to Barbara's then, I went Yeah, the reply was Well I hardly though you were going to Wendy's and started of a question, I went I'm going to take the nephew out, I mean it was Obvious what was going to be said, and I said that, well "BOOM" stack blown, from nice to nasty in 1.5 seconds flat, give or take, and she ranted on, I just let here, "... away you go and come back and get up for work in the morning and come back I'll be here...."
I switched to bitch mode and snapped right back with something she'd said to us, "You don't like it when we speak to you like that, so I don't like it when you do that" or something I was slightly MIFFED...
Oh away you go....
At which point the car key I had in my hand was thrown backwards bouncing off the door not far away, I went I won't bother...
Oh I, make me feel bad .....
In truth I was shaking with anger and I knew It wouldn't have been fair on anyone seeing me like that so I just had to "Zen" a little, I had something to do on my pc and did that and went away, I erm "LOST" at bowling totally, no focus at all.
I came back after dropping nephew off and well mum was in bed and was totally normal again like it never happened..
Her memory is shot, she claims to have pretty much a permanent headache..
Hopefully the Doctor's Appointment that's been arranged will sort this out, it's with the Doctor that don't take no crap, who I've yet to meet, I may suggest that he give me a call just to put his mind at ease that nothing is being made up ya know..

Time to go Zen some more,

Valistar Blood Elf Frost Mage from the Guild Ancient on Boulderfist Realm.
Fire and Ice are a dangerous combination didn't you know.

so what have I been upto then...

I know I've be some what complacent in regard to posting here and reading other peoples blogs, Laura sorry sweetie, Moogie, Barb, Carmi & a few others I do get around to reading yours eventually... Call it the 5hr time difference...
Well that the fact I can't access it at work, the frown upon most things at work or rather due to the fact we connect through someone else's BB link they have websense which locks down anything remotely FUN or that would give power to the users like computer security websites, forums etc..
Also I've been busy coding stuff for my DC team - Free-DC :D, I don't know If I've mentioned this before but I will mention it now as I got suckered into helping a little then a little more and I'm loving it to be honest. Well except when something is missing that would make life easier or so I'd though until I got the missing part downloaded and installed - I mean the server we run on is in Arizona - Timezone "America/Arizona" now what I'm trying to do for 3 potentially different times is instead of it saying for example : Last Update: 06:14 July 20th, 2008 MST it says for me 11:14 July 20th, 2008 BST now I can get it to 11:14 July 20th, 2008 but it still says MST after it and one tiny part that is meant to allow me to convert from one timezone to another doesn't appear to want to play nice and keeps telling me very politely that it can't do that despite the fact I've looked at it and for all intents and purposes it's correct ARGH!
I've done other things like drop in backgrounds in to stats

See nice yes and also been redoing the layout of all the stats and adding themes and other little features that are fully configurable i.e you can set your theme, but only a few can actually change the themes around.
Well that and helping the poor guy who was basically doing it solo, the stats team is now 4 not 2 I'm learning as I go not hit the "big" stuff yet I'll just keep with the front end prettiness thanks all the actually grabbing of the stats data, the parsing it into something we can work with, checking it against the data we already have and updating as required not been there yet as I've never dealt with the language involved before, PHP + MySQL is bad enough along with a bit of linux command line stuff, Secure FTP / Secure SHell windows keeps me on my toes...
Well the house is coming along, we've stopped for a week just because well it was decided it was best.
Back to it next week...
Oh well that and I've been playing World of Warcraft some more as well as new game (well to me) called Command of Heroes - World War II style game where all I will say is the language is "Adult" - the polite version is "let's throw a grenade at them" ... "Let's give them a ****ing pineapple..."
Anyway back to giving things a bit of a chill - flash fried and quick frozen to death... I love being a frost mage.

Catchy song

I heard this song on the radio the other day and it was instantly catchy,
I've found the video for it on You tube, it's seems similar to the UK version one but just the music is slightly different.

and no, I've no idea why this video is so erm "off the wall".

Happy Monday

Hey people, yeah it's a Happy Monday why!
No bullshit from the sister today or for a while now she must be freaking learning..
Although on another note I think I'm going to have to let them in on a little secret - no not this blog, this is top secret from them (evil of me I know but Tough!!!!), no the secret that any electrical gadgetry that gets bought for the house I buy and get the money back later, I mean you'd think they could figure that out that many of the lights we have I bought, the digital TV reciever we have I bought and got the replacement when it died.. No they didn't they got a new vacuum cleaner even although the old one works it's just a bit noisy and maybe just needs a good clean out as all that gets done to it is the bag changed and when it wears out the drive belt nothing else. But No they got a new one and the ONLY way mum found out was because get this it wasn't the cheap one she'd heard about and wanted but a more expensive one they had to get and weren't sure, please note mother ISN'T allowed to use this cleaner or the old one since her operation. They also unwisely got another Digital TV receiver aka a DigiBox for the spare room so dad could got to sleep there with it on and not have mother worrying so much that he was falling asleep and getting cold, not to freaking mention all the lights & the TV being left on BURNING money and at 14.5p / KWh I object to shit like that as I have to top up the meter £ 15 used to now it's £20 and it's not even like it's lasting a week :|. I might have to turn off all my PC's if this continues so the valuable work they do when I'm not on them would be lost forever... I do know one reader who knows hat I'm on about as that's how in around about way I came to be on blogger because of this particular nice lady and team mate... She's still a nice lady (dispite what her kids may say about her).
Oh and it's happy me at work now although last week was a swine (read previous post) Oh and it took me most of wednesday / thursday to get the office back to rights with everything else that was going on, still a few things to be sorted but alas they are outside my realm of expertise.

So peace y'all

Borrowed this from Heather's Site

I swung by Blog, Blah, Blah written by the wonderful heather and I saw Rate Your Blog and well here is mine:

Hmm G rating, which is exactly what I aim for maybe some posts do require a little Guidance and maybe should be avoided by kids.
I then tried the Spelling test and hmm I hate those darn things I swear I do..

I Scored a 60%!

Go figure it's not as easy as it looks you know.