Paul Scally ate my hamster

Is there anything in the world more annoying than this sort of exchange?

2008-04-09T07:14:27Z

Someone: "Is your boss about?"
Me: "No, he's off sick"
Someone: "When's he due back?"

Me (thinks): "How the fuck should I know? I'm not his fucking doctor!"

Why is it.........

2008-03-08T22:06:08Z

...........that every time I think we're just about to drag ourselves out of the pit of being constantly hugely overdrawn, something falls off the house or my car?

Dylan scores a strike

2008-02-19T00:02:39Z

Best just quickly check that all's still right in the world

2008-01-04T08:26:58Z

aardvarkoffnord, did you hate the Doctor Who Christmas special.....?

Hang about.....

2007-12-12T06:47:50Z

.....I've got the day off today. What am I doing in the office at 6.45am? I hate it when that happens!

Go me!

2007-11-26T11:44:52Z

I am now an administrator for the 8th most popular website on the internet. Hurrah!

The England team

2007-11-21T22:02:03Z

Load of shit.

Sleeping bags, anyone......?

2007-10-17T12:45:32Z

My pest of a brother and his fiancée are crashing at our place on Friday evening and he's just texted to inform me that they're not planning on bringing any bedding with them. Would anyone have a couple of sleeping bags they'd be prepared to lend me?

You gotta love the IT department......

2007-10-11T10:08:23Z

....when they tell you that the reason why the system is running so slowly that I'm on the verge of throwing my PC out the window is because people are using it, and that the best way to get it to run more eficiently is to not use it. Twats.

Quiz of the day

2007-10-08T08:16:11Z

When the face painter at Dylan's birthday party yesterday asked him what he wanted to be painted as, did he reply:

a) A lion
b) A tiger
c) A dragon
d) A diesel locomotive

Something new I learnt today

2007-10-02T09:50:35Z

Anyone remember early 1990s "controversial" (i.e. annoying) BRMB disc jockey "Jezza"? Did you know it was the future champion of daytime TV chav-baiting Jeremy Kyle.....?

Quick quiz

2007-09-26T12:41:03Z

You are a major manufacturing company's IT department, and you notice that a job that one employee is running is snarling up the whole company-wide mainframe. Do you:

a) At the earliest opportunity go and ask the employee to abandon the job and maybe re-run it later
b) Sit in your office moaning about the negative impact on other people's work for over four hours, then go downstairs and have a massive go at the employee involved for having caused problems all morning

I'll allow you to draw your own conclusions as to what the procedure appears to be at my place of work.......

Things only Dylan would say #176

2007-09-12T20:14:54Z

This evening I was greeted with "Daddy! Daddy! Draw me a picture of a funicular!!"

(hands up if you even know what a funicular is without looking it up....)

Match of the Day

2007-09-08T22:02:34Z

My little man enjoying his first ever live football match (Pelsall Villa vs Quorn, FA Cup Preliminary Round, final score 6-1 to Quorn)

In memory of Edwards No 8

2007-08-01T21:21:06Z

Anyone with fond memories of Edwards may be interested in this YouTube video. And see if you can spot my wife! :-)

When Vic mentioned this to her parents and used the words "Edwards No 8" Dylan piped up with "No mummy, Edward's number 2!! Duck's number 8!!!!!!"

Bad news good news

2007-07-30T08:21:47Z

Bad news - I got pipped at the post by one of those annoying "someone nips in with two seconds to go while your screen's refreshing" bids on eBay and therefore did not win a copy of this CD

Good news - Vic would have killed me given how high the bidding had gone ;-)

Holiday snaps.........

2007-07-17T20:16:39Z

.....if anyone's interested

LARP/comedy crossover, might be of interest to some people

2007-06-13T07:34:46Z

A new show started in ITV1 last night called "Tough Gig", in which a comedian goes and spends some time with a "minority subculture" and then at the end of their stay has to perform a stand-up routine to the group based on their experiences with them. Judging from the clips in the opening sequence one of the later shows in the series features Dara O Briain performing to a group of LARPers. Dunno which episode it will be, but might be worth keeping an eye out for on Tuesdays at 10pm......?

Well, you don't see that every day.........

2007-05-31T15:02:17Z

It's currently raining and hailing INSIDE my office....

FAO areteus

2007-03-30T06:55:21Z

The other day you were doing the "list of favourite songs beginning with the letter...." meme, and in the replies you joked about giving your mate the letter Z to do. This got me thinking, so last night I compiled....

A list of the ten best songs in my CD collection beginning with Z

1. Zeus No Like Techno - Banco de Gaia
2. Zero and Blind Terry - Bruce Springsteen
3. Zombie-ites - Transglobal Underground
4. Zumbi X Zulu - Nacao Zumbi
5. Zbadba - Mouth Music
6. Zahrema's House - Loop Guru
7. Zane Grey - Tom Russell
8. Zion Youth - Dreadzone
9. Zora - Kultur Shock
10.Zaardub - Jah Wobble and Temple of Sound

There you go, that was 10 minutes well spent (]:-)

The world according to Dylan

2007-03-29T11:34:34Z

According to my son, what I do all day at work is sleep, eat, drink and play with toys. Oh, and I work in a house, apparently.

Random thought for the day

2007-02-12T10:21:40Z

"Peep Show" is the best sitcom on TV ever ever ever

I found these two....

2007-01-05T21:04:51Z

....devastatingly handsome chaps pictured in our local paper this week

Note presence of a Thomas the Tank Engine book, which is all he'll have read to him at the moment. Oh, and I'm sure the journalist meant to use the word "resume" twice in the first sentence and also use the little-known alternative spelling of the word "popular".....

FAO _tonylee_

2006-12-19T06:35:55Z

As you know the bloke, I'm guessing you've seen the year's most utterly random political news story....?

The MP and the Cheeky Girl

Darth Maul is back.....

2006-12-11T18:33:55Z

....and this time he's a toddler!