blue screens of death from all over the world – :hehe:
lloyd scott the chap mentioned in a previous post has finished the london marathon. he finished in 5 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes and 46 seconds. paula radcliffe the winner of the womens race was there to meet him at the finish.
things are a wee bit screwed up with the blog at the moment. i thought i’d try a re-design and although things seem to work ok some of the elements don’t line up – epecially in the archives.
oh well, i’ll see what i can do tomorrow 
.. i had some cereal for b’fast (a mixture of honeynut cheerios and crunchynut cornflakes) and my stomach is making very weird and extremely loud rumblings ! you know, the kind that makes the air in your throat vibrate :zoink:
the strange thing is i’m not even hungry.
hmmmmm……..
as part of my new sales role i have been given a list of 300 companies to cold call.
i would like to point out how much i detest cold calling
it takes me about 10 minutes to psych myself into calling the number and then when i get hold of the person i want to (rare) i’m a gibbering idiot. i have written myself a wee script and it’s not even that people have been rude to me – they haven’t – it’s just for some reason i dread it!
i am getting better though. i’m about 100 into the list in 3 days and things are getting a little easier……. i think i’m getting to the stage where i don’t care and that makes it a lot easier to pick up the phone
still hate it though :zoink:
maybe! but all i can say is i’m very impressed. this guy is “running” the london marathon in an antique divers suit. the boots weigh 20lb each and the entire suit weighs 8 and a half stone!
his name is Lloyd Scott and was diagnosed as having leukaemia and underwent a bone marrow transplant in 1989. since his recovery, Lloyd has been determined to show other sufferers of cancers and leukaemia that these types of illnesses can be beaten and overcome. you can read more about him here
well not much. we did actually pop out for a wee while and watch some of the 35,000 partcipants in the years london marathon file past our house.
here’s the eventual women’s winner paula radcliffe (#111) at the 10 mile mark. the press are going crazy over here – she’s british, it was her first marathon and she came within 9 seconds of the world record (her time was the fastest ever in a women’s only race) the mens world record was also broken.
there are some more photos here but they’re not very good – some of the costumes are funny though
it’s just after seven a.m.
i’ve been up for almost an hour (on a sunday!!) and all the roads around here are closed due to the london marathon which passes a block away from our front door
the weather’s nice
can i be bothered going to see the hoards stream past? i dunno….. i’ve lived here for four years now and have always watched the runners run past my building on the t.v. whilst tucked up in bed with vic
we’ll see – i’m up this year so – we’ll see
the super six went out for dinner last nite to turkish restaurant called tas. time out had this to say about it:
This airy, glass-fronted restaurant offers Turkish food with a twist, rather than the standard classic dishes. Expect the likes of mussel soup with coriander and ginger, and inventive seafood and casseroles.
which to be honest pretty much sums it up. the food was very nice but, as usual, i ate far too much. i blame the bread…… they put out this yummy bread which you promptly dip into the exquisite light hummus (which seems like a fantastic idea after the two pints of boddingtons at =”http://www.georgeinn-southwark.co.uk/” target=”_blank]the george[/url] prior to dinner) and you think that’s it – but no – they bring more bread, and keep bringing bread throughout the entire meal! by the time we’d had a few bottles of wine and caught the bus home i was beyond the point of being full and into the point of pain………..
do you ever have that feeling where you are so bloated that you just want some gigantic version of your mother to put you over their shoulder and burp you?
no? must just be me then.