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Poor Vic

Working at home I like to snack.  Before Monday it would be something tasty – sandwich, potato chips, chocolate, you know, nice food.  Due to my one day old diet yesterday found me chowing down on raw vegetables and fruit. I love raw veges and yesterday saw me consuming raw cabbage, carrots and oranges.  These, in conjunction with the baked beans on toast that I had for lunch made for a very intestinally volatile mix.  Let’s just say that by the end of the evening poor Vic wasn’t very happy with the fetid atmosphere in our little flat – sorry baby!  *smooch*

Spell checking within IE

I found a link on movabletype’s support forums to ieSpell. ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage.  Very handy for bloggers who can’t type for shite ie: me

I’m sure there was something else… maybe it’ll come to me later!

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we are so bloody lazy!

yesterday we had the day planned out:

1) Go to the National Portrait Gallery which has some amazing portraits by Mario Testino on display at the moment (Diana, Madonna you name it) – didn’t go due to heavy rain

2) Go to dinner and then on to see Man and Boy at the cinema – didn’t happen due to big lunch and falling asleep on the couch!

bang – saturday gone 🙁

i did not leave the house all day!

we live in one of the most interesting cities in the world – such a mundane and wasted day is inexcusable………………..

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OK – this is it for a while

this look and feel, whilst not being for everyone, links in with the rest of my website (that is the side to do with photography) i might change the comments and archive sections – and i might not………

at least this was the easiest change so far :vbg:

well it’s just after 23:15 and vic and i have just got home from the local pub (ship and whale) after a great evening with david, claire, richi and fi.  mucho californian sav blanc and not bad food

i love vic 😎

i love my friends :vbg:

life’s not bad

although i felt very old and very fat yesterday i’m over that now!

i was sitting at a bar on the river with 4 friends on saturday and not one of them knew who Thor Heyerdahl was and certainly didn’t care that he’d died.

i was gutted

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.. is definitely here, the forecast for today is 22 C (72F), fine with no wind.

not as extreme as some of my friends from the US (32/90 one day then 5/40 a few days later) but working from home on days like this rocks!!!!

of course in saying this i have probably just wished some horrible weather on london!

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man, i’ve had a great weekend !

saturday vic and i caught the ferry over the canary wharf and were going to have a look around the shops then catch the dlr to greenwich.  we got 50 yards from the ferry terminal, met up with richie and stopped off for a “coffee” at a bar called jamies on the river.  the front windows completely folded back so we sat in the sun on leather couches and had a couple of bottles of wine a quick phonecall later and david and claire had nipped over on the ferry and joined us!  4 hours, 6 bottles of wine, espressos and lunch later we decided to have a break, head home and meet up later.

later was at our place with “american pie 2” on the dvd and our new w i d e s c r e e n tv, pizza and more wine/beer :vbg:  a great time was had until about 23:30 when most of us decided that 11 hours of almost non-stop drinking and eating was enough.

sunday started off with the sun streaming through the window and another fine day on the books.  a lazy morning later we found ourselves in the car for a quick hour long drive to chelmsford in essex for a lunch date with our friends dawn and eddie.

chips and dip in the garden of their new 4 bedroom house under a lovely spring sun was the next order of business and as most of us relaxed dawn was busy preparing roast beef and yorkshire pudding yummmmm……………………

after lunch it was back for few hours in the garden chilling and chatting.  then as the sun started to set and the temperature dropped it was back in the car for the drive home

and so here we are 20:00 on sunday night with a weekend spent doing the things i love.

good weather, good food, good drink and great company.  now that’s what life’s about baby! 😎

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: