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Today is the 20th of December and as such it is exactly 1 month until Fidgets due date.

YIKES!!!

How do I feel about it? Happy, scared, worried, excited, nervous – all of those things and more……..

As you can see its been a quiet week in Cramerland Have a nice weekend y’all.

.. or lack of it.

I can’t seem to find any time to work on my photoblog and yes I know it looks like crap, I’ve just started! I really need to get my head around exactly how I want to look and act like. Oh well, maybe over xmas…..

I generally seem to have a lack of time at the moment. Here’s a normal day:

06:30 Alarm goes off

07:00 Eventually get my ass out of bed (usually after having a wee chat with Fidget and cuddle with Vic

07:30 Leave the house

09:00 Get to work 🙁

17:30 Leave work

19:00 Get home

20:00 Start dinner

21:00 Finish dinner

After all that I’m knackered and really can’t be arsed doing anything more than chilling out.

Or maybe I just feel that way ‘cos my throat’s getting really sore and I’m getting stuck playing Splinter Cell on my x-box! lol!

My life isn’t terrible exciting at the moment but luckily other people’s are!  Here’s a few things that have amused/shocked/saddened me over the last few days:

This story amused me. Basically the story goes like this – a large car carrying ship hits another ship in the English Channel and sinks. The channel is not particularly deep at this spot so the extremely big partially sunken ship (carrying ?30M worth of cars) is half out the water and painted bright orange.  Two days later another ship is cruising along and smacks right into it, gets stuck and has to be towed off! What a hoot

I got a free xbox yesterday! We had a promotion at work for selling specific IBM tape drives and as part of one of my deals I qualified for one – yay!

I went down to the local supermarket to buy a game on the way home but all they had was PS2 and Gamecube titles – I was gutted! And they had loads of these as well – not quite sure why they didn’t have xbox games as they have them on their website…….

Not to worry though as the console came with a game, and a very strange one at that – Jet Set Radio Future. This game has you roller-blading around a futuristic Tokyo covering up other peoples graffiti with your own. It’s a bit of a hoot and at least interesting enough to keep me in front of the TV for 5 hours last night! Vic was out at a team xmas dinner and I was going to pick her up so I had to stay up late anyway (she caught a cab home in the end) but I played from 19:00 until about midnight and didn’t even stop for dinner! Between no dinner last night and no breakfast this morning I’m a bit peckish………

Have a nice weekend everyone

Back in NZ we used to get earthquakes all the time. Here in the UK they had a couple a while back and freaked out a bit They were rated at about 3.8-4.0 on the Richter scale and shook things up a little bit.

Vic’s Mum said they had a tremor in Wellington yesterday or the day before and that it had made the news. A couple of years ago I had seen a website that recorded all the earthquakes in New Zealand so I go on the web and went hunting………..

I found this page that shows all the recent quakes in NZ – there are more than I realised!

These are (supposedly) actual lines used in English papers by GSCE students (16 years old) in the UK.  Even if they are not real the are still very funny

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