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Month: January 2011

It has to be done, but it probably will involve pain.

Posted on January 27, 2011 By admin

After much discussion, we moved Bean into his first big-boy bed. His previous cot was getting too small. We went go IKEA and bought a bed that would fit the room and Mel gave me a hand to put up a stairgate upstairs last weekend. Katy was feeling crappy yesterday so I had to stay home and mind the bean. We figured it was as good a time as any. Setting up the bed was easy but required an emergency trip to IKEA to buy bed slats on which to put the mattress. We didn’t realize that they weren’t included and nobody mentioned the fact. That was nice, and we spent an extra 20 quid of petrol to buy a 10 quid part.

Bedtime went smoother than I expected and he only messed around two or three times before just settling himself down and going through the night. He did wake up at 6:30 this morning though and, since he’s now unfettered by bars, he wanted out of his room.

He’s now tired and extremely feeble in the most annoying way. He’s been uber-feeble for the last few days, but this is taking it to new hights. I love my bean but if he doesn’t stop flapping and yelling at me for food food and chocolate biscuits, I’ll either kill him or myself…

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The bean, it dances!

Posted on January 25, 2011 By admin 1 Comment on The bean, it dances!

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An open letter to the landlord of the Crocus Tavern

Posted on January 25, 2011 By admin

Sir.

For the last few weeks, I have been taking my two year old son to nursery using the shuttle service that my workplace provides. There is a stop just opposite your pub. It is a short walk from our house, situated in The Glebe, in the mornings. However, in the evening, my wife picks me up from the pub parking lot because the side-walks can be very slippery at this time of year and are generally poorly lit. She has been in the habit of parking in your car park for generally no longer than 10 minutes while she waits for the shuttle bus to arrive (unfortunately, the shuttle schedule tends to be a bit chaotic, hence the longer-than-expected wait).

At no time during those recent weeks has your car park ever had more than a handful of cars in it, including ours. Considering that your lot can reasonably handle several times than number of cars, we never considered this to be a problem. However, last night, you or one of your staff came up to the car while my wife was waiting and informed her that yours was a private car park and that she should not park there to wait for us in the future.

While you are entirely within your rights, I believe that this shows a stinginess of spirit that is not appealing for our continued custom. It’s not like your business is exactly booming and heaving at that time of night, and it doesn’t cost you anything to let my wife wait 10 minutes in a near-empty car park. If anything, it might give the impression that there are actually people frequenting your pub.

In any case, you will be happy to note that we will refrain from using your car park and we will also refrain from using your pub, in general. My wife will park in a lay-by further up the road. You can take your precious parking and shove it far, far up where the sun doesn’t shine.

Have a nice day,
Rc

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Today is not a good day.

Posted on January 18, 2011 By admin

Turns out that all of the money we saved having a friend install our breaker box will now be spent having said installation made right and certified. Fucking joy.

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Bad jokes of the day

Posted on January 12, 2011 By admin

A shy guy goes into a bar, sees a beautiful woman, and says, “Um, would you mind if I chatted with you for a while?” She responds by yelling, “No, I won’t sleep with you tonight!” Embarrassed, he slinks back to his table. After a few minutes, the woman walks over and says, “I’m sorry if I embarrassed you. I’m a psych student studying how people respond to embarrassing situations.” To which he responds, at the top of his lungs, “What do you mean, $200?”

One night, on a camping trip, Sherlock Holmes wakes up Watson and says, “Look at the stars. What do you deduce?” Watson thinks for a minute and says, “Well, I see millions of stars, many of which resemble our sun, which most likely have their own planets, which most likely have life-forms like us, so I deduce that there is life on other planets.” And Sherlock says, “No, you idiot, someone’s stolen our tent.”

A blind man walks into a store with his seeing-eye dog. All of a sudden, he picks up the leash and begins swinging the dog over his head. The manager runs up to the man and shouts, “What are you doing?!” The blind man replies, “Just looking around.”

Three old gals are sitting on a park bench, and a flasher comes up and flashes them. Two of the gals have a stroke. But the third couldn’t reach that far.

What do you call a lesbian dinosaur? A lickalotopus.

Two nuns are driving down a road late at night when a vampire jumps onto the hood of their car. The one nun says to the other, “Quick! Show him your cross!” So the other nun leans out the window and shouts, “Get off our f–ing car!”

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Bad joke :)

Posted on January 11, 2011 By admin

A guy goes to the doctor and the doctor tells him he has only a day to live. He goes home to tell his wife, who asks what he wants to do with his final hours. Of course he wants to spend them having sex. They have great sex all night long. Finally, at about 2:00 A.M., his wife says she’s tired and wants to go to sleep.

He says, “Oh, come on, can’t we just do it one more time?”

And she says, “Look, I’ve got to get up in the morning — you don’t!”

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Well, the holidays are over for this year

Posted on January 4, 2011 By admin

The xmas booze and food and dwindling fast (thank god!), the tree and the trimmings have been put away, it’s no longer snowing on my blog and I’m back at work so that means that the holidays are officially over until next year. Time to start saving the pennies again.

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Get a life people!!!

Posted on January 1, 2011 By admin

Jeebus. I just checked my email and we’re getting support request emails at work at 11:07pm on new year’s eve.

Seriously. Even at my worst in the lab I was never that bad.

Go home, get drunk, get laid.

You should not be in the lab doing data analysis right now.

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My son, the nudist…

Posted on January 1, 2011 By admin

We generally check in on bean before going to bed. Tonight, when Katy went in, she asked me if I was aware that he’d taken off his top. I wasn’t and, on further reflection, I remembered that we put him to bed in a one piece sleepsuit. I went back into the nursery and did a quick check of my own. Lo and behold, doofus was sleeping on his tummy, butt naked after managing to take off not only his suit but also his nappy! Katy dressed him back up while I changed an unfortunately damp bed. Still, he seemed so chuffed with himself :)

Interesting way to start thr year…

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