she looked like how I feel

I was walking in this morning and in the opposite direction I passed a woman (probably late forties/early fifties) and she looked really miserable.

She looked like this might have been her "natural" look anyway...

I know that I sometimes feel miserable but I dont think that I ever look miserable if you get my meaning?

And on a completely different note there is a smell of crumpets in the shared kitchen that is driving me insane ;o)

staged Superman moments

I was watching Undercover Boss the other day, it was the boss of Tower Hamlets Council, he was Kevan Collins but he called himself Colin (something or other), and disguised himself by wearing contact lenses instead of his usual glasses. It got to the end of the show and the colleagues that he had been working with were called into the council offices and he would walk in and tell them who he really was...

Kevan walked in on one of the guys (cant remember what his name was) and he said to him "do you know who I am?" and the guy said "yes, you are the Chief Executive Officer of Tower Hamlets" and Kevan said "do you remember what you were doing yesterday?" and the guy said "yes, I was working with Colin" Kevan then whips off his glasses (not dis-similar to when Clark Kent reveals to Lois Lane that he is in fact Superman) and the Guy realises that Kevan and Colin were *sniggers* the same person.

Either the guy was "put up" by the director to pretend that the "disguise" was so good that he couldnt recognise someone with and without his glasses on, or he is too thick to even have a job.

I am starting to get paranoid that perhaps I am going out in stained clothing because the last few weeks that I have got the shopping I have received vouchers for Ariel Stain Remover.

Im angry

I was just walking back from buying my lunch of half a lamb sandwich (my regular Friday treat), and there was a lady (who can only be best described as morbidly obese), walking with a friend towards me...

...needless to say she was having trouble walking.

There were these three jackasses in front of me and I could see that they were laughing about something as I was walking up behind them, then I noticed that one of them was taking the mickey out of the lady!

As someone who has previously been obese I was very angry, and almost said something to them but wussed out :o(

gotta love free chocolate

I got to the train station last night, and saw a kindly lady handing something out...

...I was curious as to what it was (as people werent really paying her any attention) and she was handing out miniature bars of yummy gorgeous scrummy chocolate ;o)

should James be flattered or furious?

James went to lunch yesterday with one of his workmates and they were looking at the community projects in the atrium outside Chelmsford Library (where the Registry Office happens to be too), and the Registrar pops out and asks "Are you the wedding party?" to which James said "I have affection for him but Im not marrying him" to which the Registrar laughed ;o) He should never have worn that pink shirt and rainbow tie combo ;o)

Since losing all of his weight James is always asking "do I look gay?" to which I normally say "dont worry you dont look neat enough" ;o) I do love backhanded compliments...

I guess this weekend we will be looking for some butch clothing for him ;o)

getting my back up

As you recall from here and here we have been having problems with our back up at work...

...on Friday an engineer turned up to fit a new tape drive (as our previously fitted one wasnt being recognised) , so once it had been fitted I put a tape in and (stupidly) expected to come in this morning and find the tape ejected and an e-mail saying that the back up was successful.

Did I heck?

No I came in and found he tape still in the tape drive and an e-mail saying that the tape drive wasnt being recognised *sigh*.

So I e-mailed our IT company and told them what had happened (as I was in before 8.30 when the help desk officially opens).

I then got an e-mail back saying that the back up had been configured to look for the wrong tape drive!

WTF they were the people who told the engineer what tape drive to bring!

I never ceased to be amazed by some peoples stupidity!

dont expect four mid week posts every week

I cant believe that last week had so much going on that I did four mid week posts!

One thing that I didnt mention was that on Tuesday it was two years to the day until the Olympic torch will be lit in London. The Mayor of London Boris Johnson mentioned that the search is now on for Olympic helpers and ambassadors.

I thought that this was something that James could do until Boris mentioned that they didnt want anyone annoying! I bluntly said to James "this puts you out then" he looked a bit upset, then thought for a while and said "I suppose they dont want perfectionists" ;o).

On a plus point I weighed myself this morning and saw that I have lost two pounds ;o)