I felt I should blog - I have achieved practically nothing today, despite getting up nice and early.
That is, aside from the lovely insertion of a few by-lines into the Bromsgrove Standard this week - I've got 14 articles,...
... 2 by-lines - that means I wrote just two articles under a third of the total news content. Because there were 50 stories in it.
And I've got something on the 93 site as well, so all is good.
This weekend is a rava busy one - I've got the installation and training of how to implement a computer system in a grooming company tomorrow. I think the work should be up-to-scratch but I'm not sure. To be honest, the spec has been a bit lax. I've been paid for it now though, so I'll happily install it and provide with a DATA CD.
Data Entry could be arranged too, I suppose. I must remember to take my folder with my with the specification I wrote on it - then I won't be able to get in trouble over not doing something. Because I wrote down exactly what they wanted. We can also talk about the wonderful website I'll be building for them. And I've got a letter to give to her as well.
In other news, I've bought a g3 iMac. A 400mhz pink one, with 576MB of RAM. (Which I discovered is the reason I got confused about someone's phone number; it starts 567 - but being a computer geek I always accidentally dial 576. Damn.)
And now i'm trying to work out the logistics of it all. That's interesting, considering I have to wait for a cheque to clear and then get it all sorted and in my house by Friday. Because on Saturday, I jet off to Majorca for two weeks. And no, not to Magaluf.
But as everyone else is going there, you may wish to make yourself think I am.
Anyhow, I better conclude because it's 31 minutes now until I leave this office for the (maybe) final time ever. But certainly the final time for now. And I feel a compulsion to photocopy a lot of newspaper stuffs.
Have fun!!
N
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Bylines, phone numbers...
Daily Nixx Archive | Friday, 28 July | Respond
Feeling hot hot hot...
Daily Nixx Archive | Wednesday, 26 July | Respond
And shockingly, I'm not. After a lovely time at the gym and pool - should I say fitness centre - this morning, I've been exercised and cooled by the lovely air con there. And I must say, my hands hurt...
... just a little after all that time on the rowing machine.
I did about 4, 000 meters on that - and burnt 97 callories on the bike. Got my heart rate up to a lovely and healthy 186. Which to me sounds a little like having a heart attack - but I wasn't short of breath, and I didn't have any shooting pains down my left arm. So heh. I figure I wasn't having one.
And into the office - or at least, I would have done but I had the lovely lovely problem of getting a bus. Trying to flag down a double-decker 64 almost removed my arm, as the rather irate looking driver decided he was drunk or something and drove down (what looked to me as) the middle of two lanes, at about 40mph - and went through a red light. (The last bit being fact not just opinion!)
Finally, I managed to get a 64 at 1204 - only two minutes later than the timetable said. It was fine, single decker though and the driver seemed to have a complex problem with seeing green lights, instead thinking they meant stop. His name appeared to be "Stuart" as some woman shouted to him: "it's green Stu" and he carried on driving. Maybe she's his boss or something and I was actually on a training bus. His driving was OK though apart from that. Oh, and the bus didn't seem to like the A38.
So, do I have anything else to talk about today? I think not - it's time to leave you until later. How my arms ache after all this typing.
Have fun!
N xx
... just a little after all that time on the rowing machine.
I did about 4, 000 meters on that - and burnt 97 callories on the bike. Got my heart rate up to a lovely and healthy 186. Which to me sounds a little like having a heart attack - but I wasn't short of breath, and I didn't have any shooting pains down my left arm. So heh. I figure I wasn't having one.
And into the office - or at least, I would have done but I had the lovely lovely problem of getting a bus. Trying to flag down a double-decker 64 almost removed my arm, as the rather irate looking driver decided he was drunk or something and drove down (what looked to me as) the middle of two lanes, at about 40mph - and went through a red light. (The last bit being fact not just opinion!)
Finally, I managed to get a 64 at 1204 - only two minutes later than the timetable said. It was fine, single decker though and the driver seemed to have a complex problem with seeing green lights, instead thinking they meant stop. His name appeared to be "Stuart" as some woman shouted to him: "it's green Stu" and he carried on driving. Maybe she's his boss or something and I was actually on a training bus. His driving was OK though apart from that. Oh, and the bus didn't seem to like the A38.
So, do I have anything else to talk about today? I think not - it's time to leave you until later. How my arms ache after all this typing.
Have fun!
N xx
Daily Nixx Archive | Tuesday, 25 July | Respond
Some how, I feel that most people's stream of conciousness seems to represent their belief that they are concious quite - well, poorly.
And that's all the intelect you're getting from me today! I awoke later than normal and...
... stolled into the office at a leisurely 9.58am this morning. That was quite nice. Tomorrow though, up early again.
And yay! I've almost finished the church stuff. Just one article about breakfast at a church on Sunday to write, book a pic with, do a mini-interview (got to love quotes) and then I can leave this rather-too-sweaty office.
At lunch time, I went for a quick walk up Bromsgrove to sort out my bank things and get Natwest to let me have my account back. Apparently, my signature wasn't "much" different, and she verified my identity anyway. So all is good.
I should be allowed to have my account back very soon then if all's good. I want it back and I'd love some online banking please!! Oh yeh, and if VIP could send me a cheque to pay for the database project that would be absoloutely spiffingly lovely.
I haven't installed it or anything, but it's finished and you did promise a cheque for £300 or something. And I'd quite like my newly permissed account to display that as its balance. Now Natwest believe I'm me, and i've presented several of my children and a sample of my hair.
Euch..Better go, my arms are touching the desk and where they do that I'm sweating lots. And that's not nice.
Have fun!
N xx
And that's all the intelect you're getting from me today! I awoke later than normal and...
... stolled into the office at a leisurely 9.58am this morning. That was quite nice. Tomorrow though, up early again.
And yay! I've almost finished the church stuff. Just one article about breakfast at a church on Sunday to write, book a pic with, do a mini-interview (got to love quotes) and then I can leave this rather-too-sweaty office.
At lunch time, I went for a quick walk up Bromsgrove to sort out my bank things and get Natwest to let me have my account back. Apparently, my signature wasn't "much" different, and she verified my identity anyway. So all is good.
I should be allowed to have my account back very soon then if all's good. I want it back and I'd love some online banking please!! Oh yeh, and if VIP could send me a cheque to pay for the database project that would be absoloutely spiffingly lovely.
I haven't installed it or anything, but it's finished and you did promise a cheque for £300 or something. And I'd quite like my newly permissed account to display that as its balance. Now Natwest believe I'm me, and i've presented several of my children and a sample of my hair.
Euch..Better go, my arms are touching the desk and where they do that I'm sweating lots. And that's not nice.
Have fun!
N xx
Daily Nixx Archive | Monday, 24 July | Respond
HELLO again from the wonderful place we know as England. I can't believe after five days I seem to have come back the most tanned I've ever been. I only went to bloody Wales!
But days of louging about in the...
... sand are over, and despite my iPod seeming to want to go back - it's slowly addmitting it must let go of all the sand it's had absorbed into it and let me return to Moyles podcast without the rattling of the stoney-building-material.
Today, I've started a week working at the Bromsgrove Standard, in the High Street here in the home of Bromsgrovians. So once again, I am a local news god. But only for a week.
Oh, and I've also written some stuff for 93, the paper's new website youth-thing. And Nic's choon recommendations are going on soon enough. Check it out at www.bromsgrovestandard.co.uk.
But what else? Well, in randomness I feel I must ask why only the whitest of white socks are ever avaliable when you need black ones urgently and why this morning I seem to need to listen to music that just rocks hard, and loud. No idea why. It's odd.
Meanwhile, I was up until 2.30am last night thank's to someone's friend. Do keep your eye out Kingz :p You never know ;)
I've also just found out that Craigy (our very own cBay) has made several papers this week. Pics of Pete Doherty and Kate Moss, apparently. So take a look in the tabloid shite to see his handiwork.
I remain the man who discovered him :d And I'll cling onto that when we're both very famous people, and Craig has bought Big Pictures from Darren. Not that any of that is fact, of course. But heh - we can all dream.
Meanwhile, back to work - and a reminder that you really should make sure your BBQ is safe. Don't let your dog on the bbq, and it's the saussage that your mother-in-law WANTS that goes on the griddle, not your mother-in-law. Always a top tip that.
Have fun!
But days of louging about in the...
... sand are over, and despite my iPod seeming to want to go back - it's slowly addmitting it must let go of all the sand it's had absorbed into it and let me return to Moyles podcast without the rattling of the stoney-building-material.
Today, I've started a week working at the Bromsgrove Standard, in the High Street here in the home of Bromsgrovians. So once again, I am a local news god. But only for a week.
Oh, and I've also written some stuff for 93, the paper's new website youth-thing. And Nic's choon recommendations are going on soon enough. Check it out at www.bromsgrovestandard.co.uk.
But what else? Well, in randomness I feel I must ask why only the whitest of white socks are ever avaliable when you need black ones urgently and why this morning I seem to need to listen to music that just rocks hard, and loud. No idea why. It's odd.
Meanwhile, I was up until 2.30am last night thank's to someone's friend. Do keep your eye out Kingz :p You never know ;)
I've also just found out that Craigy (our very own cBay) has made several papers this week. Pics of Pete Doherty and Kate Moss, apparently. So take a look in the tabloid shite to see his handiwork.
I remain the man who discovered him :d And I'll cling onto that when we're both very famous people, and Craig has bought Big Pictures from Darren. Not that any of that is fact, of course. But heh - we can all dream.
Meanwhile, back to work - and a reminder that you really should make sure your BBQ is safe. Don't let your dog on the bbq, and it's the saussage that your mother-in-law WANTS that goes on the griddle, not your mother-in-law. Always a top tip that.
Have fun!
Sheep country calls you
Daily Nixx Archive | Wednesday, 19 July | Respond
HELLO EVERYONE FROM TEH WELSH COUNTRY OF SHEEP THINGS VIA 02'S SHITTY PROXY SERVER!!!!!!1111!!!
I'm sittin on a table in the Chalet after Lucy & Josie have spent around 2 hours taking the piss out of me for a reason which is *completely* beyond my knowledge. Do I care? Well, yes, I do. Tell me girls.
So? Wooden hut on the top of a mountain has become home - today's trips included two walks up the massive hill! It really is quite a scarilly high hill. And when I text Pingu about it, all he had to say was "Lol! Mountains!". Today's two trips were for the purpose of, first of all, the sustaining life blood of the majority of teenagers and students - especially those ones of us who are on holiday. Indeed, we went to SPAR and purchased food. Yes, the best option we had for food, is a SPAR in a petrol station. I so wished we had a car to go with it. That would rock so hard!
Today we've also paid our first (and second) visit to the lovely Aberdovey beach. That rocked too. w00. It all rocks. Just like the side of this BLOODY mountain. Which is also responsible for stressing out a poor 15-year-old west brom boy. Who reacted incredibly badly to the...wonderous attacking of his wall with a....wait for it.....Daddy Long Legs!!!! Ye, scary people! Watch out for the West Brom Daddy Long Legs Crew - they is scary!
Dear oh dear. Well I'll leave you with the news that I didn't have time to talk about someone's proposed proposal - someone's answer to that, Lucy's going to bed leaving me and Josie to look up into the stars, in a Dom-story-style and the massive news that we shouldn't fry at 23.34 at night. Ben reckons we could though, so all is good.
Oh, and can anyone work out how Josie managed to get placenta on the sofa?
See you all soon, or on Friday when I'll pho-blog depending on if the train overheats at Mychunliththetlkwflknadlnnsf or not. MER-CUN-LITH for those who care. And for Josie, it's mchyenllyth. W000t. Welsh place names wrock. Next time, let's visit Llanfairp...gogogoch.
N xx
I'll leave it to the girls, now, who I refuse to allow to use their own blogs because ecto is only set up for mine! And ecto is the only way we can blog!
Josie: hello there peeps! i coooked tea for us today in true Josie style.It was a pasta with nce and easy mircowavable suarce. First i burnt my hand twice, once o the suarce pan lid (don't text and cook) and again putting my hand into boiling waer to see if the pasta had cooked. i then dd what i tought was the easy tas of the meal. microwaving it. we put into to a mirowavable bowl but it the turning thing dosnt turn. Nic went "thats about explde" sure enough folks it did. Whooooops. i woudl also like to explain thati am being mean to nic now cus he wasto me onthe beach. i really don't lke sand yet he threw it and me and then covered himself in it. He also put it down is shorts, trying to make something look impressive it think ;). Wllanyway better let Lucy say a few words. Ohh heres a clue Nicyou asked me something but i replied just to lucy wth a word ytha egins with W and well its progressed from there with my immaturity. Josie xxx
Lucy: Heylo everyone from the rather beautiful dining table at the CHALET OF LOVE. I realised on the short tim I have been here a) I am rather unfit and cannot climb up big fat darned hills despite passing D of E (how did I manage it?) b) I can keep quite calm when forced to get the train to Edinburgh in a last minute dash to find our train to Aber blah blah c) I really rely on my beautiful mobile phone d) I have an irrational fear of going in the sea and e) It's really easy to wind Nic up about something he hasn't actually done :D.Oh and f) I can't type on laptops.
I'll go now and let Nic who is in skin-tight boxers sign off. Don't miss us too much.
Eugh, they're frying bacon and eggs at 23:34. *sick*
Loves you all,
Lucy
X
See you all soon,
Wales xx
I'm sittin on a table in the Chalet after Lucy & Josie have spent around 2 hours taking the piss out of me for a reason which is *completely* beyond my knowledge. Do I care? Well, yes, I do. Tell me girls.
So? Wooden hut on the top of a mountain has become home - today's trips included two walks up the massive hill! It really is quite a scarilly high hill. And when I text Pingu about it, all he had to say was "Lol! Mountains!". Today's two trips were for the purpose of, first of all, the sustaining life blood of the majority of teenagers and students - especially those ones of us who are on holiday. Indeed, we went to SPAR and purchased food. Yes, the best option we had for food, is a SPAR in a petrol station. I so wished we had a car to go with it. That would rock so hard!
Today we've also paid our first (and second) visit to the lovely Aberdovey beach. That rocked too. w00. It all rocks. Just like the side of this BLOODY mountain. Which is also responsible for stressing out a poor 15-year-old west brom boy. Who reacted incredibly badly to the...wonderous attacking of his wall with a....wait for it.....Daddy Long Legs!!!! Ye, scary people! Watch out for the West Brom Daddy Long Legs Crew - they is scary!
Dear oh dear. Well I'll leave you with the news that I didn't have time to talk about someone's proposed proposal - someone's answer to that, Lucy's going to bed leaving me and Josie to look up into the stars, in a Dom-story-style and the massive news that we shouldn't fry at 23.34 at night. Ben reckons we could though, so all is good.
Oh, and can anyone work out how Josie managed to get placenta on the sofa?
See you all soon, or on Friday when I'll pho-blog depending on if the train overheats at Mychunliththetlkwflknadlnnsf or not. MER-CUN-LITH for those who care. And for Josie, it's mchyenllyth. W000t. Welsh place names wrock. Next time, let's visit Llanfairp...gogogoch.
N xx
I'll leave it to the girls, now, who I refuse to allow to use their own blogs because ecto is only set up for mine! And ecto is the only way we can blog!
Josie: hello there peeps! i coooked tea for us today in true Josie style.It was a pasta with nce and easy mircowavable suarce. First i burnt my hand twice, once o the suarce pan lid (don't text and cook) and again putting my hand into boiling waer to see if the pasta had cooked. i then dd what i tought was the easy tas of the meal. microwaving it. we put into to a mirowavable bowl but it the turning thing dosnt turn. Nic went "thats about explde" sure enough folks it did. Whooooops. i woudl also like to explain thati am being mean to nic now cus he wasto me onthe beach. i really don't lke sand yet he threw it and me and then covered himself in it. He also put it down is shorts, trying to make something look impressive it think ;). Wllanyway better let Lucy say a few words. Ohh heres a clue Nicyou asked me something but i replied just to lucy wth a word ytha egins with W and well its progressed from there with my immaturity. Josie xxx
Lucy: Heylo everyone from the rather beautiful dining table at the CHALET OF LOVE. I realised on the short tim I have been here a) I am rather unfit and cannot climb up big fat darned hills despite passing D of E (how did I manage it?) b) I can keep quite calm when forced to get the train to Edinburgh in a last minute dash to find our train to Aber blah blah c) I really rely on my beautiful mobile phone d) I have an irrational fear of going in the sea and e) It's really easy to wind Nic up about something he hasn't actually done :D.Oh and f) I can't type on laptops.
I'll go now and let Nic who is in skin-tight boxers sign off. Don't miss us too much.
Eugh, they're frying bacon and eggs at 23:34. *sick*
Loves you all,
Lucy
X
See you all soon,
Wales xx
