Category: General

*sigh*

Why’d it have to be so hard?!

Not that it’s very fair, my patience is really thin today; I was cursing myself for dropping a fork, but that’s what tiredness & hayfever & an essay to write does to me (about to get on with it, btw).

But I looked on the Staples Website, there was the printer I wanted. Woot I thought.

Off I went, cash (actual hard money cash) in hand, to Staples in Bristol city centre. Looked at the aisle of printers, couldn’t see the one I wanted. Head to Customer (dis)service desk – ask the General Manager “have you got this printer in stock”. Looks puzzled, checks website, states: “Ah, that’s one you can only get from the online store. See, this number here indicates it’s an online purchase only. We can’t even get that one…”

Bugger.

Wander round store with Trey, Nikki, Lauren, ‘meriKate. Oops, second row of printers. There’s the one I want. But none out on the shelves… Ask random store bloke – and yes, they’ve got one. They’ve got one, and it’s now mine. And there, there on the shelf is the Duplex unit for it too! Fuck yeah. Put them behind the till to wait for me to finish looking round.

Go and try to buy printer. Present mostly cash, but ‘cos I’m buying the duplexer too, I have to find an extra 11 quid – which I put on my debit card. So, Cash, Card and Store Loyalty Points card.

Takes money. Puts part payment in. Asks if I wanted to use the store card. Yes, obviously, that’s why I got it out…. Oh, can’t do that at this point in the transaction. Has to be done first. Take money off card. Refund money onto card….wait for manager to authorise refund….give back card. Ask if I want to pay on the card…. (well, no, you just refunded it onto that card so I could wear it as a frickin’ hat). Finally, get payment through, pick up stuff and walk out door….

…. alarm goes off….

GAH! Is it any wonder I like buying stuff online?!

But, it does rock. It does duplex, it’s kinda old-fashioned-black-computer-stylee. The quality of modern printers terrifies me, the plastic’s all flexy and gnarly. If you put too much paper in it just doesn’t feed it through (I have no idea what 150 sheets looks like). But it’s way nicer than my old 840c and it does duplex. Paper go in. Paper come out. Paper go in. Paper come out…. Woo :-) Funkatious.

So summer’s arrived, and for all my whinging about wanting summer to arrive right now I’m hating it.

My hayfever is incredibly bad this year. Bad enough that I’m seriously starting to wonder if I’m going to have to go back to wearing glasses/putting drops in my eyes. I awoke this morning to a feeling remenicent of having someone gently sandpapering your eyeballs all night.

I’m still sneezy and my eyes are itchy as fuck despite my nice healthy dose of loritadine. This might be being exacerbated by tiredness from working nights. I sincerely hope it is, since I can’t afford new glassess, and my old ones totally destroy my self confidence.

I also don’t like riding my motorbike in them…

In other news I’m off to buy a new printer and my old one’s been Freecycled, bloody quickly too! Posted this morning about it and reserved this afternoon to be picked up Tuesday…..

Bleuch.

So, it’s the day after my last night and I feel ropey as fuck. I’ve gained a mouth ulcer – my nose is blocked, and my legs keep trying to deposit me on the floor.

Still, I’m managing to keep down my lunch, which is good.

What’s less good is the sudden and spontaneous death of my printer. Overnight, it seems, it went from working fine to making very unpleasant noises. Bah.

Okay. So now I have to write this essay, without falling asleep on the keyboard. Heh. his is one of the hardest essays I’ve had to write, frankly I find it scarily difficult. I do wonder if I’m doing something horrendously wrong to make it seem so hard, but there we go. Anyway, back to it.

I’m trying to confuse my brain. It’s not really working. Attempts to sleep today were foiled by my body’s insistance that it was:
a: sunny
b: day-time
c: (despite repeated instruction to the contrary) not tired.
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1000 words in. Long pause to write notes on the next segment.

This week I’ve got rid of: My dads’ Pentax camera, my Harmonium, the Rev Counter originally bought for a GCSE project, and my pillow.

My pillow?

Yes. I’ve had the same pillow since I was about oooh, 7… and, well, I liked it. I was used to it’s fluffy featherey goodness. The fact it was a bit hideous to look at, and probably way older than me, well, it never really occured to me to change it. When I learned that 10% of a 6 year old pillow can be dust mites/faeces/dead mites I did think “eek, I really should change my pillow”. And I started to look out for a new feather pillow. I like feather pillows, they mould to your head :-)

But then I kind of lost momentum having not found one.

Until a couple of days ago when Trey pointed out that I needed to change my pillow, very enthusiastically, and so my pillow went; replaced by my ‘guest’ poly/hollow fibre-filled pillow. And uh, I slept fine.

So I chucked it away. Along with my platform boots (which I loved, but noticed they’d started to split and since they’re crappy pseudo-suede-plastic)….

And yes, my hayfever has been better the last few days. Not gone, no, but a bit better.

Slowly, slowly I’m clearing my life out.

So, I’ve got to do a playlist for Pride, well, actually I’ve got to do an essay, but I’m listening to my playlist for our paradey bit in Pride. It’s got to be roughly sixties, but I’ve kinda wandered a bit in the name of making it a wee bit longer (read: it was too short). Now, I’m sure there’s loads of great 60s paradey type songs that I’ve missed out – I mean, I’ve got like 200 60s CDs, but I can’t think of the titles of the tracks I want. So, in the interests of consumer research here’s my playlist as it currently stands:

Radio London – Mashed Radio Caroline
Mony Mony – Tommy James and the Shondells
The Beatles – Twist And Shout (live)
Bee Gees – Night Fever
The Yardbirds – For Your Love
Radio London – Much More Music
Hold Tight – Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick. & Titch
Norman Greenbaum – Spirit In the Sky
David Bowie – Suffragette City
I Can’t Explain – The Who
Carl Douglas – Kung fu Fighting
Jackson Five – Blame It On The Boogie
Various – Wipe Out – Surfaris
Beatles – A Hard Days Night
Various Artists – Donovan – Mellow Yellow
Various Artists – The Organ – Brother
Radio London – Dig This Jingle
Various Artists – Monkees – I’m A Believer
HThe 5 6 7 8s – Woo Hoo
Sha-La-La-La-Lee – Small Faces
Animals – We’ve Gotta Get Out Of This Place
Jingle – Caroline 01
Various Artists – Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers – Get You Into My Life
Blondie – Atomic
David Bowie – The Jean Genie
Radio Jingles\SC31.mp3
Monty Python – Penis Song
Radio London – Dig This Jingle
H:\mp3\Radio Jingles\dig_this
Keep On Running – Spencer Davis Group
Wild Thing – The Troggs
Various Artists – Aretha Franklin – Respect
Radio London – Much More Music
Various Artists – I Touch Myself – Divinyls
Various Artists – Hermans Hermits – I’m into som
Monty Python – Sit On My Face
Various – Surfin’ USA – Hondells
ccc – I Want A Spirit Machine
Radio Jingles\SC30.mp3
Various Artists – BBC – Ming Tea
The Strokes – Last Nite
The Ventures – Hawaii Five-O
Radio London Jingle – ba-ba-da-ba-ba-ba
Various Artists – Abba – Dancing Queen
Various Artists – Love Affair – Everlasting Love
The Beatles – All You Need Is Love
Jingle – Caroline 01
The Zutons – Dont Ever Think (Too Much)
The Beatles – Back in the USSR
Various Artists – Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
Various Artists – Monkees – I’m A Believer
Various Artists – Small Faces – Itchycoo Park
Radio London – Much More Music
Various Artists – Ladytron – Playgirl
Various Artists – The Move – Fire brigade
Bee Gees – Stayin’ Alive
Various Artists – The Supremes – Baby Love
Tight Fit – Back to the Sixties [Medley]
The Beatles – Dizzy Miss Lizzy
David Bowie – Rebel Rebel
Radio London – Dig This Jingle
The Powerpuff Girls – Love Makes the World Go Round
Caroline Jingles\SC33.mp3
Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child
CCC – ccc radio ccc

Anything people think should definately not be in there, or definately should be in there and isn’t? I know some of the stuff is definately very 70s not 60s, and some stuff just kinda sounds 60s-y, but… Well, hey, suggestions on a postcard…

So – I needed a break, so I’ve upgraded my site a bit.

And lo, it does work.

Still getting database errors since my web-hosters moved their database server to a new machine. Will have to look into it. Essay proceeding slowly. Still tired :-)

….with this essay is, to put it bluntly, that I think it’s all bollocks.

It’s a lot of people who have far too much time, and presumably money, writing an awful lot of useless-managementeze with little or no value. And now I’ve got to add to that pool. Of course, mine won’t be nearly so well respected, but it’ll almost certainly say as little in as many words ;-)

So,

‘s been a loooong day. Not a particularly hard one, but with my hayfever not entirely under control – and really unfair considering that it’s not even sunny! ;-) – I am tired. I think some of it comes from yesterday. I did get home and just fall asleep yesterday; I was not to put too finer point on it, knackered.
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