By popular demand
Oh, OK, I’ve just finished a 12 hour shift, yet I shall still attempt to please both of my readers by including an update on the past few weeks’ events. Unofrtunately, it really has been desperately unexciting. In fact, I have actually drafted a few posts up over the past few days, but never completed them. It’s been THAT boring.
Therefore, I shall, start with a post I wrote last week, which starts off with the annoucement of my jury service…
Yes, a big brown envelope plopped through my door the other week. I looked at the returns address… HM Courts service.
Tentatively, I opened it up. There it was. A big, white piece of A4 paper, with “Jury Summons” printed on it, in magenta text. Now, there’s probably some law against posting in a public place when and where this is happening, so I’ll refrain from doing that. And no, I won’t post details on the cases either, so don’t even ask.
Um. Earlier, I went to Middlesbrough, for a bit of a test run of my afore mentioned jury duty. I wanted to find out, approximately, how long it would take for me to get from Mercuryvapour Towers, to the appropriate court where I shall be performing my duty to Queen and Country.
I arrived home from work at approximately 8:30 AM. I wasn’t tired, and decided that I would go to Middlesbrough so I knew exactly where I was going. I had an idea where they were, but I didn’t really fancy going there and then finding out that I didn’t have a clue where the courts were. I got sent a map with the information they send you, and obviously, the times you have to be there. I have only ever travelled to Middlesbrough by public transport a handful of times. I wanted to know how long it took to get from Hartlepool, to the law courts. The time? Around an hour, and another 10 minutes to walk from the bus station to the court house.
I took the time out, however to “admire” the new fountain that has been installed nearby.
Seems a bit of a waste, installing that impressive feature, when in the background, you’ve got the nastiest looking shopping centre in the whole history of the planet.
I walked along the road, and obtained some of the local foods… namely, a Greggs Pastie. Just as I was munching my last bite, a strange woman approached me, and took some of the crappest looking yo-yos and assorted toys I’ve ever seen.
“I’m a gypsy, would you like to buy them?” she said in an accent which I couldn’t place.
I quickly made my excuses, and headed towards the nearest entrance to the nasty shopping centre. I spent the rest of the day wondering if I’d been cursed. Considering I’m sat typing this now, I don’t think that’s happened… I wonder if the curse “missed” me, and shortly after, someone ended up in Jimmy Cook’s with a roof tile in the back of their head, or something?
Sooooooo, that was the trip to Middlesbrough which took place on Monday last week. Unfortunately, that’s the only bit of excitement that’s happened to me over the past few weeks. Jury duty, and crappy yo-yos. The joy.
A little earlier, I also updated my computer, as I explained in another desperately boring post…
I have once again updated the storage in my computer. You may remember that a few months ago, I had an issue with the hard drive in Beastbits, my “main” machine. It worked itself out, after a complete “boot ‘n’ nuke” of the drive, but I always wondered if I could actually trust that drive with long-term storage. Now the only thing that kept me from getting a new HDD was the fact that my ebuyer account was inaccessible. I’d either changed the username, password, or email address, and I didn’t remember what I’d changed it to, plus you used to only be able to have one account registered to one address. Eventually, I got this all sorted, naturally, and purchased the drive
Along with that, I also bought a new keyboard, and 2Gb SD card (yes, another one!)
It also works out now, because I have a proper, useful backup strategy too, but I’m sure I’ve bored you enough with tales of my computery… things.
… Yes, Jamie, you did. I seem to remember almost dozing off while I typed that load of complete and utter bollocks, which is one of the reasons you didn’t get to see it until now.
And, that’s it. I shall close by saying we actually had our first splattering of snow (or rather hail and snow) this week. Hopefully, it’ll be our last for a while as I’m desperate to go out and actually do stuff worth typing about. I’m now going to go and stick some chilli wedges in the oven, and curl up in front of the telly and watch some Countryfile.
EDIT: This will be the last update for a couple of days, as Wordpress 2.5 is due out within that time. This is apparently, a major release, so instead of risking losing posts, I won’t post anything until it’s out. This will allow me to “lock down” the site, and create a nice, stable backup so I can go back, just in case it messes up. You all know what I’m like for breaking stuff.
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:14:33 pm
Fountain looks better if you take a picture from the other side.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:20:15 am
Yes, but where’s the fun in that?
March 25th, 2008 at 1:41:21 pm
Bah, biased press.