As I once again flail about wildly looking for a title for a blog post, I decide to choose a line from the song I was listening to at the time, namely “She’s In Love” by Heaven West Eleven, normally abbreviated “HWXI”. A band so obscure that they don’t even have a prescence on youtube. Oh well.

So, today was the day of the world’s greatest steeplechase. Naturally, I was glued to the telly, after not missing a Grand National in over 20 years, unless you count the 2007 race, where I was in Edinburgh, watching it in the lobby of a betting shop… wither way, I still recorded it.

So, as you can gather, from my previous one word posting, I blew it. Now, thanks to William Hill requiring a £10 deposit, this meant I had £10 to blow on horsies, instead of the £5 I’d spent in previous years. Turns out this was my mistake, as I’d set up a new account. The previous years I’d went with Ladbrokes. Of course, clever me didn’t think of checking my blog, especially my April 2006 posting entitled “Your Ladbrokes account is active and your bets placed. “. Muppet.

So, I ticked boxes. I wanted Black Apalachi to win. Don’t know why, it was just one of those names who had stuck with me.

Either way, I placed the bets, spreading my tenner out over several horsies…

Ironically, I made the same mistake today, as I did back in 2006, and forgot to tick the “Each Way” box. Now, study the image above, while I quickly render an image, using the latest cutting edge, state of the art, laser display screen software with the results of this years race on it…

Good, eh? Bet there wasn’t many people did that!

Remember, I DIDN’T BACK THEM EACH WAY. Jamie, £16. Bookies, £20. Presumably, it’s too late for me to say to them that I forgot to tick the “each way” box.

Thankfully, Asda came to my rescue today, as they currently have a beer promotion. 2 boxes of beer for £14.

The shelves were empty, as they had almost entirely ran out of stock. The only thing left was bottles of Kroenenburg, which I normally don’t buy, as anyone who has been unfortunate enough to witness me after a Kroeny-sesh can testify.

I really shouldn’t have bothered, as it’s very, very close to the renewal date for my mercuryvapour hosting. And, after having 3 days off last month, means that this month I’m completely skint. I’m holding off for as long as I can. Every year, I go over, in my head, whether it’s time to leave 34SP, and take up hosting of the domain myself (it’s hardly high traffic), but then, I look at the state of my own server, and decide “naaaaaah”. I almost murdered it when I stuck a large database on there.

Speaking of databases, you may remember I keep harping on about my CD / DVD database which I set up in order to catalogue my vast archive of disks… well, I did something last night to prove to myself that it works. I managed to get an image from the windowcam for each day, from Dec 28th 2007 to March 26th 2009 and create a timelapse video from them. There are a couple of days missing, but that’s not the fault of the disks, but the fault of the computer problems I had in the middle of last year.

And no, you’re not going to see it, unless you know me. I shall expect no feedback on this, but from the trusted people I’ve showed it to the feedback from three anonymous viewees has been…

“Awesome! My favourite cast member was the skip.”
“That was class.”
“My favourite part was when the camera fell over”

Leave a comment or something if you really want to see it.