Yesterday was rather eventful. At midday I listened to Leeds United play Barnsley. The Whites only managing a disappointing draw, mainly thanks to the idiotic linesman who disallowed a perfectly good goal. Twat.
After lunch, I walked down to Twerton Park to watch Bath City take on Halesowen Town. Bath did somewhat better than Leeds and won 3-0, maintaining their lead at the top of the table. As the afternoon drew to a close and darkness fell, the temperature dropped. I stood pitch side, shivering in the cold with only a cup of coffee to keep me warm. That’s dedication for you.
In the evening I went to The Globe pub with Mr. Watkins. I had my traditional dish of choice, Hunters Chicken. Upon receiving my meal, I noticed that it wasn’t the Hunters Chicken of previous years which I had grown to know and love. It was presented in a far more stylish manner; maybe their chef had been reading “Food Presentation for Dummies”.
At the end of the day however, it didn’t matter how the food was presented, what was most important was the taste. I’m pleased to report that it was delicious. A year ago, I would have thought it impossible to improve upon such a divine dish but somehow, somebody did it. The latest Hunters Chicken offering is just delectable.
Once we had eaten, we left for the cinema. It was mutually decided that we watch Tenacious D (starring Jack Black). As the Odeon in Bath was fully booked, we drove to Vue in Bristol.
Like the Hunters Chicken earlier that evening, the film was more than adequate and well worth the admittance fee. Jack Black and his co-star Kyle Gass were both very, very funny, if not a little bizarre. Still, I have always enjoyed quirky and eccentric humour – I don’t know what that says about my mental state.
My trip to the cinema was improved by the fact I was allowed to fill my own Ice Blast cup. Unfortunately there were no free refills and I had to use the cup provided, and not the 5 pint goblet I happened to be carrying at the time.
This evening was the turning on of my 2006 Christmas Lights. I did my best to find a high status celebrity to push the switch and illuminate my room like Blackpool Tower, but was rather unsuccessful…
Bono was on tour in Japan. David Beckham wanted to come, but Real Madrid would not allow him to leave Spain. Madonna did ask to do it, but I turned her down – I may need a celeb, but I’m not desperate!
In the end, I managed to persuade Daniel Craig to make the journey from London to Bath and do the honours. Don’t the decorations look amazing?
A funny excerpt from the latest issue of Computer Weekly:
Everyone knows that computers can be fragile, but some users still treat them as though they were indestructible. Hard disk recovery firm Ontrack has compiled its top five stories of data loss in 2006.
Fifth place belongs to a user who left a banana to rot on top of his external hard drive. The rotten mush seeped through the casing, where it wrecked the circuitry, preventing the drive from running. The circuit board was repaired sufficiently to enable the drive’s data to be recovered.
In number four is that perennial favourite, the people carrier. Someone left a laptop in the path of a moving one earlier this year. Similar examples include a rucksack full of hard drives that was backed over by a truck.
Third place goes to a manufacturer of expensive underwater digital cameras. Unfortunately for one unhappy customer who took the camera on a snorkelling holiday to Barbados, the camera was far from waterproof.
Proving the cliché that academics have brains, but no common sense, is a university professor who head a squeaking noise coming from the drive of his new PC. The nutty professor removed the casing and sprayed the drive with WD-40, thus stopping both the squeaking noise and the drive itself.
But the award for 2006’s most unnecessary assault on a disc drive goes to a user who sent his damaged hard drive to Ontrack wrapped in a pair of dirty socks. The original problem was unremarkable; the damage caused by the combination of sweat and fibres was not.
Finally, something I was e-mailed. If your IT Department is throwing a Christmas party this month, I hope it’s as fun and crazy as this one
About Me
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However, if you would like a lifestyle blog, written by a 30-something chap, living in Bath (England), feast your eyes on this.
You won't discover how to copy PlayStation 4 games. What you will find is a blog, covering life in the West Country, the highs and lows of supporting two unsuccessful football teams, while sharing a house with a wife and rabbit.
All written by a man, somewhere on the sanity-scale between normal and eccentric.
