The day after the night before

The calm I spoke about yesterday has returned, it was broken earlier today but an agreed calm has now once again settled upon the house. Apart from that it has been a fairly mundane day, nothing exciting has happen so that makes for a rather random post for today.

Yesterday I had an attack of the road rage, I had picked up SWMBO from work and was driving home. We were having a heated exchange as I was driving, and as I approached a set of traffic lights I missed judged the traffic and ended up sat in a yellow box area. This box area is opposite a bus stop and allow traffic traveling in the opposite direction to pull out round a bus if it is at the bus stop. So as you can guess, while I am sat in the yellow box area a bus stops opposite me, que jerk in four wheel drive pulling up behind the bus and then start gesticulating to me about my "past times activities" and my parentage. Normally when I meet somebody like this I just ignore them and salute as I pass by, but under the circumstances of my heated exchange, the window came down and there was a brief exchange of our beliefs about each other. Now the total time for the bus stopping and then moving on again was 20 second, in fact I was moving as the bus moved off, so what was this guys problem, yes I got it wrong but it was not as though I held him up for hours?

Won the lottery last night, a whole £5.60, at least it was a £1.10 profit, last week we had all 6 numbers on the Saturday lottery, just not all on the same line.

Been looking forward to taking part at an event in July, normally take part, help out and photograph the event. Well last night they announced the camping details for the event, we are camping of the display site. Now that not particularly a problem accept that the site has no facilities, is sandwiched between two main roads and it close to the town centre. So it is not the best location, I am not the only one to complain about this and I am currently waiting to see if they will book us into another site. While I know I have the choice to go at another site, at the past couple of events we have all camped together so you have one big party so booking in on your own means I would end up missing the party. Whether I go or not is currently open to debate.

Earlier today we had a clear out in one of those corners of the house that rarely see the light of day, tomorrow we have a couple of large boxes and bags of rubbish and some cloths to take to the rubbish tip. We also have room under the stairs now!!

It is currently issing down outside so that means by Wednesday next week I will need a combined harvester to cut the grass

Missing in action

Anybody that follows this written twaddle will have noticed that I have been missing for the past few days. Well the ultimatum I mention in earlier writings raised it head earlier in the week, even worse I was working several hours from home when it did. So not only did I have a long to think about it I had to finish work first.

When the ultimatum was set there was an agreed action if certain things happened, well the things happened but the agreed action was denied, I tried to fight my corner but at the end of the day I am all out of fight. I have been fighting this battle for to long and I am ready to throw the towel in, I have had enough. I would of thought that my intention would have been greeted with joy but no in fact quite the reverse, apparently they thought I was joking........

I am well past joking and I am well past fighting, currently there is an air of quiet over the house (providing you don't include Dire Straits and Sultans of Swing coming out of the PC speaker), the first time for several days. Not only that I am bl**dy tired, a 4:30am start for work and two 2:00am bedtimes this week plus the above does nothing to calm the shattered nerves. I don't know what the out come will be, only time will tell on that one.

There was a surprise at work in the week, all I can say is there has been a bit of a management change and once the feet have settled down under the desk I may find help in my corner. Apart from that it was the same old drudgery, 5 minutes jobs taking hours, long jobs taking 5 minutes and the normal bit where nobody knows the IT department exists until something is broke, then they know where you are.

Tuesday I am determine to get to the the Poole Quay Bike night that (as the name suggests) take place on Poole Quay every Tuesday night. For various reason I have missed all the other so far this year. Normally get over a 1000 bike on the quay of all shapes and sizes. I'm not a bike rider but it never cease's to amazes. They close the quay from early evening and then just start parking the bikes up along the quay and they are there until around 9:00pm, cost nothing to come and look and all money raised goes to charity

I'm sinking

I am sinking, I am just not moving along anymore, I have just stagnated, my "get up and go" was last seen walking hand in hand down the road with my enthusiasm. I am fed up with moving goal posts, being put under the spot light and being told "no your not" it just really getting to me.

I was at the diet club tonight, got on the scales, well it was a loss but not a big one but a loss none the less. Problem is I have stagnated (there that word again) and don't seem to be able keep moving onwards in the right direction.

Everything I seem to touch just gets so far and stops I just can't seem to get to the end of anything, it is really starting to annoy me.

I can't get my head round writing anything else to night, I have written lots already and deleted as it became an incoherent rant.

To day was cool

Cool as in it was not as hot as yesterday, trying to do the gardening yesterday was murder, had I known it was going to be cooler today I would of left it till today. In contrast to yesterday today was a totally laid back day, laid in bed till late (late for us), then went and did a bit of shopping and then back home to just sit around in the sun.

BBQ today instead of the normal Sunday lunch and a bit of a paddle in the paddling pool we were given, took ages to clean (its has been sat out side all winter) but once it was filled with water son enjoyed himself. By the end of the afternoon I had to go and lay down as I had a stinking head ache and ended up falling a sleep for a couple of hours.

Daughter asked me to look at her college project she was writing, there was a problem with the layout format. 2 hours later and numerous software updates to her laptop she now working on finishing it by lunch time tomorrow when it has to be handed in. Why do student always leave it till the last minute??

Well its back to work for me tomorrow, and I am not really looking forward to it, going to work from home to lessen the blow. Then it is an early start and head office on Tuesday, which should be fun.............NOT

To much of me?

I am still not sure what I should be writing in a blog? is it a diary of my days, my observation through my day or do I choose a random subject and start writing about it. Even here I assume that I should write something everyday (I missed writing last nights blog so I am writing this Sunday morning), may be I have not been writing long enough to develop a style yet?

Well I am going to have a whinge about one of my pet hates, other drivers. You know the ones, they drive the car that is not fitted with indicators, the driver that approaches a junction and sit in the middle of the road with no indicators so that you have to guess which way they are turning. The person who forgets where the accelerator is and drives slowly on clear open roads. Drivers who don't know how to go around a round about properly, this one I probably hate the most. You approach the roundabout you get into the correct lane you enter the roundabout and then another driver on the inside or outside then tries to drive through the side of your car, I am not talking about the boy racer or the sales exec. in the BMW who thinks the road is their personal race track (they are in a league of their own), these are just your normal everyday drivers who don't have a clue what they are doing. Yes we have all visited an area we don't know and we don't know the exit we want, but you can't tell me there is one of those along side me on every roundabout everyday??

I was reading a forum the other day and in one of the replies the writer stated that the police do not park on double yellow lines unless they are attending an incident. Well I can take you to a road where every Monday to Friday a police vehicle will park on double yellow lines at around the same time every day and he is not attending a "police incident". Add that to the police keeping to the speed limit (when not on there way to an incident), well I followed a police car along a stretch of dual carriageway well above the speed limit, there were no lights, no siren, no indication from the police car that I should stop speeding. It would have been an interesting conversation had he pulled me over.

Speed cameras, on the whole I agree with them but I believe they are used far to much to increase revenue rather than stopping speeding motorists. The static ones for the most part are placed in the wrong places. Traffic lights should all be fitted with the camera to detect red light jumpers. I find that some driver will drive through a red light at every set of traffic lights I stop at now a days.

Well that my starter, I will return later today with the Sunday night write up.

We got to the beach early

It was hot today, damm hot, I got up this morning and the sky was clear blue and not a cloud to be seen, a pointer of how the day was to continue. After dropping the wife at work and doing a couple of chore around the house I decide it was time to take my son to the beach. Now my son is not a great beach lover, he likes going to the beach but to sit there build sand castle and take a dip, that not is cup of tea. So I planned a nice long walk along the beach and paddling around ankle deep water in the process.

We got down to the beach nice and early, when we arrived a sea mist had descended over the beach and you could barely see 40ft away. As we walked to the beach (we parked on a side road to save the extortionate parking fees) the mist began to lift, we reached the beach kicked of our shoes and suddenly found the beach covered in broken shells, ouch.

By the time we got to the water line the mist had disappeared and clear blue sky return, there were very few people on the beach, the life guards were still putting out their flags and other kit. The water was freezing cold when we first entered but slowly as the our feet acclimatised it became more bearable. We even managed to see 6 little hermit crabs (they would all fit in the palm of your hand with room to spare), dear son was worried they were going to pinch his toes. When we reached the far end of the beach we sat and watched some people fishing and watched the boats leave the harbour out to the big wide sea beyond. By the time we had made our way back to the starting point the beach was crowded and still the people were coming onto the beach.

I think the whole walk was about 2.5 miles, add in the distance from the beach to where the car was parked and we are probably looking 3 miles. Not a great distance in anybody book but with my knees a mile stone none the less.

Unfortunately I overlooked one vital thing, suntan lotion, my son has got a very red neck now, his arms and legs are ok just the back of his neck, no doubt he will make me feel guilty about it over the weekend.

I am becoming forgetful so I must be getting old

As I mentioned yesterday I took my son out to the New Forest, went to a place called Wilverly Plain, it is on the Burley to Brockenhurst road. I thought we would take my single line kites out and give them an airing, so I dug them out the cupboard, got a couple of pegs to tie the lines to once in the air, a mallet for knocking the pegs in the ground and then we were off. Arrived without any problems, found a nice spot, started getting the kites out and.............. no lines!! It at about this moment that a little light goes on in the back of my head that says the lines and reel are in another bag in the cupboard that I did not pick up, a few choice words (under my breath so my son does not hear me) and I start packing up.

I remember there was a Revolution Kite in the bag (I won't explain what they are check out this web site: http://www.revkites.com ). Fortunately the lines are in the bag for this kite. It has been so long since I last had this kite out I can't even remember how to assemble it, I eventually get it together and attach the lines. On the launch instead of rising steadily into the air the kite veers off to the left. So I check it all connected correctly (as far as I can remember), try again same thing happens again. So now I check the lines are the same length, they are not, one line is about 3inches long than the others.............it is about now the familiar light in my head flashes on and I can remember the last time I tried to fly this kite, it kept veering all over the place and I gave up. The lines needed to be sorted out and as they were all different lengths (there are four lines on the kite and they all need to be the same length). I did not have the bits I needed to do it with me, so I had to pack up the kite and and return all of them to the car.

We ended up having a walk around the woods, dodging the muddy puddles and muddy dogs (my son attracts dog like a magnet) and was sporting a lovely mud splodge on his t-shirt from a 21 week old Great Dane puppy (looked more like a tiger with the black stripes in it fur). We manged to avoid the two tone muddy and Golden Labrador and the white and muddy Scotty dog.

The days entertainment ended when I had to drive the wife to an interview straight from work, because of the time she got out of work and the time of the interview she decided that she would change her clothes in the car on the way to the interview, its a amazing how many traffic ques you get stuck in at roundabouts and traffic light :)