“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man”

Well I got my dollars, not as many as I would like obviously, but here they are. A colleague at work told me that he'd got an excellent exchange rate at a place in town so off I went. It was one of those "cheques cashed" get a loan on your wages type of place. However the rate was better than anywhere else I could find, but I did feel a bit awkward waiting in there, as there is a bit of a stigma associated with those types of establishment, I may not have any money, but I have no debt (apart from my mortgage of course).

This has got to rate as my dullest blog entry ever!

“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...” - George Carlin

“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”

Let me start with a big hello to Barbara - HELLO! (it's big see?see?)

Secondly - that tumbler is parked at IKEA!

I am just home from work unexpectedly early. I was dreading this morning, I knew we were even shorter of staff than usual, we have many patients who need a LOT of care, and I've been a little stressed of late. In the end we got through it and because there was a decent number of late staff (that is staff who start late - at lunchtime , not late as in dead and departed) I managed to snag a few hours holiday! Aren't I lucky. My point being that sometimes no matter how bad something can look on the horizon when you finally reach it it can look a lot smaller and a lot less intimidating than at a distance - please forgive my Crude metaphor.

Well I'd better seize this early finish, grab my ID (that's in the sense of a passport or drivers license, not the Freudian sense!) and go and get some Canadian Dollars!!!
Bye for now!

“There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.” - Charles Schulz

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”

Apologies to my mystery reader, I thought it was that scoundrel Frank looking in!
Red faced apology, and Hello!

“More men are sorry for speaking, than keeping silence”

“"Begin at the beginning,", the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop”

Just passing by...

I am the master of good intentions. My days off follow roughly the same pattern. Starting with optimism, putting off the useful stuff until later, and ending with regret that the useful stuff was never achieved. Ho hum!

It seems that British actors with "American" accents are the flavour (or should that be flavor?) of the moment.
First we had Hugh Laurie in "House", and now Kevin McKidd in "Journeyman", and Damien Lewis in "Life". All high concept set ups (well kind of, journeyman reminds me of a strange Quantum Leap/ Charmed hybrid - the main character appears to live next door to the Halliwells [a quick "google" confirmed this suspicion]in a strangely flat San Francisco suburb - ie Los Angeles, and is obviously influenced by "The Time Traveler's Wife") {that was a bloody long sentence!}. As yet I've only seen the first episode of Life, I'll get back to you on that one.

I wish it was still like this - people seem a whole lot ruder and stupider these days.

“I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then” - Lewis Carroll

“ When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions! ”

Hello there!
Someone in the Sunderland area, who uses Virgin Media as an ISP, has Windows XP, and a strangely low screen resolution (800x600!! - get tweaking or a decent graphics card!), has been stopping by now and again, the latest visit was 7.28am today. You could at least say hello!

“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.” - Jane Austen

“I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.”

Well Chilli, (and hello by the way) you were right , it wasn't so bad. Once again the anticipation proved to be infinitely worse than the participation.

I do have to go for some physiotherapy though. My Sickness harks back to an injury I sustained at work about ten years ago, which appears to have left me with sciatica in my right hip and foot. I should have had physio years ago, but I'm such a procrastinator, that it takes something like this to achieve it.

I've bitten the bullet and put the heating on tonight! It's pathetic I know, a grown man having to work out when he can afford to be warm! It was cold, grey and wet today, sort of like my mood!

Hopefully I'm off to get a load of Canadian Dollars tomorrow (by a load I mean not a lot really) Fun! Fun! Fun!

I couldn't resist another Bob Downe Clip!

“I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.” - Charles Schulz

“It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.”

Were it not for my holiday to Canada soon, surely I would have nothing to talk about. I am so dull, or rather my life is! but hey! enough wallowing!
I was so grateful to get away from work today! Sometimes you can sense a bad shift in the air (and of course all the admissions, complaining relatives and unhappy staff were a bit of a giveaway too). I was more than happy to run out on a sinking ship this evening, ain't I a stinker? Goodbye unlucky colleagues - alas I will soon be that unlucky colleague, what goes around comes around eh?
My sickness interview is tomorrow, and whilst part of me knows it is just a formality, the uptight insecure part of me (ie 90%) is terrified!!!
I went to work with a nagging feeling today, when I got there it came to me! - I'd left the iron on! Oh domestic calamity! Luckily I was allowed to run straight home , I had indeed left it on - See I'm an idiot too!

Hey ! Tomorrow I have been with lastfm for a whole year! Where does the time go eh? When I was young it was all fields around here.............

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“The skillful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.” - Sun Tzu

How come these daily Shirley Manson pictures, never get me a google alert?