Enter the Void....

irritating buzzing of a mosquito in the bedroom. We could both hear ot from a distance It was somewhere in the room. And once I had heard it, I couldn't but hear it. And it kept me awake for ages. I just knew it was there waiting to swoop in for the kill. They have a taste for blood you know! And that's just not right!
So I didn't sleep well and it was hot!

Eventually I did sleep And when I woke up I found a huge swelling on my chest. I had been bitten. The bloody Mosquito vampire

I am having seepage issues. Which isn't good because it's happening at work! Yes, the little fridge in my office has been leaking a little bit of water... and I don't know why. I have had to mop up quite a bit today, which has been quite e,barrassing as some of my form have been seeing me enter my office with dry tissues and coming out a few minutes later with soggy tissues... only to go back in with dry tissues again a few moments later.

Hmmm... I hope it clears up soon

It's nearly 11am and I have just got up. I can't believe I have just had 12 hours sleep, I didn't even know I needed that much sleep. Last night my OH and I went to a barbecue hosted by one of our neighbours- it's one of those times where you really know no-one their but you go just to be polite. It was OK, the weather was lovely, and we met a few more of the neighbours. The last time we did a neighbourhood barbecue was last summer, the night my OH ended up in hospital. In fact that is now what she is remembered for. We had a few "I'm glad you came, I hope you don't end up in hospital this time"

Anyway, back to this morning. And guess what I have to do. MORE FLIPPING REPORTS!

There is one thing that annoys me about the place where we are renting.... and that's the flat above the garage, which still belongs to the owner and is not part of the rented accomodation. And occasionally the woner travels back from Norway and spends a week there. They're nice people but it is a bit awkward.
But this week, there are three half naked women sunbathing in our garden! The owners daughter has decided to stay in the flat above the garage without letting us know, and she has brought two mates. And it is making me feel quite uncomfortable, because on a weekend I normally mooch around only partly dressed... now I cant

Hold on....
....
...why am I complaining.

There are three half naked women sunbathing in my garden

I will have driven four different cars in eight days by next Tuesday. My own car (car number 1) has now gone to the garage to be repaired after the accident. As always, I had to go to work on the day the garage collected my car, so my OH stayed in to make sure the car got collected. Which meant I had to go to work in her car (car number 2). When I got back from work I saw the 'replacement car' the garage had left me, a rather camp little bright blue thing (car number 3) which really doesn't like goping uphill.
And next week, my OH gets her new car, using this scrappage scheme. So that will be car number 4 (as I am going to have to drive it to work when the garage collect their campmobile to return my car)

I feel like the stig

In fact, I am the stig!

.. I saw John Thomson in the airport with the guy who plays Peter Barlow. He is back on Coronation street as a character!

It's been a busy old time. Today is my OH's birthday. She is chatting with her brother at the moment who was here, camping in the back garden, until last Sunday. Now I am going through a busy time at work, with the Holland trip coming up, and Mad OCD/PMT woman breathing down my neck for the correct paperwork. This school is drowning in paperwork!

It has been extremely tiring, so I apologise for not being around much

Can someone help me? I was surfing the web when suddenly a page came up that told me my computer was being attacked by trojans (about 364 of them) It freaked me out. Then it popped up loads of things asking me to install stuff. I tried to close it down as quickly as possible

I have Norton Security on my PC and I am running a scan now, now if I have worms will it detect them and kill them? or is all my data under attack?

My history page logs the page as:
http://antimalwareliveproscanv3.com/1/?id=2009-1568&smersh=9fc485845&back=%3DTQ12zDxNMQNMI%3DO

After writing a few text adventures, three of them in the Sir Loin series, two spin offs with Shiversword and a survival horror called As Darkness Falls, it's nice to see people finding the joy of text adventures again and enjoying my little distractions.

Makes it all worth while

And..... theres another ping!
Platinum number 5. Tomb Radier Underworld! A good (but short) Lara Croft Adventure but not a difficult game. There are no bosses as such to kill. You could almost play on the hardest level straight away. And when you get Thors Hammer you cane wipe tha arse of most enemies, and there arent that many to find. The most difficult part of the game was getting all those bloody treasures! And the Swan dives, which you have to get during the game becasue there is one you can't get by playing the Treasure mode afterwards!

But Yippee me. That's another virtual trophy for my virtual cabinet. Virtual it maybe, but it is more reliable than the government cabinet at the moment!

It's back to the grindstone tomorrow. I dont know where the half term has gone. except that spent half of it playing station ans the other half waiting for deliveries- Why is it that when they say 'delivered between 8am and 3pm' it is always nearer the 3pm.

My OH's brother is coming to stay in the garden for a few days next week. So today I went to buy him a cheap tent from Argos. It is supposed to be a four man tent, all I can says is that they must have been very small men! Her other brother sent us a post-card from Oz, so at least we know he is safe.

Tonight we had roast pork for dinner. But we used one of tthose frozen bags of vegetables that you can steam cook in the microwave. They arent bad but I do thinnk it makes the veg a bit squeaky! Especially the runner beans!

ANyway, Benidorm is on.

We have been Umm-ing ans Aaaah-ing a lot recently about whether to get a new bed or not. And no matter how hard I try I couldn't get my OH to agree to a football bed (or even a Race Car bed like in Friends)
We did however decide on a Mahogony Sleigh Bed, like this

And we also ordered a new mattress which arrived yesterday. No longer do we roll ot of bed in the morning because of the slope of the mattress. And it is Comfy. In fact all I can say is MmmmmmMMMMMmmmmm...Mattress

The bed will take 6 weeks to arrive.

My OH and I went round a friends hose for coffee this morning, and she told us a little story about coffee that we couldn't believe....

She went to the shop (a local costcutter I think it was) because she needed coffee. Apparently some of her friends were coming round- hold on, that'd be us!
Anyway, she checked the shelves. She found tea, tea bags, hot chocolate and herbal teas. All that stuff! But there was no coffee! This seemed unusual so she went to the checkout woman and asked "Excuse me, I can't seem to find any coffee on the shelves. Do you have any coffee?"
"Yes. It's here behind the counter with the cigarettes. We're not allowed to put it on the shelves"
This sounded bizarre so she asked why
"It's because of the addictive nature of coffee, we're not allowed to have it on the shelves. It's in case any of the locals steal it for a quick fix of caffeine"
Can you believe that? That is bizarre. Apparently the chavs break in and steal coffee granules to chew, to feed their cravings!
And yet, choclate and tea is still on the shelves!

I wonder where they keep the Decaf?

At last! I have heard that fantastic pinging sound of a Platinum trophy being awarded on the PS3! I have my fourth one. This time its for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. IT's not a bad game- a bit repetative in places and the hard mode was ....well....hard! Especially trying to kill Weapon 11 at the end. It took about twenty goes to finally knock him off his perch (or big chimney thing)
But now it is done- I nearly gave up on it, but I'm glad I didn't

Now I somehow have to regain all that time wasted devoted on it