Xbox 360

Forgot to say 360 came back last week.

Spent all the time playing Call of Duty 4, wow what a game!

Emma's Bedroom

What seem's like a long time ago when I started it.... anyway enough of the past... the plasterer is coming tomorrow!!! That means all being well I can paint the walls pink for her, and get the electrician to finish off the sockets.

We will be going to Ikea this week to get a bed for her, and a mattress too (not Ikea as it's so damned expensive!).

She hopefully will be in there before Christmas all being well :-)

Ford Mondeo (current one)

My ongoing problems with the clutch on my Mondeo has finally been tracked down to the Dual Mass flywheel, which is apparently a common problem on the TDCi engine with Ford!

It's symptoms include the clutch slipping in all gears, sometimes when just putting your foot down. Also auto acceleration, which is mighty frightening when you take your foot off the gas and it keeps going, and accelerates with it too!

Still can't wait to get it back, as I am in an Astra 1.4 Club hire car, jesus is it gutless! The stereo is so tinny, I am sure my mobile phone's speaker has more bass!

At night I have never seen such a dark dash, there's just no sodding buttons lit up, cos it aint go no options! It's got windy windows in the back, WTF!!!!

Only plus is it's silent, compared to my Massey Ferguson beating clack clack London Taxi engine!

Thunder ... I am a lucky bugger!!

Cracking news!!! I am lucky enough to have won a pair of Meet and Greet tickets!! That's 2 years in a row, and I am not feeling at all guilty about winning them either, it will give me a chance to get my Fender Stratocaster guitar plate signed (as I couldn't find it last year!!).

Roll on Wednesday next week, for a cracking gig, and a superb meet and greet... photo's to follow

What's Been Happening

Update for this week....

Well British Gas let us down with the washing machine repair, firstly they turned up with no part, even though they knew which part it was. He rescheduled for Thursday, and guess what never turned up because he forgot to order the part. So he is due back Monday 12th, so we will see what happens!

Emma has been mega grumpy this week, don't know what is a matter with her.

I've been busy writing some custom provisioning software for work using VBScript/HTA.

My compensation of Wireless Headset and Call Of Duty 4:Modern Warfare, but no Xbox 360 still!!!!!!

Come on Microsoft, get the bloody thing back!

Bournemouth City Council

I have paid my £30 fee for the Bournemouth CC parking offence.

I shall never darken their door again, bollocks to the bastards!

It must have cost them more in admin etc to reply to my appeal with all the printouts of photos of my car etc, bunch of Hitlers.

Stuff Bournemouth!!!

And For Your Troubles Mr.Smith

Got some good news today, for having 3 broken consoles Microsoft have offered me compensation, which was a surprise.

But the more suprising thing is the choice of reward

1 of 4 games (Viva Pinata, PGR3, Kameo, Perfect Dark Zero)
or
Wireless Controller, Wireless Headset, Play N Charge Kit

I plummed for the wireless headset!

Nice one, saves £30!!

This Weekend We Have Been Mostly....

Well washing and trying to get clothes dry are up there high on this weekends most exciting jobs. Can't remember if I said the washing machine door fell off in my hand, just my luck eh!

British Gas are repairing it Monday (hopefully), as financially it's costing me a fortune at the laundrette, £3.80 a pop! Even then the clothes feel like they have been spun by hamster in a wheel rather than a high RPM washing machine.

So if it's broken (as it is 14 years old) we may plump for a new one, a Hotpoint WT960G or WT965A.

I got an order estimate of mid February for my new car, hell I don't mind....

Right back to missing my Xbox 360 now :-(

Toute a l'heure ...