The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Ramblings / 20 January 2004 / John
It has been 26 days since we phoned Comet After Sales service about our washing machine. After promising us that we would have a working machine on Monday then they have let us down. They have booked an engineer on Thursday (provisionally – they still have to confirm that) and if there is a engineer
Ramblings / 18 January 2004 / John
The first week of John’s new job is over now and he is very tired but says he has enjoyed it a great deal. Its been really strange but nice as Ive had some time with Harmony and a couple of hours on my own in the house. The walks up and down the road
Ramblings / 1 January 2004 / John
Ok, so here’s what you do for the best cashews *ever*. Right, you’ll want some raw cashews (from the baking section of tesco), vegetable oil, some freshly ground black pepper, and some salt. Beside the cooker, lay out a pan with a sieve over it, and two plates with a couple of sheets of kitchen
Ramblings / 1 January 2004 / John
….and thank God for that. We made it – I’m off to have “We Survived 2003” T-shirts made. Anyway, a new start this year. Start my new job in a few weeks, we’re back in our newly refitted house, and I’ve just built an enormous curry for New Years Day lunch. I’m frighteningly organised today
Ramblings / 31 December 2003 / John
Our 2 week old washing machine is broken. We have to wait till after the new year until the parts arrive and are fitted. Doh. I was standing at the sink at 11 o’clock at night last night washing a sink full of clothes. Not good. I have to say that I admire the women
Ramblings / 28 December 2003 / John
Some of you might remember that I’ve written a bunch of freeware video games – remakes of old Speccy and C64 titles. Out of interest, they’re available on http://www.yoyo.org/~jmd/games/. Anyway, it all started with a truly awful Repton clone called Lizards which I wrote in 1995 or thereabouts. The game was pretty bad, but did
Ramblings / 25 December 2003 / John
Ten to Five they were up. We didn’t get to bed until 2:30. Gahhhhh. I have a meal to cook. The children are in a playing frenzy 🙂 I had a brief moment of calm at about six thirty – the central heating had packed in during the night and I as out fixing it.
Ramblings / 24 December 2003 / John
D’oh! Tristan, Matthew and Harmony are growing increasingly excited and the likelihood of them being asleep before 9pm is reducing in direct proportion. Looks like a late night of wrapping for us. The plan was originally to do the wrapping on Monday and Tuesday evenings, but Debbie and I are full of the cold and
Ramblings / 20 December 2003 / John
It started snowing about two hours ago. We now have a four inch deep white carpet and a dirty great snowman in the orchard 🙂 We all went charging out in the dark and had a good old play while the snow was still falling. Needless to say, they all came in freezing and were
Ramblings / 19 December 2003 / John
As of January the 12th, I’ll be working with a company called navyblue. I’m doing a bit of everything this time round – UNIX administration, some database stuff, some programming in various languages. I really hit it off with the guys who run the company – they’re a fantastic set of guys – very excitable