Otherwise occupied. Almost 72 hours without a single post! What on earth has been going on. Am I ill? Was I knocked down by a surprisingly speedy funeral procession? Was my PC so over run with pr0n spam that it gave up the ghost and died? No. I am afraid the truth is much worse than all of those added together. I have rejoined the ranks of the gainfully employed.
Starting from last Monday morning, I have become a multi-drop van driver working, indirectly, for
Parcel Force. Working from the parcel force depot I deliver packages to between 60 and 100 people. The company I work for provide sick leave and holiday cover for delivery drivers to Parcel Force. This week I have been delivering to addresses over Sutton Coldfield (not that you really care).
The job has been quite enjoyable so far, although it has been a quiet week. Next week will probably be busier so I'll have a better idea of what it will be like for the next few months.
I am number ONE! I've done it. I've finally done it. I have made it as the Number One search result on Google for not just one but two search phrases (that I am aware of).
The first is intentional and is supposedly more impressive because its a single word search. Aardvarkzilla is the
top result for the search phrase
Arseburgers! If you wish to help in my cause to remain the top result for this most excellent of swear phrases, please link to me using the word
arseburgers as the link. You can do so by cutting and pasting the following:
<a href="http://aardvarkdj.blogspot.com/" title="Aardvarkzilla and his completely pointless quest." target="_blank">arseburgers</a>. Thank you.
The second is totally unintentional and was discovered via my hits log.
I am terrible at memory. Which seems kind of appropriate really.
Monday Mission 2.41 I've missed a couple of weeks but here, once again, courtesy of
PromoGuy and a day late, it's the Monday Mission.
- 1. What's the most expensive meal you've ever eaten? What was the occasion? Was it worth it? Before the entertainment agency I was a partner in another agency. We would put on a meal every year with free food and drink for our top clients and artistes. The last one cost us £2,500.
- 2. What do you like to do when nobody is looking? Slob. Just doze, and chill and watch TV. Basically, absolutely nothing.
- 3. What's your special purpose? Survival. If I could enjoy things as they pass me by then that would be a bonus.
- 4. Do you like Autumn? If so, why? If not, tell me about your favorite season. I hate Autumn and Winter because the bring colds and flu. But then, I hate spring and summer because they bring hay fever. I want to live in a warm, hermetically sealed building with all the luxuries man can buy.
- 5. Ever recommended a movie to someone only to have them hate it? Which movie? Did you feel uncomfortable about that? Nope. Or at least not that I;m aware of. Can't say I'd be uncomfortable about it if I did because they should take into account any possible differences in personal taste before following recommendations.
- 6. I've had hay fever all day! Sniffles, sneezing, I tell ya, it's awful! Do you have any allergies? Anything that just gets you down for the count? Hay fever. And sometimes it can make me completely useless all day. I hate it.
- 7. Do you like mixed drinks? What is your favorite? As long as we're here how about you order me something too? Just "suprise me!" Mixed drinks? What, like tea mixed with coffee, or milk mixed with lemonade. ;-) That's sounds awful!
- BONUS: Why do we scream at each other? SORRY! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! THE MUSIC IS ON TOO LOUD!
I've got a royal flush! I was just leaving a comment to
a post over at
Burnt Toast and I was reminded of the halcyon days of youth when you'd do anything for a glimpse of naked breast, real or photographed.
My first every computer was a
ZX Spectrum and doing the round on the playground at school were pirated copies of Sam Fox's Strip Poker. I spent hours, and I mean
lots of hours, trying to perfect my poker playing abilities to try to get to "the good stuff". "The good stuff" turned out to be a series of monochrome, heavily pixelated, probably scanned photographs of page 3 models in increasing states of undress culminating in a topless shot the pornographic quality of which was probably surpassed by The Sun's
page 3 picture every morning. Still we thought it had been worth every minute.
A quest for nostalgia led me to
this ZX Spectrum Emulator and a copy of
Sam Fox's Strip Poker. 10 minutes of the neutered version of Poker that this game was, the poor computer opponent and the very poor processing speeds was enough to point out that some memories are best left unvisited.
They're giving it away! But you should pay for it anyway. I've just donated a fairly small sum to
enetation.co.uk to upgrade to the pro version of their excellent commenting system. This should give faster access times for the comments, email notification when comments are made and the ability to export individual comments to make a back up copy.
This is the first time I have ever voluntarily donated to something that is, ostensibly, a free service. I did so for 2 reasons. Obviously for the enhanced features but also because
enetation.co.uk is basically one guy who has coded the system in his spare time and pays for the server space and bandwidth it uses.
Enetation.co.uk is an excellent example of what has been good about the internet over the last 5 to 6 years, but which is slowly disappearing. People were creating and providing free service (which often cost them at least a small amount to provide) for no other reason than the desire to see if they could do so and the thanks that they receive in return. Unfortunately this philanthropic side to the internet is slowly but surely being killed off. Internet users have come to expect something for nothing and so no longer give the due respect to the providers of these free services, often getting aggressive and/or abusive when something doesn't perform flawlessly. But above all, greed and capitalism are slowly turning the "information super-highway" into one huge, interactive television commercial. If it ain't profitable, it ain't gonna last.
So please, if you use a "free" service that has no adverts and is obviously run by one or two passionate geeks; Consider making a donation.
I'll get off my soapbox now.
that's a nice rock!
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status:married
children:3
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