Musical Mashing

Caught this on TMF the other day... some very nice musical mashing!

Bit o' Green Day, a fair amount of Oasis, a drizzle of Travis, with a dash of Eminem.

Enjoy!

XLent

The regular readers among you may remember a while back I posted about putting hand dryers into room 101 - especially the hand dryers that do little more than breath heavily on you.

Well last night i had the privilege of using the best hand dryer i have ever seen! Jo and I were at IKEA, on my visit to the loo there was an incredibly loud noise - from my cubicle i assumed it was some kind of cleaner being used to unblock a sink or something.

I washed my hands and ventured to the dryers and that's when i got my first glimpse of the XLerator! this thing was fantastic - an immense sound, it rippled the skin on the back of my hands.

"Hand dryer motor shall be a series commutated through-flow discharge vacuum motor/blower (5/8 HP / 20,000 RPM) which provides air velocity of 16,000 LFM (linear feet per minute) at the air outlet and 14,000 LFM at the hands (4 inches [102 mm] below air outlet)."

I tried to get Jo to visit the loo to see if the Ladies had the same machine - She wasn't that bothered...

Truly the best dryer ever - i fear that now I've experience the XLerator I'm never going to be satisfied with any other hand dryer.

Stag do

This weekend i spent some time at a stag do. The stag this time round was Andy Irons. We did the usual evening at the curry house and then had a sleep over at the local church. On Saturday we visited "Go Ape!" which is one of those swinging from the trees on high wires type of affairs.

We made Andy dress up as a gorilla (how original?!) and below you can catch one of the funniest moments - Andy in his suit on the smallest of the rope slides!

What do you look like?!

A good friend of mine Andy Mackay is soon to be running the New York marathon. he is one of hose fitness freaks who does all kinds of things. He's run the London marathon and completed the 15 peaks challenge.

So now he's doing the new york marathon which is 10k. easy!

Andy is making it a little harder for himself by running in a rhino suit! now that is crazy!

have a look here and sponsor him to raise money for a worthy cause.
(he hasn't raised much yet... go on help him and the Rhinos out.)

EDIT:
Now Andy has just seen this blog entry and got all hot under the collar because the Marathon is 26.2 miles and not 10k he says "what are you on about 10k.... i sleep walk more than 10k!"

The suit he is wearing weighs 10kg, that probably where i got it from... Sorry Mackay, take a chill pill!

ebay Success

you will all be pleased to know that after selling various items on eBay i have almost managed to cover the entire cost of my new monitor - which is nice.

my next challenge is to sell some of the things around the office not being used anymore (and before you all think I'm tying to sell work equipment for my own gain - Matt asked me to!)

new monitor

This week i purchased a new 19" widescreen monitor for our home PC.


It replaces an older 15" monitor which wasn't really up to the task any more.

Sadly i missed the delivery man so had to venture into a large industrial estate and find the warehouse to pick it up late last night.

Now this would probably be Steve C's worst nightmare, it made Argos look like a day at the races!

It took ages and ages, lots of people waiting around for the little people to come out with arms full of boxes and things to hand out.

Whatever you do, don't try and pick an item up without ID - it makes the little people go crazy!

Anyways the new monitor is in at home and looks spanky! To pay for the new screen i am selling lots of things on eBay (which may need to include my left kidney) so take a look and buy something if you like!

Portacabin postings

You may remember a while back i talked about the large portacabin being replaced at the alove/Elucid8 office. I had a few photos on my Flickr about it all.

Well Jo pointed out to me today that the images on google earth have been updated, so i took a look at the office.

It turns out that the day they took the photos was the day for all the cranes and lorrys and stuff - check it out... the postcode is SM4 5BY.

You can make out the two big lorry's parked on the curb with the cabin on and the crane folded up in the drive next door.

If i'd have known i would have waved or something.