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BMW lost numbers and DVD's

So a blog post... its been a while, for that i can only apologise!
It's strange not spending much time on the Internet - having said that, a good deal of my day is spent on computers but these computers don't have an Internet connection so not much fun other than for the job they are designed to do.

So any free time surfing the web has been cut down to a minimum these days - i tend to check emails and read other peoples blogs and that's about it!
anyway enough with the excuses i hear you cry!

a few things from the past few weeks:
two years ago i attended the wedding of Phil and Jenny Hoyle - a beautiful day all round. my job for the day was to film the occasion as a keep sake for when the happy couple are old and grey/bald and want to keep the grandchildren bored.
And so i filmed the ceremony and the speeches.... and did nothing else! the tapes have sat in a drawer in my house since the happy day and never made it onto my computer or even onto a usable format for the Hoyles to view it on. (how crappy am i?!)
the good news is that a week or so ago i sent Phil two copies of the wedding on DVD - i made use of some of the equipment around my new office and did what i should have done a long time ago. Phil and Jenny, i do apologise - hope its not too rubbish?!

our lovely BMW banger is up for auction! yes all of you out there who have look on at the wonderful machine with envious eyes can now bid to your hearts content to own this old bag of bolts that sounds a bit like chitty chitty bang bang! (altogether now..... oh you pretty chitty bang bang, chitty chitty bang bang we love you..) starting bid is £9.99.

work is going OK, very slow, so lots of time to pick a random piece of technical kit off the shelf and work out how to break it and then make it work again. I'm gradually working my way through everything. at least when its slow round here there's a fair amount of stuff you can see going on - I'd take some photos to show you how manic it gets round here but I'd get in heaps of trouble for taking pictures (and tonnes more if i put them on t'internet!)

every day i walk from the car park outside the TV studios through to my office. on the side of one of the buildings i pass there is a number counter, which has always reminded my of lost. i have no idea what these numbers are there for or indeed what they represent but most days there is a different number, 00000400, 00000600, 00000750 .... and so on, one morning i walked down the road and there was a buzzing coming from the numbers and a siren was going off - it seemed to be stuck on 00000006. i stood looking at it for a minute to see what would happen next (but then decided to move on before too many people caught a glimpse at me being strange)
I think someone somewhere forgot to press the button that day. its not done it since though!


anyway, I'll stop going on - I'll try and add some more posts sooner rather than later,

No Idea why my last post had such a crappy layout... sorry about that,

normal service will resume shortly!

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Hello one and all! Happy New Year to you!

I know its a rather late entry in to 2007 for this blog but we are here now so
lets get on with things!

The Christmas break was great, i had a really swell time with friends and family -
not to mention some QT with Jo. i was blessed with some rather nice presents
which included west wing, golf clubs, PS2 games and accessories. The best of these
(most thoughtful and planned) came of course from Jo. over a number of months she
bought DVD's to replace the old VHS copies i had of the films.
fantastic! I've been wanting to do that for years!

Been back to work for a little while and thats going well - I'm getting into the
swing of things now, working out how things work and how people work!

Last night, our TV died! how annoying - we only bought it three years ago and spent
lots on it! I've bodged something together in the front room for the next little
while until we know what to do. Anyone got a free 32" widescreen TV going?!

this year i am trying to keep a bit of a diary/journal thingy - now i know a blog
is kind of doing that anyway but i'm sure the few visitors to this site will become
fewer if i write diary journal type stuff! well we will see how long that lasts for
now I'm quite enjoying it.

I Do love this part of the year - you have space to dream big dreams and plan big
things and hope that by the end of the year you're a better person than when it stared!
Bring it on i say to you, bring it on!