Thursday, 5. November 2009, 04:49:53
dominos pizza
I missed breakfast and I never really caught up on my hunger.
At the end of the day I could only think about eating something fast and fat.
For the next two days the car smelled of fast food and I could feel in my stomach for as long.
I'd better buy some milk and cereal.
Monday, 2. November 2009, 12:29:22
makeover, relooking, voyeurism
This weekend I saw a few episodes of people relooking programmes.
It's the kind of thing where they get two people who dress really badly to stand in the street for twenty minutes while the passers by comment on how plain they are.
To spice thing up a bit they get some overly extraverted style guru to coach them. Generally what happens is the plain people get a hair cut and a new dress or pair of trousers.
In the meantime, the viewers that we are can watch as the plain people get taken apart. At the end when they see themselves in the mirror they're suprised and sometimes burst into tears with the emotion.
This kind of thing does make me ask myself one or two questions.
Firstly, if you going to go on tv and you know then you do make at least an effort. Probably the tv team look in the person's wardrobe to find the first possible mixed of clothes available.
Once the plain people have been relooked what's going to stop them from getting back into their old habits. Especially if they're the kind of person who spends 3 minutes preparing themselve a day. They're not going to change their habits and put on mascara, a skin wash and all the rest to go out to buy the paper.
It's just tv and voyeurism as usual. But most of the time when I turn on my tv that's all there is anyway.
Just in case those tv peopme knock on my door I'd better get rid out all my original seventies clothes.
Thursday, 29. October 2009, 05:59:28
car salemen
I’m already dreading it. My car has been having problems this year and has cost as much or more as buying a new one would hence the decision to replace.
OK nice, a new car is always a pleasure. What I'm dreading is the amateur dramatics you have to go through when you have to negociate the trade in and the final price.
For instance, some particular tricks that I’ve already been witness to.
Me : OK so what’s your best offer.
Salesman : Hmmm. Get’s out his price list then spends 12 minutes on his computer trying to bring up a price as if the more time he spent doing it was to represent how hard it is to make me a decent offer. On the 13 minute of silence it’s the normal price less 240 euros.
Up until then I kind of respected him but no need to do the amateur dramatics number to initimidate me.
Another shop
Salesman : OK let’s see you car
I take him outside.
Salesman pretends to get angry because the tyres aren’t new and there a bit of tree sap on the bonnet. “huh, got to replace the tyres and redo the paint… tut.”
Me: How about just washing the paintwork, it generally works when I do it. (and it did this time when I finally took the car back home).
Please salesmen, just give me a price and I’ll decide, I really don’t want to spend 3 hours with you for something that you already know.
Other times, what you’re asking is so much that he has to see the boss then leaves for 10 minutes to plead your case to his director. I know very well that he’s just gone to drink a coffee and smoke a cigarette. The he’ll come back with a pittance as ‘the best he could do’ and that his boss was angry at him for asking.
So cut out the stereotypes and just be honest. I can handle it, I know you have to make some profit.
Wednesday, 28. October 2009, 04:43:58
It's for cleaning pools
Tuesday, 27. October 2009, 12:33:52
favours
Sometimes, I just can't say non.
If anyone ever worked for Disney then they know that "we never say no, we always find a solution".
I'm a leisure park all on my own. Just need someone to anything ask me I don't seem able to say no.
Today in the midst of many other very pressing projects, I've been asked to go and take some pictures by the pool. Just call me Jack (of all trades), I'll brush up afterwards and empty the bins. No, don't bother paying me, I know how to do it so you'd be crazy to pay a pro.
Well I've got to get back to work. I might post a picture later.
Anyone for the ride...
Saturday, 24. October 2009, 09:50:41
Windows 7 was released this week and with all the hype of how things will be so much better it made me realise that in real life we must still be around ms dos 6.
For example whilst waiting in line at the bank to pick up a new credit card, one customer who obviously hadn't prepared her visit was trying to get the clerk to perform a lot of complex transactions. To complicate matters she didn't have the correct documents, she was at the wrong branch and the clerk was new.
In the back office the old clerk who'd probably been promoted was chatting with 2 other collegues.
As time went by the queue got longer and the clerk had to sollicite the old one because she didn't know what to do. So it just here that the multithreading technology of modern operating systems would have come in handy to maybe open another window with another clerk. But no, not yet we're still in ms dos so all the other operations will have to wait until this one is finished. I better not leave the bank in case the doors bug!
Anyway, what do I know, I'm only the customer.
Wednesday, 21. October 2009, 05:24:11
grass frost
It's the same place as the
morning dew post but it's morning frost. Then there'll be morning snow.
Wow a trilogy!
Monday, 19. October 2009, 17:48:21
You're a bubble of air trapped by a liquid so thin?
No me neither...
Sunday, 18. October 2009, 13:54:19
work
This weekend I've been working to finish (or rather to get started officially) a projet I've been working on for a while. I've been putting it off not wanting to get back into a working weekend fix.
I've been going to various stages such as
- making a big list of things to complete
- deciding which are the most important
- which are the one's I have to do
- what can I get away with not doing
all this over the period of Friday night to Sunday afternoon. Now I at I hope they don't notice...
Well, that was my break, back to work.
Saturday, 17. October 2009, 05:57:04
dark, daylight saving time
I normally wake up between sive and six and get out of bed almost immediately so apart from the middle of summer it's always dark when I first look out of the window.
This morning, after after a couple of particulary tiring days I woke up at 7:25. This is like a lie in for me (or as we say in 'la grasse matinée' - fat morning litterally).
Being so late (relatively) I was quite surprise that is was still dark outside. The winter is really creeping up on us fast.
In Europe we pratice Daylight Saving Time, it's an old system that makes us put the clocks back an hour in winter say that it's not so dark when you get up in the morning. It's supposed to say energy. But I think that what people don't use during that hour in the morning, they'll use in the evening. It also means that around 4pm it's nighttime. That's not too good for the moral either.
Is daylight saving time practiced everywhere?
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