No mo blo.

Well mobile bloging was a bit of a bust this weekend as orange coverage, it would seem is shit in the part of cornwall I am in and I am actualy posting this from the motorway on the way home.
Weekend was good, except after expecting it to be only close friends I found I only new about 5 people but there we go. Much fun was had by all. will post more later as poppy is raising hell in the back.
- posted by J @ 16:52

 
OH!
I have just realized that I have not posted since Friday, this is due to several factors.

1. I'm a lazy git.
2. Lots of packing.
3. Vic went away Saturday night leaving me "Holding the baby" as it were.
4. Lots more packing as I am going back to work a week early.
5. Some painting.
6. Some sorting.
7. CSI season 3
8. And getting ready for the Trevina party this weekend, Although this year due to certain factors it will just be a gathering of close friends. So a piss up in other words. Will post some photos on Monday.

I will hopefully be doing some mobile blogging, but Cornwall is not known for it's mobile reception. My phone has not let me down yet though so we shall see..
- posted by J @ 19:38

 
A nice, nice, lolly ice.
Poppy had here first lolly yesterday.

I get the feeling she rather enjoyed it.
- posted by J @ 17:56

 
Peanut butter heaven
What a fun weekend, Sara T came over from NYC For a quick visit with her new boyfriend, a lovely guy called Anthony from New Zealand. Also my dad came for a visit on Saturday which gave us a chance to catch up and vic, myself and poppy attended a rather lovely BBQ at a friends place on Sunday.

I do love seeing Sara when she comes over as not only do we not get to see her much (her being on the other side of the world an all) but also because she brings Peanut buttery goodness with her in the shape of Reeses Peanut butter cups and Reeses pieces, neither of which you can get over here. It is one of the oddity's I find about the US, How you can have such awful chocolate as Hershey bars and but have the peanut scrumminess of reeses pieces. Unfortunately I am on a diet so have to limit myself on how much I can eat.

Unfortunately Sara had to return to the US on Monday so all has returned to bog standard normality apart, from the packing which is having to be pushed up a gear as hopefully we should have a moving date in the next couple of weeks.

Well that's it for now as I have lots of errands to run, more soon.
- posted by J @ 11:46

 
Welcome
I would like to say hello to a friend of mine who has been a reader for some time and has just got himself a blog.


- posted by J @ 17:59

 
A tale from my past.
In my former life before theatre I had a few jobs, but I think the darkest part of my life was working in call centers. Having said that of course there are several stories that have always made me chuckle when I remember them.

For instance when I worked at a BT I used to receive all sorts of calls and had to explain lots or bizarre requests, like why had a customer received a charge card (enables calls from other phones to be paid for on your home bill) under the name of Mr T Wat (Disgruntled employee, you only had to chuck a stone and you would hit one) or the time I had to very delicately explain to a woman that the 300 phone bill she had received was not a mistake as she had loads of 0898 numbers (Sex lines, normally charged at about 1 per min) on here bill, all being called at about 2am.
After ranting at me for about 10mins I finally got a word in and asked her if there was anyone else at her address that could have made the calls, She replied "No! There is only me and my son".
Which was followed by a very long silence and then a very embarrassed "Thank you for your help, bye........" Click. I can only imagine the shouting in that house.

About 8 months later and a change of jobs I was working for the TV licensing, Now for those of you who don't know in the UK it is a legal requirement that if you have a TV or a piece of hardware that picks up TV signals you have to have a license (this covers all the TV's in a home).
We used to get all sorts of calls, The biggest complaints and excuses being things like:

"I can't afford a TV license"
Ans: "Well don't have a TV then"
"I have 6 kids , I cant afford to buy a license"
Ans: "Well don't have a TV then" (My internal ans: "Keep your legs closed and maybe you could afford one")
"I only watch TV on weekends, can I buy a weekend license"
Ans: "No"

Stuff like that, but the most comical went something like this.

Me:"Hello TV licensing"
Caller: "Hello, I've got some tea towels to sell you" (little old lady)
Me: "Sorry"
C: "I've got some tea towels to sell you. I Make them myself but I need the pattern"
Me: "I'm Really sorry but you've lost me"
C: "I need the pattern of that Wallace and gromit people to make the towels, Can you send it to me"
Me:"errr... This is the TV licensing I don't think we buy tea towels" (getting more confused by the second)
C: "I need the pattern of Wallace and gromit, you know the ones off the advert (TVL were doing an add campaign on TV using Wallace and gromit), to make the tea towels"
Me: "Ok, I don't think we buy tea towels I'm afraid we are an office that deal with setting up TV licenses."
C: "So you don't have the pattern I can use to make the tea towels"
Me: "No I'm afraid not. We don't buy tea towels I'm afraid"
C: "Oh! OK"
Me: "Sorry." (waiting in hope for the good bye)
C: "......Can you tell me who I need to speak to get the pattern and send the tea towels to"
Me: "I'm afraid we don't buy tea towels"
C: "Oh! You don't know who I need to speak to."
Me: "No."
C: "Oh! Could you ask around for me and call me back."
Me: " I'm really sorry but I wont be able to do that as we don't buy things we are only a call center"
C: "Well if you don't want them you only had to say."
CLICK..........

It is the only call I ever had that left me totally bemused.
- posted by J @ 19:42

 
Caption comp.
Thought I would repost this as I got no response last time and I love this pic:

250 to the best.



Also I feel that Porn has now reach a bizarre level, don't worry it is work safe.
- posted by J @ 21:32

 
Treason.
The dictonairy defines treason as:

Treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A person who betrays the nation of their citizenship and/or reneges on an oath of loyalty and in some way willfully cooperates with an enemy, is considered to be a traitor. Oran's Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as: "...[a]...citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation]."

In 1998 the death penelty was withdrawn in the UK for treason thus ending capital punishment. The last person I can find who was tried and excexuted for treason is Theodroe Schurch on the 4th January 1946.

Ok i know there not asking the death penalty for these people but i feel that treason is a little far to go to secure a conviction.
Although if they get really desperate they could always be shipped over to jersey where the death penelty is still held for treason (amongst other things).

- posted by J @ 18:41

 
We are not amused.

Why is my cat not amused, Well it's his own fault really. Mr decided to climb into a box that was half packed for a sleep, I then without noticing placed another box on top and trapped him in. After 10mins of wondering where the mewing was coming from I finally realized and released a very disgruntled cat from his prison.

Sorry Mr B.
- posted by J @ 17:30

 
How hell am i supposed to pack that!
The thing is 4ft high, Vic painted it in a moment of creative oddity and now i have to pack the bloody thing to move.
- posted by J @ 00:05

 
Robathon.

$83 has so far been raised but I feel that $100 should be reached by midnight so come on all of you out there pop over to robs page and give a little to a good cause. You can comment, watch him on web came or talk dirty to him over skype whatever floats your boat.

In the spirit of good will anyone letting me know that they have donated will automatically receive 2000 soil samples with a bonus of 500 to each if $100 is reached by 12pm GMT.
- posted by J @ 18:09

 
It's for charidy mate!
Well Rob starts his 24hr blogathon today so get over there and offer your support. If you are feeling even a little charitable why not pledge him a few quid.
- posted by J @ 08:28

 
What the fuck!
What is so interesting about my lampshade? Two flys have been going round and round in circles in the center of my living room for the past 6 hours, surely they have something better to do.

Why do they do that? At least bees and wasps have the instinct to try and escape but flys seem to get stuck in this perpetual loop, "if I just take a right here I'll get out". I mean it makes as much sense as Bristol's traffic layout.

Just thought I would share.
- posted by J @ 14:19

 
What's new in the world.
Well while checking up on what's going on I came across this article. One every second is a little scary, it's no wonder I keep finding so much shit (this is subjective I know) when checking out new bloggers but what is slightly more scary is this article. Censorship at it's worst, not being able to post words like "freedom", "democracy" and "demonstration" Makes me feel a bit better about where I live.

This article made me chuckle though. Those poor, hard done by movie people lost $3.5bn in 2004 due to piracy. Well here are some of the figures that they didn't tell you in the article.

Box office sales only (2004, US only):
Shrek 2: $436,471,036
Spider-Man 2: $373,377,893
The Passion of the Christ: $370,270,943
Meet the Fockers: $279,167,575
The Incredibles: $261,437,578
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: $249,358,727
The Day After Tomorrow: $186,739,919

Total: $2,156,823,673 (7 films, just box office)

Video/DVD sales and merchandise (US only):
Shrek 2: $815,000,000 (est)
Spiderman 2: $451,787,000 (est, without merchandise)
The passion of Christ: $448,305,000 (est, without merchandise)
Meet the Fockers: $337,793,000 (est, without merchandise)
The Incredibles: $810,000,000
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: $828.922550
The Day After Tomorrow: $225,956,000 (est, without merchandise)

Total: $3,917,763,550 (7 films, US video/DVD rentals and merchandise)

So in total with these 7 films, in 2004, in the US alone, the movie industry made: $6,074,587,223.

Well over $6bn, You then have to add the revenue from all the other films released in 2004 and the worldwide box office, video/DVD sales, video/DVD rentals, merchandise etc and then you will see why I'm not going to get to upset for the poor little movie people who lost $3.5bn to some kiddies downloading Harry Potter off the net.

I love statistics there so easily manipulated.
- posted by J @ 16:11