A Fresh Start

Where’s that fat bugger got to? The strange woman from next door’s fussing over me, but she’s no fun - won’t play This Door That Door, for example.
Still, at least now I can sleep wherever I want to.
If I could just entice those ginger buggers into the house when Strange Woman’s not looking they’d […]

I’m registered therefore I am, as Descartes once put on a postcard home.
All togged up in my official 25th National Narrow Gauge Convention denim shirt (XL, short sleeve, $35) and with my ID badge (complete with its nice, blue Exhibitionist Exhibitor tag), it’s just a shame that nothing actually starts until 7pm.
Well, that’s not 100% […]

Is this is Tuesday, it must be 1860.
As I mentioned earlier, I was up before dawn but after my shower I wandered out front to ask Alberto the way to the city centre - the aim being to get an authentic American breakfast at authentic American prices.
“Do you want East Dearborn or West Dearborn?”
I’m standing […]

As Steward Doug was mincing his way up the aisle towards me yesterday, dispensing hot food (and I use the word in its loosest possible definition) he was calling out the choice to all and sundry: “Chicken or Pastor. Chicken or Pastor. Chicken or Pastor.” It’s a moot point - he’d run […]

The eagle has landed, dear chums, but I’m getting ahead of myself. I’ll start at the embarkation. A couple of hours before the flight was due to take off, the gate was opened for pre-flight cross-examination.
Who are you? Where are you going? Where is Barry (i.e. asking questions about what’s in […]

I overslept! Woke at 2 o’clock, turned off the alarms and clearly went straight back to sleep. Luckily, I woke again at ten to three aware there was something I was meant to be doing …
Half an hour later I was in the car, heading for the airport - conscious that I wasn’t […]

Tall Andy’s ridden in to the rescue and has kindly agreed to look in on madam next Sunday.
Chatting with Anni last night it seems I didn’t even have my arrival time in Dearborn right. With the confusion over my return date, I’m beginning to wonder who booked this trip!
CC’s confirmed he’ll be arriving […]

I decided not to bother with a taxi and take the airport parking option (it’s about the same cost and there’s no obligation to tip a car park). All very good, so I go to the NCP website and type in the info.
Leaving 29th August at 03:001. Back 4th September at 14:00. […]

I almost forgot to regale you with an almost-amusing tale from lunchtime.
Knowing we had a teleconference at 1 o’clock (and mindful of my SHWDAAHFL campaign), I pointed out to Tall Andy that he’d better head off to lunch as it had passed high noon. He muttered that he was just going.
I was approaching […]

… it’s a holi-holiday.
Ah, what a classic song.
No more orifice until the 7th of September for me. Tee hee. I’ll also checked with the hotel and there’s internet a’plenty for blogging shenanigans next week. Excellent!
So much still to do before I go, though, such as working out how I’ll get to the […]

All the pushing back against Our Favourite Partner’s (and lovely colleagues’) ridiculous expectations finally hit a crisis point at 12:47 today. It could have gone in one of two ways - a bloodbath/resignation on the one hand or capitulation. I felt my battered and bruised resistance melt away. They’ve won. I […]

Mixed results from the IXUS50 today (the weather’ll not have helped as the rain came on mid-morning and has stayed for most of the day).

I’ll get used to the camera, I’m sure, and overall I’m pleased.

Sorry for that rude interruption yesterday. You’ll not be interested in my webhosting woes.
At lunchtime I crossed the road outside the orifice and entered the Temple of Pain (although they prefer to be referred to as the XYZ Dental Practice). Registering was easy enough but I have to question the wisdom, if you’re […]

My lovely web hosts wrote to me to say:
we were recently informed, that your website “http://xxxxxxx” has been compromised by attackers.
Well spotted. Will I getting other mails about the other sites or did you miss those?
This is commonly being referred to as a “defacement”: The creation or modification of web pages through security flaws […]

There’s an evil little adolescent1 hacking into various of my sites so I’m rather tied up at the moment.
Frolics soon, I hope …
1 And that’s the first time my description of him has been fit to be published

A final Sunday drive for the A60, then, in spite of less-than-perfect weather conditions (very dreary and dull, as you can see from the results).
The trip was mostly to the south west of the ‘burgh, but I started to the north east with a snap of my favourite address - I wonder by how many […]

Blame it, if you must, on being deliriously (and deliciously) pain-free this morning.
Blame it on Tippler (who’s expressed an interest in relieving me of my Canon A60 which, although a good camera, does tend to leave an unsightly bulge in my clothing).
Blame it on a desire to have all my cameras using the same memory […]

Off to Harleston, then, for a close encounter with the dentist who will henceforth be referred to as Dr Smelly. All I can say is that he’s not a good advert for mouthwash. Ick.
He took a look inside my mouth (so we’re even - it’s equally ick) and diagnosed an infection hidden deep […]