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“Aaah crap. Done it again”

The Preening Bench

At the gym most of the lockers are arranged in U shaped groups with a smallish bench to drop the bag / towel onto, ties laces etc. There is however a line of lockers which face everyone. Their bench is in the middle of all. It is used by:

  1. Huge blokes who you really would not argue with
  2. Blokes hung like a donkey’s donkey
  3. A group of lads out to impress each other
  4. ……and the preeners

The first 3 I can understand and have no issue with. But the preeners really annoy me. One today.. I’d seen him in the gym doing weights. More keeping toned than looking for bulk and apart from wearing a belt on his lower back when using a 10kg bar there was nothing odd. He had come out of the shower as I went in. I had a long – very long – hot shower. I came out and he was just putting his underwear on. After he had adjusted, moved, adjusted again, smoothed the creases out, checked and smoothed his skin, he went for the trousers etc. After each item the skin was touched, almost caressed as he looked – not glanced, not ‘look the other way while squinting hard to the side so no-one can see me looking‘ – admiringly at his bod in the mirror. Watching him – I was so amused by this I was going slow to see the spectacle … he probably thought I was admiring him – when putting his shirt on was painful. This guy wasn’t going out to the catwalk – the catwalk was coming in to him! I have seen some guys in there who pose, some who take too long with the gel at the mirror, a couple who like to dry their nuts with the hairdryer but this guy took preening to another level. Given my unkempt state I left the room before him. I was sitting in the front area as he left some 10-15 minutes later. There are some very freaky people around ….

3 Notes

1. I must never mess with MirandaIM and ‘latest builds’. Bad idea. It now works smoothly as official.

2. Cocomment. Seemed like a good idea. Isn’t. And for being so ‘Web2.0′ their delete option is .. well.. crap really.

3. Write an article on Newsvine. Then refuse to debate anything because YOU ARE RIGHT AND EVERY OTHER MOFO IS WRONG. That’s par for course from where I sit.

Sticking YzDock on top

I use the excellent YzDock as the launcher on my desktop. There is a shortcut to it in the startup folder. It is set to ‘Always on top’. It appears at boot, then I open Firefox/Thunderbird and it does not stay on top. If I minimise the two apps, then right-click the dock, uncheck the ‘Always on top’ option then recheck it, the dock will stay on top. Any ideas why it won’t stay there as it should?

Nintendo screw up.

They have renamed the Revolution to Wii

I actually agree with pretty much everyone at Slashdot about this utterly ridiculous move by Nintendo. Which complete idiot thought this would be even remotely decent a name? Who stood in a boardroom and did a presentation and more importantly which fools nodded and said Yes?
The big N just won the award for THE most stupid name for a console. And they’ll wonder why it isn’t the success it should be given the games heading it’s way.

WW

Winston weighs……….. 70kg. That’s 11st 2lbs in real money.
This is a note for the future.
When he’s bigger – his first birthday is in June :)

Sending bills

A couple of years ago, Direct Line sold a debt of ours to another company. That company harrassed us for payment. That company then resold that debt to another company who started sending increasingly nasty letters and who were downright rude on the phone. They then, a couple of days ago, sent us a letter from a firm of solicitors insisting we paid and paid NOW. This would not be so bad – except Direct Line were owed nothing at the time they sold it on. They knew this. They had had the paperwork. Legally we owed them nothing at all. But they still sold it on. Because of that decision, and their refusal to accept it we have had letter after letter and a lot of hassle. So today – right now – J is typing a letter. It will go to everyone in the chain. It will have the original proof. It will have copies of all the paperwork that Direct Line. And it will have a bill . A bill for J’s time for sorting this out, for phone costs, for hassle and to try and even this crap out. It really is in their best interests to treat that seriously – J will not let go. Not of this.