Oscar's Birthday

I have been horribly busy recently, and just haven't had the time to post anything at all to my blog. At least I managed to stop everything for a day to celebrate Oscars Third Birthday, which was a very nice day indeed.

Warning !

Do not, under any circumstances, put one of those EcoDisc DVD's (the sort you get free with the Sunday newspapers) into your Apple laptop... They only work in tray loading drives, NOT in slot loaders like the ones in G4 iBooks macBooks etc. If you look carefully at the label on the dvd it does actually tell you this, but in very small writing. I've just spent an hour dismantling an iBook to get one of the buggers out of the drive... However,if you want to pull your laptop to bits just for fun, then look here first...

Help Needed

In our house we have a whole load of south facing windows which is very nice indeed. Except when it comes to cleaning the bloody things. Upstairs there are 4 like the one in the picture above which have 30 panes of glass each, and then 2 double doors each of which have 24 panes of glass. Thats 168 separate panes of glass, each of which has 4 corners , and then of course you have both inside and outside of the window. The total is 1344 corners that you have to somehow clean with a sponge and then polish with some bloody stuff that isn't supposed to smear but which does and leaves streaky bits. And even if I managed to do it well enough for them to look clean when the morning sun shines through them, I still have one more problem... There are another 768 corners downstairs.

Doh !

It wasn't my fault, I was set up... honest.

February

Thank god January is over with. Illness, hangovers, massive debt and the taxman all contribute towards making it my least favourite month in the year. In future, I am going to consider February as the first month of the year, because it is impossible to make any kind of "fresh start" in January for the above mentioned reasons. So, my new years resolutions, as of this month are :

Only get drunk once a week.
Earn more money.
Spend less money.
Save money for tax bill.
Shave more often.