I’D LIKE TO THANK THE ACADEMY…

thank you mr Graham T. Cousins’

nice, cheers.

ttfn

sime

I REALLY DON’T THINK SO

NOT WHILE MY ARSE FACES SOUTH

got an e-mail update. ooh, another follower i thought.

then found out who she was and what she stands for.

0 followers. odd that. obviously need to rethink your posters.

NOT ON MY WATCH MRS.

ME AND MY MATES HAVEN’T BATTLED AGAINST THE STEREOTYPE JUST FOR YOU TO SEE MY PROFILE SOMEWHERE AND READ “SKINHEAD” AND DECIDE THAT I’D AGREE WITH YOU AND YOUR PARTY’S BIGOTED VIEWS.

THE QUICK ANSWER IS NO.

AND I’D ALSO LIKE TO ADD;

SKINHEADS DON’T NEED YOU.

BARNSLEY DOESN’T NEED YOU.

THIS COUNTRY DOESN’T NEED YOU.

sorry to bring the mood down but this has pissed me off ever so slightly.

ttfn

sime

BIT MORE BOO-ING?

the enemy talks NFL
half time show apraisal
bugger!

*CUE ‘JOE 90’ THEME*

we got a letter from school the other day saying that the boy was struggling to read the board.

the enemy took him to the opticians thursday.

this is the result.

he’s perfectly happy with the fact that he has to wear them. and his friends are jealous because they want to wear some.

how times change huh?

ttfn,

sime.

LOUNGING AND LOVING IT!

I’VE GOT A TICKET TO READ

there’s a lot of stuff flying about twitter today as it’s save our libraries day. or summat.

which made me think back to my childhood and the mobile library that came around every other week. a wonderful thing. as my mum used to be at work at the time it came round our part of the village, i used to go for her, and myself. i used to go for Tintin and/or Asterix books (i was young) and as i got a bit older anything by James Herbert (always good for a bit of smut). but my mum….! she used to have me fetch her EIGHT mills and boons a week and a large fiction novel. and she used to read them all. but here’s the really scary thing. she used to write the books she read in a notepad. every one of them. basically so she could see if she had read them already. how well did i do? honestly? (and you can ask her to confirm this) out of all the books i brought her over a number of years…… the number that i brought more than once? about a dozen. no, really! the trick i used, not remembering the title’s, but the pictures on the front. worked for me.

as for the appeal. i haven’t visited our library for a long long time. i think it may be because i fear they will pounce on me to return the books i still have outstanding all these years later*. go on folks, go visit your library. they do more than just books these days, they even have the internet! the boy goes though. occasionally. always encouraged him to read. likes his “diary of a wimpy kid” series. (good for adults too)

ttfn

sime

*i DID take most back when they declared an amnesty in the 90’s!

THIS MUST BE THURSDAY

I NEVER COULD GET THE HANG OF THURSDAYS.

i own a kindle. it’s wonderful. possibly the best present the enemy has ever bought me. i have been reading the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy’s six part trilogy on the train/tram these last couple of weeks. i freely admit it/they are my all time favourite books. i have read them every year for the last god knows how many years. and last night a thought finally struck me.

surely this MUST be the way Douglas Adams wanted it to be read. it’s almost The Guide itself. i reckon the people at amazon are missing a trick by not having a special edition Guide version. i know i would have bought one.

i know someone who is an artist. (i actually know a couple) and i am thinking of asking whether there could be any possibility to spray the actual kindle and/or the cover.

i shall keep you updated.

ttfn,

sime.

A LIVING HELL

in answer to Tipper’s question, my weekly routine is thus;

mon-fri:

home 7am,

bed 1pm.

up for work 7:30pm

sat:

home 7am.

bed as early as possible (12pm),

up 6/7pm. watch crap on telly.

enemy goes to bed 10:30/11:30 depending on what “we” are watching, i go about 4am.

stare at ceiling until 8am.

sun:

8:01 say stuff it and get up.

nap 3/4pm.

up 7pm, do radio show from 8pm – 1a. then upload onto podcast server, update websites, tweet until approx 4/5am.

stare at ceiling until 6am when enemy’s alarm goes off.

get up at 7:45 sick of hearing alarm go off every 9 minutes.

get the boy ready for school.

1pm, get into bed totally knackered then toss and turn and struggle to sleep. drop off 5pm.

alarm 7:30.

repeat.

BENNY AND THE JETLAGGED

Working graveyards is hard, I hear people tell me they’ve been doing it for dozens of years and all I can think of is to ask when they finally lost the plot.

What you have to keep in mind, is that to be with a family or otherwise in the day walker world on your weekend, you basically have to give yourself jet lag. Every week. Now, usually night people will try to come in from work on their ‘friday evening’ and try to take a nap instead of a full sleep, more often than not you will then see them tweet 10 hours later ‘DAMMIT.’ The same is true with me usually. 

What I’ve been doing now is the only way I can do it properly. Come in from my shift and stay up, all day to the next night. That means being up from 5pm or so on one day and staying up all the way till 9pm the next night. Of course, staying up for 28 hours is very much un fun. I’m a zombie for half of it, but it’s the only way. 

Sleep as long as possible, usually up by 7a the next morning and do all those chores you needed daylight for and have left for a week. Spend the day with the wife and kids. Enjoy actually watching evening telly. BUT since it’s night 2 of 2 off, I have to stay up late to get back into working nights the next night, so i’ll try to last until 5a the next morning. 

So basically the only way for a graveyard shift worker to have a real weekend is to get all of the sleep out of the way in the middle of two long days. 

How else do you do it? What works for you? Please help me!

Tippers.

WHAT WE DID ON OUR NIGHT OFF

SHAMELESS PLUG COMING UP

see if you can spot it!

i work where i work to earn money. don’t we all. it’s not for the love of it, even though i have been with the same firm for nearly 23 years.

at the weekends i do what i would LOVE to get paid for. i don’t get paid for it, i pay to do it. i pay a lot to do it. worth every penny.

this is where i spend my sunday nights

it’s my little bit of heaven. my radio “studio”

from 8pm to 1am sunday night i broadcast my radio show, via the interweb and my own radio station. all perfectly legit and legal. i hold a broadcast license.

and last night i had the honour of talking to Tippers and his lovely Mrs, all too briefly mind. it’s great when you get to talk to someone and hear their voice after “talking” via twitter as we do. have a listen. (audioboo playing silly beggars.)

cheers guys. we’ll do it again.

ttfn.

sime.

(of course, should you want to listen, just go to the radio site. there’s a podcast recording there)