A Pirate\’s Logbook

Can’t think who this little one with the black pigtails reminds me of….

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So, in the last post I was working at a local College as an IT Tutor, chugging along nicely like I had for the best part of a decade. Sometimes though, you start to get too settled and the Universe has to send you a wake up call.
Mine came in February when I was made [...]

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So following on from Uxian’s post last week of his desk at work, I was bored this morning (last day of term and no students in), so I took a pic of mine.

From the top, left to right:-
Kitty pictures including some more LoLCats off to the right that you can’t see
Jack Sparrow, Doctor Who and [...]

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Bored at work? Got surplus stationery in the cupboard?
Here’s a few ideas…
The Great Post-IT Experiment
A Calvin & Hobbs mural from Post-Its
Save £££’s on Magnolia Office Paint
Enter the Post It notes video contest to come up with more silly things to do with Post Its here.
And when you run out of Post It notes?
You can always [...]

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I tried to upgrade my graphics card this week.

A couple of years ago, after the ex left, I replaced my case because the psu was screaming at me. When I opened it up I found out that sometime in the weeks between when I fitted a new soundcard and him leaving, he’d basically swapped the [...]

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What is it about tradesmen that they really believe giving you a ‘ball park figure’ of times they might deign to arrive to take a look at the problem is OK?
How is ’sometime after 5 this evening’ an acceptable time frame? I’m hungry dammit and I’ve been home over 2 hours and I haven’t been [...]

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Yes, it seems it’s not just in Norrath I have the decorating bug.
I’ve decided my bathroom needs an update and I’m oging ot do what I’ve wanted to do for a logn time.
It involves walls this colour

And this flooring, which is vinyl and looks like wood planks

It also involes this mirror

and this shower curtain & [...]

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BATMAN!!!!!!!!!!!
*ahem*
I went to see Dark Knight… finally.
It was awesomely spectacularly really really cool. All darka nd creepy and sinister, just how Batman should be.

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C’mon Kitty… there’s plenty o rooms!

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Only putting the rubbish out, sorting the cats out and ‘the packing’ left to do.
Oh, and filling the MP3 player with music for the journey tomorrow. Do you have any idea how hard it is to fill up 4GB with music? I’m up nearly 500 songs so far and not even half filled it. [...]

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