Today is a really bad day for work related thingummies.
Problems with the servers in our office means that none of us can do much. In our dept they’ve got some basics working, but only very slowly. The rest of the company, however, is unable to work and so they’ve been sent home. It’s pretty demoralising watching everyone else leave for effectively a free days holiday, but hey that’s life I guess.
hrmph.
I decided to investigate sky’s “free broadband for Sky TV customers” last night. Turns out it’s a pretty good deal. The basic one is free and is higher spec than what I use now (allbeit with a low limit on it) but even their top package is half the price of pipex (my current ISP).
The catch is that they aren’t offering it in my area for another 6 months. They can, however, offer me another service which is still more than double what I’m on now, at a slightly lower price. Yet another catch then appears. Although they state that they can provide this alternate service, there is no telephone number to call, no website to visit, no form to fill in, nothing!
“We’d like to offer you this great product until our main product is available. But we’re not going to tell you how to get it!”
Rather irritating.
For those of you that haven’t seen this on my myspace profile, this is Daniel Chesterfield who I believe to be a bonifide genius. There are several different episodes, so I’ll probably do a series of blogs with his videos in.
Church was great yesterday. We had a church picnic after the service which due to the thick fog and rain, was held inside the school hall where we meet in Woodingdean.
I knew it was going to be fun when at five minutes to 12 the Pastor said “We need to end the service now as the bouncy castle has just arrived”. Given that I’m 23 years old and 13 stone(ish) there was obviously no way I would be getting on it though.
So shortly after eating lunch, there I was pushing four and five year olds out of the way so that I could attempt the ultimate death defying stunt – a backflip. Needless to say I failed miserably, landing on my head and nearly killing myself (much to young Stevie‘s amusement). It’s been interesting at work this morning being questioned about my painful neck. It’s funny how sympathy vanishes when you give the explanation “It was a bouncy castle related incident”.
Later in the evening we had some of the Youth church around to our flat and we all watched Monty Python’s Quest For The Holy Grail. All that is except for Jason who vanished into my study and didn’t reappear until several hours later. It appeared that a reasonably good time was had by all, especially Stevie who seemed to laugh uncontrollably all the way through the film.
On a different note, I have a message for Adam Buxton. POST MORE OFTEN. You’re a very funny man, and I love reading your blog and watching your videos, but really why do you make me wait for weeks to hear of your amusing adventures? I need entertaining. My lunch breaks don’t fill themselves you know!
I also heard from my old school friend James the other day. It was good to catch up and hear about his career movements etc. You can find a link to his website /blog type thing on the blogroll to the right of this page.
Crikey, that was a long post by my standards…
Last night was poker night and the turnout was pretty good. Neil, Phil, Matt and Stephen all came and we had a good laugh. The larger part of the evening was spent with 4 of us trying to drop major hints to Stephen that Neil had pinched 20 of his chips while he’d been on a toilet break, and that I was now betting with them. It was very very funny. Sorry Stephen!
Over the course of the evening we consumed far too much snack food and some of us even ventured into the territory of alchohol (oo-er…). Sarah made the decision (which was probably a wise one) to hide in the bedroom and watch the top 50 comedy films on E4. I caught the last few and was relieved to discover that The Life Of Brian made #1. Usually these things are won by some totally undeserving title/artist and I get all uptight about it, but not this time 
Every now and then it’s nice to see a classic bit of TV footage. This has to be one of the best bits of footage of all time…
I decided that Snapfish was too much hassle as a host for my photographs, since anyone wanting to look at them had to go through the palava of a username and password before they could even get near the pictures.
So I have found another host that is much more basic. Simply click the following links, and you can actually see the photos. Amazing!
