I figured out how to make my blogroll show in order of updatedyness, the only problem being that it is in fact just a randomiser so far as I can tell. Jess’s blog is top of the list at the moment, when I know for a fact that Simon, Stu and my sister, and my Photoblog have all updated more recently than Jess. I’m sure I’ll get it sorted sooner or later.

It’s been a busy few days as it turns out. On friday evening we managed to get some downtime finally. We watched the first in the new series of Never Mind The Buzzcocks,and generally lazed about. So in fact that first statement was a complete lie, it hasn’t been a busy few days, only a busy two days.

Saturday morning I did some work on the car, but only got a quarter of what I wanted to do done. Then we realised we had no food whatsoever, so we went to the Co-op and got stuff for lunch. In the afternoon we went to Eastbourne to pick up a shiny new mobile phone for Sarah who is very excited about it, and to trapse round every shop looking for a pair of boots for Sarah to wear to Rob & Ju’s wedding. We didn’t find any.
In the evening we wen’t to Diane’s (a friend from work) engagement party, which was quite good. The DJ seemed to have a ‘the best of the worst party songs ever’ album which he played punctuated by ‘obscure hits of the 80s’. It was good fun sitting with Neil and trying to identify the songs and artists though.

Sunday was busy with church activities, and the selling of my old car, which was nice. The money from that will be going toward the iMac I want. We also caught up on Robin Hood which we’ve been recording since we’re way too busy to watch when it’s actually on TV.

Another easy night tonight I hope!

Maybe I’ll have something interesting to write about one day soon…

I’ve started a photoblog to run alongside this main blog at photorob.blogspot.com/. It’s purely for entries that come directly from my mobile phone. So check it out. There’s a link on my blogroll too.

Hopefully Stu will tell me how to sort it so the most up to date things on my blogroll will be at the top of the list, so you’ll all know when I’ve posted on it!

For those of you that are wondering, although I have a new phone and contract, I do not have a new number. The nice people at 3 and tesco are doing some clever things to transfer my old number to my new phone.

Apparently it changes over on 1st Nov, when they tell me I’m likely to recieve messages and calls on either or both phones, so that should be a fun day! until then I’m having to carry both. one to make calls and the other to recieve.

So yes, I am keeping my old number, which is:
not going to be published here (I may be stupid, but not that stupid). If you want it then give me a call and I’ll tell it to you.

Tonight is pub quiz night, so we’re gonna go early and have dinner there. There’s a ton of guys from work all going so should be fun, although I always get blamed for every wrong answer!

I got a new phone today!

Which is very exciting. After much trawling through the internet to find a good deal, I went to the three shop to get a contract phone. I decided on the Sony K610i in the end, as it was a good deal on the tariff etc. Plus I got a free bluetooth headset because the girl lied to me about how many months I can have for half price. I also get £30 free credit because I put down Nicky from work as a recommendy person. So if I now recommend Sarah, we both get £30 credit, and so on until I’m a millionairre. I wonder if they’d exchange it for hard cash. Doubt it.

As you may have guessed from the entry title, we’re back online again.

As I expected, they had tried again to deliver the router to our flat yesterday, but by this morning the message from sky had got through and they’d redirected it to my office. Everyone at work was confused as it was addressed to Miss Ardern (Sarah’s maiden name) but luckily Neil recognised my address and it got to me ok.
The other exciting piece of post today was that Sarah’s murder Mystery party has arrived, which judging by her email reply when I told her, she’s quite excited about.

Finally, I went ahead and ordered the cool thing for sarah today. Unfortunately it’s not available until 14th November, so she’ll have it a couple of days late, but it’s wicked so it won’t matter. I tried to get it shipped from the US, but it would end up costing double after shipping. It’s really cool. I still wish I could tell you about it. You’re really gonna love it when you find out!

On friday night we went to see Jeff Green at the paramount comedy festival in Brighton. Seriously funny stuff! I’d seen him on television once or twice before. There were several points in the show where I actually couldn’t breath for laughing. Obviously it was his high level of intelectual humour that appealed to me…

Ok, you got me. It was the bottom jokes.

Continuing the saga of the pipex to sky broadband changeover, I recieved a letter from sky on friday (20th October) saying that “it won’t be long now!”, and that “BT expect to have activated the broadband on your phone line by October 18th”.
Brilliant. Given that today is the 20th, the line still doesn’t work, and I haven’t yet recieved my router and info pack, that information is of great use to me!

They did actually try and deliver the router pack on friday, however both Sarah and I were at work, where we earn money in order to pay for goods and services such as broadband. The delivery company wont deliver outside of office hours, and therefore will never deliver our router. After chasing around trying to find a phone number where we could speak to a human being rather than a machine who wants our credit card numbers, we established that sky could fax them my office address and have it redirected there. So we then called sky who said they would arrange for this to happen. I haven’t recieved the router here yet, but the day is not over.

I’m willing to bet that I’ll get home to find another ‘we tried to deliver’ card on the doormat.

Oh yes. Other exciting things: Sarah has chosen a murder mystery party to have on her birthday which is fast approaching. It looks like a lot of fun, we just need to decide which of her friends we’re going to murder. We like to do these things properly you know.
I think I’ve found a really cool present for her too. since she found out about the feeling concert, I’ve not really been counting it as a present, but I got her one other thing already, and I have another two in mind. It’s really cool, I just wish I could write about it!

One more thing: WELL DONE ALONSO! GOOD RIDDANCE SCHUMI!