Archive for May, 2006
Monday I felt really kinda strange…Dunno why. Evening we did a surprise 40th birthday for Graham my bro, was pretty ok, drank beer, ate food, drank some more beer, played some tunes, drank some Bushmills. Tuesday found it hard to get outa bed, but did and off to work, had a meeting at The Bull Inn at Orpington I thought was 1o’clock and turned out to be 3pm, so I went shopping in Asda. Arrived back at the pub for 2.30pm and loadsa guys had already turned up and the beer started flowing. The Manager guys who were taking the meeting were an hour late so more beer…Finally piled into a log cabin in the garden and the meeting began amidst a constant rotation of tuna and cress sandwiches and cheesey biscuits. Turns out they are changing the bonus scheme, I wasn’t really paying attention. Back to the bar afterwards and Mick the area manager got his wallet out and the beer began flowing once again. So this morning (wed) I couldn’t get up again and eventually hauled my fat arse from beneath the duvet and initiated what was going to be a really crap day. Worthing first call, 3 car pile up on A27, A27 closed so I sat in a queue of traffic for an hour doing paperwork, when I finally got to Worthing I couldn’t actually do anything as there was no Gas Meter, so I gleefully hopped back into the van whistling a merry tune as at that point I was soooo happy and content. So up A23 to Croydon…stopped for a spot of lunch at Pease Pottage, my watch I left in the bogs on Friday had not been handed in either, not that I was expecting it to have been knowing what a bunch of thieving bastards people are these days. Back on the road 80 mph on the M23 and an old fella in a peugeot thinks it’d be fun to try driving through the crash barrier up the grass verge and flip the car over 3 times, this was really quite scary. As usual as the poor old guy was sprawled across front seats bleeding to death as everybody just drove by pointing, only me and one other guy bothered to stop to check up the old geezer, as it was he was conscious and able to move though he didn’t attempt anything and just lay there bleeding all over the passenger seat. Once the Police arrive a quick explanation of the situation and I buggered off. The irony of the situation is that the old fella was off to visit his wife in hospital, there were flowers scattered all over the car that I assumed were a very nice bunch before he decided to become a gerriatric stunt driver, I didn’t notice any grapes though.
Anyway dropped some calls today as really couldn’t be arsed so will probabaly get a bollocking tomorrow but hey.Got a linear amp for my 2 meter radio to boost the output power from 15 to 110Watts, quite a good buy by the looks of it, one problem though, the power supply isn’t man enough for the job so need to sort something out there, it can pull 18 Amps apparently!
Hopefully tomorrow I will be feeling better and actually get some work done, if I finish at a reasonable hour, which looks possible, I’ll be up the gym i evening.
May 31st, 2006
Hmmm…Saturday, an odd day! Chatted on radio to Chain a bit and out of the blue a bald man materialised on my doorstep! So I invited him in and made him coffee and chatted about his Job working with Autistic Teenagers, hats off to the bloke (he does wear one quite often, especially in the sun) I couldn’t deal with that sorta thing myself and I grew up in it with my brother who’s severely mentally handicapped. Still he seems to be enjoying his role, although working too many hours…
I promised my Daughter I’d pay for her to have her hair done today so I rang round a few hairdressers to enquire about prices and make an appointment. Soon afterwards I woke up with a lump on my head, stars before my eyes glaring at the ceiling, which has recently been re-skimmed and looks worse than it did before, why is it Women’s hair cost sooo much? The bald man drinking coffee in my kitchen made a valid point, “£72.00??? I dont spend that much on my hair in 5 Yrs!” Point taken, but does that exclude all the sun cream in the summer? So that afternoon took Kayleigh and her mate into town, picked up another of her mates from work, see I can get three in the van Mrs. Chelsea Tractor! And threw them into the Salon with a three hour (hahaha) escapade of kerotein therapy and inhaling hydrogen peroxide fumes (which apparently is being banned in public places form March next year).
I Popped into see Chain and it seems he’s having trouble with his antennas… (antennae?) …aerials and was fiddling around with his co-ax. Had a cuppa tea and zoomed off shopping. Had a pint then back upto get Kayleigh from the Hairdressers. Lost a considerable amount of weight in a relitively short period of time in the realms of folding stuff and Kayleigh popped off into town, I went home.
Evening Kayleigh and her mate stayed over, got a phonecall from Jade my other daughter saying I was out of order saying I didn’t have any money and then spending that on Kayleigh’s head. Fact is everyone knew I was paying for her haircut this weekend and had done for 4 weeks or so??? So I couldn’t quite get my head round that one, must be a Matriarchal fuelled female thing going on behind the scenes. Watched a coupla DVD’s, one called Death Tunnel which was very surreal (a word often enjoyed by the likes of Chain) but visually quite good.
May 28th, 2006
Day was ok, though one thing springs to mind is that if I drive for a period of time and then get out the car, I have a wierd kinda head-rush without the rush, more of a feeling of pressure in my head that impeads my hearing and makes me feel like i’ve had a cannister of some kind of inert gas inserted into my ears thats pumped up my head? This only last for 20-30 seconds or so but it worries me. I have suffered headaches since starting this job, headaches are one thing I DO not suffer from…even after a heavy night. I can’t understand the reason why this happens when I drive, I thought it may be blood pressure but there would be other symtoms such as blotchy skin that I don’t get…And it is very temporary, unless I’m in this state all the time I am behind the wheel and only feel it when I stand up? Hmmm… I do get very Irate with ordinary drivers though, ordinary being the type that drive to their Mums to pick up a birthday cake etc. When I have 2 billion people just wanting me to be late so they can call the call center and complain about how disgraceful the service is. No dis-respect but if it is only a cake, take a push-bike! Not a 5 tonne All Terrain Vehicle or “SUV” as the twats in America are teaching you, my van carries the stock to repair most makes of central heating boilers and its smaller than a Ford Mondeo, plus I can stuff 2 or 3 kids in there, without removing anything else, and take them to school.
Don’t think this is a dig against the school run involving a competetive influx of mothers trying to outdo each other with “Who can drive the most stupidly big vehicle to drop the kids off at school in,” attitude…errr ok…It is! There’s a simple concept involving the safety of your dear little ones whilst driving on the road. Don’t buy a huge TANK that wouldn’t receive a scratch in a 40 car pile up on the M25, Learn to drive safely… Then shove ’em in the back of a Bedford Rascal sitting on a toolbox…
Having said this I do know some very good Women drivers, and some crap bloke drivers, so I am not enforcing some kind of stereotype, just these are things I witness everyday…all day…and need to vent it before I run one of the bastards off the road!
May 26th, 2006
A reasonably ok day, finished work at a reasonable hour got home had dinner and went to the gym for a bit, popped up downs for a flick about on the radio, not alot about, coupla guys waffling on Dover repeater, I broke in and was acknowledged and they swiftly moved onto another mammoth waffle and I got bored and buggered off. Not much else to say of any interest so off to bed, got about 4 million calls tomorrow so early start.
May 25th, 2006
Thought today was going really well until I hit an address in Brighton that buggered it all up! Anyway I don’t wanna talk about work coz it depresses the piss outa me…Oh and I’ve been on emergency call-out for the week, Thanks For The Notice Guys!!! Apparently I was last week but guess what? No bugger told me!
Been on the look out for this 6meter radio, seems I may just be able to stretch the budget this month…or maybe not, thing is I don’t really want anything flash, a 50Mhz multimode would be cool but hey I seen quite a few dual-banders around on 50/144Mhz which would be excellent for the van, dual band antennae for 6/2 meters are all over the place. We’ll see…
Had dinner at Chain an Angel’s tonight, very nice too, I was bloody starvin as forgot to take wallet out with me this morning and survived all day on a chip and a soggy rich tea biscuit, worked till 630…back in Eastbourne 7.30. No guitar hero thankfully as I may have had trouble co-ordinating the up/down strokes to select the tune let alone play anything.
Sod this I’m going to bed before I wake up…
May 24th, 2006
What a wierd day, no jobs sent to my PDA so I had no clue where I was working today, rang the office and they said I had to meet up with a guy at Pease Pottage and hand over paperwork and that my work would arrive soon…As If! Sat at services for an hour and a half trying to contact AnyBody from Servowarm with no luck. So travelled into Crawley to get a sausage and egg muffin only to find they stopped doing breakfast, crap. DOssed around a bit longer, tried somemore to contact them, again voicemails and engaged tones so I thought sod it I’ll go home. Popped into see Chain for a cuppa, had a vague phonecall eventually from area manager and I was told to expect a call with my work, didn’t happen. Not until 3.30pm did I have any clue as to what I was meant to be doing, turned out the jobs were reasonably local so I popped off and did a few just to make it look like I give a shit.Home by 7.30pm bit of a natter with Angel then off to Gym and round Chains for more tea and a chat about really expensive radio’s that I will never be able to afford. In a nutshell, boring… but that’s just it.
May 22nd, 2006
I thought I was going to be working till Christmas Eve today, but I pulled off a few tricks to lighten the workload without upsetting any customers and without looking like a complete skiver to the guys in the office, pretty neat. Was home by 6.15 Yay! Popped round my mate mels to fit a pcb to her boiler as she’s been without hot water for a week, that all went swimmingly well then had a phonecall from my daughter Kayleigh. Somehow she talked me into her and a mate staying over while I buy them popcorn and rent DVD’s, I was all set up to go to the gym, but it’s nice to have the girl’s stay over, gives me a sense of purpose.
May 19th, 2006
Yup had a disaterous day at work, well, wasn’t that bad just problematic, each job turned into a major one which meant I actually had to think on my feet for a change. Round Chain’s in evening and Angel made me a delicious roast after which I had a bash on Guitar Hero and got kinda into it. Sorta thinking of buyng a PS2 now lol…Tried the smoke on the water on expert and reckon with some practice (on my own) could pull some of it off. Put a bid on a radio on ebay and then read the text to find it was faulty! Doh! So I want to be outbid on that one otherwise its 30 quid up the swanney, if i cant get it going that is. Home then bed by the looks of it.
May 19th, 2006
Well the strange thing is I have been contemplating on the question of why I say “Wahey” alot and come to the conclusion that I’m just a sad git. Croydon again today and guess where tomorrow? Although today was going really well and I was feeling kinda well chilled out cruisin’ around Banstead and the M25 corridor, I had a boiler job balls it all up! It took me longer to get the parts I needed ordered, than it did to take the boiler apart, service it, diagnose the fault, temporarily repair it and put it back together again, so if anyone with any clout reads this from Homeserve…”SORT IT OUT!” I’m being told to do something in a certain way by one person and differently by another? Feel like bashing their ‘eds together!
My Uncle came round to send an email, he was in a pretty good mood and not forcasting the colapse of civilisation or immanent death in the face of a quite large mushroom cloud as he usually does. Gave him a lift and popped to Chains for a cuppa, Angel invited me for dinner tomorrow which is cool (Cheers Luv 😉 ) not that I really am living on corned beef and crackers, that may have been exaggerated for amusement’s sake. But hey, whatever she knocks up will be thoroughly enjoyed.
Should start keeping eye out for 6meter radio from now as not long till payday…wahey! see….there I go again. Going to try out some designs tomorrow at Chain’s for an antenna. Will need a mobile jobby too, that’ll be a challenge.
May 17th, 2006
Yes another entry, nothing really to write about except life sucks etc. Took the kiddies out over weekend and accidentally spent my shopping money so gonna live on scraps until payday. Joined the gym and been going regularly for a week so far, My brother reckons he may join when he comes back from Turkey, that’ll be good to be honest as he’s a good motivator…although he isn’t black, and he doesn’t wear tight lycra with a bum bag. Haven’t seen Max up there yet, sure I will soon, to be honest I need a few weeks to get back into it as I find it hard lifting a a bag of frozen peas at the moment.
Been working ALOT in Croydon recently which is poo really as I really dont know the area too well and takes a while to navigate round, I can get very frustrated if I have difficulty finding an address, frightenend I might prang the van one day. Errr….well that’s not bad really for an entry so may have the blog spirit back and waffle endlessly about seemingly meaningless dribble on a daily basis for the amusement of nobody.
May 16th, 2006
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