Sunday, December 2, 2007

And now for something completely weird…


Just having fun with the webcam folks. Move along…

So here we are in December. Someone wanna tell me where the heck the rest of the year went?! Am I going to have to start giving the year 2007 detention slips for being absent most of this year? WTH people?

Of course, December means Advent Calendars. Which are cute little boxes we hang on the wall with twenty five little doors in them. And behind each door is a chocolate. One for each day between now and Christmas. Cool huh? This year I got a Doctor Who themed Advent Calander. There’s a big ole cyberman on the front, and yesterday morning I got a little square of chocolate with a Dalek on it. Shall I go on TimeChaser, or has your computer screen steamed up with jealousy yet? XD ju~st kidding dude. Still, 23 more days of the good Doctor and his friends and foes to go… yummy…

So this week has been pretty sweet all in all. Ok ok, admittedly doing product training and merchandising isn’t the most fun thing in the world, but I'm actually kinda looking forward to when the store opens two weeks from now.
Training on Thursday was at some damned hard to get to store in east London, and that was pretty weird, since I was actually serving customers. The guy who runs the store loves to moan too, so it was kinda annoying, but it was good experience actually working in a store.

Friday we spent all morning at a sports centre doing climbing on a big indoor climbing wall. It was great fun, but man, were my arms tired at the end of it. and not only that, I had a hard-core game of octopush (underwater hockey) at snorkelling club in the evening. So now my hands hate me. I’ve just about regained my ability to grip things… ^^;;

Also on Friday I did a lil bit of anime shopping. I bought one manga (Translucent vol 2), one DVD (Gundam SEED Destiny vol 8), one CD (GITS: SAC Solid State Society OST) and one model (Master Grade Turn A Gundam)
So all in all a pretty good haul. ^^

Finished watching Turn A Gundam this week. it rockets up to the top three of my Fav Gundam shows I have seen. Yeah the mech designs are a little weird, but the character designs and story are superb, and I really enjoyed it. and of course I now have the Master Grade Turn A Gundam. XD should have that made up soon (after I finish Patlabor unit 2 ^^; ) and next week I'm hoping to pick up some Gundam 00 HG kits. Fingers crossed. ^^

I also went and bought some new trainers yesterday, seeing as my old ones have just about had it. it really disappointed me actually; I only bought my old trainers back in may. But they were horrendously abused over the summer, so they did the best they could I guess. ^^; normally when I go and buy trainers I get the same type as the ones before. But this time around I bought a different style, mainly cuz of my new job. They fit in a bit better at an Outdoor Store then squash shoes. ^^; (Squash= racquet ball)



I got me a three day weekend and then I have to go to the back of beyond (well…Cockfosters actually. It’s at the end of the Piccadilly line on the London Underground Train Network) to do one last day of training. We’ll be roaming around in the great (or rather “okay”) outdoors doing some map reading, GPS reading, and stove cooking. Fun.
Heh heh, it was funny on Friday, we were wrapping up the day and Paul, the guy from Head Office who was leading the training suddenly turned round to the group and said “is anyone else wondering what Phil’s hair looks like?” cuz I had been wearing my hat all week and never once taken it off in all the time I had been with my new co-workers. XD they’ll find out soon enough… it’s actually pretty boring, but I always do this with new groups of people…my friends at camp didn’t even see my hair till like the third week… XD


Well, that wraps it up for another half week. and, believe it or not, I actually have a comic for you guys! I really oughta start practising my proper art again…all these comics! Sheesh…



Bonus points for whoever can name the song being sung. No googling now folks, that’s cheating.

You know it’s a sad state of affairs when your own characters start insulting your car. But that’s okay. I do it all the time… it REALLY is a crap car. And DON’T say “It cant be that bad…” cuz it IS. Here’s a quick run down:

NO HEATER (bad enough that its winter, but it also means I cant defog my windscreen unless I use a cloth)

NO REAR WINDOW HEATING OR WIPER (so I cant see JACK out the rear window sometimes)

NO RADIO (or any other music playing device…)

ONLY 5 GEARS (and one of them is Reverse- BTW, yes, she is a manual gear box. lots of people drive manual here. An Automatic Gearbox is just lazy.)

NO POWER STEERING (although lets face it…power steering is for wusses and Oil Tankers)

ROOF LEAKS (I got rained on the other night. I was INSIDE the car)

SHE HATES ME (we have yet to come to an agreement. As such she’s being a moody cow and tends to drift to the left and stall at inappropriate moments)

Clarissa ladies and gentlemen. An ancient Nissan Micra. Blue. Cold. Falling apart. And a Bitch. Welcome to my car.

Anyhoo, have a great week.

“The mechanic said that if (the car) had been a horse, he’d have to shoot her” - Basil Boothroyd

“The only part of the car that didn’t make a noise when in motion was the hooter…” -Denis Norden



PS: interweb service in my area has been down most of the weekend, hence the late post. *shakes fist* curse you Virgin Media! and curse my internets addiction...
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