Dopey Doris

I enter the world that is WH Smiths. My heart sinks, Dopey Doris of one of two people on the tills. That means that I have a 50% chance of being served by her. I hang around seeing if the queue would die down and so I could pick the person who serves me… But no… I study the pattern on people in the queue and join it at the right moment. I should get the other sales girl,. What I don’t count on is the chap three ahead of me wanting to chat to the sales girl, She tried her hardest to get rid of him but he hung around for ages. Long enough to break the sequence and I ended up with Dopey Doris. I just stared at the pile of free books on the counter. I think she got the message and didn’t have to be reminded that, as someone who’s buying the Telegraph I’m entitled to the free book

Band practice was fun last night. Normally I’m following the other band members and just pick up the beat from them. Bit I now have an electronic metronome. So I, or rather that, sets the beat. It is to try and ensure that we play as tight as possible. So I lead the beat, which I really should but in the past I’ve not kept a constant speed and I think that the others realised how much we were playing untightness….

No Respect

Had quite a good night last night getting my pictures sorted out a bit more. Adding them to my pbase.com account. Also I got my band website up and running. OK So it was my mate Dave who has done all the work and all I’ve done is copy the files onto the webserver. I asked him today whether he thought that we should do a band blog but he never dignified my question with a reply. So I take that as a no.

Also started a new 'blog' to record my aircraft sightings and photos. Exciting stuff eh!

Earnt loads of Fiancée points today. Went to pick up the Ricky Gervais tickets today. Also went into WH Smiths today and noticed that The Times had already started their book of the week promotion. So bought the book for Sue. Two lots of points to me today.

Sent in an update for the guy running the Hampshire Bird Watchers List this evening. It's just a list of how many different species have been seen in Hampshire by various bird watchers. So far I've seen 18. So I’m currently bottom of the list. Nearest person to me has seen 44. I spoke to Sue about me being so far behind and she just made a L shape on her forehead and started saying ‘LOSER LOSER LOSER’. Hmmm what's the point of Fiancée points when they don't earn you any respect.

Too much Violence

Few days since I last blogged – sorry about that dear reader.

Wednesday’s band practice was a good laugh as normal. However, playing our hard punk tune ‘Faith in you’ I managed to break a drum stick. They slowly wear out when you play them, so I knew that it was going to go soon. What did surprise me was that I also broke one of sticks in my spare pair.. Perhaps I was being a bit too violent.

Thursdays train trip home was good. Had an e-mail conversation during the week with a fellow plane spotter who works on the railway. Well a change in shift meant he was the guard on my train home tonight. Nice to meet him and have a good chat. Just before Brockenhurst he went off to do his duties, only to return a minute later with a free cup of tea for me, that he obtained from the shop. Many thanks, very refreshing. Then had a text from the boss. Normally texts from bosses aren’t good news and should be avoided at all costs, however my immediate line manager is great, even if the rest of them are a bunch of *&%$^^%. Anyway, we were getting a new scanner at work and I asked him if we could get one that scans 35mm slides, as we might need it in future. OK he knew that I wanted to scan all my aircraft slides and the text was to say, bring in some slides, for testing purposes of course, as the scanner had just been delivered. Great News

Friday – Tested the new scanner at work. It’s OK, colours aren’t great. Will have to play with the settings, but some of them are coming out OK. Example is http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1044253/

Got a new ‘Drivers Eye View’ video off eBay. Birmingham Cross City route. Been on the look out for ages for it. For those that don’t know it a video showing the view the train driver gets when he’s driving the train. On the ones produced by Video 125, there is also a commentary talking about the line and the places you are passing through. If you are ever in Birmingham have a look out for the cross city trains. They don’t half many funny noises are they full away.

That brings us to today, Saturday. Off to football later. Hoping for a Bournemouth win.