YEY!
roll on the rest!
obviously ignore the cables- they are yet to be hidden! 
YEY!
roll on the rest!
obviously ignore the cables- they are yet to be hidden!
WORKING! All the bloody time - next day off- NEXT Friday that's in 8 bloody days!
anyway- the green car has been in to the car hospital and cost me £468 to fix a dodgy clutch box and a throttle body. She's now all well and shiny and working.
Our blinds have turned up so soon I shall be attempting to put them up once I've gone to get some bloody screws and rawl plugs that the tight fisted bastards, at the wooden blind company, failed to include...
this will, hopefully, mean no more shimmying across the floor naked whilst we try and get showered/ up without being spotted through the window...!
EDIT........
all the above was written this morning and now it's 14:00 and the blinds ARE up and look lovely, the cooker has been picked up and paid for off Ebay (thank fuck) and I'm now waiting for someone to arrive here so I can babysit them sunning plants outside all day
...though the green car's brake pedal seems to be sticking now...
it's never ending is it with cars?
Hope you are all having a great day- it's gorgeously sunny here and actually quite warm
this is my favourite
priceless
]]>at the mo we're just hanging around whilst our floorer finishes the hall and the edges etc. we're stuck in the lounge as he's sawing things into bits and leaving sawdust everywhere! It will be fine once he's finished when i can sweep up and make everywhere look lovely.
if he finishes ...
we wandered round our new town today and it was pretty uneventful but it's got lots of the usual shops, Boots, Clintons, shops selling shit, hardware etc- there's even a Wimpy! Thought they shut in the 80's!
anyway, we're on the net but my Mac is playing up with it's wireless. Stupid machine, they've gone downhill since they put Intel Inside. As much as I love Macs it's like "JUST FUCKING CONNECT LIKE YOU DID YESTERDAY!" all the time...
thank fuck I've got a network cable that I'm plugged into instead...
anyway I'm boring myself with this!
no mention of my tash... bloody Movember indeed
]]>Up at 7:30 to get ready for the removal men who arrived at 9:00.
Sarah and I were running around doing last minute cleaning things before they arrived with Sarah dissing Henry Hoover every two minutes (Fair she borrowed her mates Dyson- Thanks Camelia! - and it got FULL after the Henry had been round!)
Removal men arrive and load van and they were even coerced into taking the cooker and fridge by the arrival of three crisp £10 notes
I go to new flat and set everything up (after sweeping though the entire flat, breaking our handyman's broom, dust from new floor see)
Sarah cleans the hell out of the old flat...
About 17:30 Sarah arrives and I'm STILL waiting for the BT man to arrive and set us up...
18:00 I ring BT and moan at them, they say the line's active I just need to find the MASTER SOCKET....
of course! NOT.
with 5 sockets in the new flat I eventually find it and it's in the hall... That's fine methinks as we're on N wireless now so it should easily reach the lounge.
NO it doesn't...
and the BT man told me the other sockets are probably not wired up and I'll have to get an engineer round and PAY him to connect them.
bollocks to that- I go down to the master socket and open it up. In it is a data/ telephone cable with about 9 loose wires...
OK so connect the blue wire with white stripes to curcuit 2
the orange wire (or brown one) to circuit 5
you get my drift... anyway with a bit of guess work I rush upstairs to try out the other sockets
THEY WORK!!!
lucky me
anyway Sarah's here with our KFC!
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We've had 2 trips to OUR NEW FLAT to drop some stuff off. Long journey...
Now all my plants are safely stored in the flat, our flooring is nearly completed- just the beading around the edges to do and our current flat is a huge tip!
The Ebay verdict is now this:
Fridge- offered to closest bidder but not replied- people who mistakenly bid were really apologetic and all sorted though it's still not been taken up and is still here. Means we have a fridge 'til we get a new shiny Samsung Fridge/ Freezer
Cooker- Complete prick said couldn't pick up until Monday so I tried to cancel the auction which he refused saying I was "unreasonable".
Quick live chat to ebay and they said "insist he pays or cancels the auction" which I have done but no reply. Will try get the movers to take it tomorrow.
Tyres: Nothing. Nada. Fuck all. So i'm taking them with me and he can either pick them up or not.
Tumble Dryer: Buyer says "sorry got another one" even though they won the auction for £97. I'm going to take them to court to get the money. You bid on an item, you fucking pay for it. Will get the movers to take it to ours tomorrow.
fucking farce are ebay buyers- shower of shite the lot of them (apart from our 2 good buyers) though the two guys who came to take my TV texted me this the day after:
"Want your dick sucked?"
I never replied ...
fucking minefield is Ebay I tell you!
be careful out there ...
The fridge man couldn't pick it up today
The tumble dryer person won the bid for £97 but doesn't want to pay
The cooker knob cannot pick up today
The tyre man is silent
FUCKING TOSSERS
]]>Just sent reminders to everyone and right away some knob emails me that he never read the auction properly and he can't pick up until Saturday!
TIT
So I've emailed the Second Highest Bidder and offered it to him. Here's hoping they take the bait or I'm lugging a fridge down 4 flights of stairs!
I'm showing Dorian Gray tonight as our Head Projectionist is ill so I'm covering for them.
Sarah's at home with a cold so I can't wait to get home and give her a moustache cuddle
I'm waiting for Sarah to come home so we can drop some stuff off at new flat.
I'm amazed by some stupid people on eBay. On ALL the items I'm selling I have in TWO places this statement " Items won must be moved by Wednesday 11th November."
SO I get a message:
" If I win the auction can I pick up on Friday 13th?"
NO!
FUCK OFF YOU STUPID STUPID STUPID PRICK! - Was what I wanted to say, what I did say was:
" I suggest you cancel your bid as I'm moving Thursday so won't be here. It was clearly stated on the auction"
Guess what?
He'd not even bid on the item.
Prick.
Most of my auctions finish tonight and they all have bids so fingers crossed all will be gone by Wednesday...
I'm not happy about my tash today. Everyone I've spoken to has tried not to laugh at my ginger tash. Yes ginger, it's getting worse as I realise I've got 3 fucking weeks of this left!
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well?
the above guy is a bizzy policeman off Road Wars...
this is in reply to Robs Ben Shepherd comment
thankfully I only worked until 17:30 tonight and managed to get home in time for a Chinese takeaway and some cuddles...
absolutely knackered this week- so much so I gave up my cinema overtime on Monday to go and do new flat things...
good thing is about a foot away from me our my keys to our new shiny flat
yey!
lovely...
Sarah spent the morning waiting for the bamboo flooring to arrive (it did) and our handyman will be putting the floor down from Monday all ready for us to move on Thursday.
I've put everything we don't need on eBay including:
1 x electric cooker
1 x tumble dryer
1 x washing machine
1 x fridge
3 x BF Goodrich G Force Profiler tyres
let's just hope they go for a decent price as I've put no reserve on everything...
to be honest anything is better than nothing, they are in the way here
anyway I've spent my entire day showing cartoons for an animation festival from 09:30 until 20:00 then I showed District 9 which is a great film, finally finishing at 23:00.
Different but great with a brilliant last 20 minutes ...
I show it again Monday so will give it another look see if it gets better...
right I'm in work for 10:00 tomorrow morning so I'd better sign off and go get some sleep...
night night
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Sarah picked them up before as we completed this morning. Don't know much yet as she's going to ring me at 20:00 to tell me how it felt.
I'm working 12 hours tomorrow so won't be able to go in until Sunday or Monday night. Better order those blinds!
It's a pretty amazing feeling.
Our first home.
and it's warm inside ...
I finished work at 4pm, spent 1 hour making a Openoffice presentation for tomorrow when I'm part of the big university showcase of the "non-academic" departments... We will look the best!
then home and I was asked by Sarah to sort out our storage boxes as (quote unquote)
SARAH: "Every box we have is full of wires of some sort"
JAKE: " Cables, Darling. They are cables."
hee hee...
so I've took 4 boxes and made them into one with the help of two bin bags and 2 cans of Stella.
The one box has this in it: (approx)
10 CAT 5 cables with RJ45 connectors- various lengths and colours
3 SCART leads
4 Phone leads
8 Broadband Microfilters
3 pairs of phono cables including a full composite set
1 optical cable
1 HDMI cable
1 million iPod cables/ accessories/ docks/ chargers
1 Airport Express
1 SONY Remote Commander (don't ask)
20 metres of co-ax cable (aerial)
4 short bits of co ax with connectors
4 connectors for co ax
3 splitters of co ax
1 DMX to XLR converter
1 SCART splitter
1 Wind up radio
1 portable aerial
and some people say I hoard shit!
Today I actually spoke to our solicitor about our completion TOMORROW! She was very calm and not excited at all and by this time tomorrow we should be the proud owners of our new flat.
I won't believe it until the keys are in my hand.
EXCITING!
I hope everyone is having a good bonfire night and gets home safe and sound...
anyway click here to help if you want to help me raise some more money for prostate cancer awareness ...
other than that we're still all packing mad here with the flat looking like the proverbial scud hit it...
apart from the wank solicitor never being available to talk (we're paying her for what???) we have signed the deeds to the new house and Sarah should courier it off tomorrow to arrive Friday when we SHOULD complete...
bunch of fucking cowboys in my opinion but hey ho ...
talk to me in a week... if we get the broadband connected...
lie down? who needs a lie down?
pish
today has been very strange. I awoke at 01:30 ish when Sarah got back home and came to bed. "with a jump" Sarah said...
I have no recollection as I was asleep.
Got up at 07:40 and went and picked up one of my techies as she crashed her car the day earlier and she's on the way in.
Got to work at 09:30 but couldn't start as with the European Work Time Directive I have to have an 11 hour break between shifts... so I started at 10:00...
easy day, all sorted, done dusted, gave Techie life back home...
pizza from Sainsbury's and then blokes turn up and take away my lovely SONY Trinitron TV that cost me £680 six years ago and today went for the bargain price of £45! And I was lucky to get that...
now just the fridge, tumble dryer, cooker and washer to sell in a week...
now tomorrow I was in early but I managed to get some time to do the rota so I'm not in until 13:30 which means Sarah and I might actually see each other...
it's pretty lonely in here without her....
]]>then I deleted that and had one about our past lives and how they make us what we are ...
then I started this ...
today I had an easy time, long but easy. I started at 11:00 and finished at 23:00 but the last film I showed I even got someone else to press play due to circumstances beyond my control ...
now come home and off to bed soon though Sarah's not back yet from her first night shift... she should be back in about an hour (now 00:40) - I'm up at 7am so off to bed.
now that I've selfishly (well it is my blog) mentioned what I've done here's a picture to maybe jog someone's memory to help us find her and bring her back to the UK
here's what my desktop now looks like...
HAPPY HALLOWEEN
1. Are you superstitious?
No
2. Are you attending or hosting a halloween party this year?
No
3. What's your favourite scary movie?
The Japanese Ring is pretty scary. Poltergeist when it first came out too
4. Trick or Treat?
Trick
5. The best Halloween costume is...?
I once worked in a nightclub when I was 16-18 and I went to our Halloween do (I was working) as a Freddy Krueger victim. Spent a fortune on expensive fake blood and latex for the scars... took 3 days to get the blood off my face and arms though!
We're going for a coffee strand woven bamboo floor throughout (apart from bathrooms) and hopefully it'll be finished BEFORE we move in.
click here for example
apart from the joy of standing in our brand new fully fitted flat I felt the pain of packing all our gear away - again.
so i went and paid the movers (£555 down from £624) - thank fuck for all that overtime, picked up the boxes and tape
and got down to some serious packing.
I've now packed:
Books - 6 boxes
CD's - 1 box - thank the lord for iTunes!
DVD's - 3 boxes - NOT the Blu Rays yet
NAD amp
NAD CD player
Kef Speakers x 2 ( for above )
Wii Fit - used it twice
next to pack today are:
Wii
Xbox 360
Etrex GPS
Wii, Xbox 360 and DS games
My stones - before you ask, I have a habit of picking up stones from beaches I've been to, some small and some large and over the last 15 years I've got quite a selection. Sarah's letting me keep them for the garden
so I can't procrastinate any longer on here ...
then later we're going shopping for the week and getting our big fat pumpkin
until then here's a pic of our pumpkin 3 years ago
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
we will be getting a pumpkin later today ... pictures to follow ...
:-)
]]>not my fault they don't do a 35ml version of it
now I'm home with the pitiful total of 3 Stella in the fridge!
pish...
tomorrow I'm not in until 21:30 so I'm meeting our new Best Friend - a handyman who's willing to put our bamboo floor down , in the new flat, for £100 per day.
I'm meeting him at our new flat as I'm measuring up the blinds anyway...
sounds like a deal, though ...
this bloody postal strike may fuck up our completion date as no fucking mail is being delivered- thanks Royal Mail- not the workers on strike but the twats like Royal Mail's CEO who gets 1.25 million pound a year to fuck our post up...
if Royal Mail don't cock it up we should be completing next Friday 6th November ...
moving in 12th November- I managed to get the removal cost down from £624 to £555 by just sending an email
anyway 2 Stella left and there's still some life in me...
]]>sometimes I like my work - imagine Daft Punk/ kraftwerk - like musicians playing this amazing instrumental table!
wow
]]>yes a table
watching it tomorrow so I'll let you know how good it is ...
:-)
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after the marathon film showing yesterday I had an easy day today just one kids show at 14:00 and a PA drop off at 16:00.
now we've got roast duck in the oven with goose fat smothered potatoes and sprouts and gravy to come- Sunday dinner on a monday night ...
had another quote for the move today - £800!! Thieving bastards. So I've emailed the original company to see if they are willing to negotiate on the price...
worth a try
I'm being a projectionist today to cover our projectionist leaving and the new ones starting... it's overtime so I don't mind and Sarah's come along for the ride.
I don't usually blog from work but the film's running, the other one's rewinding and I thought i'd have the time as this film finishes in 123 minutes!
Today we've shown
Inherit the Wind
Creation &
Julie & Julia
well we're showing J & J now...
we brought a picnic of many flavoured fruits and foods
Coconut pieces
Pineapple pieces
Green grapes
Fresh French bread
Organic houmous (cheaper than normal one)
Celery sticks
Bottle of Buxton water
Stilton
Melton Mowbray mini pork pies x 4
4 Sausage rolls (2 left)
Doritos and tomato dip &
Some olive marg
we've got the pineapple pieces, 2 sausage rolls, some Doritos and some grapes left 
we have been here since 12:30 and will leave just after 23:00 so it's a long slog!
now I could just sleep ...
we spent ages trying to get my old G4 mac online (I gave it to Sarah), including manually inputting the settings, trying to share my net connection, everything but it would not assign a proper IP. Then I just plugged it into the wall with a cable and it worked- DOH!
that's what you get for overly complicating things!
then when we were both online we played Facebook Scrabble! Who needs a board? Great fun indeed...
now after sipping some Peppermint tea ( I'm still feeling a little poorly) we've got nothing to do for 2 hours until the film ends then we can go home. So working on a Sunday isn't too bad when we can be together like this
only thing different is no beer! 
still overtime at work, Sarah and Sunday's are a good mix
I hope everyone else isn't working and is having a great Sunday ...
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rang the woman from the house builders today to see if she'd got my message about completing the sale on 6th November?
Did she fuck! Bunch of useless c*nts... I'm like "What the fuck? Do they not want our money? " anyway she "sent an email" today ...
probably ...
other news is my constant battle with eBay and to stop them charging me 3 times for one sale, I've got it down to twice now but cannot change the second sale as on eBay you can only open and close one transaction case per item... what did eBay do in their wisdom?
send me an email to tell me my account is suspended as I haven't paid the £16.53 I owe them!!! (actually it's £9 that's why I'm arguing)
so FUCK YOU EBAY!! Over my dead body will I pay you more money than you're owed!
thing is - as my account is suspended I cannot access my Seller Account and therefore (wait for it) I CANNOT PAY THE BILL!
fucking numpties
bring it on my US cousins, bring it on
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