…then I can say that I’ve been blogging for 7 years!
Yes, that “© 2004-2009 foreverblueskies.com” in the footer of this blog just inspired me. It’s now wrong. It should be “© 2004-2010 foreverblueskies.com”
But then that would be a bit of travesty because my beloved old blog is pretty neglected these days and this could be my only post this year… look at the date of the last post… summer solstice 2009! That’s over a year ago!
But, truth be told, I *have* still been blogging, only elsewhere. Occasional posts have appeared on my green/environmental blog and a more serious/professional set of posts have appeared on my personal/professional blog. But the point is that all this diplomacy and good behaviour is pissing me off…
I recently had a conversation with the MD of the company I work for who mentioned that anything I posted under my real name might be associated with them. Now I don’t want to get into trouble with my boss nor associate the company I work with my occasional wacky and mealy-mouthed outbursts so I’ve kept a lid on my personal opinions. But I feel repressed.
So fuck it. I’m back. Even if just for one day.
I may feel the need to swear more often on the internet so, this being my personal/anonymous place where I feel that I can say pretty much what I want and the associations with work are more tenuous.
Seven years of blogging… fuck yeah!
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Wednesday: 00:30
Becky had just gone to bed and I was not long behind her. I crawled into the sack but my mind was still racing, having just slaved over a client’s website for the last couple of hours whilst keeping one eye on The Wedding Crashers.
I was tired to say the least. And yet, when my head touched the pillow, I was not ready to sleep.
It was nearly 1am. I lay there; tired, brain still in overdrive, contemplating going back downstairs to work until Xam. I heard a noise. A rattle. Or a scratch? It was like my cat repeatedly scratching on the door, it sort of came from that direction.
I got up. Saffron was not at the bedroom door, so it must have been from the ground floor. She must have locked herself in the sitting room, so I went downstairs. I opened the lounge door and she was there on her blanket, curled up and cosy.
Hah, I must have been going mad, hearing rattles in the middle of the night. To bed. To sleep. Perchance to have some meaningful dream and wake up with an answer to save the planet, to world peace, to make a million…
Wednesday: 09:00
I roll into work and my boss says “Did you hear there was an earthquake last night?”
Funny that – I heard someone talking about earthquakes on the radio on my drive in…
And it seems that there was an earthquake here in England last night. It was a couple of hundred miles away but it measured 5.3 on the sphincter scale. It must have shaken the house ever-so gently here in Farnborough.
Something similar happened a few years back when I heard things go kaboom in the night.
Peace to the night owls 
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Well, apart from being on the map for the Farnborough Airshow, yesterday we had a little bit of fame for a Tornado that came through our neighbourhood. No, not a Tornado like this it was one like this… only smaller. Well, quite a bit smaller.
But it did knock over trees, rip off roofs, topple a chimney or two, overturn a caravan, completely destroy a bus shelter and get us on the nation’s BBC news at ten last night 
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Becky bought a big fat bag of JAM doughnuts, which she insisted were Jelly Doughnuts, but they weren’t because the bag specifically said JAM on it.
Anyways, the point is that I had one “jam” doughnut on Wednesday with no JAM in it and a second one yesterday, again with NO JAM in it. That’s two “jam” doughnuts with NO JAM. And no Jelly neither :p
Anyway, Jelly wobbles, Jam doesn’t.
So for those of you who don’t know me on Facebook, that’s what’s been happening, man.
Kick out the Jams!
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I just want to say thanks to my top bird for taking me to Upton Park for my birthday.
We stayed in the West Ham hotel over Friday night, where we stayed when we first met nearly 3 years ago, and this time the car didn’t disappear! She did a neat trick with some plates though…
Saturday’s weather was particularly top notch, warm & sunny, so thanks to mother nature for that, and the 3-0 scoreline was a cracking birthday present too, so thanks to the Hammers for that result. Oh, and cheers to Middlesboro’s Luke Young who scored a blinding own goal on our behalf
As for the traffic on the eastbound Barking Road, you can stick that in your pipe and smoke it, I hate traffic and I hate cities so next time we’re taking the express route in and out of the east end of London.
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With big fat harpoon guns I hope!
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I’m not joking, haven’t you noticed? Or am I the only one?
Everytime I order something from eBay, I open the parcel and get this same distinct aroma… seriously! Hence my question;
“why does everything on eBay smell the same?”
It’s this sort of pungent sweet musty smell, like everybody from whom I’ve brought anything on eBay smokes Turkish or Russian cigarettes and hordes away electronic gadgetry and EE Doc Smith & Sci Fi novels in dusty corners, the treasures finally squeezed into padded Jiffy bags with one last puff of foreign-flavoured nicotine to wish the items luck on their way to the leafy suburbs of green & pleasant Hampshire.
Go on, next time you order something used from eBay, get yourself a noseful and tell me I’m right.
Anyway, I’m going to be nosey now: what was the last thing you ordered off eBay…?
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I found this ad on a counter in the local supermarket; they have Online Driver Vacancies.
Cool. I’d like to be an Online Driver. Do you think it requires me to get a second life account and go pimp my ride?
I know it states “4 years full driving licence required” but that’s nothing – I’ve had mine for nearly 20 years AND I’m not only a demon driver but a dab hand at MSR, Project Gotham, Gran Tourismo, SEGA Rally et al.
I can do that, I can be an Online Driver.
Gizza Job.
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Excuse me for being crude but when I saw an event called TOSSFEST being publicised on the front page of the Joomla! CMS website I nearly spewed my tea on my keyboard. Does anybody else find it funny or am I just being juvenile?
So I’ll say it again…
TOSSFEST; that’s the Thai Open Source Software FESTival
And what a logo, I bet they splashed out a bit on that.
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