Monthly Archives: January 2009

I find myself sat on the sofa with the dogs out in the garden, I know for a fact they are going to fetch lots of dirt in the house and it will force me to get the hoover out again, that will be the third time today. At the moment I am off work resting my legs due to my recent “shin splints” injury and spending most of the days on the internet looking for new articles and things to do.

What have I done today?

• Got out of bed to a phone call from work at 7:28
• Made a cup of coffee
• Went to Tesco for dog food
• Walked the dogs (Just following orders from Dr to get a bit of exercise)
• Made the dogs breakfast
• Fed myself (4 slices of toast)
• Messed around on the G1 while having some pointless TV show on the box
• Made another coffee
• Scrolled through Virgin Media’s Music On Demand Service all afternoon while sitting with my feet up
• Wondering what I am going to have for tea

That is all I have done all day – I hate having to rest and not been able to get up and walk about where / when / how far I want! No doubt tomorrow will be the same again, although I am going to try and do something different, I dont know maybe I wont go on the internet until lunch time?

Visit from Noel

I also had a visit from an old guy called Noel who comes around trying to spread the word of god and tries to get me to go to evening session and read the bible. I am not one to believe in God nor do I believe in an after life but I always listen to what he has to say, I did learn something from him today, most people probably know this already but did you know the Bible is written in over 2000 different languages? I didn’t and was quite shocked when he told me. You may be wondering whydo I listen to him if I dont believe? Well I aint one for turning people away and feel a little sorry for the guy – I reckon he gets the usual “Not Interested” “Not got time” “No thank you“  and all of the other excuses. I mean after all he is only trying to spread the word of what he believes in, its kind of the same as blogging in a way – Letting people know what you are doing, things you have done, things you believe etc. I have to say my face dropped when I noticed it was him, he hasnt been for 3/4 months and when I answered the door today he remembered the following things:

• My Name
• I was married
• Asked if I had chance to read the 3 books he left me

I cant even remember what I did 3 months ago never mind all the peoples names and things about them that I dont see that much!

Music Videos

I found myself flicking through the music videos today and listening to things I would never have chosen or would probably have never listened to. Not sure why I listened to them today, im usually open about music and can listen to most things from dance, indie, rock and pop even abit of classical thrown in there but usually I have my limits on which artists/songs I can listen to.  Today I found myself listening to:

• Emma Bunton
• Eminem
• Will Young
• Elton John
• Girls Allowed

Now you probably think there is nothing up with them artists listed above and you would be right, but when I have the choice over lets say The Killers, Keane, Athelete, Embrace, Take That and some of my other favourites, I have no idea why I didnt listen to my favourites and chose the ones above?? Beats me but I actually enjoyed listening to them. More weirdly I think I listened to all the Will Young ones that was avaliable. Not too sure what is going on in my head today – maybe its the fact I have been stuck in the house all week.

Internet Searches

I have done quite a few internet searches today, probably more than usual here are some of my searches I have done today:

• cheap domain names
• 123-reg voucher codes
• godaddy voucher codes
• open source php applications
• become a better blogger
• ideas for blogging
• G1 applications
• how to become root on G1

Those are just a few of the searches I have done today – seems like some pretty standard searches but I find myself wondering what if….

What if I wasnt looking to buy www.rhodzy.com today? That would have eliminated 3 of my searches:

1. cheap domain names
2. 123-reg voucher codes
3. godaddy voucher codes

What if I wasnt a blogger? That would have eliminated two of my searches

1. become a better blogger
2. ideas for bloggin

and finally What if i didnt have a G1? This would have eliminated my last two searches

1. G1 applications
2. how to become root on G1

I ask my self what would I have searched for if I hadn’t searched for the above? To be honest I have no idea as if it wasn’t for IT, Technology and all other geeky things I cannot imagine what or where I would be to date?

All of these questions….and I dont know the answers!

web server winter clean

I found myself cleaning up my web server today deleting all the old themes I have been playing around with, plugins that I have tried and disabled, deleting all unused files, unused projects that I have started and got fed up with,  Gallery installations that I havent used for years, FTP accounts that are no longer used and basically just have a spring clean on the server, I think I removed over 2GB of un used files that were just taking up space.

worrying about work

Since I have been off work I have been worrying about my job queue building up, all the work I will be going back to – being the only IT Engineer covering Huddersfield, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and other locations, not including all the 16 home users scattered across the Country ranging from Scotland, Ireland all the way to Rotherham passing through Liverpool, Newcastle and so on I find myself checking my work emails just to keep on top of things…SAD? Yup I would say it is, but makes my life a little easier when I get back to work.

random thoughts

I have had some petty random thoughts today I probably have them most days but never really pay any attention to them but today I am going to write them down so in a few years time I can look back at this post and just wonder how much my life has changed since this post and if I acted on any of the things I have written down.

1. What’s wrong with Archie hope he’s ok with not eating right
2. What am I going to have for tea
3. Will I ever blog about anything that is useful for anyone to read
4. Will I ever stop wanting every new thing that comes out?
5. Will I ever be happy for the things I have? or will I always treat it like rubbish and not look after it
6. What’s happening at work?
7. What time will Erica be home?
8. Will the Route 66 trip happen next year or will there always be something that goes wrong that needs higher priority
9. Will I be a good dad?
10. Are the dogs happy?
11. Why do I keep listening to Will Young – Evergreen?

All the above questions are just some of the thoughts I have had over the past 11 hours, not too sure why I even thought some of them but like people say “everything happens for a reason”

I will look back at this post in two years time and maybe…just maybe I will have the answers I am looking for.

im impressed

If you have come down this far I am really impressed that I haven’t bored you shitless by now! Nice to know you are reading the whole article! Leave a comment if you get this far down!

summary

The reason for writing this post is for my own reference about my life, questions, what I have done today and hopefully when I look back in a few years time I will have the answers to some of my questions in this post, some of the things mentioned have been puzzling me today and just wish I knew the answers to them right now.