Thursday, July 27, 2006

A new post

I suspected this would happen...I posted every day for the first three days, and then nothing for two weeks.

To tell the truth, I would probably post more frequently if I had anything interesting to say. There's plenty I could talk about regarding what's going on in my life, but I can't imagine that if anyone in the big wide world happened to stumble across this blog, they would be even remotely interested. Maybe I should ignore the other people and think of this more as a personal diary. It might be interesting for me or the kids to look back at in years to come.

So, what's been happening since Friday 14th? I can't remember that weekend - it was way too long ago. Oh yeah, I think we had a barbecue at mum and dad's, to which Ursula's parents came too, which was nice. Last week we finished watching series 5 of 24: we had saved up the whole series on the Sky+ box so we could watch it over a shorter period of time. It works so much better that way than watching it over a period of 6 months. It was a great series and I'm really looking forward to the next one. But seriously disappointed now it's finished, as there is literally nothing else on TV at the moment (except Lost of course).

Friday we went to Tillingham for the "Tillingham Flower Show" which is more like a village fete, which happened on Saturday. It was quite nice actually, and Jacob really enjoyed himself. But let me state for the record here and now: I will never again drive to Tillingham on a Friday afternoon. It took me something like 3 and a half hours for what should be a 90 minute journey. If I ever think of doing it again, hopefully this blog will spring to mind and remind me not to be so stupid.

Monday was Grandpa's stone-setting, which was very sad. Immediately afterwards I had to leave for the airport to go to Germany for the Spring/Summer 07 sales meeting. Rather glad I missed Monday actually, as it was so unbelievably hot there, I may have melted. I got back late on Tuesday night.

It's now Thursday, and all I have to say today is that I am very disappointed in a certain old friend of mine who lives in the northern reaches of Scotland [name deleted out of respect]. I'd always thought he was a decent chap, but it turns out I was wrong. I don't expect I'll be talking to him again. I'm now left with a rather large problem on my hands, in that I have a season's stock to plan, and no stock control software with which to do. HELP!

Friday, July 14, 2006

I invented blogging!

Since setting up this blog, I've been getting a strange, familiar feeling. Then I remembered. I invented the blog! OK, that may be overstating the case slightly, but take a look at this link that I found on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

It's my first ever website, built in the early part of 1996, originally hosted on the minuscule amount of space we were given on Bristol University's servers. I decided to keep a virtual diary, with links backwards and forwards between pages. It's pretty primitive - but then there was no graphical web design software in those days. It was all hand-coded. It looks like I only managed to keep it going for a couple of weeks, but I was quite the pioneer, wasn't I?

I wonder if this blog will keep going for any longer.

Overexcitement?

Despite yesterday's excitement about Ursula setting up a blog, she hasn't actually published it yet. Who knows if she ever will?

Thursday, July 13, 2006

My funny wife

Less than 24 hours ago, my wife was accusing me of being sad for having set up a Blogger account yesterday. As I type this, she's next door setting up her own account: ursulas-blog.blogspot.com.

Technology woes

Today is one of those days when nothing technological seems to be working properly. It's frustrating and tiring. I give up...

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

My first Blogspot Blog

I've just signed up for a Blogspot account because I feel a bit left out not having one. I don't actually have anything to say though.