Construct A Shelter? Out Of What?

I participate every now and again doing on-line surveys on a site called valued opinions. It's quite a nice thing to do actually, since you get rewarded for doing the surveys you participate in. Once you've built up a cache of £10 you can exchange for several different varieties of voucher, of which I chose an Amazon one. With this voucher I purchased what they call a "clip wallet" and the film "Falling Down" on DVD.

This is a picture of the clip wallet, I love it. At the moment I have a nectar card, two visa debit cards and some neatly folded up notes of sterling currency. I am finding the little wallet is bringing great joy into my life because it is a little stunner.

Last weekend I went to Lingfield. I won on one horse "Capricorn Run", £10 to win gave me a return of £65. The only reason I bet on it was because I am a Capricorn and I like the film "Capricorn One". This was my seldom win, but I didn't mind because by the end of the day I was thoroughly drunk. This was aided in part by the ten cans of Stella I took on the train with me, of which Ben & I had 5 each. On the train going there we couldn't manage the whole 10 cans so I sneakily hid the four remaining cans in a tree just outside the entrance to the racecourse. These were then retrieved for the journey home; a cunning and effective plan. On the way back we popped in on my brother and had some more beverages before heading off into Croydon town centre, where we did attempt to frequent a few places but were turned away due to the fact they were closed. At the train station we met a very odd person wearing bright green deck shoes, who was delighted when I asked him why he wasn't wearing socks. He was a strange one.

Now, before going to Lingfield I had a quick visit to Reigate to get some money out and go to Morrisons to get some beer. Money was withdrawn with no problem, but Morrisons was a whole different ball game. On my way round Morry I thought that I'd do a bit of grazing and got myself a Belgium chocolate milk drink and downed the blighter, depositing the empty container behind a display of pillows before going to check out the beer. As I was looking at the beer an employee of Morry approached me and said "do you mind paying for this at the till" whilst simultaneously displaying the Belgium choco drink container to me in cupped hands. I looked up and he quickly said "oh sorry, wrong person" and walked off. This scarred the shit out of me and I picked up the nearest box of beer and scurried off to the checkout. I was actually shaking a bit and was very worried the man was going to realize his mistake and come to get me. Luckily I made it out but I was thoroughly shaken; I have no idea why I didn't get rumbled but I've emerged unscathed so I'm counting my blessings.

Yesterday was a quite dreadful day, and the reason for this is two fold. Firstly I have to raise 146 separate credits for an account where we have duplicated 225 invoices. To make this task even more arduous I have to print off all invoices concerned, a job that will test my patience for sure. Secondly we were told yesterday that we were no longer allowed to have our headphones on during work, so I no longer have the ability to listen to films, podcasts or music whilst working. This has upset me greatly, words can not describe the hate I feel for the people who have imposed this ban right now. Apparently due to "standards" having to be met across the board within the department we're not allowed headphones anymore. In other words some bleating little cuss has probably been complaining that we can have headphones and they can't; I'd like to get my hands on those responsible. They are vicious bastards who have now ruined my days at work from now on.

One positive I have drawn from this is that I will need to find some other time in which to listen to my podcasts. So, yesterday I went out for a little run around Earlswood whilst I listened to some of Tommy Boyd's Global News Show from Tuesday night. Here is the route I took, I ran anticlockwise starting at the green circle:

Also I'm finding that now I have no entertainment coming to me through headphones I'm having to find alternate ways to entertain myself. I was trying to write a presentation about solutions earlier and just got bored and irritated thinking about the headphones thing and ended up writing this slide:

So anyway, last night I went to Cafe Rouge with Tash as they are doing a buy one get one free deal on main courses. I asked the waitress if I could have the steak but that I didn't want the watercress with it. When mine arrived it had the steak, oh sure, but next to it was a huge pile of salad with more pieces of segmented tomato than I care to mention. I thought, “okay this is annoying” and asked where the chips were. About 5 minutes later the chips arrived in a separate basket. Then when the bill came they'd charged for the steak and a side serving of chips- even though the steak is supposed to come with chips. Bloody cheek, so we asked her what she was trying to pull and she tried to claim I'd asked for more salad and no chips! Stupid woman had to go and redo the bill; she did not get a tip. Disgraceful attitude!

Finally I give you the following about how to survive should you get stranded on an Iceberg. Some really good tips here, I for one always take my spear with me wherever I go: