Monday, January 22, 2007
The Excitement of Live Blogging!
Today we are having all the crappy old doors in our house taken away, and nice new doors installed. Huzzah! I have no doubt this will lift the family's spirits no end.
I had planned to live blog the whole thing, but after the initial excitement of all the old doors being removed not much is happening. Some sawing, hammering, breaking glass etc, but that's about it.
UPDATE! Some doors have gone up. There was a minor crisis when one of the doors was thought to have been the wrong size, but it was a false alarm. THANK GOD.
UPDATE!! Granted, live blogging is supposed to be "live" for maximum effect, but my connection was playing up last night so this will have to do.
*Ahem*
Well, the doors are up and many, if not all, have smart new handles to facilitate their opening and closing. I tested one door by pretending to slam it repeatedly against the tradesman's head, shouting "you miserable cur, you expect to be paid for this shoddy workmanship" but then he saw me and I had to pretend I was shouting at the cat. Anyway, I gave him his money and he finally went away, leaving us alone with our new doors. At the time of writing, I have used several.
I had planned to live blog the whole thing, but after the initial excitement of all the old doors being removed not much is happening. Some sawing, hammering, breaking glass etc, but that's about it.
UPDATE! Some doors have gone up. There was a minor crisis when one of the doors was thought to have been the wrong size, but it was a false alarm. THANK GOD.
UPDATE!! Granted, live blogging is supposed to be "live" for maximum effect, but my connection was playing up last night so this will have to do.
*Ahem*
Well, the doors are up and many, if not all, have smart new handles to facilitate their opening and closing. I tested one door by pretending to slam it repeatedly against the tradesman's head, shouting "you miserable cur, you expect to be paid for this shoddy workmanship" but then he saw me and I had to pretend I was shouting at the cat. Anyway, I gave him his money and he finally went away, leaving us alone with our new doors. At the time of writing, I have used several.
Labels: scooters
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Touching Base
Hello, Beggars' Choice reader/s! I trust you had a good Christmas and an absolutely spiffing New Year. Since I'm a bit rusty blogging-wise, I'm going to loosen up with a few typos:
this is a tpyo
and really dull anecdote:
So this guy spent half an hour finding a box small enough to fit my bottle of methanol, and then when we walked all the way over to the stores, we found that the box was too small. What an idoit!
(Another typo for good measure. One doesn't want to rush into these things.)
And some lists:
1. Best song of the year: 'System Overload', The Datsuns.
2. Best album: Beck, 'The Information'. But mainly for the packaging.
There, that'll do. Have a great, great, GREAT 2007. Bye now!
this is a tpyo
and really dull anecdote:
So this guy spent half an hour finding a box small enough to fit my bottle of methanol, and then when we walked all the way over to the stores, we found that the box was too small. What an idoit!
(Another typo for good measure. One doesn't want to rush into these things.)
And some lists:
1. Best song of the year: 'System Overload', The Datsuns.
2. Best album: Beck, 'The Information'. But mainly for the packaging.
There, that'll do. Have a great, great, GREAT 2007. Bye now!
