We do what we have to do

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It’s interesting to be involved in supporting people; even though this is just a hobby for me. There are hundreds of firms around the world that supply computer services Orange County all the way to China. I’m not sure if I could ever run a firm like that, as I’m usually happy to help people out just to see their face light up when things work for them. Can’t feed the family on happy faces though … hence the day job!

It’s been an interesting week on the IT front, particularly as I had a lot of mates who seemed to have all sorts of computer problems. From Carol’s AVG who refused to start up, all the way to John’s mobile which refuses to show its contacts; and Steven’s mail which just refused to send email. Some I managed to help, others I didn’t but it’s just funny how you get those weeks where everything just seems to be going haywire.

Long weekend

It's nice to have a long weekend every now and again. Spend time with the family, grab your golf equipment and head off the the golf course, take the family to Butlins .. there are a million and one things you can be doing. Me, I'll be spending time with Arthur and Camille, we have lots of things to do around the house and who knows, maybe we'll get to spend some time outdoors, if the weather holds up.

The UK have a number of these Bank Holidays which are basically national holidays. Next Monday is Spring Bank Holiday; of which I have no idea what the origins are .. but hey it's a long weekend.

Something to wear

I'm a big fan of T-shirts, probably preferring to wear them to anything else I have in my wardrobe. It's partly because or the comfort factor, but predominantly because they allow you to express a degree of individuality; wear your preferences the outside, if you know what I mean. I particularly like this Mixed Martial Arts T-shirt shown here; it's cool isn't it?

I guess different people prefer wearing different things. I don't have the skirts vs trousers dilemma; but I do have the casual vs smart thing thrown at me every now and again. But for me it's T-shirts any time!

Arthur and K'Nex

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We had a whale of a time playing Arthur's K'Nex over the weekend. He's a bit young for it, but he's happy to join up things together and build random thing. I've taken the role of building things for him based on what he picks from the book and that's proving to be lots of fun too.

He seems to have a building streak going, so in the future he'll be fixing cars maybe and playing with Polaris RZR accessories. But in the meantime it's going to be just blocks and pieces. Anyway, if anyone has any spare K'Nex blocks they're not using ... you know where to drop them ;)

What do you like playing with?

Toys for the Boys

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I'm always keeping an eye open for toys I can buy for Arthur and today came across a wooden truck that's one of these John Deere toys. I've always liked wooden toys; I don't know if it's because I never had many when I was a kid; or just because the richness of their texture is so much more pleasing than a plastic toy. Anyway, this was a wooden truck, not quite like the John Deere tractors that the toys are named after.

Anyway, I think Arthur might have started outgrowing things like wooden trucks. Last weekend was spent playing with K'Nex and he enjoyed those tremendously!

A touch of Freud

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Sigmund Freud had many interesting things to say about people’s attitudes to laundry. Here is a quick test to see how you relate to it:

When watching your clothes going round in the tumble drier, what do you look out for?
A Jeans
B Shirts
C A Lab Coat
D Sex

What frightens you most about going into the launderette?
A Losing one sock of your favorite pair
B Putting whites and colors together so the colors mix
C Spiders
D Sex

What do you use to wash your clothes?
A Bold
B Persil
C Ariel
D Bio-Sex

When waiting for the washing machine to finish, what do you do?
A Walk away and do something else
B Stand and look at it
C Sit and look at it
D Lie down and do something else

You see a coffee stain on one of your shirts. What does it remind you of?
A Someone you know
B Coffee
C A butterfly
D Sex

If you answered D to most of these questions, then I would be most interested to meet you and discuss it at greater length.

Rings

So, how are you with rings? I don't know if it's a guy thing, but I'm not really very comfortable wearing them. So I keep my wedding ring on whenever I can, but I can't really see myself wearing lots of other mens jewelry. I guess I'm not unique in this, but some guys just like wearing lots of gold and silver on themselves.

Now watches, I can wear all sorts of different types of watches. The one I have at the moment has a USB connection and a 4Gb USd drive. How cool is that?