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The only good thing about going to London is watching Dexter on the train

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So I woke up, without a hangover. Frightened the dog by first taking her out for a walk at 11AM, followed by making my lunch. She knew something was up and quite right I buggered off for the bus at around 11:30. Bus arrived, was driven by someone who wasn’t Polish and delivered to Parkway, where the train departed on time. Managed two episodes of Dexter (It is getting really good now). Met up with a couple of work chaps getting off the train, walked to office. Then proceeded to sit there for the next three hours and not really do much. We did do a few play through’s of the mobile game though, so that was worth doing. A few tweaks here and there and it will be sorted. Got back to Paddington, bought an overpriced ticket that entitled me to stand on a train (inside the train) for half an hour, before being able to get a flip down seat in the vestibule. Still wasn’t too bad, managed another episode. And that’s really about it for the day. Trying to rip a Blu-ray to mobile, but that keeps falling over. Managed to get CUPS print server to broadcast my other printer and and set all that up. I think it’s shower time followed by salad and then it’s good old torture porn night. Tomorrow will no doubt be a busier day, need to take the dog to the kennel.

No matter how much you swear at the ticket barrier, it’s never going to open with a Toy’s R’us loyalty card

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So today I was rudely awaken by Tesco home insurance, they did the usual thing of send me a renewal which was over a hundred quid higher than the exact same insurance online. Why they do this every year is always a bit of a puzzle.

Then the man from Vauxhall turned up. Said, ‘Your car’s in for some minor body work’, then looked at the front of my car and said nothing further…My car has now been replace by some ugly white Agila on the driveway.

Took the dog out for an early walk, this confused her somewhat, but confused me more. Far too early for that sort of thing.

I then caught a bus (with common people) and went to the station, where I waited an hour and a half for a broken down train in the Severn Tunnel. Journey to London was fairly painless, caught up on a couple of episodes of Dexter. I then did battle with the underground barrier…the Oyster card and the Toys R’Us card are the same colour. And bloody tourists, I know the Olympics are on, but please don’t just stop dead in the middle of the pavement.

I then spent the day in the office, trying to discuss aliasing, but no one was really interested. It’s a subject that I now 100% refuse to talk about ever again. Our musician man was there though, so we discussed wine and some audio stuff. I did hunt around for a Vigor 120 ADSL modem, didn’t find one there, but after some useful negotiation one is on it’s way.

And then it was back home again. Had to wait an hour for a packed train, but did managed to get a seat. Got a taxi home and drank wine. To be honest a fairly pointless day and I’m knackered.