Month: November 2005

Ok … so what was I up to on Sunday morning to get my body complaining at me for lying on the kitchen floor in weird and wonderful positions …

Installing a washing machine !

First step – the oo eck, something’s not right here. Last washing machine decided to have multiple things go wrong at the same time. It shredded a door seal and was making the house power trip … And the last load I put through included a fleece that took 2 days to dry. So it was time to spend money.

Sunday morning – new toy appears and because of insurance, I have to disconnect the old one. First panic, where’s me grippers ! Is this another miscellaneous item that got removed from the house by my ex ? Perhaps. I had to borrow some off the delivery people. Problem number one …

I got me a leak. Next 30 minutes, maybe an hour, were spent with me on the kitchen floor with my finger in the end of the hot water pipe as the tap wouldn’t fully close. I got my washing machine fitted though, basic engineering skills really help out sometimes 🙂 It worked too and didn’t flood the house when I put a test wash through it. Bonus ! It’s a Whirlpool washer and after putting the test load in and seeing it disappear in the cavern of a drum, I started thinking that I should have got a washer/dryer.

And when I told one of the World of Warcraft people about it, I got an offer to go to her house and lie on her kitchen floor in weird and wonderful positions. Wonder what she meant …

Anyway, even the strangest comment can have a perfectly simple explanation behind it, especially when it’s me making the strange comment.

welcome to the blogosphere:-)

in front of the tv with a laptop on your lap is the right & proper place to blog. I would never have managed if I had to go and sit at the proper computer each day:-)

ps I’ve blogrolled you.

Welcome to the slippery slope SP

Currently putting Civilisation 4 on my laptop, Minibox. Which means I’m getting distracted into a little bit of housekeeping … You see, this laptop used to get used by my partner, who left 6 months ago. Ever since then, it’s been looking for a use. I’ve managed to use it to resurrect some games that don’t like my main pooter (Guilmon, to be renamed Godzilla), so it hasn’t been completely idle.

Anyway, this post is brought to you courtesy of a Sleepy person sitting in front of the telly with a laptop on his lap (where else!). Oh look ! Pakistani cricket cheating again*. Fella called Shahid Afridi taking advantage of a break in play to scuff up the pitch to help his bowling. Ah well, he just got banned for the next couple of games. Silly boy. Not as good as the fella in the Lincolnshire leagues who got himself banned for 2 whole seasons, with his club’s two teams relegated two whole divisions … each ! Their captain headbutted an umpire. It was the right kind of punishment to give out, trouble is that the relegation just meant that there were a couple of mega powered teams working their way up the leagues over the next few seasons having easy games. Including the game against us where I was fifth out, top scoring with 7. I made the mistake of panicking, thinking I should try and push the scoring on before I ran out of partners. Our team scored 19 all out … That game didn’t last long.

Poor old Minibox is still doing its housekeeping and I should really be going to bed now … Just one more turn on Civ 4, which isn’t even installed yet. Hope I get up in time to get a space in the car park tomorrow …

*Cheating cricketers. I was hoping Ian Bell would stay in the England team this time instead of Paul Collingwood, Bell is coming to terms with being an international quite well, whereas Collingwood hasn’t done nearly well enough with the bat. Trouble is, Ian Bell claimed a catch in this game that would have been ruled out with video refs … The scoreboard says that he did catch the ball … but doesn’t record that he dropped it after before picking it up off the ground. Ho hum. Things like that even out after time and I’m not convinced that the other side had a legal catch on one of their wickets.

PS I like cricket, I could natter for hours about it … Or at least the time needed for Minibox to do its housekeeping.

Maybe in tomorrow’s blog … I have very clean fingertips because of it though 🙂

Hi Sleepy 🙂

I won’t ask what you were doing lying on the kitchen floor.

You are now linked to the Palace..

cq

First entry from me 🙂 Who am I ? That can wait. Where did I come from ? That too. Why am I here ?

Blame Aginoth ! (I like Agi really, he bought me a good book for my birthday)

Things will be a little bare here until I figure out what to do with Blog pages, so I’ll keep it short by just saying where the Blog name comes from … My alter ego is an undead girlie called Iceangel, in the game World of Warcraft (WoW). I’m the guildmaster of a guild set up by people at work. I just happened to be the best powergamer when we started, spending the most time on there, getting to a position where we could set things up. So I ended up being the GM. Things are going well for the guild, we’re part of a unique gathering of small guilds that come together to do the end game content. Imagine the chaos that could ensue when 40 characters come together … That’s us ! But it’s not as chaotic as it could be because we have good leadership.

Anyway … hello world. Back for more later after I get more sleep.

PS OW. Still sore after lying on the kitchen floor in weird and wonderful positions yesterday morning. Back hurts.