Ahhhhhhhaaaaaaa I have just finished work and am feeling very happy that it is the weekend. Mandy, James and I are going away for the weekend so I will not be near a computer for the weekend so no Blogging for me. So if you feel the need to read some good Bolgs then pop over to Blogger and see what there is. I hope to be back on Sunday evening so I will update my life from then.

dancingdad.com A site dedicated to the phenomenon of men losing all ability to dance the moment they become a father. I can't comment on this one as a father who has been seen to do a turn or two after a night out with the lads.

I hate tennis. All that I seem to find on the TV is tennis Mandy loves it so I have to put up with it for the next two weeks. O well at least I can get some good sleeping time when it is on. I only hope that there is some rain so that they will have to stop play and we might get to see a good film on TV instead. Had another visit from a friend tonight except this one live local and we didn’t go out for a drink had a chat and a cup of tea and then left Mandy to the tennis and finally got some work done on the computer cleaned it up a bit and downloaded a few up dates. And just thought I would just look at a few web sites and talk to my brother at the same time. Looking forward to going away this weekend and counting down to my holiday. I have just been reading grayblog and found this A Frightened Boy, presented by Joel Veitch very strange indeed can’t see how or why some one would make it.

Today has been a funny day .The beast thing that happened was that when I came home I found a note from Mandy to say that some friends had called to see us. They were on their way back from a holiday and had called in on the off chance to see us and ended taking Mandy and James out for a meal and to meet them there. I found them sitting in our local pub called the Muddle Go Nowhere looking very happy and full from what looked like a lovely meal. They came back to our place for a cup of tea and chat it after, it was good to see them and I think Mandy has got a lot out of it. After they had gone I fell asleep because Mandy was watching tennis at Wimbledon and I can’t get my head around that game at all had a late dinner and thought about the fact that I will be going on holiday soon so Mandy and I talked about that after James went to bed, I can’t wait to get back to cliff for a week.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.


~ Robert Anthony ~

(American educator)

The alarm clock did go off again either today I found out that James was last seen playing with it so I am feeling very tired and in need of sleep, so I wont write much. Had a good day today sat out in the garden this evening and had dinner watched TV and spent some QT time with Mandy that is about it. Still feeling very hot and stuffy as the weather is summery but I here that there is storms to come soon I think that we need them.

I got up late this morning I was lucky I suppose as I woke up at 05:00, so I still had time to get to work on time. I can say one thing about it I felt very awake this morning. Came home from work and started to do some DIY around the house today was a electrical day I put up a new light fitment on the lading as the old one got broke and I finely got around to putting up a new flood light in the back garden, the old one didn’t work it never did and now I know why I found that the electrician that put up the old light had wired it up wrong so it would never work at all. I am glad that I have a good neighbour that knows about such things, as I had to call him in to help me with it. It took two hours to get the new light fitted because we almost had to rewire all the one side of the house. The best bit was when I put the bulbs in one did not work so I had to go back to the shop where I got it from and get a new bulb just my luck really. So I now have a new light in the garden so when Mandy goes out at night to put things in the bin she can see what she is doing. On another note the day has been hot and sunny here in Grantham so hot that we have had the fans on all day and night just to stop us from melting away. I like it warm but not to hot like today. Also Mandy says that she has read this Blog at last and thinks that my spelling could do looking at all that I can say to that is so what this Blog is form me and I write land spell as I want to. I think that if any one reads this then they will get to know me better if I am my self. That is about it for today I think that it is bed for me.

Just thought I would talk about the praise service we did at Church this evening it went very well I was surprised at how well it went for the first time. I could say that there were things that I thought we could do better but then we all could say that, as it is part of the learning curve and when we do one again it will be better. You hear me say when we do another yes I think that we will I hope that the people who were there thins time will find more friends to bring next time and we will see from there. The only thing that I really thing would help next time is that we need more people to help clear up after it is all over Ian and I were there till about 21:00 and we both felt very tires seeing that we were at church setting up from 15:00 six hours on the go is a long time. That is about it really except that I had a good time with god as well, it felt a little like I was back as a student at cliff again.

...grayblog wrote this Saturday, June 23, 2001
For all those people who have come here searching for pictures of the killers of James Bulger, you will not find them here.
Opinion: anyone who thinks of trying to track down these boys and commit some sort of revenge act against them is as low as any other perpetrator of violence. What would such an act achieve? Nothing. Nothing at all. It would serve only to compound the tragedy of this story by robbing two more families of their sons. Two wrongs never make a right.
>Graybo typed this at 9:12 PM

Here, here Graybo I totally agree with you on this one.

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I have been so busy over the last 24 hours it has been unbelievable. I have been preparing for a praise party at church for tonight and that seems to have taken all my time I hope that it goes ok. I think that it will be ok, we are trying out new things in our church just to see if they work or not. I think that we are being a bit radical to say the least what with lights and loud music it should be fun I only hope that there isn’t some opposition to it. James got us up at 05:50 this morning and I went to bed at 03:00 I am very tired but not as tired as Mandy who is just grate when it come to getting up to look after him and letting me get some sleep. We went to church this morning and the preacher was a preacher that I find very boring so I didn’t get much out of it today but I suppose that I shouldn’t say that really because we don’t got to church to get something out of it that is only a bonus we go to church to worship God and it is him who should be getting something out of it not us.

I Got up very late this morning Mandy let me lie in I am glad I needed the sleep. James seems to be in a drawing mood today he keeps getting his chalk out and drawing on his black board it is nice to see him playing on his own, it is like he goes into his won little world. The best thing though is when he lets you join it and get you to play. I have just had to leave the computer because Mandy was shouting at me she had cut her are on a knife and was bleeding but she is ok now. I had better go and see if she need any more help.

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.


~ Pubilius Syrus ~

(1st Century BC, Roman Writer)

I have to say that I really am mad about not getting to my computer to Blog as much this week. I feel like there is a part of me that is missing. I didn't realize how much I would get into blogging and when something like work takes over I feel even madder. What can I say about my life this week then? Well all I can say is Work, Work and more Work.. I feel like I have spent all of my time there this week, my boss keeps asking me if I can work and I keep saying yes and I don't know why after all it is not compulsory to work overtime. Sometimes I think that management think that you live to work not work to live if you know what I mean. Ok so I will have a good wage this week but is that all there is to life? I don't think so! I like to spend time with my family and talk to my wife some times. Phone friends and talk about nothing and then spend time with people that I like, not to be shut up in a factory for 8 to 12 hours a day. Any way I think that I have got that out of my system now on with the rest of my life. What else had happen to me then? Well it was my turn to get up and look after James yesterday and guess what he decided to get up at 05:50 and I was not happy but I got up and let him play while I fell asleep on the settee. He was good because he let me sleep and he just sat and watched TV till his mom got up. I also found some more DIY to do on the house, which I am not looking forward to at all, but it need to be done ASAP. That is about is so far as all the rest of the time that I have had I have been at work which I have talked about. I AM NOT WORKING OVERTIME THE REST OF THE WEEK.

I haven’t had much time to my self to day so I haven’t had time to Blog at all. I feel very tired and need some sleep I have been doing to many hours at work this week I just need to stop. I won’t stay up much longer tonight.

I have just looked at my hit counter. It looks like joining some of the web rings seems to have paid off. If you are reading this then you are one of the 87 hits that I have had since I joined. Lucky you and welcome to My Life.

What did I say yesterday about things going wrong then? I went to work and things started ok then at about 19:30 things just seemed to go horribly wrong the machines just seemed to not want to work and we had a mounting of product coming down the line and no where for it to go ad you can imagine we were a bit stressed at thins point. We finally got things working at around 21:40 and I was asked it I would work a couple of hours overtime I said yes and ended up working till 02:00 this morning. I now feel very sleepy and I have a feeling that I will be working tonight as well, Ok so I will get more money this week but some times I would like to see my family for more that I few hours a day. On a home the note the plumbing that I did yesterday seems to be holding up we haven’t been flooded yet and I have just been told by Mandy that she has got me the bike that I said I would like for my birthday.

God does not play dice with the universe.
- Albert Einstein

I have just spent 2 hours trying to find some tools for my new job and can I find the ones that I want no I have looked in almost every DIY shop on Grantham and I can’t find the ones that I want never mind I am shore that I will find some soon. But the enjoying thing that I have done to day is spent the last 15 min groping around in my attic trying to mean a washer in the water tank because when I cane home from shopping I found that my overflow pipe was running so I had a look and found that the tap thing needed a new washer in it I hate DIY so as you can guess I had fun up in the attic today. I had better go to work now, what more can happen today I ask.

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I have just been to Yorkshire for the week end it was totally not planed at all we just decided to jumped in the car on Saturday and go to see Mandy’s Mom and Dad. That is why I haven’t Blogged for the last day or so. It was good fun just to go and leave everything behind. We got there on Saturday evening and we completely surprised Rose and Adrian by just phoning them before we left. James loved it when he got there he ran into their house shouted hello Nanny and Granddad at the top of his voice. He loves his grandparents lots he likes to help his granddad in the garden and helping his nanny in her kitchen and it is good for us too just have someone else looking after James for a while, like this morning James got up at 06:10 this morning and we didn’t have to get up his nanny and granddad got up instead and left us to sleep. The other good thing that happed to day is that it is father’s day today so I got breakfast in bed and that was nice to just get up and chill. We had a good time and I think that we will be going back in a week or so for longer this time. I also had to be back home to run our Church Youth Fellowship, I think that we had a good time we talked a money and what we do with it and what God thinks of it and also about the gifts that God gives us. I am glad that I run the Youth Fellowship because they are a good group and I think that I get a lot from them as well More, I think, than they realize. God bless’ me though them and I hope that he uses me to bless them to. I pray that they will all come to know him in there life’s after all that is all that it is about.

It is raining here in Grantham but it feels quit warm. I like it when it rains in the summer it sort of cools things down a bit. The best thing is when you walk outside after it has been raining and you can smell the rain and the grass. The place feels lovely after a good rainstorm I suppose the scientists would call it ionisation I would just call it God at work. After all where would we be without God sending us rain and water? There we are water the only fluid know to man that will not freeze from the bottom up it freezes from the top down why you ask well if water didn’t freezes from the top down then we would not be here now because in the winter we would not be able to get to fresh water because we would have been unable to brake the ice and also animals couldn’t do the same think about that. God must have made it that way there is know way that the world was made by accident because if it was the all fluid would act the same and water is such a key to life we are I think made up of 80% water now answer me that one.

It is Friday and that means that it is the start of the weekend exempt I will be working tomorrow bar humbug I wish that I didn’t have to now. Still the money can always come in. I upset James today I got home from work and found a chocolate bar in the kitchen so I ate it with a cup of tea I later found out that it was James’ and that he was saving it for his pudding after his tea. So Mandy say after he had eaten all his tea he could go and get it from the kitchen but all he found was the rapper. He was so upset he just sat and sobbed in the corner for what seemed like ages I finally owned up and told he that it was me and said sorry he excepted it at a price I had to go out and get him a new bar so he could still have one. I felt so bad that I did right way and got him a big pack one for each day this week. He was so happy. I went to the Hospital Radio to do my show today as well had a good time there just good to talk and listen to music. I find that at times it can be a good place to just chill. Big Brother that no lip man Stuart is out today I am very glad so glad that I think that I will watch the repeat on E4 later. By the way I still can’t get my tongue round that last post.

Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.

Try saying this a few time I can't get my tongue aroung it, if you can then let me know.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.


~ Jawaharlal Nehru ~

(1889-1964, Indian Nationalist, Statesman)

Today has been a good day things seem to be going well at work and I am getting the hang of my new job. Funny really I think that I have fitted in well with the rest of my new department. I still can’t get used to working early they always seem to get the better of me I just feel so tired when I come home and I just fall asleep which is not far on Mandy and James at all because all the see of me asleep. Mandy and James went out to one of James’ friends birthday party to day and as soon as they walked out the door I fell asleep the next thing that I knew was the door bell ringing as James was trying to get in the house. The other down site to sleeping in the after noon is that I can’t get to sleep til late at night and when I do get to sleep I feel that I haven’t had enough sleep at night and feel sleepy all day, I just keep going round and round. I have also found out that I am working on Saturday so I will have to be at work for 06.00 so that means that I will be feeling sleepy all day Saturday as well. No rest for the wicked so they say. On the Big Brother front I think that the people in the house have wised up to that Stuart guy and I think that he will be the one making the big walk tomorrow, no doubt I will keep you posted about that.

I have just watched a TV program on channel for about rich teenagers and how they live and cope with their money. All I can say is they should all be sent out to work and get a taste of real life instead of living of their parents. I wish that I could go out and spend £50 in a day and then go and ask for more. I am lucky if I get £10 pound a week to spend on myself and then I seem to spend it on food and things for the house. At least they all seemed to say that money dose not give you happiness. I think that they are all heading in to problems if they think that mommy and daddy will help the all their lives. I think that I sound a little jealous.

I have spent the night talking on the phone with friends something that I try and do whenever I get some free time. Most of my friends live away from Grantham so the phone is the best way to keep in touch. Good to talk to Gareth today he and his wife Kelly are suffering with colds so I didn’t talk long with tem.I hope that they get well soon.

This Is My son James' new school photo. I thought that I would start to add pictures to my Blog. And seeing that I have just got a very good photo of my son I thought that I would put it here.

Got home from my other meeting in time to watch Big Brother today I see that Stuart is one of the nominees to be voted out good or what!!! I hope that he is the one that gets kicked out on Friday. I most people who know me would tell you I don’t like him at all. The meeting was a good one for once we had it in a pub so if it got boring then all I had to do was just sit and drink my pint, and I did a lot of that. That is about all that has happened today apart from going to work and I think that I talk too much about that as it is. It was also good to spend time with friends tonight after the meeting we just talked and drank shame that Mandy couldn’t come with me we should of tried to get a baby sitter but she said that she was ok and was happy to stay at home; she knows what some meeting can be like. Of to bed now early start again in the morning.

Just got in from a meeting and I am feeling very tired and I have to been up at 04:30 in the morning so I won’t say much.
Some times I wish that I didn’t have to go to meetings they can be really boring like the one that I have been to today. They just seemed to go on for ages and ages we started at seven and I have just got home and it was held less than five min drive from home. All we did was talk about the same things that we talked about last time and they weren’t much. I would at least like to feel like we are getting something done at least. I hope that the meeting tomorrow is better and more productive.
Work was ok today I think that I will get the hang of my new job.
Mandy and James are in bed asleep so I might look in on James and give him a good night kiss before I go to bed. I think that one of the best bits about being a dad is when you look at you child asleep and he looks so lovely and peaceful you just can’t help feel a sense of being proud and just glad that you are a farther. I wish that I could spend more time with James. Any way I am feeling very sleepy and tired so of to bed for me.

We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough.


~ Helen Keller ~

Interesting day today it has been non-stop since I got up this morning and I got up late as well. Went to church and had a good time there I am glad that we have a nice church to go to where every one is nice and glad to see you, it is like walking in to a home. I also had a meeting at 14.30 with Emma my co leader of my youth group we had to finish are final session for the stathern weekend, that lasted about 2 hours. Then Mandy went out to preach at Finking Street Church and James and I had some good QT time and watched a film together. When Mandy came home we also had some QT time together after James went to bed, we played Uno for a few hours and had a great time just talking and having fun. I must admit that we don’t often get time to do that much if it isn’t me going out then it is Mandy. It was just good to have fun together with out James. I think that we must try and make time like that more often. That is about all that has happened to day I must get to bed to sleep as I am on an early shift this week and have to get up at 04:30 in the morning. The week also seems set to be a very busy week for me as I look at my calendar I have at least 3 meeting this week.

I am finally back from Blackpool after a 4 hour journey this time James slept most of the way. We stopped of at a service station for something to eat and was stung on a meal for the three of us all that we had was a Burger King meal each mine cast £4.99 Mandy’s cost £4.99 and James was a Children’s meal and that cost £4.00 I couldn’t believe it. Now wander they are not a popular as MacDonald’s. Feeling very tired and just need to sleep. I might read some Star Trek stuff that I have just got thanks to my one and only brother Dave then go to bed. Thanks bro and I will come and see you again soon.

Just thought that I would post form Blackpool I am sitting in my brothers flat after spending 3 hours in the car travelling in the rain to get here, the sun came out as soon as we entered Blackpool and it hasn't gone in since. We have had a traditional walk on the sea front and a obligatory ride on a tram just got to get the Kiss Me Quick Hat and the day is compete. James seems to be enjoying himself and Mandy says that she is sleepy. Good to see Dave and Tony again but I still think that I wouldn't like to live in Blackpool.

So Penny is out off Big Brother. Sad really we seem to be set to have another summer of Big Brother, I was hoping that it would lose some of its popularity after the last one but it seems set on it being just as big as last summer every one at work is talking about it and Mandy seems to like to watch it when there is nothing else on TV are we just a nation on voyeurs then or are we just sad I even have found my self watching it. I am shore that there is some form of subliminal messages transmitted to are TV sets saying you must watch Big Brother. I for one think that Penny should of stayed in and Helen out and Stuart is the next nasty Nick.

At Last the darn election is over and all counting is over. We still have got a Labour government and the conservatives are all bowing their heads in shame and dismay. All that has to happen now is for the media to get the election out of their system and then let the rest of us get back to normal. Here in Grantham we still have our conservative so nothing has changed here. I am Still enjoying life and looking forward to going to Blackpool to see my brother tomorrow. I don’t like Blackpool I find it to be a smelly and commercial place to go and the sea is very dirty there if it wasn’t for my brother living there I would got there if you paid me still I like seeing my brother.

I Reminded Mandy yesterday about this Blog she said that he had forgot about it and said that see would read it. The one thing that I forgot to say to her was that I have always felt that I would not tell any friends about this Blog because I feel that if they found it then ok but if I tell them then I would know that they know and feel a little embarrassed about it, so Mandy God bless her tells our good friend John about this Blog I am not bothered about it at all, and I should of explained about how I felt to Mandy, but I just thought that I would have a bit more time to myself if you know what I mean. So John if you are reading this then WELCOME and This Is My Life, and hope that you find my thoughts and ramblings ok and if you find some things funny or may be the whole thing a bit serial then that is ok and I don’t mind but I hope that you feel welcome to my mind anyway. The best thing about friends is that really good ones are hard to find and I have been blessed with more than most and that I have a lovely and caring wife and son. Thank God for friends and most of all my family.

Got up this morning before Mandy and James and it was nice to be first up for a change. We didn’t go down stairs till about ten this morning James played Bob The Builder on the computer because he wanted to so we let him. He is getting very good on the computer he can almost use the mouse like an adult not that some adults can use one any way.Went to work and did some over time today the frist in a long time.

Just found this and I would like to note that I do not agree with any of these but they have made me smile.

THIS IS FOR MEN TIRED OF RECEIVING
MALE BASHING JOKES

1.How many men does it take to open a beer? None. It should be opened by the time she brings it.
2..Why do women have smaller feet than men? It's one of those "evolutionary things" that allows them to stand closer to the kitchen sink.
3.How do you know when a woman is about to say something smart? When she starts her sentence with "A man once told me . ."
4.If your dog is barking at the back door and your wife is yelling at the front door, who do you let in first? The dog of course. He'll shut up once you let him in.
5.All wives are alike. They just have different faces so you can tell them apart.
6.I haven't spoken to my wife for 18 months: I don't like to interrupt her.
7.What do you call a woman who has lost 95% of her intelligence? Divorced.
8.Bigamy is having one wife too many. Many say monogamy is the same.
9.Scientists have discovered a food that diminishes a woman's sex drive by 90%. It is called Wedding Cake.
10.Marriage is a 3 ring circus: Engagement Ring, Wedding Ring, Suffering.
11.Our last fight was my fault: My wife asked me "What's on the TV?" I said,"Dust!"
12.In the beginning, God created the earth and rested. Then God created Man and rested. Then God created Woman. Since then, neither God nor Man has rested.
13.Do you know the punishment for bigamy? Two Mothers-in-law.
14. Young Son: "Is it true, Dad, I heard that in some parts of Africa a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her?" Dad: That happens in every country, son.
15. A man inserted an advertisement in the classified: "Wife Wanted." The next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
~ Rabbi Harold Kushner ~

It is just gone midnight and I am listening to Simply Reds Greatest Hits and I am happy, happy with life happy with family and happy with work and the best bit happy with God. Just chilling and happy, happy, happy, happy.

Started in my new department today at work I think that I will enjoy it every one that I have talked to seems to be ok and the new job seems to be ok. It was funny I still have to clock on at my old clock machine so I saw all the people from my old department and I felt a bit sad to be leaving but they all wished me look and said that they were happy for me some one even said that they were sad to see me go and they wouldn’t know what to do with out me, that was nice. I also have to get used to having tea brakes with new people as well I think that it will be that which is the hardest to get used to not talking to the people who I have got to know for the last three years. On a home news front we have just got some new photos of James our son form his play group he looks so grown up I still can remember him as a small baby needless to say we will be sending copy’s to grand parents.

Posting seems to have worked every thing seem to be back in place phew.

Just got to Blogger and found that I need to repost and that my pages for the last few day are missing Blogger has been having some problems.

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Good news I have just got home from work and as I was walking out the door my manager called me over to say that I will start my new job tomorrow. That means that I won’t have to put up with my pain of a manager any more. I just hope that I can fit in to a new department after being in the same department for three years I am one of the oldest members so I know every one and they all know me. I do know some people in my new department but I am shore that I will feel like the new boy.

I have just read this on the ocean blog and it made me smile.

A man is sitting in a plane which is about to takeoff when another man with a dog occupies the empty seats alongside. The dog is sat in the middle, and the first man is looking quizzically at the dog when the second man explains that they work for the airline.

The airline rep said, "Don't mind Rover, he is a sniffer dog, the best there is, I'll show you once we get airborne and I set him to work."

The plane takes off and levels out when the handler says to the first man, "Watch this." He tells the dog, "Rover, search."

The dog jumps down, walks along the aisle and sits next to a woman for a few seconds. It then returns to its seat and puts one paw on the handler's arm.

He says, "Good boy."

He turns to the first man and says, "That woman is in possession of marijuana, so I'm making a note of this, and the seat number, for the police who will apprehend her on arrival."

"Fantastic!", replies the first man.

Once again he sends the dog to search the aisles. The dog sniffs about, sits down beside a man for a few seconds, returns to its seat and places both paws on the handler's arm.

The airline rep says, "That man is carrying cocaine, so again, I'm making a note of this, and the seat number."

"I like it!", says the first man.

Once again he sends the dog to search the aisles. Rover goes up and down the plane aisle and after a while sits down next to someone, and then comes racing back and jumps up onto the seat and craps all over the place.

The first man is surprised and disgusted by this, and asks, "What is going on now?"

The handler nervously replies, "He just found a bomb!"

I knew that I shouldn’t of talked about my computer breaking down I have had all sorts of problems with it to day. First it just stopped then I had a blue screen of death and then I had to run the scan disk because it had some how got a disc error. So I had to spend the last hour getting it to run it seems to be ok now though. What else had happened to day? First I went out and preached my sermon that I prepared last night to a little Methodist church with a congregation of about 12. It felt very good and I think that all appreciated it. Then I went to pick Mandy and James up from Church and we decided to go out for lunch so we went to a pub called the Muson Gap, it was a nice dinner but it was a bit pricey so we won’t be going there again it is back to the Muddle Go Nowhere for us I think. We came home and Mandy felt ill so I told here to go to bed and James and I had a bit of QT time together. I like the times with my son James he is such a happy boy always smiling and playful I wish that I could spend more time with him. At 7:30pm I went out to run my youth fellowship. Had a good time talking with them till 9pm. We talked about war and what we as Christians feel about it. I think that most of the group felt that it was wrong to go to war but there are times when we have no choice because of things like genocide which we all agreed was wrong. Came home and then phoned my mother and talked to her then phoned April my sister and talked to her for about an hour, good to talk to her I don’t often get the time to speak to here much glad I did today she is ill so I tried to brighten her up a bit. Thought that I would go and read some other Bolgs now I think I will start with Grayblog first.

Things have been playing up with my printer. I just finished preparing for my service for this week and hit the print button and my printer it started to work as normal but no ink came out funny I thought I have just put a new ink in there so it can’t be that. On later investigation I found that it was just a case of cleaning the print head so I had to hit the clean button about ten times before it would work again. Lucky I suppose I could have been trying to print things off just as I walk out the door to the service like I normally do. The joys and tribulation of owning a computer if it is not one thing it is another first you work hard on a peace of work and all of a sudden you find that there is the blue screen of death in front of you or you find that it just stops and locks up on you and you have to try the old two finger shuffle (ctrl-alt-delete) then you find that it wont work and you have to turn it off at the mains. The next thing that happens is that you find that you can’t get the darn thing to start because it seems to have lost a driver or something and you spend the next few hours in safe mode trying to find out what it is. Then there is the worst case you find that you can’t find the problem at all and you have to reinstall Windows so you send the next 3 hours putting all those programs that you love back on to you computer and then you have to get it just the way you had it before you had the problem in the first place. Finally you have your computer back and you have to start writing the peace of work that you had lost in the first place. Computers don’t you just love them and hate them, sometime you think that you could just smash them with a cricket bat and another time you can’t get off them because you are having so much fun. I know one thing I wouldn’t be without my computer it went down for about a week and I was lost, it was like I was coming of drugs I just didn’t know what to do. I felt like some one had cut of my hands. Any way I had better stop thinking like this or my computer may start getting the wrong idea and start playing up with me as well. Shush don’t tell it any thing.

I when out for a drive to day with Mandy and James We ended up in a MacDonald’s on the A1 for dinner James enjoyed his dinner he was a very good boy. From there we called at a friends M’s but she wasn’t in so James was a bit upset then he realised that his baby sitter lived nearby and he insisted that we called in to see her but she was at work. We finally have just got home feeling very tired and sleepy. I can’t stop though because I am preaching tomorrow so I have got to get things ready like writing a sermon for one and then thinking about what I am going to be doing with my youth fellowship for the evening. O the joy of being a preacher and youth leader it means that the weekends never seem to be all mine something seems to always need to be done.

Good news today at work I have finally been told officially that I have got a new job. I will find out more next week. My boss said that I will have to wait for a few weeks before I start because he needs me to cover holidays but as soon as they are over I will move to my new department.