I'm on overtime all this week and probably all next week as well.

Recently the team was nealry merged into another team, but we all fought against it. We found it unfair that we would have to do double the workload that we do now but also including products we know nothing a bout. So we kicked up a stink and got to stay as a team.

The drawback to this of course is now we have to prove that there is sufficient reason to keep us as a team. This is why we have to get ourselves back into service level with our batchwork. We have a lot of outstanding work to do, so we are all putting in the overtime.

I'll probably do Saturday morning as well, don't know if I want to do all day. But then there is the thought of all that lovely money. Or whats left after the taxman takes his share.

Well, I'm now back at work. I'm glad and not glad

Sure I loved the time off, and the four walls drove me crazy, but now I have to get used to getting up early again.

We have the new Lifelite system on the computers. I used it yesterday and my overall opinion is that it's a pile of crap! Nothing works! Really to me, I think it's bad that they have allowed this system to go live on the basis that any problems we find the IT boys will fix.  Nice theory, but the the IT boys can't fix it then and there, they have to go write more programs and fixes to make it work. Something that is not viable when people are asking where there money is.

Anyway, it's not my problem. And thats the one thing I refuse to feel is guilt for a job. Been there done that!

I'v just started to edit Black Rider, so hopefully I can get the first few chapters of that up over the weekend.

I just read Bookworm's Journal and learnt the sad news that Christopher Reeves has passed away at the age of 52. My thoughts and condolences go to his family and to the world, because we've lost someone truly important who was able to show great strength in the face of adversity.

Spoke to the lodger so now he is off my sh*t list for today.

Decided to name my bike, couldn't think of anything original so decided on Lil Darlin'. I will get some pictures up soon, once I've had the front repainted where it got scratched.

Still need to get a new helmet. I'm using the old one at the moment, but it took an impact in the accident so I really shouldn't be running the risk of it. I can just send it off to get it x-rayed, but financially it's not viable.

I designed a new blogger template for Terra Incognita today, I'm quite impressed with how it came out.

I need to update that blog as well. But I've been busy with Bookworm's Writing Tutorials. I've been rather disappointed with my writing recently and figured that I should go back and brush up on what I've forgotten.

Tonight I have to scan all of Bry's cartoons in for the Hamworthy Site. So better get cracking

Today I kick my lodger's ass.

 He thinks he has seen the bad side of me, but he hasn't a clue what he is in for.

I like the guy, and in all honesty feel sorry for him because he's not all there. He's a little slower than other people and a lot of his so called friends take advantage of him because of this.

However, that does not excuse the fact that he is one step shy of alcoholism. Yeserday afternoon he came in and I could see immediately that he had been drinking. He was only in a short while before he went out again to do more drinking. Bry came home without him, and I discovered that the lodger had passed out at the club around nine and when Bry tried to get him home at closing time he told Bry to leave him there but his words were a little worse than that. Something to do with Bry going forth and multiplying, if you get my meaning.

I think this confrontation has been building for a while. His drinking is definitely a problem. Every night he comes home from the pub and passes out on the couch, and he's usually still there when Bry comes home in the morning.

Bry has also revealed to me that our lodger, who earns about £300 more than I do a month (so it's a pretty hefty wage packet) is broke. He spent his wages in the first week!

This is the only lecture he'll get from me, after that, he's out the door.

...because we don't have any milk!

Again I go to get something and we've run out. It pissess me off when no one tells me we've run out of something.

I'm not a frickin' mind reader

My Scaphoid bone has healed, which is good. Though, I'm still in a lot of pain wuth my thumb. It's driving me to tears sometimes when I catch my thumb on silly things like getting dressed.

Back to work Monday.

The thought of that has already put a spring in my step, I've had enough of these four walls.

I've arranged to go swimming with my neice on Saturday mornings. So I have to by a costume. I was thinking string bikini () but being harpooned by a whaling ship would be a real possibility!

I've been in a writing and updating website mood. Done a few things with the site, so now I'm going to update the tech info page and make the site live! Yeah, I know don't ask

Okay, going to finish hideos black coffee then grab shower and go buy milk so I can have a nice cup of coffee.

Cleaning house later today, so caffiene is essential to stop me from strangling Hubby and Lodger.

Well, what an exciting two weeks!

Are lodger has finally moved in, and he's not too bad. At least he doesn't mind washing up.

We had a big fright last saturday. We had an atrocious thunderstorm, and we think lightening struck our house. Although there is no damage outside, a majority of our plugs got fried as well as the internet connection, a drawback to an always on connection. We've had to replace the modem completely as well as a lot of fuses.

It was quite frightening when it happened. Me and Bry were sat down watching the original version of The Haunting and lightening lit up our house and there was this god awful flash next to the computer and this horrendous popping noise. It scared the sh*t out of me.

We immediately switched everything off. Then checked the major appliances, luckily the freezer was fine. But we kept getting electric shocks off the patio doors frame. Its aluminuim and Bry says that conducts electricity. Needless to say, I don't want to ever experience a storm like that again.

Well my wrist is finally out of plaster and I have a rather uncool splint to wear for the next 6 to 8 weeks. My hand still hurts, especially my thumb.

We had some bad news regarding the Waz. She needs an operation on her ear. We stumped up the £150 for her to have her ear cleaned out under sedation and inspected. It turns out she has a nasty Pollup growing in her ear. At the moment it can be controlled with ear drops, but it will need to eventually be sorted out. The estimate we were given for this was between four and six hundred pounds. This does include the pollup being tested to see if it is cancerous. So it's a bit stressy with me at the moment. We have an appointment for this week to let the vet know what we've decided.

We know she can't exist on ear drops for the rest of her life, and we really need to find out if this is cancerous, so our mind is made up on the op part, but it's a lot of money to pay out in one lump sum.

I guess overtime is on the cards when I am eventually allowed back to work.

I went to the hospital this morning to have the plaster off. I was given another x-ray, and the fracture hasn't healed yet so I am back in plaster for another 2 weeks

How depressing