» Dumb things you've done

Not me, but my girlfriend
A wee while ago, she bought her first car, and she smokes like a chimney.

She spent ages doing it up, turning her cousin's hashmobile into Penelope Pitstop's pimpmobile - all garish red & silver mats, seatcovers etc. - very bad taste, but she put a helluva lot of effort into it.

I said to her: "You're not going to smoke in it, are you?"

She said (indignantly, and in all seriousness): "Of course not!!! I never smoked on my motorbike - did I?"

Bless :)
(Fri 21st Dec 2007, 0:12, More)

» Pointless Experiments

Toothpaste
Is a great sexual stimulant for some women!

Though it sends others darting to the bathroom faster than an olympic sprinter . . .
(Thu 24th Jul 2008, 12:37, More)

» My Biggest Disappointment

Rio De Janeiro
My g/f took me there for my 40th - for two weeks. This was a week too long.

Once you've done the beach, seen a football game, The Jesus and Sugar-loaf Mountain, it gets pretty boring very quickly. The museums, galleries and nightclubs (lots of which are full of prostitutes) are crap. No samba to speak of most of the year.

The Air France flights were the worst I've been on and we had the rudest Italian in the world behind us for a good 11 hours on the way back - think Austin Power's Fat Barsteward in both looks and behaviour.

And when it rains?, Well, my g/f put it best: "It's like Blackpool minus the amusements!".

Still, at least I didn't get mugged or robbed, but the pathetic attempts to scam us wore pretty thin.

Holiday of a lifetime, it was supposed to be . . .
(Fri 27th Jun 2008, 1:16, More)

» How nerdy are you?

me.xls
I'm an IT Developer, have been for a number of years, but I'm an excel geek.

So much so that I keep a keep a (password protected) spreadsheet, me.xls which I keep up to date on my work laptop, home laptop and mobile phone.

It has loads of worksheets detailing:
- all my bank account statements, plus rolled-up worksheets of the regular bills I pay
- a rolled up worksheet telling me how much I have to spend per day, per week and in total 'til my next payday
- all my credit card statements
- electric meter readings and bills (for comparison)
- my annual leave and sickdays taken from work
- a list of folk who sent Xmas cards, so I don't miss out anyone the next year
- the amount of days I've not smoked for, including the amount I would have spent had I still been smoking (which is actually really encouraging)
- organising 5-a-side football & nights out (which I do loads of)

All my iTunes music has everything organised fully (down to year of release, album artwork) and the fields on my iPhone/Outlook contacts are all correctly populated.

Oh, and in work - I don't use any paper, I use a mind-map program for all my notes (and I think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread)

I've actually got a really outgoing personality and I'm really sociable, but I just like certain things to be "right" - god, what a geek :)
(Thu 6th Mar 2008, 16:55, More)