The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Ramblings / November 15, 2003 / John
Ok, so we were kinda psyched up about getting back into our house next week. Aint happening. The kitchen is apparently being fitted “Next week or the week after that”, which is suitably vague. Given that all the flooring is down and there’s really just painting left to do, you’d expect it would be quicker.
Ramblings / November 13, 2003 / John
Yup, the joiners are busy laying the wooden flooring in the living room and dining room as we speak, while the painter finishes off upstairs. After that, they’ll swap over, doing the floors upstairs while the painter waves his magic brush of doom downstairs. After that it’s all hands to the kitchen. We’re getting there
Ramblings / November 12, 2003 / John
Just back from the doctor’s surgery, at ten past two in the morning. Harmony has been hacking and coughing away all night with a cough nasty enough to make her gag. Thought we’d better check her out to be on the safe side. She is, of course, fine, but parenthood bears its own form of
Ramblings / November 9, 2003 / John
I’m supposed to be attempting to sit up through the night tonight. Our little ghostie is getting fractious – probably all the talk about us looking forward to going home – and has started moving stuff about, making noises, and waking people up. I think she’s starting to bother Dotty too, cos she’s always talking
Ramblings / November 9, 2003 / John
How’s that for the name of a prog-rock band? Anyway, that’s the status with the house. All the downstairs skirtings are cut to size (they can’t fit em yet cos the flooring has to go down first) and all the joinery and making-good is done. All that really needs doing is the fitted kitchen, the
Ramblings / November 9, 2003 / John
After a brief flirtation (it meant nothing to me) with iBlog, I’ve gone back to my old faithful iJournal. Why? Well, cos iBlog is the most network unfriendly application I’ve ever encountered. It seems to re-authenticate with the ftp server for every single transaction Broken in the extreme, if you ask me.
Ramblings / November 6, 2003 / John
Hullo. We’re not using ujournal anymore. I’ve migrated this site to iBlog, which allows me to keep a handy backup of stuff and not rely on third party hosting sites. If you’ve bookmarked this page, please go to http://www.nelefa.org and bookmark that instead. A note from the future. Given that uJournal.org disappeared up its own
Ramblings / November 5, 2003 / John
Well, there is in our house. These kids get up at 6am every single day. It’s not normal, I tell you. It’s a bit strange and unreal. Watching the CBBC and there’s some pillock making endless tasteless jokes about bonfire night and Iraq. Too early in the day for that kind of thing. I can’t
Ramblings / November 3, 2003 / John
Thank God for online shopping, that’s all I have to say. I can sit in front of my little iMac and visit twenty different online vendors, buying everything from Tallboys to teaspoons, and set a delivery date when it all pops up on my doorstep. When you have to replace the entire contents of your
Ramblings / November 3, 2003 / John
The one thing, over everything else, that’s getting on my nerves about this whole “being burned out of our house” thing is the lack of a decent kitchen. The kitchen at our rented place is adequate, but nothing more. I love cooking, you see. Almost as much as I love videogames. The current kitchen is