Monday Morning

Oh god its Monday morning agin.  This can only mean two this. That the weekend has passed and Ihave to start another week of hell (otherwise know as work), And that its only 9 weeks until I get married.

The weekend.  Not a very exciting one, Firday night ran taxi for Lynsey as she had a stressfull week and went for a few drinks after work.  it so only ment to be one of two but it ended up being about 10.00 when she felt the bar. Got a chiness and home for some beer and TV.

Saturday was my first rugby game of the seassion, Struggling with the cold I played a less then average game.  So off to the club barr for a few pints with the rest of the team.  Called Lynsey about 5.30 or so and home for some pasta, and to sober up a bit not until I’d had another beer though.  Watch yet another miserable display by Ireland in rugby.

Saturday night a few of Lynsey friends came round for a drink before they headed into Bangor of booze and men, well that was the plan anyway.  They stayed until about 1.30 it was good crack and I didn’t mind as it doesn’t happen much.  My hang over started to kick in about  11′ish as I decided not to drink from about 7. 

Sunday morning and for once I’m not hungover, so I think to my self, Time to fix rebellion. No Rebellion is my PC and gets it name as it never does what I want it to. So i put in the XP cd and start the format and reintall.  When it was copying the system files over to the HDD I heard this god almightly bang.  Then a message appeared on the screen “insert the Windows XP cd” oh F*(k i thought.  So power off the PC and take out the DVD-RW, take the casing off it and the CD had blown up, its now in a million peaces.  Not the best start to a Sunday.

Didnt now much else fixed the Futures father in laws PC and had stake for dinner.

Its only 9 weeks to my wedding and we have so much to do.

I hate the cold

Ok so I’ve off work for a few days with a major cold.  I hate being ill and I hate taking time off work due to illness even more, not becuase I like work but because for the workload when I get back in. 

The worst thing is that I came back today when I still feel like crap because we where ment to have a third party coming and setup a new email archive for us.  When i got in my boss had rearaged the whole thing for tomorrow.

So I’m work and everyone except my boss is tell me to go home.  My boss tell me that we have a dead line of Friday to get the computers in head office ready for Notes 8 (NO NO NO NO) but what can I do. So I’m trying to install all the software and fight a cold.  God I wish I has at home.

Rugby world cup

Well what a weekend it was for rugby fans.  The world cup kick off on Firday night and France where betten by Argentina, no one though it would happen but it did and France now have to bet Irland to go though.

England just about bet the USA, still England have won two games now in the last few months better than last year.

Scotland and Wales both wone, Scotland where playing Portague who are part timers and Wales had to fight to get the win over Canada.

Ireland SHOULD have had the easyist win of them all and I was looking forward to seeing the return of Ireland of the Six nations. With-in the first few minutes it looked like that might happen, but then Ireland started to make all the handling errors that have plagued them in the run up the world cup.  Hickey took a nock and look dazzed and confused and it was appearant that he was not up to from, as his usual reliablity and handling just wernt where until late into the second half.
Namibia where only down by two trys going into the second half. When the second half kicked off I expected Ireland to come out all guns blazzing and was expecting a few quick tries after all Namibia are rugby nobodies who only get to train together for about 6 hours once a month before the world cup.  How wrong I was, Namibia came out and run two tries past Ireland and then Ireland fell asleep and had to do some really scrapy defending to go out of touble.  In the last quator of the game Irealnd came back to life along enough to get the score to 32-17. 

I would love to say  that I was impressed but it was like watching Ireand of the mid 90’s when they got the wooden spoon a few years in a row. 

The only consilation is that O’Garra sent Andrew Trimble in for the sweets try of the weekend.  At lest we will be at full strength on Saturday for the Gorga game.  Normaly I would say Ireland will walk it, but hopefully we will bet them.

Its game time

Yes it that time of year again when the rugby seassion kicks.  So on saturday about 14.15 I be weighing to catch my first ball of the seassion or put in my first tackel of the seassion.  Last night we as major training session and probable the best I’ve been at for a long time, I learnted a lot more in 2 hours than I did all of last seassion.   So Im ready  I think.

And to top of the start of the seassion its the RUGBY WORLD CUP in france  . Ireland have there first game on Sunday, which is a good a thing as Lynsey having her birthday party on Saturday night. 

Swingarm

Ok so after failing its MOT in style I’ve had to replace the swing arm on the GPX (my bike).  This has ment many hours trailing though ebay try to find a swingarm.
No my bike is nearly 20 years old, and If you an car or bike enthouists you will that getting these parts isn’t eary as the manufacture dont tend to make them so you are hoping to find one in a brakers or on ebay.
Well thats what I did and after they hours to trouling thought millions of parts and Kawasaki bikes I findly hit the jackpot there is one in Northern Ireland, which is the main contented and a few in england that could do the trick and a one is scotland.

As soon as it get one of the swingarms and a electrics sorted out it should Fly thought its MOT.

I hope

My Car

After a nightmere day of Tuesday, my car went for its MOT re-test and passed.  Thanks good I can now drive my car.  As for the motor bike thats still a sore point.  I had to sorn it, just when the summer looks like it might appear.

Dame you MOT DATE dame you to hell.

No really I dont need transport this month.

Ok so yesterday was probably not one of my betterdays in life.  I phone the MOT call center hopping to get a cancellation around the 12th of the month and got one for 9.05 that morning (this was 8.20) no problem. Phone work told them what the plan was, left Lynsey to work and over to Ards to get the car tested.

Everything was going well until he look under the car, and thats when the sh1t hit to fan.  He was looking very intensely at the front right wheel and then he called me over, told me to look at the left hand side and pointed out a bolt (i thought to me self yes thats definatly a bolt I would reconize one anywhere) then he pointed out the right hand side and no bold, first think I thought was oh f*&^ thats not good.  Streight away a fail, but even worse I wasn’t aloud to take the car home as it connected the seption to the tracking control arm.  So I call up my dad tell him whats happend and he tells me to get a new test date (which is today) and tells me its only a fve minute job.

I get a lift back to my fokes house to get my motorbike (the only real from of trasnport a person needs) and onto work by which time its nearly 10.45.  Tell the boss whats happened.  He had aggreed that I could leave a 4pm as my bike had its MOT that afternoon.

Get home about 10 past 4 and start to wash the bike.  my dad calls my to let me know he’s fixed the car and it can be driven.  4.30 head to MOT centre again.  Thinking the bike will pass my dad had a look over it on Sunday, its all good.  I get called into the test centre and the guy starts to look round the bike, he notices that the chain is really (and I mean really) loss, then he looks at the swing arm and the chain has started to cut into it.  FAIL.  Not good then we move onto the lights fine, indacators left one dont working properly, an intermittant fault, same with the front brake light.  Get the papper that it needs to go for a retest, go to the car tell my dad the problems, Chain is sorted in 2 minutes as he had the full tool box with him.

So not a good day, on the bright side they didn’t notice the water pissing out of the bike and they let me ride it home.