Lazy links

So, to recap last Thursday I lazy blogged Alphaville's "big in Japan".

I now introduce a rather unexciting idea... today's lazy blog links to last week's lazy blog. Woo. I'm underwhelmed so I'm sure you are too.

On with it:


This be Aneka - Japanese Boy.

See what I did there? Don't worry, if I run with this idea I'll come up with less obvious linkage. Knowing the way I think nobody else will make the links, but well, it may be fun for a while.

Exciting facts:
Rather unsurprisingly this was a 1 hit wonder.

Aneka is actually Scottish. People who thought she was really Japanese, please leave the building NOW.

There was an album, also called Aneka. I have it, and whilst I don't play it that often there are situations where it's really good. Like when Idiot Girl is in my car, and it's a really long dull journey that will be livened up by hearing Idiot Girl complain that this is against the Genoa convention*.

Actually, it's one of my favourite high energy 80's albums with a screechy singer. Ok, so it may actually be my only high energy 80's album with a screechy singer.

*Yes, I could tell her, but it's more fun to imagine crimes against cake.

Phoney

I have a major dislike with phones. Down a bit from when I hated them with a fiery vengeance, but still not good.

So it's a bit contrary that today I've bought mobile #2. I barely use #1 for calls. More for blurry photos than anything else.

I've got it for a cunning plan. I'm prolly going to hate it, but I'm going to book on more SPICE events. I'm thinking maybe something physically terrifying as well as mentally. "Abseiling for the terrified" is an obvious candidate. I can bond with the other scared people who don't know why the hell they're there.

So although I don't use mobile #1 much, I think I'd be fairly upset if I dropped it off a cliff. New #2 cost £10, does phone calls, texts, and bugger all else. It's also a sturdy looking block of plastic with a tiny screen that should be hard to break. I accidentally tested this by dropping it 4 foot trying to get it out of the box. (It bounced).

My feeling of being clever didn't last long, as googleing it reveals I could have got an even bigger bargain. Same phone, but with £10 credit for £10.19. 19p for a phone! They will be free with breakfast cereal soon!

Fire! Fire!

Burn!

I wish to announce my latest stained glass thing is finished. Or perhaps to be more precise I've come to the realisation that it will never be perfect so it's not worth spending more time / money on it. Save it as a moment on the journey sort of thing and move on to something new.

Anyway, I show to you my lantern / candle thing / pain generator*






Yes, I realise the pics are poor and too dark. Was attempting to show it in working mode, but said tealight powering it is not very bright.

Next project: "Terror of the geraniums", as I like to call them. One of those mini greenhouse things. I got most of it cut out on Friday, but there isn't a class this week unless I find time to do it at home.

*pain due to discovering fire hot while trying to light it.

rinse, repeat

Sadly all I do these days is either a) bitch or b)lazy blog. As it's Thursday, it's traditional to go for b).

Wait a minute, some things are different!

Idiot Girl has repaid the £14,000 she borrowed last year. An event I was not expecting, so I suddenly feel rich.

Tomorrow I hope to finally finish my next stained glass item. For something I was going to knock up quickly it's sure taken a lot of time...

Lazy blog: ahead warp factor 4. ENGAGE!

Alphaville: big in Japan.


Close run thing actually between this and 'forever young'. But this ties in with an idea I had... more on which later... If I remember it.

Bugger: part deux

Spice event: not cancelled.

Reply as to wtf they are playing at:
No I'm just back from it. We'd have contacted u if it was cancelled. We do cancel yr booking to generate a refund as we give u yr money back on the night as per writeup.

I'm Not Impressed. By the content or the text speak. Will have to think long and hard if I want to continue with this lot.

Bugger

So I stop working early, and even go so far as to attempt to make myself look civilised. 20 minutes to go before I'm due to go out to the spice new members night I check their website for the Nth time, as I'm paranoid like that.

Good job I did, for it says 'cancelled' in big letters. No phone call, or email to tell me. So if I wasn't paranoid they would have got me.

I am rather annoyed actually. They've wasted my day, got my money, and does this sort of shit happen regularly? I was considering events 2 hours drive away, but if this is how they play it... well, bugger that for a game of soldiers. Will have to await their response to my dude, wtf? email.

I give you lazy blog, for it makes me feel better:

20 hours

To the spice new member's night. I must admit I'm not looking forwards to it.

The problem is I'm afraid. I tend to follow the path of least resistance to make life go easier. For this event I need the skill of saying no. Politely, but firmly. Stated aim is to introduce you to spice, and tell you how it works, and book you on events. (For that be how they make money after all).

Problem is it also says we will 'hook you up' with new friends on the night. Er, no. I'll choose my own friends ta, not have you go oh, another idiot from Barno.... why not go on events together?

I also need to say no to several of the 'new member recommended events' as they are the sort of thing that I would hate to n decimal places.

If it's supposed to be fun, why does it feel so much like hard work?

In other news, I now have a spinny globe thing over there>>>> no down a bit, yes there. Pretty, non?

Abandoned in deep space

Any crew? Negative....

For those of you who haven't a clue what I'm on about, here is a quick lazy blog:



Veh trancey, and makes my hair stand up. But the thought of finding some huge spaceship abandoned in deep space has always been appealing to me. As a child I escaped the mundane world for the scifi one found in books.

The first book I can remember with this theme was Nicholas Fisk's Sunburst . The characters find a giant and seemingly abandoned spaceship, and decide it would be a great wheeze to dock and find out why. The why turns out to be related to the ship being new, but painted with "THTH" everywhere. They eventually discover from a tape recording (If it was written today it would be an ipod I guess), that this means "too hot to handle". The ship is full of radioactive waste, and is going to crash into the sun, with them trapped aboard. Nasty.

Then there was Rendezvous with rama. Or as I remember it, bloodly long boring book that I only kept reading to find out what/ why? was going on with this huge abandoned alien spacecraft? Just like an ex library Agatha Christie with the last page missing you never got to find out. Methinks messr. Clarke didn't have an answer in mind, so though bugger it, I'll just stop there.

There's been lots more since then of course. But the most recent one was when I was lazy booking, aka audio book time. On a train to London, it's a big finish doctor who play, and they find an abandoned (in deep space) spaceship. No!!!! go away now!!!! I'm saying. 'Cos you just know what's going to be in the cargo hold. Express delivery from Telos.... Anyone for cyber-conversion?

So, er, that's why I like that song. Takes my little mind to other places without the use of drugs.

Observing

So tonight was Spice event #2: The observatory visit.

Terror struck early when the man who organises it phoned me up at 5pm to say it may be cloudy, and to phone him back before I set off to check it's happening. I don't like phones. I really don't like phoning people I don't know. But I did it somehow.

To the batmobile disco! Said disco then adds to the pressure. Earlier I tidied all the crap out of it, but on opening one of the doors approx 1 gallon of water poured out. Whilst I must give land rover points for having water tight doors, I must remove similar points for not having water tight roofs. The additional pressure being the interior lights didn't come on.
So, has the water got in the computer (Lights are computer controlled), and thus the computer will randomly die and leave me stranded? (Just so you don't have to worry, no it didn't).

Got to the meeting point for the observatory, and started observing. Not the stars, but what the other people say to each other. The questions they ask, the things they tell about themselves. Perhaps a more important observation than the stars...

We then went to the observatory. This here telescope be pointed at that there moon. Have a look.... Yes, that looks just like the moon I can see WITH MY NAKED EYE FOR FREE.... and this here telescope can be bought for only £500 you say....

Man then does the point over there and says that be orion is. Come inside the observatory, and we will use the big telescope to look at the orion nebula. We each get a look. It looks bugger all like the pretty photos BTW, as the man points out human vision is crap at night so you only see it in back and white.

I resist urge to ask man if telescope can show c-beams off the shoulder of orion. More out of fear that he will instantly get it, and engage me in a discussion about nexus 6 models.

It then goes cloudy, so no more stars really. Everyone outside, where the man and his assistants can point to the occasional star that appears thru the clouds and say that's blah constellation. This bit of the evening is slightly less of a success, as whilst the people in the know are clearly enthusiastic, they're also geek to the power of N and babble a lot whilst trying to impart what they know.

Overall, I'd say this one was a success. Next week: New members night.

An offer I can refuse

Got an ASQ from evilbay. I've seen the like before and considered not wasting my time answering, but for some reason did.

Man in Spain wants my 'best price, much cheapness' for 15 balls. They're normally £5.99 each, so I told him £5, and postage at cost.

He no like this offer. He wants them cheap enough that he can sell them at £5.99 and make a profit. He tells me he is doing me a favour, as I will only have to go to the post once with his order and not 15 times if I sold them directly to 15 different people.

Er, no. I go to the post every day, for the other people who buy things. I go once a day, not every time someone buys something.

Now if you was offering to come and drill holes in the cold and rain for me, well, I'd consider it. But you've already said in your email that you consider the making part of things to be hard work that you don't want to do. Thanks for your kind offer to let me do the work, and you'll take the profit for doing nothing, but I think I'll pass.....

Zombie Vs Zombie

Who will win? They must unite and fight to discover the best!

Zombie 1: The cranberries


Zombie 2: Adam featuring Amy


Who do you think won?

Scammer

The day job is selling my fine wares on the bay of evil. Today I get a message from, I suspect, a scammer. Posted a ball to him on Friday. The message is the usual annoying "HAVE YOU POSTED IT?" all caps screamer... no, I made it up when I sent you email saying I had.

The difference this time is he demands I make it appear by tomorrow or he wants a full refund. Alarm bells are ringing... genuine people just want their item.

I'm not sure how to play this one... It's nowhere near long enough to be genuinely lost. Will have to think of some clever way to say sod off... Of course I'm going to lose in the end as I suspect he's already got it, and has decided he'd like it for free with it not being tracked.

I hate this job at times:(