Thursday’s 5-Minute Post

I wonder if I can manage this every morning. I mean, I have enough spare minutes to write a post. Knowing I HAVE to do it will make me think harder about what to put in it.

Well, that was a minute wasted.
I’ve just eaten breakfast while listening to The Cheesy Song at the beginning of The Chris Moyles Show on Radio 1. It seems to be part of my routine every morning. As a few people who know me will know, I’m a stickler for routine. Time and routine. I can be quite annoying. If things haven’t happened by a certain time during the day, I get fidgety.
For example, I’ve declared this as a 5-minute post. That means it has to be 5 minutes long. If it gets to 5 minutes and I’m mid-sentence, it will have to finish.

Fortunately, I’m not mid-sentence so I can end the post sensibly. Apologies for rambling.

UPDATE: This is a challenge to post something decent in 5 minutes. They will get better (hopefully). Promise.

5-minute Post

So what can I write in 5 minutes? Nothing much, probably, but here goes.

Yesterday went to plan at work. Things, once again, were planned and scheduled and when that happens I try not to deviate. If I don’t deviate, it works. Jobs done successfully and the day ended on a happy note.
Today aims to be the same. There are schedules and plans and, if I stick to those, the day should go well again.

On the downside, I was called out of bed just after I’d got there by a smashing sound from the kitchen. I was thinking a plate, a mug, something else “smashable” but I went downstairs to my one remaining “big” mug in lots of pieces on the floor. I don’t know why but a wave of upset hit me for a few minutes. I’ll need to buy another big mug. I can’t not have a big mug.

I obviously can’t write much in 5 minutes.
That is all.

Alice In Wonderland: 3D

There's a reason this post will be short and that is because there's nothing much to write about.

Granted, Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland in 3D is visually stunning. Amazing effects that blend in with the "real life" action seamlessly. Not only that but the actors interaction with these elements are also faultless adding to the visual magic.
That, however, is about all I can say about the film. I can't have had that high an opinion on the storytelling element because I dozed off between half and three quarters of the way through.

So, in conclusion to this brief insult to film reviews, Alice In Wonderland is a visual masterpiece which almost hides how boring and disjointed the other ingredients of the film are. If I missed an unmissable piece of film while I was in the land of Nod, I apologise and can only say that the film should have gripped me before I dozed off.

My daughter enjoyed it which was the main thing.

Time To Blog

Well, let's just see what this looks like, shall we?
I'm sat at work; Blogger.com is blocked so there's no chance of posting something through the website or by using Windows Live Writer so I've resorted to blogging by email. It sometimes works but sometimes looks funny so I have to edit it later on. Am I rambling?

It's been a steady couple of days so far. All servers have been working normally. Nothing has appeared to be out of the ordinary. Work has plodded on as it should be. Unfortunately, the "not well"-ness of the servers last week has past on to me - I am not well.
I started with a sore throat on Friday evening and I knew something was coming. On Saturday morning, I woke up to not being able to say a word and razor blades in my throat. The sore throat continued on Sunday and started turning into the ridiculous cold I currently have. I'm stocked up with tissues laced with Olbas oil, several packets of Halls Soothers and plenty of hot drinks. I'm one of these people who only take medication when it's absolutely necessary so, when it comes to colds and the like, I ride it out until it's gone. I can be a moany git during that time but people have learned to live with that when I'm not suffering anyway.

16:08 - Ten minutes or so but I might leave early. Feeling very stuffed. I'd considered tidying my office because it's not possible to see my desk at the moment. However, the sophisticated filing system that, to the untrained eye, looks like piles of paper will do me for now. Friday can be a tidy day.

I think I'll go home, have meatloaf for tea (if there's any left) along with a few hot drinks before going to meet my girlfriend from work. I'm good like that. I'm especially looking forward to meeting her tonight because she's had her hair done and looks amazing.

I think now may be the time to give up and pack up. Nothing more for me to do here until tomorrow.

Problem Solved?

It’s Saturday morning and I’m up writing a blog post because I couldn’t sleep anymore. I’m suffering today. A combination of a ridiculous sore throat (as mentioned on Twitter and Facebook, if anyone needs any film trailer voiceover work done, I’m your man) and one of the more horrendous weeks in work I’ve had for a long time. The lack of sleep was mainly due to the sore throat. Hate having sore throats. It’s one of those where it feels you have something wedged at the back and it won’t come out. I’m not necessarily coughing all the time. It’s just there and I’m just going to sit it out until it’s gone.

“Hell” is not a word I would describe this week but, since there can’t really be anything worse than hell, that word will have to do. “Really bad” is an understatement.
I don’t think I’ve blogged about it before but we’ve had an ongoing problem at work with our servers. It’s something that has completely stumped us and our maintenance company for a few months now.
It’s a very long story so, to prevent you all from being bored by technical rubbish, I’m going to try and keep it short.

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