Middle of the week

Hassle at work today - a customer placed an order giving me part numbers for jacks and adaptors. I placed the order, got the parts, delivered them, then the hassle started with a phone call:

"These jacks we've had delivered...they don't have CE marking on them..."
"Um, that's because you didn't request it - you asked for an 02-7815-0100, if you'd wanted it CE marked, the part number would be 02-7815C0100." (I'm SO helpful...by the way, these are manufacturer part numbers - not ours)
"Well, we need them with CE marking - can you arrange it?"

And so, numerous phone calls and emails later, I've found out there is a 'kit' (probably just a reinforced hose with anti-burst valves) which can be fitted (along with a nice sticker ) for the princely sum of £430 per jack

Now these 'kits' cannot possibly be anything major - but quoting 4 weeks delivery (ex-US)?

I'm tempted to leave it a week, get the jacks back in the workshop for the 'fitting', slap some stickers on them and send them back - job done.

But that wouldn't be professional, and is probably borderline illegal.

Sigh...I thought ISO9001 was a paper chasing exercise, but CE marking? I've looked throught the directives and can't find any specific category hydraulic aircraft jacks fit into...

OK, rant over - thanks for listening

It's almost that time again

That's right - with the Charity Shield being played tomorrow (Chelsea vs. Manchester United) at Wembley, the Premiership proper kicks off next Saturday.

Spurs have their first game against Sunderland at the Stadium of Shite Light. With the signings we've made over the close season, this should be the season we return to the top four.

COYS!

Been a great week all in all - seen a lot of Hat , weather's been really good and work has gone well (spending Friday sorting out gauges wasn't that much fun though...)

What a great day!

:smile: <-- That's me today - all smiles.

Yesterday was an excellent day, I found out some things that made me so happy you wouldn't believe it...oh, I accidentally flashed a taxi driver too :oops: didn't get a reduction on my fare mind...

Hope to play some snooker this weekend - Gooner has texted asking me a few times this week, but I've been busy. Hopefully he's not working and we can get a few frames in on Saturday.

Here's a pic of my newly painted lounge:



Oh yeah, just remembered. Surfing around this morning I came across a 'Send the Spice Girls to Iraq' posting on a forum (Scott Mills also mentioned it on Radio 1 about 4 minutes after I found it too spookily). I've already registered my request for them to do a show in Basrah :lol: - the link is here. By the way - have you noticed how fit Sporty is looking nowadays? How YOU doin'? :wink:

Afternoon all

Well, summer is finally here it seems - had 5 sunny days in a row now :cool:

If this keeps up, I'll have to get the aircon going at work...

In other news - I finished painting my lounge - it's now 'Warm Yellow' - looks really bright now...next is new carpet and curtains (or maybe blinds if they're not too expensive).

Changed the theme on here again - a simply look (couple of people thought the old one looked too confusing)

n00bs :mrgreen:

One year

A year to the day since my dad died.

I'm so proud to be his son. I just hope I can in some way be like him.

I love you dad.

EDIT: Been a day. I met up with honic and Wendy, few beers and we're off to see some local band at the Merry Boys.

What I should have done is go see my mum.

I'm an ass...

My all time favourite track - Lou Reed's 'Coney Island Baby' (7.5mb) but damn it's awesome...

Coder humour...

I was running through some PHP code earlier and came across this somewhat amusing snippet:



Chicken Little beware.

It's raining (again), I feel lonely :cry: but if this keeps up, I should manage to get the decorating done this weekend.

Oh, after I lost my phone, it was used to make 2 calls - one for 9 seconds, one for 28 seconds - to the same mobile number. I've printed the info on these calls and will take them to the police station when I finish - they should be able to trace the number (it goes straight to Orange voicemail when I call it), and from that work out who had my phone (6 months for styealing phones here).

Bloody weather...

Time for a change

I changed the theme to the site as you can see. Kind of bored at work as I'm still stuck in the office answering the phones while Corina is on holiday.

Doubly bored now until Monday - Hat is away at the rowing championships in Scotland with her sister. I'm hoping the weekend here is going to be dull and rainy so I'll have an incentive to stay in - my plan is to get the lounge painted. If it is raining, I'll also save some money - something I'd seriously like to do as I need a new carpet, a holiday, money for my driving test (yes, I'm finally gonna go for it again...), to mention but a few...

Anyway, tonight when I finish work, I need to start moving furniture - I have some stuff to get into the auction which in turn will give me some space to move things out of the lounge to make it easier to paint/recarpet.

Got my new phone - a D900i (same as the D900 but with an FM radio). Going to check out a shop in town that (allegedly) sells 'iffy' phones to see if some chav has flogged it on - basically all I want is the memory card out of it (all my contacts are backed up, just don't have copies of some of the pictures on it), but if it's there, I'll grab it and phone the police (I have all the paperwqork from when I first got it and I DID report it missing).

Well, enough for now. Ciao.

Weeeeeeee...

Congratulations to my l'il sis - she did the Race For Life yesterday :smile:

What a weekend that was - a real up and down one, lots of highs, a few lows, but overall very good. What the hell led me to go for a swim in the river last night I have no idea...me and Hat were a little drunk I guess, but with all the rain there's been that was a definite no brainer - I dived in and by the time I surfaced I was about 30 yards downstream...I had to pull Hat out 'cos she couldn't get out on her own - that was a seriously bad idea.

I lost my phone last night too - dunno whether I left it in the taxi or maybe in the bottom of the river or in town or what - had to phone O2 to cancel the phone and number...replacements should be with me tomorrow hopefully - I feel lost without a phone...

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1.5 hours until time to go home...should I check out YouTube, the Ministry of Sound website, or maybe harass Hat by text? :grin:

OMG...how'd that happen?

Ok, ok - I know how it happens...still a bit scary though.

Here's a scan of the baby:



This is one of those defining moments in life :shock: