A to Z and low cost travel

Having faffed around this week I have eventually decided to take a trip to see some fiends (friends?) in London this weekend. Of course my cheap flights are long past and the only way I can justify it to myself is by going the cheapest route. This means Luton airport - London's 4th airport. A bus to the train station. A train journey into central London. A Tube (or 2) to Camberwell. And then they have the pleasure of charging me a fee for using my credit card to book it. Piss takers. Now that the so-called low cost airlines dominate short haul flights they're profiteering in every conceivable way. Bastards. For what it will cost me to get there I should expect a fucking concierge service. I mean a concierge service, although a fucking concierge service would be a good idea too after a journey like that. A one hour flight will turn into about 6 hours travel during most of which I'll have the modern day pleasure of being herded like a goat and being offered overpriced sandwiches you wouldn't eat if you'd made them yourself. Still, there's always the vain hope of the mile high club. Don't hold your breath.

drip, drip, drip

I am never more cranky, rude and obnoxious than when I'm suffering from a cold. At the minute I'm playing "see if you can get the tissue up to your nose before the water from the dam that's broke cascades past your septum". And a very enjoyable game it is too. It starts off as I described then progresses within a day to stage2 (reddening of skin, slight irritation) then stage 3 (skin now dry and scaly, a very pretty look, like a trainee leper). Stage 4 involves the scar tissue left behind from where I tried to encourage the scaly skin to let go prematurely.
The nausea, cough, sore head, puffy eyes, feeling cold don't really annoy me, just the carry on with the neb. I guarantee if they exposed terrorist suspects and criminals to that they'd 'fess up straight away.

So I think I'll cancel my planned trip to see friends in Londinium this weekend and enjoy the pleasures of stages 3 & 4 at home.

The last 24 hours

Went for a drink in a town with a very small gene pool.
Lost my phone. (Idiot boss has it, get it back in post on Monday, maybe.)
Had a flight delayed.
Had a flight further delayed.
Boarded flight.
Aircraft then developed an electrical fault on the runway at take off.
Captain announced this was a different fault than the previous one!
Further delay.
Captain announces staff approaching legal working limit for shift.
Scared woman in front requests to leave the plane. Freaks out.
Staff inform her all bags will have to be unloaded to take her's off.
I stab woman to death with a pen. (I made that one up)
Woman sees me wanting to stab her with pen.
Took off.
Arrived safely at other end.
Ticket machine ate my car park ticket.

How's your day been?

D.I.Y.

I have a love hate relationship with decorating and D.I.Y.. To begin with it's therapeutic but after a while, and particularly when you don't seem to be making much headway in the grand scheme of things, it just becomes a fuckin' drag. Tonight, more drilling and filling (no, you dirty dogs, remember it's DIY) and dust and grit and mess. Well, I say mess but fortunately I avoided dirtying the floors again by catching most of the brick dust in my eye.

I will retire to the relative dust free atmosphere of the Lake District for a couple of days. If I can see to find it that is.

bugger the birthday

Now I know that as we get older birthdays mean less. But I still like the idea of a special day, a special day for me not for Jebus or New Year. You know what I mean? And it should be a "Compulsory Sex Day" and an "I'm not going to work day" but this year wasn't any of those.This year was even less special than previous birthdays. On my birthday, earlier this month, I got a sum total of 2 birthday cards - one from my mother and one from my daughter. Perhaps I am just too old for birthdays after all.

manage Gmail accounts in Firefox

Not content with getting the Windows Media Player in Spaces working with Firefox I've also added an extension to manage my Gmail accounts from the browser too.

It's straightforward. Download from here. Install. Close and re-open Firefox and set up your Gmail accounts in the Gmail Manager extension by clicking where you see the Gmail icon.

Now if I could find an extension to deliver a woman to me and a bowl of hot stew I'd never have to get up off my arse.