Ubuntu headaches

It's only taken two days to get the wireless internet connection working again on what was one of my PC type laptops, thanks to me updating to the latest version of Ubuntu. But at least it's working now and the headaches I got where free, unlike the old days where when things didn't work it was down to Bill and his flying monkeys. One thing tho', the help pages and forums I went to for help getting the wireless working where written by brainy peeps, for brainy peeps, not for enthusiastic amateurs like me. It was like they where speaking in code.... Oh! They where.

Next task is to get DVD's to play


I won't be getting rid of the MAC just yet, on the up side I don't need two computers runing now that I can get on line with this one. Well that's something I supose.


TTFN

What's pink and stiff and spends most of it's time below my belt?

You all have such filthy minds.

Now go and wash it clean and consider yourselves lucky I don't call a police officer or a priest!


No, you silly lot the answer is.....


A

FULL

UK

DRIVING

LICENCE!


The 'L' plates are gone...

..."poor old Ed's free of them at last!"


I actually passed my test on the 21st of last month but I've been waiting for the licence to hit the mat before telling the wide world. Even the "green P's" only lasted a week before I binned them.
People see the L or P plates and decide to treat you like a T*£T! and cut you up and worse, so it was off with their heads and now I'm up and down the motorway on my own with impunity.

Everyone said,
"You wait till you start driving on your own! You'll shit yer self!"

Not a bit of it. I was driving on my own the afternoon of my test.

Now let me tell you this, I did need a bit of help on the motorway stuff and thanks go to my beloved Tracy for the help and encouragement she gave me. 'Luckily' we have a motorway going right through the Wirral, so I'm getting lots of practice. For example, today I did over 70 miles going between mine and Clatterbridge, Tracy's and mine.

And seeing as I haven't been any where exotic I've managed to do over 614 miles since the 21st of last month, so what's that been 23 days? So that's 26.696 miles per day, going nowhere. Sounds daft really.

Did have a week at the caravan last week and I got to use Tracy's Honda Odyssey all week. So there is at least another 400 miles. We tend to get out and about and USE our Welsh heritage membership to see castles and to the full when we go to the 'van.

Two things I have come to believe about this driving lark and they are:-

1. The test is a peice of piss (both parts(three is you count the hazard perception section as a seperate entity)).
2. If I keep doing it I may get the hang of this driving lark

Safe driving and don't have nightmares.

I'm off for a few beers

A little help needed

Hi there,

K-type can you text me or email me asap please need to use you as a referee (if you agree) and need to get your work contact details.

Would have emailed but lost all my addresses thanks to some bloody Chinese e-shop that hijacked my email address, gits!

I'll text Ash and ask him but hope to hear from you in person

Laters

Ed

Vids from the caravan May bank holiday 2009

Getting very lazy in my old age, here are some vid clips taken on the phone from this bank holiday at the caravan, or trailer if you hark from the U.S of A.

It shows J and B with a couple of kids they met up with again.

Also shows a nice recovery by J on the carts and a not so successful one by B.

And why oh why oh why oh why oh why aren't big kids like me allowed on the bouncy castle slide?

It's just not fair!















I have one more vid to show and tell that's unrelated to Wales and caravans, I'll show you soon.

Laters

Pucker up Bill....

I finally did it, it's taken a very long time but I finally did it.

After years of threatening to do it I done it.

I got rid of Windows(tm) and installed Ubuntu on my PC laptop.

It looks like I now have two macs but only when you look at what's on the screen as the mac is sleek and stylish and the PC isn't.

Still haven't got the built in web cam working and I can't play oblivion but it's a small price to pay when you consider that I plugged my mac formatted iPod in, just for shits and giggles and it recognised it and I can move files across to and from it.

So Mr Gates can kiss the fattest part of my arse.

Yay for Ubuntu.

Lines from my DS lite

If this works it'll be a blody miracle.

Nostalgia

What to watch.....?

I know

BATMAN

Not the new one, or the one with the doctor fella (although I did like Solaris) and definitely not the one with the kids is it (thrush and whacked girl).

NO!

The first one and the only one.

It's showing it's age a bit but by Bob it's still got it.

That being said I still would LOVE to get my mits on a badge that says....


Still haven't seen that movie, speaking of movies back to BATMAN.

Hmmmm

As soon as I get permission for a few things I'll post. Promice.

Also the pics I want are on the mac and I'm in the wrong room.

And in the wrong frame of mind, ie too lazy right now.

Bazilions and Bazilions. For T.

XxX

WW

Hiya.

Can't stop, just a quickie to let you know I'm still about and that T 's friend hasn't had me off'd.

Erm......

Joined "Fat Fighters" 4 days ago and am on the points plan. I have so many points I'm finding it hard to use them all up each day. I have to either eat 3 lard sarnies a day or (and this is my favourite) get hooped every night* (that I'm not with T). I reckon I might drop a jeans size in a month or two, my doctor will be ecstatic as will be my body.

Still loved up with T, BIG TIME.

The boys turned 10 the other day but it feels longer, probably something to do with all the not so subtle reminders, the pleading for stuff, the begging, the strops, the THREE PARTIES!!!!
Those boys have such a hectic social swirl that it's sometimes difficult to keep up with them.
When I turned ten I got a stick and hoop and a thick ear.
Mini football stars, love 'em.

As I sit and write this I've still got my slap on.
Going to a do for Halloween as uncle Fester, see.....


There is some video too, but blogger is having some issues at the moment, so no video for you lot. Sos, all complaints to google please.

Anyway I have a big black robe too, cost a small fortune but I'm sure I'll get to wear it again, even if it's only to be buried in it.

I'm still unemployed. But lets face it I haven't been knocking myself out trying to get a job now have I. At least I can say I'm not a drain on the welfare state as I have been living off my savings and meagre pension. I'll need a job within the next 4 months tho, otherwise it's the workhouse for yours truly.

Bought the young ones on iTunes a few days ago and I look forward to seeing the ones I missed, got series one and two for under 20 quid.
Bill may have pissed me off, enough to turn one laptop into a linux machine but Mr Jobbs is screwing the Brits big time, apple just swap the dollar sign for a pound sign and screw the exchange rate, effers!" iTunes bites.

Before I go....

I love you T, loads and loads.

smooches













* I have moved away from beer and moved to gin and zero cal tonic, yay.

Many apple ogies fwor de inkonweenience

Many who pop by these random mutterings will have noticed that I appeared to have had a major falling out with my beloved "T" the other day.

And in a way we did.

She was trying to be spontaneous and funny via text messaging, unfortunately my stupid gland had flared up and I didn't get it.

Then I said something REALLY EFFIN' STUPID!

And things spiralled out of control there for a while and all this just after opening my pie hole a few days earlier and saying the most insensitive things in front of one of her friends, who is now convinced I need a slow drawn out death starting as soon as is demoniacally possible.

So it can be put down to a lack of inter-relationship communication skills, mostly but not wholly on my part.

When I was in the RN my comms skills where very good, but then it was either telling someone to do or not do something, telling a superior officer (politely) why he/she was wrong and therefore a danger to us all, or filling out work completion orders and ordering stores.

Nowhere in all my adult experience have I had to think of feelings (including my own, I found some last month), have to say sorry so many times and wash what I say to another adult through so many mental filters.

For these things and my many other grievous faults I am sorry Tracy. Remember that I do love you for all but 0.001%, for that one small part I still want to boil you in oil, but it's the 99.999% that matters.

SMOOCHES


I love you and I'm very, very, very, VERY sorry.
XXxxXX