I'm "officially" an old man now.

I've always maintained that I become an old man the day I buy a shopping trolley for my visits to the supermarket every three or four days. Well, the day has finally arrived....by accident. I placed an order with an online office stationery (or is it stationary - I never can remember which) company. As it was my first order with them they gave me a free gift - a shopping trolley. Will I have the nerve to actually take it out with me? I'm not sure.

Finally got my banjo

After a few failed attempts in auctions to get a 6 string banjo I've finally succeeded. A bit sneaky in ther way I won as well. I didn't even make a bid in the run up to the closing of the auction. Others were bidding in the last 10 minutes but then I suddenly appear with only a few seconds to go and put in a maximum bid of £156 which meant I won the auction with a bid of £107. Takes my spending to well over £1000 in just over a  week. So that will be another year before I can buy a new computer then.  They must have altered the composing thing for these blogs.

Please outbid me

I'm currently winning the race to buy 4 dot matrix printers. I don't even know why I bid in the first place. There's  enough junk cluttering up the place. I recently won two laser printers and I already own one laser and three inkjet printers so why do I need 4 dot matrix printers.....they won't have the software to install them either. In fact, I might just pay the person and tell them not to bother posting them - just dump them in a skip. The postage costs are £12 and my maximum bid is only £10 but nobody seems to want to beat me.
 
Still haven't won a banjo yet. I've got the notion for a semi-acoustic bass guitar as well now. After buying semi-acoustic guitar I realise how shite the electric guitar I've had for over 20 years is. One of the pick-up is held in place with red tape after I punched it. Yet if I buy another one I won't throw the old one out. I've still got my first electric guitar hidden away somewhere and it doesn't even have strings anymore.

CCTV cameras

I've bought a few of these recently. I have them looking out of my bedroom window. One looks one way and another looks in the opposite direction. Because of the traffic calming measures not far away I can even switch from camera to camera and see a car travel along the street.........I could just as easily go to the bedroom window and look out of it. Where it did come in handy was the other night when I switched on the camera to see blue flashing lights. There was a fire in the flat in the next close to me. I wonder what the English equivalent of "close" is?

Gimp masks

It's funny being on the Ebay auction site and looking to see what the people you are bidding against have also bought. If I'm in an auction for a photocopier (which I am as it happens) I then look at see my competitors are also into buying gimp masks. Ahhhhhhhhhh - the wonders of Ebay.

Even more toolbars to my Internet Explorer. I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that my computer seems to crash every couple of hours now. 

More on my e-bay addiction

The rules on Ebay are not that fair. They allow bids to be retracted without too much punishment. One such bid retraction has led me to being the highest bidder again but I'd gone on to bid for another siimilar item thinking I had lost out on the first one. So now I'm the highest bidder for two similar items. Actually, if the truth be told I'm the highest bidder for quite a few similar items and I hope I get outbid on some of them. For instance, I'm currently the highest bidder for two banjoes and two semi-acoustic guitars (I only need one of each.....mmm, let me think that one again - do I really need a banjo?) I'm also bidding for a third semi-acoustic guitar but the reserve has not yet been met on that one yet. I intend uppping my bid slightly on that one as well so I could be lumbered with three semi-acoustic guitars.

Ebay addiction

I'be become the latest fool to become addicted to making bids for useless objects. My first ever bid I managed to win......a lazer thing that can point a dot 500 yards away. I've always wanted one of those - I really need one as well.

I also really need a banjo. After seeing a joke "dueling banjoes" cartoon on the web I decided I wanted a banjo. Unfortunately other people also wanted banjoes and I lost out with both my bids. I've also lost out on two different semi-acoustic guitars.

Bugger - I've just received another "outbid" e-mail. I have to go out befor the auction closes as well. I don't really want the object either but I don't want this other git to get it either since they are upping the price. Excellent - I'm now the highest bidder again. £750 for a pair of cycling shorts - I'd be cheaper buying them out of a shop.