No TV

I've had no satelite tv since a storm on January 9th or 10th knocked my satelite dish off a little. Now the aerial (sp?) has gone the same way. No TV at all now. Can't afford to get the satelite dish fixed. No way of getting up to it and doing it myself. So I'm fucked. Still - at least it means I'll miss Big Brother so that's one consolation.

Wireless internet connection

Wirelessly connect your computers together. Well my bedroom computer is connected wirelessly - unfortunately the dongle thingy is attached to a special USB cable that is a few metres long and trails across my table across my bed and hangs over the bedroom so so I can't shut it properly.

Mileage since I bought my car

I bought my car on 12th September 2007 so in all of 2007 I drove a massive total of 1691 miles (110 days).

Up to 30th May 2008 I have driven 1845 miles (150 days).

So my car has shifted 3536 miles in the 260 days I have had it.

I know what you're thinking - get a life you sad bastard

And in 2008 the petrol cost.....

23 Jan 2008 14.59 102.9 15.01
13 Feb 2008 19.44 102.9 20.00
29 Feb 2008 14.44 103.9 15.00
18 Mar 2008 14.17 105.9 15.01
30 Mar 2008 14.20 105.9 15.04
11 Apr 2008 28.38 105.9 30.05
24 Apr 2008 30.23 107.9 32.62
30 Apr 2008 39.10 115.9 45.32
23 May 2008 35.12 113.9 40.00
27 May 2008 25.02 119.9 30.00

Petrol prices

When I bought my car in September 2007 the petrol was 91.9p per litre.

02 Sep 2007 16.33 91.9 15.01
29 Sep 2007 32.64 91.9 30.00
25 Oct 2007 19.45 102.9 20.01
31 Oct 2007 15.03 99.9 15.01
08 Nov 2007 30.05 99.9 30.02
22 Nov 2007 35.70 100.9 36.02
01 Dec 2007 32.72 103.9 34.00
19 Dec 2007 14.73 101.9 15.01
24 Dec 2007 34.27 101.9 34.92
26 Dec 2007 34.03 106.9 36.38

In the above it is
Date
Litres
pence per litre
Amount paid

Band meeting

I think I'm going doolally.

All day and now most of the night I have been randomly shouting out "Band Meeting". I heard Zane Lowe saying it once on Radio One and Edith Bowman keeps on playing the clip. It's driving me nuts. It's out my mouth before I can stop it.

It's almost tourettes syndrome like.

Wireless thingummyjig

This is bloody weird.
I keep getting told that my wireless connection might not work because of the number of walls between computers. Yet, the computer in my bedroom will only connect to the internet via the router when the door to my bedroom is shut and the door to my living room is also shut.

Ok - I lied about the miles

Having looked at the miles it appears I do travel more than 20 or 30 miles per week.
This week will be another whopper as I travelled down to England again to meet someone. She reads this blog so I better not say anything about it.

Here's what I wrote elsewhere about it.
I drove back from meeting xxxxxxxxxxxxxx today. After dropping her off at her work I drove a short distance on the motorway and had a major panic attack. I thought I was having a stroke. Most of the left side of my body went numb. I could hardly breathe. I was shaking and both my hands were left tingling. I was stopping at Lancaster after half an hour driving anyway but it took a while to get over it.

I don't particularly like other people being in the car when I don't know where I am going. I've not been driving long and the only time I go on the motorway is the few occasions I visit xxxxxxxxxxxxxx . On the way down it's ok as I drive for over half an hour on normal roads before joining the motorway but on the way back up I'm straight onto the motorway and then changing directions quite a lot for the first few miles.

My driving isn't helped by ignorant lorry drivers. A lot of the time they will drive in the middle lane - not overtaking other lorries just driving alongside them for miles. Today I was in the middle lane and cars were zooming by me on the outside lane. All of a sudden a lorry from the inside lane indicates he's pulling ino my lane and I've nowhere to go.

Also why do some cars overtake me on the outside lane, pull into the middle lane where I am overtaking lorries on the inside lane and then the car will slow down causing me to brake. There should be no need to be using brakes on a motorway. Go in the lane appropriate to your speed.

What has happened since I was last here?

Well, going by the last video I think the most important thing to have happened is I've passed my driving test. At the second attempt.

I rarely go more than 20 or 30 miles a week apart from a couple of times I travel down to England.

01 Jan 2008 26262 04 Jan 2008 26276 3 14
04 Jan 2008 26276 11 Jan 2008 26302 7 26
11 Jan 2008 26302 18 Jan 2008 26355 7 53
18 Jan 2008 26355 25 Jan 2008 26379 7 24
25 Jan 2008 26379 01 Feb 2008 26404 7 25
01 Feb 2008 26404 08 Feb 2008 26428 7 24
08 Feb 2008 26428 15 Feb 2008 26461 7 33
15 Feb 2008 26461 22 Feb 2008 26517 7 56
22 Feb 2008 26517 29 Feb 2008 26569 7 52
29 Feb 2008 26569 07 Mar 2008 26602 7 33
07 Mar 2008 26602 14 Mar 2008 26651 7 49
14 Mar 2008 26651 21 Mar 2008 26711 7 60
21 Mar 2008 26711 28 Mar 2008 26737 7 26
28 Mar 2008 26737 04 Apr 2008 26813 7 76
04 Apr 2008 26813 11 Apr 2008 26844 7 31
11 Apr 2008 26844 18 Apr 2008 26871 7 27
18 Apr 2008 26871 25 Apr 2008 26953 7 82
25 Apr 2008 26953 02 May 2008 27513 7 560
02 May 2008 27513 09 May 2008 27539 7 26
09 May 2008 27539 16 May 2008 27570 7 31
16 May 2008 27570 23 May 2008 27619 7 49

I've just spent all this time formatting this and Blogger goes and ignores all the formatting. Thanks for nothing.

For anyone interested :
Column 1 Date at start of week
Column 2 Miles at start of week
Column 3 Date at end of week
Column 4 Miles at end of week
Column 5 Days in week (*)
Column 6 Miles driven in week

(*) obviously most weeks this is going to be 7 days but the first week and last week will be different.

Not been here for a while

It's been quite a while since I was last here - so first off I'll need to remind mtself of something

YOU NEED TO SIGN IN USING YOUR GMAIL ADDRESS AS YOUR USER NAME IN FUTURE.

SO SIGN IN AS ABCDEFG1234@GMAIL.COM
Obviously this isn't the address and I hope this isn't someone's email address