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I have no biscuits to have with my tea. What's worse, my wife is refusing to spend her lunch hour going to the supermarket to buy some for me.

The book's not that bad...

I bought two lottery tickets on Saturday for the first time in about six months, I got 4 numbers and

I worked at Nortel Networks in 2001 when they announced their massive redundancies, we went from a fairly good environment of about 100 people in our small department into a back-stabbing hate fest of people trying to secure the 20 jobs that were being retained. I'm very, very glad that I didn't "survive" that redundancy, it was the best thing that happened to me in a work environment!

So, those 1500 surveys you completed were worth it then? Mr G Jon, Mr Jon Ginger, and so on

I know a lot of techies who use Server 2008 as a client as it's essentially Vista without the bloat such as DRM. I leave UAC on but with my account as an admin. Means I get the ease of running as an admin but with a simplified UAC approval to stop daft things running without permission.

With the forum being down for two days I've actually had to do some work

Back home at last... 3 days at the out-laws is more than enough for me to feel more ill than I already was. Now onto my 2nd type of antibiotics to deal with a minor infection, my blood pressure is 150/110 (normal 110/70 - 120/80), my resting pulse is 90 (normal 55-60), I feel like **** and I couldn't even have a drink. I've promised to subject my wife to my family next Christmas in revenge.

It's not awful, it's just soul-less. She only sang that song because she was told to... Simon Cowell's marketing people probably worked out that it had the best chance to be the big money earner for them. Maybe old-age paranoia creeping in but much of the music nowadays reminds me of the bits in 1984 where they discuss mass-produced populist pish music for the proletariat to keep them happy. Edit: THIS is awful. It is safe for work in that there's no sweary words or nudity but I take no responsibility for what you might do to your computer or any small animals nearby when you watch it. Edit2: THIS is the worst rendition of Hallelujah anywhere... ever... Bono is just pish.

######ing awful. Absolutely ######ing awful. It took both sides 30 minutes to realise that I meant what I said and well into the second half before it got through their thick skulls that I wasn't tolerating their whining. Easily the least enjoyable game I've ever refereed and I'm still wondering what else I could have done bar red card both captains before kick-off. At least the away team had the good grace to admit after the game that it was their problem that they kept getting caught cheating. Games like that make me wonder why I bother.

Just getting ready for my RU game this afternoon... not looking forwards to it at all. There are two sides in the whole of the East of England who I can't stand and they can't stand me. Today, they have a league match against each other, it's a local derby game and both are under pressure after a few poor results lately. So far this season I've given seven yellow cards, four were against today's home side in one game and two were against the away side. I'm leaving early so that I can have a meeting without coffee with both coaches and captains and let them know that I'm not going to change my reffing style to suit their whining and cheating. It'll go straight through their ears without making contact with any brain cells and I expect to get plenty of use out of my whistle today

A photographer taking his art too far:

Apparently the Nikon S60 can detect up to 12 faces. Proof:

It's down right unreasonable how much she whines... she grumbles when I don't take her anywhere now she's grumbling because I have arranged something as a surprise for her. Wimmen...

I've decided to take up an invitation from a friend to join him and his wife on a tour of the whisky isles of Scotland next April when all the whisky festivals are on. My ungrateful whisky-hating wife wasn't too pleased for some reason.

And add in a good number of 18-21 year old girls for him to perv at

Our smaller cat has just given us an early Christmas, a full-sized rat left dead in the living room. She looks very happy with her gift to us.

I had a bacon roll for breakfast this morning for the first time in months. Bacon rolls with Reggae Reggae Sauce could easily become the cause of me being even more of a fat knacker.

Just in time to avoid the Christmas shopping and preparation? You cunning man you... I may have to use that myself.

It's the off-season... always gets like this. Usually a harder time to moderate the site as people seem to be less tolerant in the off-season than when there are games on telly.

I wasn't sure where to put this but decided here would be best... New anti-terror police guidelines on photography I wonder if that'll filter down to the PCSOs who have nothing better to do than be nuisances.

A friend got a Canon D300 for his birthday today... should I be impressed? A lot of money for a camera... As a point&shoot sub-amateur photographer, I have no clue what all that extra money buys.

If you're considering a last minute holiday to Egypt, Israel or other Red Sea holidays try Longwood Holidays. We always get a great deal from them and their service is very good. Also, Sky Travel often give some cracking deals if you call them and give them plenty of leeway in their searches... Last year we got a last minute 5* half board two week holiday to the Maldives for

A ruler and some pencil marks are the way forward for drilling the holes Even my wife was capable of that...