ONLY LAST NIGHT WAS VINCENT (Nicole's boyf) congratulating me on my new front door lock. Only last night did I return to find said lock unresponsive to my keys. At first it wouldn't budge at all. I banged it (hard). Next it turned round and round without engaging any "levers". So I had to stand facing the street, wait till passing noseyparkers had walked on and bash it in with my backside. Once, twice, once again and - presto!- in I walked. Because it had been secured by rawplugs and not new screws ... well it wasn't "secured" at all ... (The reason it wasn't working when I got to it, btw, was that it had already been forced!) By the time I came down this afternoon said lock was hanging askew to its proper place like a percentage sign. Or Jack Duckworth's* glasses. (What am I saying? My own "reading" glasses, that I'm blind as a bat without, can look like a percentage sign on bad days. One day I'm scared they will bread in half - oops, break - from all the "repositioning" ...)
*Who is Jack Duckworth? Anyone in Britain or Canada should know Jack Duckworth. Long-suffering husband of vulgar Vera, who eventually, for a brief while (though I don't recall how) got to be landlord of their local boozing house The Rover's Return. Coronation Street. A soap set in Weatherfield, a fictitious suburb of Manchester that I never intend to watch but still, somehow, always have at least the vaguest idea of what's going on there ...
L-Dopa: isn't that what they used to cure "sleeping sickness" in that film Awakenings? Think I need that. After sleeping all night, I briefly awoke. Imbibed milkshake and chocolate biscuits (munchies) - took medication, which I always do - then slept all day till past four o'clock. What on earth is wrong with me? Some asymptomatic illness? What's that? What's that faint voice I hear calling me? Dizziness?- are you saying? O! Laziness?!
Get away with yer!
I'm well pleased with my huge new kitchen clock, if I do say so myself. I've always wanted a Big Ben-style landmark here, something to proclaim true understated good taste to the world. And now I have it. Though Vincent last night pointed out I do actually have a clock (if you've good enough eyes to spot it) in the very bottom right corner of the screen in the black sub-bar ...
Toccata and Debs both remarked on being too cautious to add much to their bars having seen html disasters. I had one of those at my old blog company. All I wanted was to install a meter to at least count visitors (I had literally no idea how many people were dropping through - had a feeling maybe 40 or more a day were calling but not commenting. But I really didn't know. (Thankfully I was cautious enough to open a "dummy blog" before transferring anything to it.) Just drop the html in the editor! I was advised by many people! So I did! And said blog turned from a lovely blue swimmingpool-like space to a white page with a hit meter at the top. It was so disabled that I could not even log in to remove said html. Now that is a disaster!
I was so cautious about adding "page elements" other than links that it took me four months to put anything I actually wanted here, so yous have my sympathy. And don't take my advice. I took advice before my disaster. It was all well informed and well meant. But I still interpreted in my own language and the result was blog-carnage!
On that note I'll wish you all good day as I have to go get a pencil before the shop shuts. See yer!!
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Forgot to give this link before - go here for aol music - Avril Lavigne etc ... thanks Deb
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Nicole: sorry the Gabbly got stuck while I was talking to you, said "please refresh your browser" ... I tried to go out of my blog, eventually was able to, got back and Gabbly was an empty hole reading "page not displayed" ...
Hello Gledwood,
ReplyDeleteI've read youre dutch comment on my blog and it was very good! Ofcourse i am reading youre blog also, but i find it a bit diffycult to understand, because it is real english. So even i learn something from youre blog.
I must spend some of my time reading youre posts from the past, i find it nice to read how open you are about youre life. Maby i can learn something from what you wright here.
Well, have a very nice evening:-)
Thanks Ilse. U blog is wel nederlands.
ReplyDeleteHey Gleds! Went on holiday with Vera once. Well, not exactly, but she was on the same cruise ship as us for a fortnight. Funny bumping into her all the time everywhere. Poor thing never had a moment's peace, people queuing up for autographs while she's eating dinner and stuff. Mind you, I don't suppose she paid for her holiday, so...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, sorry I missed your webchat - unexpected "holiday" (not a cruise), see my latest post.
Catchya later
Grumps
Hi Gleds Def sent the email; have sent it again....
ReplyDeleteta - i'm checking now
ReplyDeleteYour clock sounds great!
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean your front door is without lock all over again?
ReplyDeleteOk Gleds, got your email and have replied. If it doesn't get to you can only think that your email won't accept it cos of all the coding in it.
ReplyDeleteRx
yeah - no lock Nicole. sorry I left a message at the bottom of todays post about gabbly don't know why it went down ...
ReplyDeleteThe clock I was talking about it just under Babelfish on my right sidebar CG ... there's another one at the bottom that I don't like as much but was getting obsessional to put another one somewhere!!
ReplyDeleteI'm just checking it again Ruth!!
ReplyDeleteId love to see what you'd post if you thought nobody could find you. You know things are actually a notch down from when I used to post using my OWN godamn- real last name? People would google me and read it, and I though this a good thing! The journal didn't include open references to methadone but, for example, an italic 3 paragraph piece about how terrible withdrawal was there. The other day my friend cut-right said to my annoyance, "the three most over-exposed people are, in my world, in this order, Britney Spears, George Bush, and Noelle... (me)." While I think of myself as isolated since I haven't been hanging out with my usual friends or taking their calls as much!!
ReplyDeleteI tend to like writing when people write about stuff that's harder, when even they cringe at the stuff at the page (at first.)
and i dont consider britney over exposed.. I like her. oh well..
ReplyDeleteIf Roomate did read it.. what's the worst that could happen that hasn't already? Plus I dont think he is brave enough to look for it and read it because in truth he doesn't want to know how I really view him.
ReplyDeleteOk, reading your computer scare story is making me think I will be living in plain old common template land forever! But, your idea for trying something new on a dummy blog is a good one. I see all these cool things on other sites and I want them on mine too.
ReplyDeleteHello Gled. Thank you for your comment for my pictures. And it was pitty that you couldn't understand japanese letters.. But I can explain some day if you want by email and so on. It's nice to find you. :)
ReplyDeleteIvy you are well brave!
ReplyDeleteToccs: "plain old common template land" ... I'd love to know how to change a common fullwidth sidebar into one with halfwidth elements eg so I could have two clocks side by side or two little icons besides one another ... but nobody knnnnnnnnnnows how to do that of course, do they ... ??? ???????????????
if anyone DOES = please tell me here now i'd be SO grateful!!
Ivy - HE wouldn't be brave enough to tell you :: more like :: surely ??
ReplyDeleteyou sound like a handy and homely man, must be adorable.
ReplyDeletechanging lock, big clock in the kitchen... good stuff huh!
enjoy your weekend.
No Ginger - I used to have a clock like that in the kitchen but ... look down my right sidebar - I installed it in my blog! Telling London time so when I mention it people can tell how far ahead/behind I actually am!
ReplyDeleteGday Gledwood
ReplyDeletethanks for stopping by and commenting Ilike to blog hop to I havent seen the film you refer to but I do like will smith movies
6 Degrees of Separation?
ReplyDeleteIt's more thoughtful than his normal stuff & was made before he got really famous. It's based on a stage play - well worth going to see ...
OK, I popped in from work to take a peak but then work went insane so I will eb back later. Thanks for visiting me ...
ReplyDeleteI saw your note. I'll try again another time, maybe this weekend.
ReplyDeleteBarman - I talked about my hopping on today's post.
ReplyDeletePaterfamilias - yeah see you at the weekend let's hope!!
Hi. Actually translate machine doesn't work well for japanese. Because the arrangement of words are totally different to construct phrases from english to japanese. And also we have lots of exceptions to build a phrase. But it's alright, I like that you would have liked to tell me something at least. :)
ReplyDeleteLa Peche - I know what you mean. Instead of saying you're going to Tokyo you say
ReplyDelete"as for me Tokyo-to go" ...
type of thing.
As I recall.
Am I right?
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