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Xmas over for another year!

Christmas was alright! I didn’t get up until about 10, and then mum had to go out, so we didn’t get to open our presents till after dinner

This is what I got this year:

I think that maybe I should start shaving, as I am now building up a nice collection of aftershaves, and I don’t want to let them go to waste!

Thats it for this post now!

Merry Christmas and a Hapy New Year

Its Nearly Christmas!

This time next week it’ll be Boxing day, and Christmas itself will be over for another year!

The past week has been quite busy at work, the warehouse has been in a complete and utter state, and still is!
We just keep on getting stock, and nights just keep on not working all of it! And not working any of the back stock!

As for Christmas shopping, I’ve very nearly finished, I just need to get my girlfriend one last thing and thats her finished!
The last thing to do is wrap it all, thats a job for Christmas eve night! Lol!

The Christmas card count has reached seven, two of them from relatives, and another two are made out to both me and my girlfriend!

I think thats just about it for now.

Until next time,
Merry Christmas

Second Christmas Meal

Tonight is my second Christmas meal, the first was last night which was the Grocery meal, tonight is the Warehouse/GM meal.

The meal last night was alright, they give out big portions of meat! And then I piled on the vegetables! I only just managed to finish it!
Before that there was a starter, I chose the soup, and for after I had the Christmas pudding.

The soup was alright, vegetable I think! But the Christmas pudding was only a small square on a big plate, and the piece I had was rock hard, I couldn’t even cut it with a knife!

Tonight I’m having the same, but I chose a different pudding, apple pie with custard!

I’ve done a bit of Christmas shopping, I managed to get something for everyone! But I’ve not entirely finished yet!

I’ve now got 15 minutes to get ready for the Christmas meal!

Till next time,
Merry Christmas

Twelve Days of Christmas Driving for ASDA

As promised yesterday, here is the twelve days of Christmas driving for ASDA as written by one of the home shopping colleagues

On the first day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
A van to replace AZP

On the second day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the third day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the fourth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the fifth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the sixth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the seventh day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the eighth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Eight flats to walk to,
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the ninth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Nine totes a missing,
Eight flats to walk to,
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the tenth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Ten straps a swaying,
Nine totes a missing,
Eight flats to walk to,
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the eleventh day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Eleven customers moaning,
Ten straps a swaying,
Nine totes a missing,
Eight flats to walk to,
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

On the twelfth day of Christmas
ASDA house gave to me
Twelve days to recover,
Eleven customers moaning,
Ten straps a swaying,
Nine totes a missing,
Eight flats to walk to,
Seven totes of Carling,
Six geese with feathers,
Five orders on hold,
Four customers to call,
Three redeliveries,
Two woolly gloves
And a van to replace AZP

Christmas Monday!

I’ve just got to finish of my sister, and get something for my dad and that’s it.
The only thing that would be left to do is wrap the presents!

What have I been doing since the last post?
Working mainly!

I had Sunday off, but that was because it was granddads 86th birthday on Saturday, and me, dad, and sister, and granddad (obviously) and auntie Sue went to the White Horse on the A38 just past Thornbury for a meal.
On Sunday morning me and dad went around the shops. Which was when I finished mums presents.

On Monday I worked. Luckily it was only in the morning, so I could still go out in the evening with my girlfriend.

For the next three of four days, until Friday, or Saturday, I will be working close to 12 hours a day!
Tomorrow (Wednesday) I’ll be doing a bit of Christmas shopping in the morning, so I wont be working 12 hours, but I will be working longer than my usual eight hours!

In the home shopping office someone has written out the twelve days of Christmas song, but changed it slightly!
Each verse starts with: On the n’th day of Christmas ASDA House sent to me….

I’ll try to get a copy of it and post it soon.
As for my Christmas theme…I wont be able to do the twelve days of Christmas header image after all, mainly due to the fact that I haven’t been able to have any time to make a start on them.
If I can manage to do at least the first three or four, then I will be able to make them up a couple of days in advance. But I cannot see myself being able to find the time to do even one!

As for the rest of the Christmas theme, I will put up the additional images, but not the banner, as I haven’t complete it yet.

I wonder what a couple of my New Year Resolutions will be….

Merry Christmas every one

Finally Started Xmas Shopping!

Hooray!!!

Well okay, I went around the mall in Cribbs Causeway with my mum in the afternoon, and I brought a couple of presents for my girlfriend (read: *special* friend)

I was also picking up a couple of ideas for what to buy everyone else.
I think I have I know what to buy now. Its just a case of when I’m going to be able to have the time to do the shopping!
This morning, just before work!

In other news, I will get the images done for the Christmas theme, again I just need to find the time!

Gotta go shopping now
Bye for now!

Christmas is getting ever nearer!

Its true, honest!

I had my Christmas meal at work today. It’s free, and the managers bring the food over to your table.
I had my first chestnuts, they were mixed up with the over cooked sprouts!
For afters I had Christmas pudding with, I think, cream, or it could of been brandy sauce!
Then they came round with a tray of mince pies, from the extra special range, of course!

I didn’t do any shopping on Monday, as my sister was working, and I still don’t have a clue as to what to get anyone for Christmas!

On a brighter note, I’ve nearly completed the Christmas theme, I just need to finish the images.
Until then, I have updated the style, so you can all have a look at the new Christmas colours
I also have an idea for something special over the twelve days of Christmas 😉

Bye for now

Nearly!

I’ve nearly got a Sunday off!
For the first time in a couple of months, I am only going into work for the afternoon, and that is for home shopping.
But now that we have a few more drivers, this should be the last time I am on home shopping for a little while.
I’m not holding my breath! But hopefully from tomorrow I will not be asked in on my days off to cover home shopping, or to go out in the vans during my shift.

This is day three of December, and the decorations are going to be put up 10 days early! They are normally put up twelve days before Christmas, but this year mum has decided that she wants to get into the Christmas spirit before her works Christmas party.

Next week I’m going for my department Christmas party, its up at the Swan Inn in Tockington, at the same place we went to last year.

Lets see what I can do to make my website more Christmassy 😉

Bye for now

December already!

Arrrrgggghhhhh! Its December already, and I have not done one itsy-bitsy bit of Christmas shopping!

I’m trying to bribe my sister to go up the mall with me on Monday, but she has work that day, so I’ll only be shopping in the afternoon.

The problem is, I don’t know what to get anyone, and I don’t know what I want for Christmas either!
I’m going to have to think of something though, otherwise I will just end up with money, socks, chocolate, and more smellies.

I wouldn’t mind the chocolates, I get some every year anyway, and I always need more smellies!
But socks!

I suppose I’ll just settle for the money!

In other news, all this week I have been working in the health and beauty and baby warehouse, keeping the area tidy, and working some of the stock, especially the Christmas gifts.
Every night when I go home its looking nice and tidy, with gaps where cages used to be, but when I get in, there is normally a pallet or two with a couple of items on them and several more cages scattered around left over from nights.

So far this week I have only been on home shopping twice!
On Wednesday I went out with a possible new driver, I drove out and drove around for half of the round, then for the second half we swapped seats. We were doing the Potishead/Clevedon round.

On Thursday I went out with another new driver, this time I was the passenger, and just helped him carrying the shopping to the customers door.

I know I’m on home shopping on Sunday afternoon, but I’m sure I will be on home shopping again either today or tomorrow.

Until next time,
Bye for now

Linux Rulez…

Cool, its boxing day, and I have managed to make a Christmas present work on Linux with no frustration, and I have setup two other things that I have been putting off for a while.

First to the Christmas present, its a USB 2 8 in 1 card reader/writer with a slot for SD cards, just what I wanted!
Reading the pdf manual on the CD tells me that on Mac OS 10.3 and higher just needs plugging in. One deep breath and its plugged in, check dmesg and it has been recognised.
Plug in the SD card, its put in upside-down (weird!) and a new icon appears on my desktop.
It has been automatically mounted under /mnt/removable
All my files are there. Whoohoo 🙂

The second success is finally getting DVD playback.
I was Stumbling around the web when I came across xinehq.de I’ve already got the player installed, it just didn’t want to play DVDs!
A quick google for libdvdcss, a download of the rpm and its installed
I have now watched the first five minutes of both “The Italian Job” (original) and “Johnny English”

The third and final success is the installation of the Belkin bluetooth adapter that I brought when I brought my PDA, 3 years ago!
I plugged it in, the little blue light stared to flash, and I downloaded BlueZ and managed to scan and make a short, but successful connaction with my PDA.
I also managed to find the computer with the PDA

Phew!
All that and I still managed to cook dinner!