In the light.

So, a week of nightshift finished, I’m led to believe that this is what daylight looks like?

I have no problem doing this shift, as a rule I can just about sleep anywhere, anytime the old army adage, eat while you can, sleep while you can, as you never know when you get either again! Normally I grab a quick snooze before the first shift, this time sleep escaped me, I know me with my reputation, never mind we kicked on and got through the first night with only a few glitches.

Home and off to bed, but up by eleven, I usually sleep the sleep of the dead, this wasn’t to be the case, although I did blink a few times through the course of the day, back to work and again only a couple of glitches of a computer kind, again problem soon solved, we plodded on at a good pace again home but I decided I wasn’t going to disturb the wife as I was going to my diabetes clinic, I was feeling the need to whinge! I do believe that I mentioned this previously, I managed a couple of hours of sleep and made it to my appointment with plenty of time to spare (again me with my reputation). but I was feeling punch drunk through lack of sleep.

Well, I may have been on time, however the ladies weren’t, thankfully I didn’t go off on them for there tardiness as my results were better than expected, still shite but hey I can live with that, it’s the little victories, I was also really tired, have I mentioned that I was tired,  that I ignored my big brother who was allegedly tooting horn at me as I wandered home from the quacks,  I soon crawled back into my pit but was awake again by one, I wasn’t used to this, I wasn’t shattered, but I wasn’t rested either, onwards was the order of the day, back to work again and we were actually trying to finish early, we ran out of time, but did a lot better than we thought we would, again another short night of sleep, but the finish line was in sight, so I sucked it up.

The last night went disastrously wrong as soon as we stepped onto site, I’m not going to bore you with the details, some people simply didn’t step up to the plate, I will be having words, some people just didn’t know when to fuck off, thankfully some did and we ploughed on doing all the extra stuff we didn’t expect, the finish line was crossed, I took my wounded and damaged body (ok my dodgy knees) and slept, not quite as long as I hoped.

I now realise I have to get my finger out and blog, some historical stuff is being prepped and “The Whalers Dues” has been pushed to the too controversial pile, its not about rednecks but could quite easily cause a similar outcry, the good news is that I haven’t deleted it, I will just keep trying to make it a little more palatable for you the discerning masses, music has not been played as much as I like, although I did help the wife compile a rather spiffing Spotify play list for her journey to work, me I am reviewing a rather good album that has totally taken me by surprise, go to WWBH – Tribal if you want to find out what it is, I will do at least two more this weekend, but again I need to get out of the rut that the blog has been in this last couple of weeks, so I must try harder, let me know how you think I do (once  I have posted the blighters).

So, once again it’s the weekend the wife will be working, so shall I be, with music and blogs and hopefully some small tasks around the house, no name game today, its simply the title that I thought of as I wrote this little missive I am alive (and kind of well) the bug is back, so watch the skies for incoming but until then Toodles!

One night in Gimpsville

What can I say I know it’s a play on a Murray Head song but hey that’s how I roll these days!

The week has gone the way of previous weeks, work, work and then some more work, a major windows update on the lap top and then nothing working as it used to, me being the Luddite that I am, the wife has taken the axe out of my hands more than once.

Health wise I have been up and down more than a bride’s nighty, I am at the diabetes clinic next week I feel a huge whinge welling up within, watch this space! I had a lazy day planned yesterday and I was mainly successful, we had a husband and wife kind of day, that’s mean I stay in and the wife buggers off with the Kraken, a nice quiet day for me, until she arrives home at the height of the worst shower of rain so far this year, yes, I got wet and actually I didn’t have an issue with it! WTF, I know I couldn’t believe it either. But I do like the rain so maybe that’s it!

We got settled in for an early evening of TV, computers, reading and generally scratching ones butt, the wife had an invite to go out, at the last minute she decided not to go, anybody who knows her knows that this involves at least 24 hours of should I stay in or should I go out! Decision made I made a lovely tea and we prepared to go into night mode, I was not asleep I merely blinked after a late tea!

The wife’s phone trilled (hahaha nobody texts me) and then all of a sudden, we are going for a drink in Gimpsville, do I want go? Of course, not, but what say do I have in it, I have now got to get dressed in grown up clothes, I still manged to beat the wife by a good 45 minutes! We ambled along to spoons to meet up with a work colleague of the wife’s who has suffered a knee injury that has got her pretty much house bound and is going stir crazy so any chance to escape is gratefully welcome and we were to offer moral support, we can do that.

I did what I was paid to do which was to be pretty and say little, again I can do that, it also gives me the opportunity to do what I like best, people watch and good grief was this fun, again I spent the first ten minutes scanning the room to see if there was anybody I actually recognised, there were one or two familiar people , people who I hadn’t spoken to in over 45 years, it’s funny I remember them but they do not have a clue who I am, not that that matters at all.

Once I realised I was yet again a stranger in a strange land, I then watched all the young people, me and the wife weren’t the oldest people in the room but we weren’t far short I bet! I noticed how popular Gin has become, no thanks I will stick to my Jack and Coke, even the wife had a bottle of cider, what is the world coming too, oh yes, I know, Gin drinkers, good grief what a bunch of posers, it was all “oh look at me I’m drinking Gin”.

As always our local spoon’s sounds like a bloody hen house when it gets to capacity, and after a while it sets off my tinnitus, so all I can do is stand and grin at the right moment (hopefully) nod, and pray nobody thinks I’m a doofus, I did some more people watching and then just like that it was over, we enjoyed a leisurely pace home, lets be honest we don’t live that far from our established drinking hole, so it was actually a pleasant walk home with me trying to drag the wife into a number of fast food establishments and other drinking holes, she didn’t bite and we arrived home unscathed, how rock and roll are we, that we relaxed watching the tv with a cup of tea and some mango swiss roll and chocolate biscuits! That’s how we roll in Gimpsville, an unexpected night out, however it was enjoyable and it proved that I could behave in company that I don’t really know.

Thankfully the germ of an idea formulates (this blog) and even though I was up at silly o clock, I was happy, as it means that I could then polish this, there was still large quantities of bile floating around at the moment and hopefully I haven’t left too much in here? The coming week is a full week of night shift (oh deep joy) but it just means I can cause chaos and panic within the confines of my night time staff, it means that I can avoid my technology issues that have been disruptive over the last week or so, I hopefully will come back to them with a clearer head (hahahahahaha yeah right).

So, there’s the blog still not I was hoping for but for better or worse it’s what I have, so watch the skies for incoming and keep spreading the disease, all readers are good readers until the next time Toodles!

What A Waste.

I have avoided this blog like the plague as I have had the worst case of writer’s block for the first time in ages, so here goes let’s see what I spew forth……so to speak!

I have been spending far more time doing the reviewing thing than I thought, I need to balance it out, because if its what’s holding up the blogs, well guess what? then the reviewing will be going the distance, don’t say you haven’t been warned. Farcebook has been annoying with the page its wanting money for every little thing, this isn’t how it was supposed to go, I can’t see any of the metrics so that I can see how well its going, its annoying and not helpful, but I will soldier on for now, me with my reputation……LOL!

I have had 7 days off and I have wasted just about wasted every second of it, I have done nothing, I had a number of tasks to carry out, I’m not sure if I did even one. Why the wife sticks with this miserable (Please add own expletive) I have no idea why, I kept getting asked what I wanted to do? Honestly, I just wanted to crawl into a deep dark hole and wallow in misery, I wasn’t depressed, I was more angry than anything else, at what I have no idea, I was just angry and the wife did all the right things to try and be nice to me, I had a blood  test to do on Wednesday and that was the about the only thing I have done, a short shopping expedition to our local Bargain shop, fifteen quid worth of the worst kind of junk I could eat with my current condition, and I didn’t care.

Thursday the wife finally got me out of the house to go and actually do something, another shopping expedition of a more serious nature (as in I’m skint and have a credit card and I know how to use it) after spending money I didn’t have, I didn’t feel any better, but I was glad that the wife had bought herself some stuff, I spent way more than her, WTF, I know, there will be a major  investigation at some point, I hope I can afford the bill next month!

Friday we got the Hurricane and he has simply turned into his mother at that age, both are still loved, however we know how to deal with youngest’s tantrums thanks to his mother, he wasn’t actually that bad I simply wasn’t in the mood for any rubbish, he got the message, thankfully the remainder of his visit was fine and dandy, he does lift my spirits, it’s the strangest things in life, I was still was a misery, I simply haven’t been able to shake that black cloud, it has stayed sufficiently enough away so I can’t ring its bloody neck.

I’m now sat here waiting to go back to the work house tomorrow, not that I’m expecting too much grief as I have been monitoring my emails, not answering (well ok I answered one) just watching and ditching all the shite that I don’t need to do anything with, it has saved me at least four hours tomorrow, I can go straight to grumpy mode and growl at everybody, I do like to do that as soon as I can when I get back from some time off!

There’s the blog for you, not very good, but I simply wanted it out of the way, (I could have posted The Whalers Due’s, yes I’m still working on it and yes I’m still trying to remove the bile, at least I haven’t deleted like I would normally do) thanks to everybody who has been enquiring what the hell has been going on, nothing much just me being a misery, see you all basically guessed it, now I have to work out how to apologise to the wife for being the curmudgeon that I am! Just don’t tell her, she stopped reading the blogs ages ago, when I became a better (yeah right) person, watch the skies because my blogs are like buses they hunt in packs, until the next time keep spreading the disease…………. Toodles!