Thursday 8th November - I'm still here!

So pushed for time, can't believe I haven't blogged for two weeks! Santa must really deliver this box of Spare Time I keep asking him for this year, so I can take the occasional couple of hours a day from it!

What's been happening? I'm just now routinely busy, every day. Doing as much overtime as I can, and I think, since I've last blogged, I've worked about 60 hours overtime. Unreal!

So, I've had to squeeze life in around work. Web sites coming along nicely, if not far too slowly. Still got to sort out and add Laptops and DVD & CD's to the site yet - this is about another 1,500 pages alone.

But I've made my first web site sale now - a complete Pentium 4 computer system which has made me £63.00 profit, plus the installation fee of about £20.00. I'm installing this for the customer Friday afternoon. £80 profit. 2 hours work. Beats a 12 hour day shift at Kings Lynn hands down doesn't it? And its working for my business, for me, and that, to me, is really important.

The eBay side starting to run into a loss now - I'm left with things that aren't so popular but still having to pay £20.00 insertion fees. So, I'm leaving the rest of the stuff alone for car boots & Sunday markets after Easter - and I'm starting a second user section of my web site as well and putting the stuff on there as well.

It's been really quiet at work - I'm still working those 12 hour dreaded day shifts. A criminal waste of my time when I have so much other stuff I could be doing instead, although it helps to serve the main purpose of course - paying The Mortgage.

The Management, AKA my wife, has been off sick since I last blogged as well - her back is still really bad and this means weekly visits to the Oesteopath at the moment. She went to see the doctor yesterday, and collected another sick note for two weeks.

My son had an accident at work and had to be taken to hospital by his mum last Thursday (I think). Tripped over at work and ending up badly spraining his ankle. Casulty department was really busy and they had a three hour round trip by the time he was seen. He said that the consulting room had blood on the floor, and he had to stand barefooted on his trainer to save standing in it! Medical staff were really busy, but there were no cleaners on shift. Isn't that bad?

And, a little note of sadness too.My Ford fiesta, the car that has been part of my life for the last 5 years or so, was scrapped yesterday. Collected by the fire brigade - so my little car still has one purpose in it's life before it finally dies - assisting our fire brigade in training exercises.

My Nissan has also gone. Scrapped. Isn't it strange, that when I take a twenty two year old car in for MOT I can walk away with change from £200, and yet an 8year old car needs £400 of repairs? So it's gone, as well. Back, officially, to a one carfamily now, although we've only had one car on the road since January.

And, just close, two really productive things stand out from the last fortnight. Firstly, I've got rid of a quarter of the grass on the back garden - I'm determined I'm NOT going to be cutting the grass every week next year. I'll should finish off the first half of the grass this weekend. Then I'll start on the other side of the garden. Then - it'll be the front garden. Anyone want a lawnmower? (snigger)

And, finally, I've got one. After months of searching, I've had last managed to get an icon of my child hood - thanks eBay! The picture on this blog shows a picture of a Z Victor 4 Police Car - The Talking Police Car. had one of these when I was about 9 or 10 and I loved it to bits.

And, you know, although this one's 30 years old it's really been looked after - and it still works, although the voice box wants cleaning up a bit - it's been stored for years. I'm so pleased that I've captured - again- a little part of me.

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