Rob

bum_ra @ 2009-03-16T12:48:00

2009-03-16T12:50:22Z

feel a shit load better today, could be down to getting the thing off my chest or down to getting a solid 8 hours of sleep last night either don't care!

Here's hoping the rest of the day stays like that.

Robin hood..Bow and arrow..bah amateur =p

2008-11-02T17:52:28Z

Running around Sherwood forest in the pouring rain blasting little balls of paint at moronic cheating muppets, now that's what I call a day out =D

My team won.

More may follow but I'm too tired and covered in bruises about the size of an old 50 pence piece to sit here and write.

P.S. Paintballs taste like shit

bum_ra @ 2008-06-20T17:23:00

2008-06-20T16:43:49Z

I feel much better today after finally getting more than 3 hours sleep last night.

Spent most of today chasing round breakers yards, garages and part suppliers looking for a replacement lock for the driver side door, getting brake pads and discs and having the tyres on the drivers side done.

back to work tomorrow after having the week off horray (don't take this as a sign that I like my job, I don't it's long, boring and dull so there =p)

bum_ra @ 2007-11-22T20:29:00

2007-11-22T20:40:03Z

No more will I ever have to take a driving test again, after 4 attempts at the bloody thing I finally PASSED =D

I almost had a heart attack waiting for the examiner to say something, then when he did, he did so deadpan I thought I'd failed then he said "well Mr Aston I'd like to say you've passed you test" I wanted to get out the car and start dancing in the street instead of listen to him drone on about about the 6 point rule and some stupid goverment magazine they dish out to new drivers.

Thank whatever higher power for getting me through it, God knows it's cost a couple of grand to get to this point, next stop save up some cash after the new house zapped the last of it and get a nice but cheap car although what I really want is shiny new Audi R8 *sigh* I can dream.

Update time

2007-07-12T10:47:09Z

well the last couple of weeks have been a bit of a mixed bag.

Bad news first, I fucked up my driving test again ( there goes another £350, wheeeeeeeeee)This time it was on the ring road by the QMC I was on a roundabout, yes I blew the test on a another roundabout so sue me, I was going round, looking for anything from the left that might just decide to pull out on me like some wankers in cars (or vans/buses/trucks) do, only to accidentally drift over slightly into inside lane and almost cut an up alfa coming up the side of me, so he brakes and I moved back into the correct position, but not quick enough to get away with it, so scratch one serious fault and another test failed.

What's that stupid saying? third time lucky or something?, I bloody hope so this is getting too expensive.

And now for the good stuff.

Getting a pay rise at work, well I should be, Evans (supervisor) put me forward for a grade 3 pay rise but the whole thing hinges on the factory manager approving it, he looks back at my attendance record for a whole year, now since September I've only had 2 days off sick, 1 was for some 48 hour virus I picked up from somewhere and the other was for a migraine in early February which would be too bad but before September we drop into dodgy territory, which might stop me getting what I deserve.

Yesterday I went to Alton towers with Carole, John, Jake and Stacie had a shit load of fun, went on pinball whizzer, chilled out in the cafe while Jake and Stacie did Submission and Oblivion, then we all did Hex followed a picnic inside the towers, John and Carole went off to the Charlie and Chocolate factory ride while me and the 2 soppy teenagers piled onto Rita, got completely drenched on the flume, mildly splashed on the rapids and finished it off with a quick game of Duel, then home.

And just to finish this off I have a new boyfriend but that can wait for another post.

Talk about a foregone conclusion

2007-01-17T14:59:14Z

I PASSED =D

bum_ra @ 2006-11-08T19:16:00

2006-11-08T19:16:47Z

The things people do when they are bored at work :D found this scribbled down on a piece of cardboard, it gave me a giggle I thought I share it with you lot.

My Vibro, which brings me heaven,
Rabbit be thy name,
Thy kingdom come, thy makes me cum,
On earth with my eyes on heaven,
Give me this day my daily thrill,
And forgive my screams as I forgive flat batteries
Lead me not into temptation, but delivers me from frustration
For thine is rotation, the power and the buzzing
For ever and ever
No men

bum_ra @ 2006-11-07T19:53:00

2006-11-07T19:53:54Z

Today was a complete bag of shit from start to finish, got in to find out that night shift had done what night shift does best, leave a massive shitstorm for us to sort out, half the lines went on to scrap duty as the profiles were out of square, then just to make matters worse the stupid twats in the production office decide to start dishing out more orders than can dealt with due to a total lack of labour so I wind up having to deal with agency muppets while having to pack and check 2 lines myself. Come 6pm my back is ready to kill me and this is only the start of my working week.

I.O.N I am now broke for the foreseeable future (atleast till after christmas has come and buggered off) Friday night at the dev with Carole, Jonty, Jane, the boy and his girlfriend was great but I spent way too much, plus the added cost of paying for more driving lessons has left me right at the bottom end of my overdraft, could do some overtime to help clear it off but I can't be arsed to do anymore for Eurohell than I already do.

bum_ra @ 2006-11-03T10:59:00

2006-11-03T10:59:59Z

You scored as Serenity (Firefly). You like to live your own way and donâ??t enjoy when anyone but a friend tries to tell you should do different. Now if only the Reavers would quit trying to skin you.

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Serenity (Firefly)

95%

Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)

94%

Moya (Farscape)

81%

SG-1 (Stargate)

75%

Deep Space Nine (Star Trek)

69%

Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica)

63%

Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)

56%

FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files)

56%

Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix)

44%

Bebop (Cowboy Bebop)

44%

Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda)

38%

Enterprise D (Star Trek)

25%

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bum_ra @ 2006-10-20T13:39:00

2006-10-20T13:14:02Z

Yesterday was fun.

Went to Lincoln on the train to meet a guy called Colin (sort of first date if you want to call it that), met me off the train then proceeded to the nearest starbucks for coffee cake and chattage, we then convened to his place of residence (you can make up your own damn minds as to what happened next coz I'm not telling ya) then later on we went to the Horse & Groom, one of Lincolns 2 gay pubs and according to Colin its the better one of the two, to which I'd have to agree, just my luck its Karaoke night in there hosted by 2 guys in drag, so while we were having a few relaxing drinks and chatting away, you got a round of drag bitch'in comedy followed by someone murdering Spandau Ballet's True and Gold , more bitch then more bad renditions of songs, until the time came to catch my train back. All went well IMO hopefully I'll see him again.

Got back to Nottingham about 11:40pm and totally forgot that the connecting train to Alfreton stopped running at 8pm whoops : ) so I got Graeme to pick me from Nottingham except I still had to get a cab from the train station to Arnold because he's useless at navigating the city center, got home and crashed.

Off out again tonight to the Dev with the spanish inquisition (cujosmurf) and her new squeeze (probably gonna get slapped for saying that lol)

bum_ra @ 2006-10-15T11:55:00

2006-10-15T10:58:00Z

Happy Birthday tabatha_yeddap

bum_ra @ 2006-10-13T21:06:00

2006-10-13T20:10:53Z

bum_ra @ 2006-10-08T20:47:00

2006-10-08T20:52:33Z

Urgh don't feel good, had to leave work early this afternoon, thanks to a flu bug.

Christ I haven't felt that cold and hot at the same time for like ever!

bum_ra @ 2006-10-03T18:12:00

2006-10-03T17:42:10Z

lets see what have I done.....hmmmm?

Work was shit, so no change there then =p but I should be getting a pay rise very very soon, apperently they have been under paying me for quite a while, I never knew and the arseholes that did didn't do or say anything about anything about it, until I had a converstaion with Bob (forklift friver) to which he tells me about a conversation he had with the factory manager about morale and why people seem to be leaving, at which point hes says overworked and underpayed (so true its not even funny) he (bob) asked me what I was on to which I replied X amount of pounds and pence, he looked shocked and says I should be on a lot more than what I'm getting for what I have been doing, so I went of and brought up the subject of money with Steve and John (bank leader), at which point John walks off with a face like thunder (I'm assuming he gave the shift supervisor a round of fucks), 5 minutes later comes back and just says "sorted", as it happens I should be on what they class as grade 3 as I do all my own checks, paper work, sorting out others (i.e noobies and temps) but for some reason I am still on grade 5.

But not for long.

Had a driving lesson yesterday, when round in circles again this time doing right turns, then started doing figure 8's, stalled a couple of times as I was stopping and pulling away on a upward slope, instead of pulling the handbrake and doing the pulling manuever (find the bite on the clutch, signal, check mirrors and blindspot, check for traffic and if all clear move my ass off the junction) I though i would try doing what I have seen everybody else do that has some experience and casually move off, at which point the car starts to slip backwards and my first instinct screams "BRAKE YOU STUPID BASTARD" instead of little more gas and a little less clutch, ah well next lesson is not for a couple of weeks as dave has fucked off on holiday (lucky bastard), I shall be venturing out onto the roads proper so we can cover traffic lights and roundabouts etc, etc.

Then we get today, which consisted of breakfast followed by wierd physco Scottish HR bitch from hell (green wing) stuck 512mb ram in Caroles computer and let her hijack my journal to alter the layout mainly because I cant be arsed to figure it out myself, not that its hard or anything, I'm just to lazy to care =p

Look everybody!

2006-10-03T12:54:51Z

I changed bum_ra's layout. I'm dead clever *does the clever dance*

Now why can't I work this shit out on my own journal?

(um, this is Carole by the way *waves at the bum_ra Flist*)

bum_ra @ 2006-09-19T15:08:00

2006-09-19T14:14:05Z

why did no-one tell me it was speak like a pirate day,

for this you shall all be keel-hawled.

yesterday was my first driving lesson for quite a while, so had to start from the begining, got used to using a clutch again, still a bit slow with pulling away from the curb but that will improve over time, last time I did I stall god knows how times, this time however I only stalled once : )

Next lesson is on Monday, bring it on I say.