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My uncle was to fly out to France for 2 weeks today, an hour before he’s to leave for the airport – can’t find his passport. Talk about last minute.

You know, especially since ALL week we were talking about flights and passports, and checking ours to make sure we had them for a flight 4 months away!

Everything, drawers, presses, boxes, cushions, etc etc, was pulled to bits to try find it.

He eventually found it under the bed in a webcam box. Yeah I dunno what he was thinking there, least he found it.

Missed his plane though, so it was emergency interneting and calling around travel agents to try get the fastest cheapest flight out for him. Eventually got him one for tomorrow morning.

His girlfriend isn’t impressed, but she is iffy about flying so took a calmer downer before going – she’s totally relaxed about him missing the flight n stuff

Ah well.

1 person doing all the arrangements and bookings etc…..me

Now it’s actually been fun, I like doing this kind of thing, but for the love of god how hard is it to make up your mind as to what airline alone you want to take! What dates to go on? Where to stay? Rent a minibus or 4 cars? Argh

We’ve had “meetings” almost every night this week, which has kept me up til past 2am most nights and up for work at 8am. I am so so tired.

My cousin is getting married in Spain in November, and a few of up are piling over for it. It’s gunna be completely awesome, especially with my crazy family, can’t wait

I hope to have my iPhone for then!

Speaking of, I rang the store today to ask if they had any or when they’d be in, and the lady told me they have had some in, but only to fulfil their pre-orders Boooo.
But! She asked me if my name was on the list and checked what number it was on it – #2! Awesome! I hope to get it next week
yay!

ok so if you’ve been reading my blog from near enough the start, I guess – then you’ll know about the tool episode. If you haven’t, read this first: http://www.beibhinn.com/blog/?p=24

Ok, so now we’re all on the same page – today we had round 2. Yeah, I know, weeks later, but still.

Tool rang yesterday looking to talk to one of the guys about broadband setup, thankfully enough I stay away from this area as it’s troublesome, but none of the guys were in the office yesterday, just me, so I took the details (IP etc) and said I’d get one of them to call him in the morning (today).

This morning he calls around 11am, the rabbit was the only other one in the office, well sorta – he had to go home to pick up something so he wasn’t *in* the office at the time, but would be for the day. Told the tool that he’d call him back when he got in – no problem. Tool happy with this.

Left a note on the rabbit’s desk with the IP info etc., and a note saying to call – my job done.

The rabbit was mega busy today – it’s actually been a crazy busy week at work for all of us, I’m exhausted and it’s only 10PM – so he had a list of stuff to get through and hadn’t gotten time to call the tool back yet.

Tool calls about 3:30pm or so, and the rabbit is on the phone, so again I say – he’ll call you back. I told the rabbit when he got off the phone – my job done, again.

An hour goes by and we get a call from the boss, asking what was going on because the tool had been onto him bitching. Complaining is the wrong word to use when talking about the tool, ’cause all he is is a little bitch anyway. Yeah, ok I’m probably still a *tad* pissed at what happened with him before, but with good right! Read on friends.

The rabbit hangs up after talking with the boss and calls the tool. All I heard, and I knew from the *second* I heard the rabbit have to repeat himself what was going on, is below…

This is a bit paraphrased, but you’ll get the idea.

Rabbit: Tool, hi, sorry I didn’t get to call you back – I thought you were going to call me when you got to the customer.

Tool: You mean beib gave you the wrong information?

Rabbit: No, I misunderstood what was going on

Tool: So beib didn’t tell you the right info?

Rabbit: No, she told me right but I misunderstood.

Tool: You’re telling me you don’t understand English now?

Rabbit: *pause*

Tool: I don’t want to talk to you anymore

*hangs up*

OK SEE THAT? HANGS UP!
What happened last time? Oh yeah, he bitched at me for hanging up on him, when I didn’t even do that! And blaming me for what was going on, sheesh, I was *fuming*.

So I told the rabbit to not answer the phone if he calls, and I wasn’t going to either – thank you caller ID. He rang twice and we didn’t answer. Now, I wasn’t going to ignore him outright, just not answering until we spoke with our boss over this.

When we got ahold of our boss, about 30 mins later, we filled him in and I told him to make sure to make an issue with the tool over this because it’s the exact thing he complained me for, and he blamed me originally for this happening. Tool.

So the boss is handling it, with special note from me on double standards. Think he said he had a meeting with him on Monday anyway, so be interesting to see what happens.

Not only that, but later the boss calls me asking about some change to the multisite system the tool has. He wants to reverse it so things go in opposite directions. The tool *specifically* told me this would not be needed or wanted when we set all these systems up in the beginning, now it’s a big change to do it the way he wants. Talking 2 hours a machine, sigh.

And tomorrow’s Friday, bet he’ll want as many of them as possible done tomorrow.

Oh, and no sign of the iPhone being out tomorrow here, so may not have it this week

I am so ready for this week to be over.

A couple of nights ago, my mother was at my grandparents house- she goes there almost every night. Anyhoo, she was in the living room with one of my aunts and one of my uncles, Theresa and Marty. Some Western movie came on with Burt somethingorother (I’m too young :p) came on and they got in a “what other movies was he in” , then moved onto the other actors/actresses in the movie.
After that ended, Gladiator came on and the little quiz picked right up again But there’s only so many actors in the movie so they moved onto other movies! One being that Mel Gibson one, Signs. Great movie. I’m not gunna ruin it for you if you haven’t seen it, don’t worry.

So anyhoo, my mother says how the best part of that movie was the reflection in the TV, and my aunt came in with how they killed the aliens, ok so maybe I’ll ruin it a little :p

My grandparents were both in the room at the time, and this is almost word for word what was said:

Theresa: Yeah they killed them with the water.

Grandmother: Whos’ this?
Mother: Aliens ma, they killed them with water

Grandmother: Oh in the movie?
Marty, yeah ma.

Grandfather: Who’s this? (seriously)
Grandmother: Aliens Stephen.

Grandfather: What about them?
Grandmother: Water da, they killed the aliens that came down with water.

Grandfather: Oh right.

Gradnfather: Where did this happen?

…

I kid you not.

So we had a surprise party for my grandfather who turned 87 today. His health isn’t the best and we’re delighted he’s here for it. *thanks*

We all turned up at 8:30 for a little party, I even brought my dog because they get on really well. But, no sign of my grandfather. He was over in the betting office putting bets on tomorrow’s horses :p thank god he still can
So in he comes after 9, we turn off the lights (I know, health bad and we decide to do something that could give the man a heart attack!) and get ready to shout “Surprise!”. Scared my dog, shitless. Literally.

We didn’t “spot” it ’til the smell started hitting us all, hehe. My uncle was first to find it, so he had to clean it up.

Was a good party though, and he was happy

When it came to clean up time, I cleaned up some ashtrays by empting them into the trash. 30 mins later we get a burning smell around the kitchen. One of the cigarettes in the ashtrays I emptied wasn’t fully put up, I set the bin on fire
Memorable night, that’s for sure.

I change often

What do you think of this one???

I think I have a same topic made earlier. Anyway, he does. Sweat smells, a lot. We have to put the air conditioner on cold to try unstuffify the place after he’s been in here. I can even get it right now and I’m in another office.

I talked the boss around to getting the regular contract (for me anyway) and going with it. He said I could get it Saturday, awesome!

Except, they were all sold out

I have to wait 2 WEEKS for them to be back in stock *cries*

Least I know I get it in 2 weeks.

I want one. Bad.

Work is offering to get my one, I pay the contract, they buy the ‘phone. Very cool, only thing is – they are WAITING to see what happens and what’s the best way to go about it. Get one without contract so we can unlock them, or go with the local company with contract. The local one suits me fine, I’ll mostly use it for internet – net/email/etc.
But I want it now. I already waited for the 3G model to come out, or I’d have one months ago (waiting for the 3G was definitely the best idea).

I can’t wait anymore! It’s there, it’s out, no reasonnnnnnnnnnnnn, argh! Just to save a few euros though, gah.

I also haven’t told the boss about Unibrow and the key incident yesterday. Don’t know if I should or not, what do you think?