Initially my blog was just to fill time at work. However, as time has gone on I have had more time to fill at work and had to extend the content to stuff I do outside work. Then today I decided that I would use my blog to try and get better at writing. Actually, I didn't decide, so much as look at Richard Herring's blog and copy his idea, but I don't think that is relevant.
I missed work yesterday because of a (hilarious in hindsight) misunderstanding where my dad got really pissed off with people calling him up from India asking him if he wanted a new credit card or a free phone and decided to disconnect the phone. As a result, my mum (in Mauritius visiting her parents and the rest of the family) couldn't call him up and got so worried that she thought he might have done something stupid and told me to drive down to Epsom to make sure he was ok. This was a bit of a double edged sword as it made me very worried about what could have happened (usually my parents would go to Mauritius together but my dad couldn't as he had hospital appointments) but it meant I could get out of a rather tedious game of Monopoly with my housemates. Actually it wasn't a double edged sword at all I just am being stupid with cliches.
As it turns out my dad was ok and very happy with his current credit card and phone situation. While disconnecting the phone did cause a lot more stress than it was worth, I think he had a point. When I stopped at a service station on the way back, some short bald guy was desperately trying to get me to sign up for a Barclaycard despite the fact that the only words I said to him were "I don't want a Barclaycard". He told me not to worry about Barclaycards - which I was already doing - even though he had a badge with Barclaycard written on it and was attempting to lure me over to a big stand which said Barclaycard on it by pretending he just wanted to be my friend. And besides that, I already have a Barclaycard.
06/11/05 @ 11:24