Sorry - Another Move!

You'll now find me over at VOX. Don't question how I'm able to post here now after months of not working. Lets just believe that its an anomaly and if I started using this site again it would break.

http://arcadefinger.vox.com/

Thanks
Dave

New Comments Option

Hey peeps,

Remember that the blog is at http://arcadefinger.50webs.com.

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Take it easy out there kids

Dave

BLOG MOVED

http://arcadefinger.50webs.com/
Arcadefinger

The technical problems are too much, until it gets fixed I've moved to my own site.

EDIT: Typical that the problem seems fixed now! After I spent time making that new blog!

connection problems

First off, I know I didn’t blog yesterday and I know the thousands of you out there must have been lost during the down time. For this I apologise but I have a good excuse. Lets go back to where this all began, yesterday at around 4pm.

Another uneventful day at work which finished at 3 leaving me hungry for something more than a sandwich back at home. McDonalds provided me with sustenance in the form of a toasted deli sub, chicken tika to be precise. Aside from the unwanted cucumber it was pretty good, I mean its not a patch on Subway but a good effort none the less. Coming home in the unbearable heat! It really was the hottest day I’ve felt in the UK. I entered my building to find the lifts out of action. This marks the start of the worst thinks you would want to happen on the hottest day in 100 years. Four flights of stairs felt like torture after the relatively short, but incredibly hot, walk home. Its ok I thought, once you get in you can take a nice cold shower and you’ll be as fresh as a daisy in no time. Once in the flat I peeled off my shirt, that’s no exaggeration, and headed to the shower. A turn of the tap resulted in dryness! Nothing. A few seconds of utter confusion followed as I then gave the sink taps a try, nothing. Kitchen sink, nothing. Shit! I’d arranged to meet Liz after work too and I was running late. With no water there was pretty much nothing I could do except put on some clothes again and head out! I met someone one the stairs who confirmed that the water was out in the whole building.

I headed to town hopping it would get fixed while I was out. I decided to slip my newly acquired flip flops on to head into town and while walking I thought that bare feet would be even better than flip flops! Holy shit, the pavement burned the soles of my feet in seconds. Back on with the flip flops but with the added bonus of some grit I’d picked up, mmm comfy. Bought some posters with Liz at the Forum and headed back. Lifts still out and an intermittent alarm still sounding. Once in our place we checked but still no water. I knew I wasn’t at work until 5 the next day so the prospect of not showering wasn’t too bad, Liz was at work at 9 though so steps needed to be taken. Luckily as we were heading out to the Royal Standard (to em…use the facilities, if you know what I mean. Remember, no water, no flush!) we met two guys from Yorkshire Water.


Turns out there was a power cut some time in the day and it tripped loads of circuits, including the lift, internet router and most importantly the pump that moves water around the building! This meant that it wasn’t Yorkshire Water’s problem and we had to wait until the morning to get water and internet. Thus explaining the lack of blog action yesterday. Yorkshire Water did do something pretty cool though (considering it wasn’t their problem) loads of bottles of water for the whole building. It probably didn’t go very far but we got some.

As you can see I’m online now and am happy to say I’ve just come from a lovely long shower!

On to today’s activities all I’ve done is a bit of tidying and finally put up the first poster. A new one that we bought yesterday.

Take it easy out there kids

Dave

Blogging while Seated

What an awesome invention the sun is, whoever was sat around in the cold and dark and was like “you know what we need?...” Buy that guy a Heineken! The reason I start on such a silly statement is because of the nice weather we’ve been having for what seems like weeks. Today was no exception and I’ve been told tomorrow will be the hottest the UK has experienced in 100 years! The sun seems to make everything so much nicer and pretty much every time I walk round Sheffield I love the place even more (I know that sounds mental but I stand by my claims) I did manage to avoid the heat though as I was working 10 til 3 today. A good and bad thing depending on how you look at it. I’ve never been one for the heat and the max strength air conditioning of Debenhams keeps me nice and cool. It does the moment I step onto the shop floor I should say, the journey to work only makes me sweat like crazy. Luckily various body sprays keep the odour to a minimum. While at work I’ve found that the heat keep customers away from the slavery of retail therapy which leaves me pretty hassle free during my shift.

I did have some after work tasks to complete so I got straight onto those at 3. And I mean literally as I had to do some shopping at Debenhams. Off with the name badge and I was browsing in seconds. I needed some new trousers and shirt for a family wedding we have to attend in 2 weeks. Liz already got her dress and we’d arranged to coordinate (*nods with pride) Black and red is the look we’re going for and so black trousers and black shirt were required. Luckily my time at Debenhams had cued me to the bargains and not too much growler was spent. Back in Sheffield town a trip to Argos presented me with a desk chair. Something we’ve desperately needed as its absence left computer usage a genuinely painful practice.The final product is meant to have arms but space restriction meant that I didn't attatch them.

I can tell you that my cheeks are nestled comfortable and my spine is fully supported. I had to scan in part of the instruction manual too as it features quite an unusual man showing you how to adjust the seat:

That’s all for today folks

Late shift? Only if I get free ice cream!

Let me tell you about my night at work. Got there for about 3pm ready for a late one full of busy work. Hardly! Everyone was complaining about it but it was all really easy and I think it was just because it was a Sunday night that their brains couldn’t handle the idea of working so late. Not to go into too much boring detail, basically another company come in to the store and scan every single item with handheld scan-gun type things. Our job was to check 10% of their checks to make sure they were doing it right. What this meant is that we initially had to wait until they’d done some scanning leaving me and two other similar aged dudes to stand around a chat. Even when we had to work it was really relaxed and not very hard. Just had to read out the barcode number while another person ticked a list. The weird thing was that on top of the fact that the work was actually really easy they thought we all needed free sweets, crisps and pots of ice cream to keep it truckin’ through the night! I ate so much as I found myself stood about a lot. As there were no customers we also got to wear what we wanted and I even had my MP3 player quietly playing at some points. Speaking of what to wear while at work I have to share this photo of me in my Debenhams approved t-shirt that was handed to me on Friday. BooYa!We didn’t even stay as late as we first thought either (got back at about 2:30am thanks to a lift from someone). My student days have trained me well as 2:30am is not that late at all and so its not like it threw out the next day either. All in all a good way to earn money and if they ask me again I jump at the chance.

On to today’s activities. All we had planned was eating at Jumbo’s – a plan we successfully implemented to the pleasure of my stomach.Me and Liz both ate our fill and I even pushed the boat out with a pint of XXXX. Yum! A leisurely walk back through town on one of the hottest days I’ve ever felt here in Sheffield (or even anywhere in the UK come to think about it) has left me smiling and sleepy back at the flat with no plans other than putting up a few posters to start making the place feel like home.

Another activity that’s been taking up a bit of time is learning (or should that be re-learing) to play the guitar. This time ‘unplugged’ thanks to Aarons kind passing of his acoustic to me before he left for Taiwan. Today I learned to play that NOFX song I mention below (Cool and Unusual Punishment) with the aid of a program called Power Tab.

I don't know that facial expression that is meant to be!

The YouTube Trap

Seeing Double at the Triple Rock by NOFX

Just a quick blog today and it falls to YouTube to fill in the gap. I'm at work today for 12 hours doing something called 'Stock Take' which involves going there at 3pm and staying until we get finished at about 3am! It’s a higher rate of pay and it all helps with paying rent but it obviously means this is today’s blog as it’s straight to bed for me when I get back. Why I chose NOFX is because I've been listening to them loads over the last few weeks and this ones from their newest album Wolves in Wolves' Clothing. Its not a particularly funny video or my favourite song from the album (that honour goes to Cool and Unusual Punishment – an awesome song about Tokyo so those out there who’ve been, check it out) but NOFX don’t seem to make many videos so it falls to Seeing Double at the Triple Rock to provide video goodness for today.

The weathers been awesome here for what seems like weeks and everything’s going great here – hope it is wherever you are right now.

Dave