On the posts my friends have done since I left work and got back on line.

No I would really.

But every time I click on the bit down the bottom that says "more friends posts"

This friggin computer,

In conjunction with this frigging fecking site,

Sits and stares at me....

Then EVERY FUCKING TIME

Says "gateway error time out tough shit situation"

There is fuck all on the telly, well apart from heroes which I'm taping, and I want to read my friends posts YOU FUCKING BASTARD INTERNET SHITBAG FUCKSICK LLWNT!

Erm. Wasn't someone saying something about the amount of swearing on this site earlier?

I think they were. BUT I CANT FUCKING SEE IT ANYWAY SO AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!

Just coming back up in the lift from my three O'clock ciggie break, and I noticed I was not alone in the lift.

There was a single shoe in the corner.

A lone, denim sandal type thing with a rubber toe cap and sole...

Eh?

Now before I say anything more, I know a few people on my friends list have hearing aids and/or concerns about their hearing. I am NOT belittling or mocking this at all.

As you may have gathered from reading this blog, my dear and loyal 0.5 of a reader, I occasionally scarper down to a public house at lunchtimes. It is good to sit amidst the dark wood and polished brass of an old style pub and chill out.

I arrived this lunchtime in the Angel and frontled up to the bar, which is a manoeuvre much like “sidling” but more direct. Brendan got me my drink and I sat down in a quiet corner.

As I do on every visit there, on seating myself with my drink I placed my magazine in front of me, my drink next to it, placed my mobile on the other side and popped my earphones in my ears and hit play. Now the music in the pub is a bit average, and the mp3s help to drown out the conversations about work that you have to put up with at lunchtimes.

Now when I go to the bar, I notice something odd. I normally have at least one of my earphones in when I go back up, and I can see that the staff actually enunciate with a bit more clarity – they think I can’t hear them as I have my headphones in so they assume I am having to lip read over Pitchshifter or whoever is playing. As I said I normally have one earphone out so I can actually hear, but they always assume I am “lost in music”.

On the way back to the office I started to wonder if this is the way people behave when they see they are talking to someone with a hearing aid? Or are we becoming used to having to deal with people who are plugged into some sort of portable entertainment and too rude to take the earphones out?

Ahem.

Here is a cheery thought for you - What song would you want played at your funeral?

Now don't panic, I am not in a mood. No ,I have mearly been inspired to think about it by Menos post on what she wants at her funeral.

Rather than doing a big list of stuff I would want, I thought I would ask you what song you would want as your slid into the ground/rolled into the flames/flushed down the pan.

As I don't believe in giving worms a free meal I am going to be cremated. And as I slide through the doors leaving the people that bothered to turn up waiting for an urn full of ashes they can pretend are mine, I think I would like Dave Lee Roths version of "Just a Gigolo/I ain't got nobody"

What about you?

So there.

May have to do a small bit of work today as the boss is in.

Might do a post inspired by Meno later about what I want to happen at my funeral. don't panic - I am in a good mood its just that her post was funny and I am never above stealing a good idea.

So far outside the sky is blue (well duh genious, the sky is hardly going to be blue INSIDE is it!) and the rain is being not here. But there are some grey clouds visible on the horizon.

I know you are all captivated by this stunning prose and praying for me to release you from the hypnotic hold of my truly interesting and inspired words (ahem)

so I will.

Have a good morning.