Monday 18 June 2012

Grey Day

It was cloudy and a little cooler when MrGrumpy left for work at 6:30am this morning. It would not last long, by the time he joined the freeway the sun was starting to break through and normal service was resumed.

While MrGrumpy was gathering up the details so he can claim for LittleMissNaughty's flights he noticed that his status on Virgin airlines had changes "You are currently a Flying Club Silver member with 122640 miles." not that it really makes any difference given that you can't upgrade the economy flights anyway and Silver only lets you use the premium checkin, no lounge access.

MrGrumpy's day was not going well, a development board and the tools were conspiring against him. The board was not being detected on the USB and would not generate any sound.
He hopes this is not another case of the VirtualXP/USB issues he seems to be plagued with.
He suspects not, as the board should generate sound regardless of the USB. At least MrWhiteSox was seeing the same issue, and between them they managed to kick it into some sort of life.

Alcatraz1 was now inhabitable, with desks, chairs and network, now all they need to do is keep moving to ensure the lights don't go out after 15 minutes.

By 7:00pm MrGrumpy was very ready to leave for the day, so the next problem is what to eat, does he stop at JackInTheBox and get a chicken fajita pita? (from their something different menu) or just head home and nuke something cheap from the freezer...

He decided to give "cheap" a go, "how bad could a $0.95 frozen meal be?" he thought...

He chose one from the freezer, 3 minute Nuke later it was time to stir, well it looked ok, not much of it but did not look that bad. Another 1 minute and then let it cool from the 10,000 deg C to something edible without a mouth lined with space shuttle tiles.
After all given the price he did not think it was that bad, it was much better than he expected (not difficult as the packaging would taste as good as he expected). For 230 calories and 7gms Fat it was OK really. He would now not feel even slightly guilty at having a beer this evening. In fact the beer cost more than the food. (not my much).

MrGrumpy is seeming to exist on quite a low budget (at least during the week), weekends are much more expensive, both in fuel and beer.

The blog has now had over 3000 views, MrGrumpy would like to thank everybody for continuing to read his inane pointless ramblings.














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