It has been a fairly quiet week this week (apart from today I suppose - but more of that later)
The rush to war continues - and the more you look and listen, the more that I am convinced that the Bush Presidency will go a head what-ever. You only had to take note of the "Do we need British Troops or not?" comment by Donald Rumsfeld mid-week. That just shows to me that the American leadership don't really care what they do as long as they get their own way. The UN has become, I'm sad to say, impotent.
The French and Russians still object vehemently (something to do with all the trade they still do with Iraq?) - but after that slight from Rumsfeld, I still cannot understand why Tony Blair still wishes to commit British Troops when they appear not to be wanted (even though they have supposedly "Kissed and made up in the mean time")
Life in the Smith household as gone on as it normally does, Monday is Scouts night, Tuesday is "Clean the pets part 1", Wednesday is Football and so on.
Friday was , of course (for us Brits at least) Rednose Day (alternative site here) - but more of that later.
Friday A.M. was a training course for work. This is a new Pole Climbing Belt, and the rationale behind it is to improve safety - due to several reasons . Instead or the "round the waist" belt we had, this new belt is made up of a complete body harness (just like a Parachute harness, a belt to lean against (leaving both hands free to work with at the top of a pole) and an Energy Absorbing Lanyard (or to put it bluntly - a device to stop you falling all the way to the bottom of a pole if everything goes wrong)
I know some of the lads who have already had the training find this new belt a bit cumbersome - but I shall see how we get on.
Back to Rednose day.
This is a bi-annual telethon run, and based on Comedy. At long last the result of the Celebrity Fame Academy was what it should have been . Ruby Wax, for a Singer, is a great Comedienne and she ( I hope)played it for laughs all the way through - a great entertainer. But, in my mind at least, there was no doubt that Will Mellor would be the winner. I must admit, however, I wasn't taken with the Reeves and Mortimer section , but most of what I saw was good.
Today has been uncomfortable for me (and still is as I type this) - a bit of a mixture between a Sinus flare up and a Migraine. It is very hard to explain this sort of pain - you daren't move your head for fear of increasing the pain, but you have to move your head or your muscle cramp.My norm for blogging is to write my entries first thing in the morning, but it is only now that I can sit up right long enough to type this (the pain that is left is a lot like that "skinned knee" feeling - but trapped inside your head at the back of your nose). To top this off Cathy's not that well either, and as I slept most of the morning and the early afternoon(which is not like me - I nearly always wake up at around 07.00 a.m.) and Cathy has slept the rest of the afternoon. We've been "lucky" today - Liam and Laura went to Table tennis lessons this morning, and they have been playing with their friends all afternoon.
I have been "playing again".
Sometimes I use Netscape as an alternative browser when I'm fed up of IE6. Any way one of the downsides to this is that x tools for my xanga site does not work too well.
Anyway, in Thursday's Xanga Subscriber e-mail, one of the entries for that day was from seanmeister's Xanga Site.
On there he had posted a little script which you can download to get over this little problem (just make sure that you are viewing the page from the appropriate program - and not like I from IE6) . In conjunction with Netscape/Mozilla Composer option, this little script will add your fully integrated posting on your xanga site.
I have it working with Mozilla - but not with Netscape 7.02. However if you read the comments on this site for this posting, it would seem I'm the odd one out - and if anyone has Netscape/Mozilla - it may well be worth a go.
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