The Geeky Brit

The other day I came home and a guy was jogging, naked. I asked him,
“Why?”
He said, “Because you came home early.”

So my lovely wife and are are heading to blighty

Unfortunately, My Mother died today (Thursday 19th June 2007).

She was my inspiration, and my hero. She will be missed, but we will all meet again.

Love you mum.

So my lovely wife and I had a few people round at the weekend for a friendly session of exhaustive beer drinking, mouth stuffing, and jaw wagging.

Fun was had by all, well, almost all. One of our guests decided to eat a Kebab* which was, well not cooked. This well beautiful educated, thirty something decided that all the food that was on the dining table was too well done for her. So she explored the uncooked meats on the side. Admittedly I perhaps should have covered them, but I had no idea that anybody with such sanguine tastes was attending. Either way, when I noticed, I quickly pointed out to her, and to all I could find, what a dumb thing it was to do. She appreciated me showing her where the cooked food was, which turned out to be hiding in plain site.

Way to go Alicia, you clever cat.

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So at last a new interchange is finished that allows me to take 33 seconds of my commute. Note, I am not complaining, its just that the road that the interchange is meant to serve is not built yet, so it all seems a little pointless as of right now.

However, there is plenty of commercial space in the area, and hopefully there will be a few businesses moving in to serve the south east Merced community which is sorely lacking great commercial facilities.

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