When you wish upon a star...

It turns out to be plane full of other people off having fun while you are stuck on the ground at work and having to get on with your sucky life while they plan their vacation...

Cinderella was full of crap...

Alright, so this is a little supplemental rant but I have been drooling over an I Pen mouse for some time now and hoping that Santa would get his gnomes (or dwarves or as I think they prefer to be known these days, 'little people') to make me a splendid little contraption so that I can draw and paint things on my computer.

This was of course until we discovered all the fun that is the Trailer Sale saga...

For those of you that aren't obsessed with graphic art and all the fun that involves, an I Pen is a contraption similar to a writing pen that is in fact a mouse. It comes with a little 'tablet' thingie that is basically a glorified mouse pad but you use it to write on and this comes up on the screen exactly as drawn. Kinda like a regular mouse but without feeling like you are drawing and illutrating with a house brick!!

Anyway, some time ago I was looking up these little gems online when I was supposed to be writing a text book for yet another in-house program at work that no one would read except the developers- under duress... when I came upon a SUPER cool version that was at that time unreleased.

Oh it was spendid...

*wipes off drool and comes back to reality * Anyway, so I put my name down to recieve more information about it when it came out. Those were carefree days... Then forgot about it, as you do...

Well it's NOW ON SALE and worst of all available ON DISCOUNT!!! AAGH!!

The wording was as follows:

"We are pleased to inform you that the IPen you were emailed us about has now become available. Further to your request, we have placed a unit on hold in your name and await your confirmation."

Just for me... so near and yet so far...Buggers...

Needless to say that right now, it's not financially possible but it was a horrible suprise when I opened that lovely little email.

I guess in the vein of what I would like and what actually is...

I guess I shall have to keep drawing my little piccies with my fingers like a 5 year old... ho hum...

It's not fair, they should send you reminders or something to check that you still want to be considered for the product or even better link it to your checking account and cancel your emails the second you go overdrawn.

Good grief it pained me to send them the thanks but no thanks reply.

So the point of this little posting?? Let this be the moral of the story, friends:

Don't EVER buy a mobile home!!

I bet "She" has six...

Promises... Promises... Oh CRAP!!

Well, as my legion of fan noted the other day, I have broken my promise of posting a little tid bit every day and haven't in fact posted since erm... the 20th [insert cheeky and winning grin here...] I could say that this has been due to deathly illness or unforeseen technical issues... I'd be lying.


It is down to three things...

1- A crap week which would have taken all of the bandwidth in the universe to rant off

2- A general sense of grumpiness due to the fact that Chris now has a Blog and it's funnier than mine

3- I suck and am lazy...


This is me sucking...

Of course this isn't actually me but I fear photography like the Aborigines- although for other reasons. Where they fear losing their souls to an overzealous cameraman, I fear losing my anonymity to a bunch of pervy teens who think it's funny to stalk me online because I have boobs. That's not to say that I think myself a hottie or anything but you never know who is reading your work...

Anyway, no more. I pledge, nay SWEAR that I shall post something on every weekday that I am not otherwise unable to get to a PC. I think it very sweet of my readers to say such wonderful things about my pointless little notes on life and indeed to miss these little meanderings. So for you, I promise to be better.

I might also add that I have recieved some pretty lovely feedback about both my little hand drawn characters and also my rants. Two items that I wasn't sure about adding. However, due to popular demand, I shall be stepping these up in my little posties. Watch this space...