January 2007 Archives

Our little guy finds it hard to get himself into sleep mode, he often tries to suck his hand and make some noises, if he succeeds he is alsleep in 20 min, if not we are awake with him for an hour trying to calm him down. My wife is a TOTAL saint for dealing with this several times a day, I'm a lucky guy! Anyone got any tips?

Hinata reprogramming the phone switch,
originally uploaded by パックマン. Hes been pooping roughly 10 nappies a day and they dont come cheap so when I had to go into the office to repatch the phone panel I decided that it was time for the little fella to earns his keep. After a quick 5 min run down how the system worked he was well on his way while I played Warcraft ^_=

Why buy a bear suit once.... when you can buy one twice?

Seeing I had a lot of Christmas presents I decided to send a box via Parcel2Go to Holland.... BIG mistake! There is no way to speak to a human being these days, it's 100% online so when the box did not arrive I decided to check online with the tracking number.... Seems that my box was picked up from me on the 20th of December, then a little later arrived at Heathrow, then arrived at a depot, not sure in which country. Then a whopping 7 days later it arrived in Birmingham, not sure why that takes 7 days but ok. Now it starts getting confusing, 2 days later it is send back to the sender (me?) only to appear in Holland a few hours later? Think that is weird? 4 days later it is back in the UK only to arrive back in Holland 1 day later where it now sits in a depot because there is an Address Query. At no point was my email address, phone number nor my uncles email address or phone number used to talk to us, sender and receiver, about the so called Address Query. I have now filed a complaint, lets see what happens. Date Time Location Event Status 04 Jan 2007 09:26 Ede DPD - Held By Depot - Address Query 04 Jan 2007 06:13 Ede DPD - Confirmed at Depot 03 Jan 2007 14:44 Best (eindhoven) DPD - International Hub - in Transit 02 Jan 2007 18:57 Hub 1 Confirmed at Hub 02 Jan 2007 18:56 Birmingham DPD - International Hub - In Transit 02 Jan 2007 18:50 Hub 1 Confirmed at Hub 02 Jan 2007 12:00 Birmingham DPD - Collected from Sender 29 Dec 2006 22:26 Best (eindhoven) DPD - International Hub - in Transit 29 Dec 2006 16:24 Ede DPD - Delivery Exception 29 Dec 2006 16:23 Ede DPD - Returned to Sender, Address Query 27 Dec 2006 13:37 Birmingham DPD - International Hub - In Transit 27 Dec 2006 12:00 Birmingham DPD - Collected from Sender 20 Dec 2006 23:52 Hub 1 Confirmed at Hub 20 Dec 2006 23:38 Hub 2 Confirmed at Hub 20 Dec 2006 17:50 Heathrow Parcel label applied 20 Dec 2006 10:31 Heathrow Collected from sender 21 Dec 2006 Imaging Consignment Note image available UPDATE I called the parcel company in Holland and all is fine now.... The guys in England still don't know whats going on.

A new year is upon us and as is tradition one has to set new years resolutions so I will ^_= The first one is also going to serve me as a reminder of the others, updating my blog more is number one. Just logged on for the first time since august and discovered over a 1000 blog spam comments. I'm a bit puzzled as most seem to be for strange sex sites. Second resolution, to study Japanese for real. I already received several kicks under the butt from my friends. If I don't know basic Japanese by the end of this year I should be seriously ashamed. Third resolution, change the way I work to achieve more job satisfaction. Fourth resolution, accelerate reducing my debts followed by using my savings account That's enough for now I reckon.