Oh what a surprise.

They've fucked up my benefits payments for the third time running. This has gone beyond a joke and into sheer taking the piss territory. Of course their phone line closed at 5pm, too late for me to contact them. I will be asking to make a formal complaint, because this is just fucking with me. Looks like I'll have to miss out on the local group CHristmas meal meet as well. Absolute incompetent fuckers.

Bleh, portmanteaus and stuffs.

(written before I found out I hadn't bveen paid my benefits...again.)

Dear customer, if i have just briefly unlocked the shop door three second after locking it to explain I am having to lock the door for ten minutes to recover from a very bad, very sudden hypoglycemia attack, do not then go on and try to ask the question you were coming into the shop to ask in the first place. I cannot think straight and you are very lucky I maintianed enough self control not to scream at you to fuck off. It's only the second time I've had to ask customers to leave and come back later due to an attack like this and I did try and lock the door when nobody was in, but for twenty minutes I;d had a constant stream of customers and I couldn't wait any longer. Customers were okay about it, one of them's back in now, asked if I was okay and all that, which waqs nice.

Rewatched Tales From The Crypt the other night, the 1972 Amicus version. Or the "classy one" as i like to call it. ;p My oh my Joan Collins was smoking hot in 1972. It also has Peter Cushing, Ian Hendry and a bunch of other people you'll have seen in other stuff in it, a brief appearance from alternate first Doctor, Geoffrey Bayldon and crowned off by Sir Ralph Richardson as the cryptkeeper, wiht no makeup or anything, just the cowl. I actually wonder if most americans even know about this version, as I know there've been several movies and TV series of TotC over there. I was reading about how they changed two of the stories in the 1972 movie when they reworked them into episodes of the TV series.

The right shift key has come off my keyboard. Annoyingly it's a larger key so has two plastic bits and a wee metal rod under it, the latter of which scooted over onto the floor somewhere during a repair attempt. A wee dab of superglue on the rubber bit would probably work, but I'll see if I can find the metal bit and do it properly first.

I have shoved several Looney Tunes and TOm & Jerry cartoons onto my iPods, is a great YouTube channel for the Warner Bros stuff.

WTF? The guys doing the new Tron movie seemingly plan on remaking The Black Hole after that. Now i just need them to remake Condorman and I'll be sorted.