This is just to let all you people know... well those of you that have noticed and are interested know... why uppie your chat god had not been online for ten days or so... as you know I live in New Zealand.. yes thats right.. the place where they have no broadband... well we call it broardband but you would laugh at the speed of it... but worse than this our monopoly teleco has let the old copper wires fall into such disrepair that even the phonelines which provide dial up connections are failing... I have a 56k modem the best speed I have ever had out of my good phoneline is 42k's and that was at 3 in the morning... yes thats right I have two phonelines... one totaly devoted to the comp that will only run at 28k's tops.. this line has failed three times on me... the reason I have been away is that both lines failed and it took ten days to repair...Anyway enough ranting... another sort of weird thing that happened to me the other day... I was sitting with three other co-workers... just jawboning.. this was in the store... the office where we pick up all our supplies.. next thing there is a bang bang bang on the window... and this woman is out there yowling like a wounded dog... asking for someone to take her home as her kid is dead.... it was really bad you never want to hear another person like that... anyway Gloria jumps up takes her in hand and rushes her home... the rest of us are sitting there .. sort of stunned.... feeling like crap... wondering WTF... five minutes later we got a call... panick over it's the cat that is dead not the boy.... the boys name is peke prnounced sort of like pickie... the cats name was pinkie... her younger kid rang up screaming and wailing that pinkie had been run over and was dead... talk about misscomunication... any way when we heard I said "what do you mean the fucking cat"... Gloria told me that was exactly what this woman said to her kid when she got home...
Cheers
Uppie