Ever have one of those days.. You wake up and though you can’t put your finger on it something is just not quite right? Well I’ve had close on 4 weeks of it. I’m seriously starting to think that the real world has drifted off and left me in somebody’s messed up nightmare. Earlier today I was repairing a heavy piece of domestic equipment and put down a large spanner I was using.. I use the word with caution.. more like “attempting to use” and it just vanished. I didn’t go away from where I was working. I didn’t even move from the spot, but when I went to pick it up again it just wasn’t there.. Gone! Vanished as if it had never existed. This is only one of many strange happenings recently that are starting to question my view of reality. Sitting here earlier there was a large bang in the other room. Of course I live alone so I have to investigate. A large thing that has been sitting on the floor for the last 6 months minding it’s own business has taken it upon itself to fall over. Not that strange? Well seeing as the item in question is a 4×12 speaker cabinet I think it’s at least a little unusual. I’m either living in an alternate reality or I have a poltergeist. Maybe I’ll wake up and find it’s a dream. I know what dreams feel like and this isn’t right for that. To start with I’m sitting at my computer with the desk lamp on so there is direct light. Ever noticed in dreams how the light always comes from somewhere else, like an open door or through a partly obscured window? And it’s too hot and uncomfortable.. Not dreamlike at all, apart from all the strange goings on.

Maybe Rod Sterling will step out of the wardrobe after I go to sleep and do his piece to camera as he always did back in the classic days. I’ll have to get my webcam working and leave it running when I go to bed. Then at least I will have any evidence of funny goings on while I am asleep. It’s worrying me about that huge box falling over earlier. They don’t do things like that on their own volition.. It’s so heavy I usually just drag it about if I need to move it, so for it to decide to do something all by itself concerns me very greatly….

As for the other strange happenings. A whole week before my monthly rent was due to be paid I had a letter saying my rent for July was £XXX.. I had only paid £XXX (the same amount) and could I pay the outstanding amount immediately! I took that to a legal man who informed me that if I wanted to be funny about it it was legal proof that I had paid a months rent in full for a period which at that point I did not even have a tenancy agreement to cover. It wasn’t an auto generated letter either.. It had been typed and signed by a staff member I have met on more than one occasion.. Strange.

Really, I don’t know what to think of the last few weeks. Very weird.

As testing is completed successfully I can write something worthwhile. (maybe..if I can think of anything)

With the firewall rebuilt and working properly or once I have a little time for me. Summer is beautiful and all my roses are in bloom. I don’t like gardeneng but when there is one at the front of the house on a main road then there is a certain responsibility to keep it tidy.

On the internet front, site admin responsibilities take a fair bit of my time, what with answering all the messages from people wanting to be moderators and the like, or asking how I got the job. Standard answer for all of these is ready to copy/paste now. Saves the effort of personalising everything. Yeah I know it’s lazy but it’s a pain having to type the same things over and over ad infinitum.

Otherwise..life isn’t too bad, some more money would be nice but everything is ticking along nicely for the moment. Where’s the next disaster to come from I wonder. Whatever.. It can’t possibly get as bad as it was a few weeks ago. Maybe I’ll have a few days out. If I can get my camera to connect to my PC then there will be some pictures of nice places for everyone to enjoy. In the meantime I’ll try to keep everyone posted of what’s happening and where it all comes from.

Jan

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