Another week over, more depression and skit and stuff.

I should have been happier. I turned 25 yesterday, another milestone towards retirement. I would rather be anywhere than work at the moment, its just a shame that everything I have is based on the money I earn as a guard.

So anyway I left off last time at around 13.00 on Aug 07....

07 August

I found out today that more and more staff are taking the side of what appears to be my arch-enemy MD. He has decided that everyone should hear about how malicious I am regarding staff without passes (if you have no idea what I am on about, look two posts down). I have been informed that I am no longer welcome in my home depot staffroom, and I should take myself elsewhere. Not really caring much anymore, I now sit out on the platform, reading a book or doing my paperwork. I am hoping that this new management position goes my way, it would make a nice door for me to leave by.

I worked a service through Woking today, and that absolutely darling station manager Sarah was there. I don't usually find myself attracted to petit women, but there is just something about her, she talks and has the sweetest voice, she has very little knowledge about the railway yet the way she interacts with people makes up for her lack of working know-how. But she has a man in the picture, as I do a lady, so maybe she will never know how I feel about her.

I can't believe what I have written down for my days food intake.... Have I really only eaten half a tube of pringles all day? I don't even feel hungry.

08 August

Its my grandfathers birthday today, or it would have been. He passed over back in March and it feels kind of empty not needing to buy him a bottle of scotch this year. He spent 6 or 7 years telling us that each birthday was going to be the last he sees, and he finally drank himself to the grave. All I can think about is the day we commited his ashes to the sea, and seeing the little wooden box sinking to the bottom of the solent.

Obviously I do not feel like working today, even less so because I have to have a blood test tomorrow morning. I have my lunch at around noon, and realise that is all I can have. By the time my break comes around I will be within my fasting period that one must have before a blood test. Again however, I have not noticed the lack of food, maybe I only eat food when I see it!

Getting to Havant train station, I went into the convenience store for a paper and bottle of coke. A couple of lads, possibly around the 18 mark, were refused alcohol by the staff. I was in the queue behind them, but when I went outside, you could see the lads giving some money to a group of kids who were more likely around 10 or 12, saying that the shopkeper had refused them! Thank god he did, I would rather NOT see a gang of 10, 11, 12 years olds falling about the town swigging cider!

2100: I am sitting here working this train and I wonder why the hell I am still doing it. To be honest I know I am trapped in the job because of the money I earn and the mortgage I pay, and I can't afford a paycut. Maybe I should think about new careers, maybe go back into the casino business seeing if they would take me on directly as a manager. Sure, I would have to re-awuaint myself with the changes in the law, but I am sure I could remeber the basics!

09 August

I had the dreaded bloodtest this morning. I HATE NEEDLES. They were checking my blood pressure, and they said it was a little high.... Course it is.... cos your about to ruddy STAB ME! Doh!

I got back, had a quick nap then headed to work, not realising of course (until afterwards) that I in fact have gone 24 hours without eating... This one meal a day lark could catch on if I don't feel hungry. It didn't last though....

Today I had a Chicken Mayo and sweetcorn sandwich for lunch
An Egg and Cress half-bagette for my break at work
And an odd concoction for dinner.... I made up some tuna mayo and stuck grilled bacon, cheese and sweetcorn all into it, and just ate it like that.... I must be weird or something.

10 August

I am enjoying the first of 4 days off. And filling myself up on calories! Two chicken and broccoli lattices for lunch (on their own... Bit tastelss really without potato or veg but hey...) and two Microwave pepporoni pizzas for dinner! Then I went to the pub and had 5 bottles of Strongbow Cirrus.....

Not really much to report.... Spent most of the dayin front of the computer, and the rest in the pub!

11 August

Happy Birthday to Meeeeeeeeeee.

25 and not looking a day over 24! I wish! Got 9 birthday cards. Not bad really!

Had a surprise phone call from the doctor this morning. The blood results are back, and I gotta go have some more, due to something going wrong with my liver. His first question was "Do I really only drink 15 pints a week" which I do, and thats if I am having a really good week. I have cut my drinking a lot since joining the railway. So I have to have an ECG week monday, then have a "chat" with the doctor about what could be causing my liver to fail (gall stones, over-drinking, etc). Maybe I am about to go onto a booze free diet (oh please no...no... NOOOOOOOOO) but considering I get my driving licence back next week, it might be a good idea.

I went out with my bestest buddie Tamara to Chicago Rock Cafe in Portsmouth. The misses is still living with mummy and daddy, so she could not get down for it... doesnt matter! At £1.50 a pint until 9pm, we drunk a fair bit, then decided at 9.30 that it was time to head home... with a bottle of vodka, and some mixers....

We got back to my place and did not open the vodka, we fell asleep instead!

My darling partner also dropped another bombshell on me tonight. Shes sold her car! Not only that, but she has been advertising it in the AutoTrader for a few weeks! Thanks for telling me, 2 days after you handed it over! She now wants a second hand Dahwoo Matiz, with low mileage, for under £2k.... GOOD LUCK!

12 August

Suppose I had better clean up. My "darling" is bing dropped off by her parents in a bit. They don't know I have not got a car with me, so I got to be out when they turn up... I've bluffed it for 9 months, I am not going to let them in on my criminal secret th week before I get my car back!

Oh well... thats it from me for now... see you all mid-week!

1. Initials:
DWG

2. Name someone with the same birthday as you:
Hulk Hogan

3. Favorite fruit?
Apples

4. For or against same sex marriage?
For it.

5. Are you allergic to anything?
Scroats

6. Are you bisexual?
Been there, done it, bored of it though

7. Have you ever slept in someone else's clothes?
no

8. How many U.S. states have you been to?
None

9. How many of the U.S. states have you lived in?
None

10. Have you ever lived outside the U.S.?
Can I answer no?

11. Name something physical you like about yourself.
Errrrm I cant

12. Something non-physical you like about yourself?
My ability to talk crap and get away with it

13. Do you have any pets?
Nope

14. What is your dream car?
Anything with cruise control, otherwise a lexus would be nice.

15. If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go?
Tokyo

16. Are you bipolar?
Am I what?

17. What dream car do you want your husband/wife to drive?
New shape Bug

18. Where would you want to go on a first date?
A nice resteraunt, with a half decent semelier

19. Would you date the person who posted this before you?
Dunno... Nutty but smooth.... To sweet for me I thinks!

20. Has anyone ever sang or performed for you personally?
Nope

21. Ever been kissed under fireworks?
Yes

22. Do you like president Bush?
Yes.... in a bunker full of primed explosives

23.Have you ever bungee jumped?
No, but want to

24. Have you ever white water rafted?
No, but DON'T want to

25. Has anyone 5 years older than you ever hit on you?
Yes

26. Are you racist?
no

27. What song are you listening to right now?
I'm not.

28. What's your favorite song at the moment?
Sandi Thom, Punk Rocker

29. What was the last movie you watched?
Some chinesse thing about men and women, and nudity and niple, and well it was on Film Four.

30. Where was the last place you went besides your workplace or house?
The Local

31. Have you ever seriously vandalized someone else's property?
No

32. Have you ever hit someone of the opposite sex?
yes

33. What's the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Voice

35. What do you usually order from Starbucks
Cuppachino.

36. Say something totally random about yourself?
Nothing I say ever makes sence, so don't try to make sence of it.

37. Do you have an iPod?
nope

38. Has anyone ever said you looked like a celebrity?
No

39. Do you have freckles?
No

41. Do you love someone right now?
I hate to say it... but I dont think so

42. How tall are you?
5 foot 10

43. Do you speak any other language other than English?
French, Double Dutch

44. Have you ever ridden in a limo?
No

45. Has anyone you were really close to passed away?
Yes

46. Do u watch tv?
Funnily enough, I don't watch much

48. What's something that really annoys you?
Scroats

49. What are some things you really like?
Counter-Strike, pronography

50 Do you like Micheal Jackson?
He does some great work, but as a person he is too weird

51. Have you ever surfed?
No

52. Do you know how to pump gas?
Yes

53. What do you drive?
Nothing (I am banned for another 8 days)

54. What's the latest you have ever stayed out?
I disappeared for a week to "find myself".... I locked myself away to work out what I really was.

55. Have you ever thought that you were honestly going to die?
Yes, then I pulled myself away from the edge

56. Were you ever rushed by an ambulance into the emergency room?
No

57. Have you ever been dared to do something you didn't want to do?
No

59. What color is your hair?
Brown

60. What color are your eyes?
Pass

61. Do you have any special talents?
I can deal casino games, and (just about) drive a train

62. Favorite non-alcoholic drink?
Coke Zero

63. Favorite city?
Cardiff

64. Have you ever ridden a mechanical bull?
no

65. If you were working on a pirate ship, what would you most likely be?
On the end of the plank

66. Who do you work with?
mad commuters

67. Last thing you watched on tv?
WWE Experience

68. Do you wear glasses or contacts?
Yes

69. Have you ever taken a roadtrip?
No

What a lovely few days it has been! I am now the most HATED guard on the South Coast, after (allegedly) forcing a member of my own staff to pay for a ticket because he did not have his free staff travel pass with him..... Am I REALLY that stupid... of course not, but slander is a great wa to blacken someones name!

04 August

Woke up this morning and tried to ring someone from my mobile.... cold I find it? Could I hell! Running around Portsmouth, trying to find my beloved connection to the outside world. It turns out I left it on a bus on my way home last night, thankfully it was not taken before the cleaners found it!

I also found out how hard it is to get a member of staff to help yo dispatch a train. The station staff in question are obligued to assist when you can not see 100% of the the doors of a train from any position, for example on curved platform, so I had to close all the doors apart from my own, make sure they are all closed by walking up the platform, then leaving. I got a "please explain" for the delay, and I told them straight:

"... Due to the ignorance of the platform staff, I had to visually ensure that every door was interlocked by walking two coach lengths in either direction. Refer to RO2..."

(RO2 is the designation to platform staff)

I finished work at a little after midnight. For the Friday after payday it must have been quiet, as I could get a taxi straight away!

05 August

Today I found out that I was alleged to have forced this driver to purchase a ticket because he had no ID.... I only found out because a guard at another depot told me, and it has taken two weeks of guards sneering behind my back for someone to have the guts to tell me whats been said. Says a lot for the honesty of SWT staff, especially those staff that I work really close with, and know me better than that!

Spent 40 minutes waiting for my (company) taxi back to base tonight. Some roadworks have popped up on the main A3 into London, and the taxi driver had to take a 1 hour detour through the middle of nowhere! As a "sorry" he was kind enough to drop me at my door, and I went straight to bed. Not his fault, but he did sound realy appologetic!

06 August

Not real much happened today. Me and her went to the local for a lovely Sunday lunch, while watching the Grand Prix on their big screen. The most lively race I have seen in a long time... the only race I have seen in a long time....

I also did my weekly show on Portsmouth Hospital Broadcasting which was ad-hoc as usual, and filled with mistakes and wrong tracks everywhere! Such is the high quality of my work!

07 August

Its only 13.00 and I have already been up for a few hours... by the end of duty at 00.30 tonight I will be knackered!

I have the application for my promotion in my hand. I want to become a Guards Standards Manager, and finally find my true place behind a desk man-managing and promoting good-will to all men! Well atually it will make me so hated, that nothing will change from above, so its not really anything new!

Oh well! Time to get dressed for work, I have just written this whole entry stark b**k naked. (Sick buckets available on request)

Ta tA

Hi guys.

Yeah I know I know..... I been neglecting my blog again.

On the plus side, I now have a little book so that I remeber everything that I want to say.

SO what have I been doing, well mainly work, if I am not driving trains, I am assesing stores as a mystery shopper. If I am not hosting radio shows on Portsmouth Hospital Broadcasting, then I am doing it on Alpha-Radio. But I do have a life..... no really I do.....

Its only 2 and a half weeks until I get my car back! W00T! First job, drive as far as i can to get back into the life of driving, assisted by my father just in case!

So anyway to the day by day blow (no... not jobs) of life as me.

31 July

I finally got to register with a new GP. Its only been 2 and a half ears since my last one (and 300 miles away) so my records are probably locked away somewhere in Wales gathering dust. can I have an appointment? Yeah sure want one tomorrow? Ummmm am I imagining it, I usually have to wait a week!

I heard one complaint on the radio about last nights TOTP final show... where were the Red hot Chilli Peppers? Did they not do a whole one hour show by themselves once?

Logical Thinking If you are going to put revenue staff at an enterance to a train station to do an en-mass ticket check, surely covering both exits to the station is an idea..... "oh I got no ticket, lets go out the other exit where its Wiiiiiiide open..."

Also, at London Waterloo, we emply ticket checkers to errr check tickets, thats okay until someone can get through just by showing a driving licence! And when they shut the gates to stop passengers join a train trying to depart, maybe the should not be telling them to use the "Staff Only" gangways, which are so labelled as they are acutally safty zones in case a trains brakes happen to fail. I know its an unlikly event, but rather safe than splattered.

Also had the pleasure of having to eject a couple of scroats from the train, whos intention was free travel and graffitti. These lovely kiddies come from New Milton Childrens Home, some 70 miles away, and quite why they are in Portsmouth at 22.30 at night is anyones guess.... appearently though, the childrens homes don't really care if they even turn up at night, and give them travel warrants to go wherever they like... doesn't meant they will go there, it just gives an excuse to bunk a train somewhere else.

Sky Close Children's Home, Cosham is the same!

01 August

Did a mystery shop on two stores in Southampton today. Phones4U came first, and was a very high pressured sales technique. Why don't you want this hpone now (Because I want to think about it), will £50 change your mind (It would but I am not actually here to buy anything, I am here to watch you), he even phoned me three times later that afternoon to try and get a sale.

Orange were a lot more casual and a better quality of service all round!

02 August

Finally went to my appointment at the GP today, wish I hadn't, now that I got to go for more blood tests than you can shake a vial of blood at, and an ECG (?). Yeah I know my BMI is 39, making me more obese than an obese man, thats why I am here! So now I hav to lay off the pizza, beer, chocolate and get more exercise (sex is a three mile walk... any offers?) and drink more water.

Vodafone decided to screw me around as well.... I only phoned up to review my price plan, but they refused to talk to me as I had refused to tell them my bank details for their "security check" Wow... Are they trying to get my account emptied or what! I gave them every detail they asked for, but refused to read out my bank account numbers ver a mobile phone connection on a packed bus! So they CUT ME OFF! I had to go into town and take two forms of ID with me to unblock my phone. I been with vodafone for around 7 years now (82 months) and they can stick their contract right up their a**e.

I sent them a screwy email telling them that if I don't get a phone call, I will cancel my contract immediatly and bounce the direct debits.

Speaking of Vodafone being c**p, I had to do a mystery shop on one of their stores as well during the afternoon. So I went out to it, and it was so poor I am surprised they get customers. The senior consultant I spoke to was more interested with wahtever he was hiding on the computer screen (pron perhaps) and althe other advisors wre more interested in lunch.

03 August

Did a diffent mystery shop today (won't talk much about it as its in a number of stages which are still live), but it was made worth my while, so I am happy to obligue.

Went to Weatherspoons in Chichester on the way back for breakfast (it was 10am) and it was agonisingly bad. The coffee was luke warm, the "farmhouse breakfast" half missing and room temperature, and I waas thoroughly dissapointed.

Well its time for me to get ready for work now.

See you in a few days, weeks or months!