Went to the transport museum on Sunday because a) it’s free to get it and b) it’s free to get in.
My stunningly fabulous financial tracking and prediction system is predicting that I’ll be £600 in the red this month and I can’t work out why. I’m sure it knows better than me though so anything that is free to get in has been pushed to the top of the entertainment list.
I thought a nine month old baby would just sleep around the museum but he thought it was fantastic and everything in it was utterly hilarious. Heh… kids.
I got back to playing poker on Saturday too but it’s been so long that I was playing incredibly badly. I only won one hand the whole night and ended up £50 down. Not so good.
October 11th, 2005
Being slow on the uptake of almost everything, I’ve only just got into eBay for the first time. The weekend was spent in a state of fevered bidding and rooting around for crap to sell.
It began with an itch to spend my birthday doshers on a new phone, so I’d set my sights on a Nokia 6600 so that I could poke about with it’s innards, being the geek that I am. Lots of auctions came and went and I kept getting pipped to the post at the last minute due to the fact that I’m a tight bastard who needs ten minutes notice to make the sort of decisions required near the end of an eBay auction.
Luckily, Tracy* has no such qualms and got a little too excited watching the bids pass by me and me not doing anything about it. Around the same time I happened to look at the shinier, glitzier 6630, just to see how much it was going for.
Seriously - don’t let my wife near your computer keyboard when you’re trying to keep money in your pocket. A brief burst of whooping, hollering, mouse-grabbing, clapping of hands and shouting of “bid! bid! bid! bid! bid! bid! Oooh! you’ve won! you’vewonyou’vewonyou’vewon!” and all of a sudden I was as good as owning a phone almost double what I was aiming to spend. eBay is a dangerous thing.
So as of tomorrow, I’ll have a nice, shiny new phone to replace my crappy old brick. At least I hope I will - all this was done without reading any of the eBay feedback for the seller thanks to the excitement of the moment.
The rest of the weekend was understandably spent photographing lots of shit** to sell on eBay in order to pay for the thing.
I am kinda worried at the moment though because she’s at home with a computer completely unsupervised, and I think she has somehow developed the misconception that eBay is some kind of fun computer game. She was last seen bidding on a ‘Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast’ DVD (For Ben, she claims) not because she thought it was a bargain, but because she’d looked at the highest bidder’s history and noticed that she was a deranged Walt Disney fanatic and thought it would be fun to make her pay as much as possible.
* - Yes, Tracy. I’m not sure why I’ve never called her by name coz it’s not like she’d mind. No more ‘the missus’ from now on.
** - For ’shit’ read ‘quality merchandise’ if you have actually decided to bid on any of it.
October 3rd, 2005
