Next test drive

The guys from Dax sports cars came over to see me at work the other - and wanted to take me out in this Cobra:

^ 8.2litres of beast ^

It has an 8.2 litre V8 and the back seemed to just dig in as he nailed it and screached out of the car park.... Sadly I was too busy to go on the demo this time - but hopefully there will be others!

More humour in the workplace.....

Marketing in the local area is a big part of my role at Enterprise. It's a mixture of druming up fresh business from organisations that don't currently use Enterprise and thanking existing referal sources for sending the business our way. We've made up little "goodies" boxes to drop into places, full of doughnuts or sweets - it seems a relatively cheap and effective way of maintaining a local presence and friendly corporate image. So I went to Pound Land with a tenner!

^ What's that in the middle?? ^

I got a lot more than in the picture above - and everything was £1 (oddly enough). I bought a mixture of sweets and lolipops mainly - and as a joke a steak and kidney pie in a tin.

I'll probably send an unsuspecting colleague into a dealership or somewhere with a box, which they will think is full of sweets, when actually when they open it - a steak and kidney pie is revealed (suitable for 2 persons might I add....). How random is that!?!?

Ultimate Office Practical Joke

A colleague of mine flies Birds of prey. He sometimes nips to the pet shop to buy their food - on this occassion some whole frozen rats! oh yes! The temptation could not be resisted. We placed a rat that looked the most alive in another colleague's drawer - staring up at where C-J would sit at that desk.

^ frozen rat ^

Three of us who were in on the joke began to comment on how we'd seen a rat about the office (not a complete lie...) which made everyone a bit alert. Then I picked up some paper and asked everyone if they had a stapler.

Everyone said "no" and I asked them to check their drawers - which they did one-by-one until C-J opened his, screamed and shot back on his wheelie chair into the wall behind him with his arms and hands outstretched defending himself from the beast that was..... the frozen rat! Job done, thank you and good night!

Delta Force

On Saturday we went paintballing for Matt's B'day. We arrived at Hemel Hempstead at stupid o'clock in the morning and after the initial safety briefing, we opened fire! Managed to sneak my old phone in for some pics as we went....

^ me ^

^ the lads - in between games ^

^ 12 games - head 2 head all day long ^

^ looks like I had egg on my face in this one ^

^ We were the yellow team ^

^ to use up our ammo we were allowed to shoot at the stag as he ran from one end of the battle field to the other ^

^ For four ballsy participants - a quick draw game at the end was organised ^

Memorable things that happened during the day:

Claire shot Hayward in the back - they were on the same team!!

John shouted "cover me!!" and promptly slide tackled me where I was crouching - he also fell over loads!

Katie proved to be an effective sniper - and barely got shot!

Risky thought he was being shot at while he was crouching behind a hay bale - but no - the paint splatter was coming from Claire who was crouching behind the same hay bale, but didn't lift her gun high enough - so the paintballs were ricocheting back at them.

Butch got made a 'purple' - all efforts were made to 'take him down' - but we failed.

A fat guy on the purple team, legged it down the hill - so I shot him, he slipped - so I shot him again, then he slipped again baring his ass - so I shot that too. He was quoted as saying "I didn't know what to hold onto first, my dick or my arse!".

Damn good day out - thanks v much to Matty 'the boy' Risk!

Kiting with Spiderman!

We went kiting over the field near my house.....

^ The Kite was this big - in relation to Andy (Goon) ^

^ Col was singing "I believe I can fly" - then this happened ^

New Camera - it's a phone as well!

Up until now - all the pictures have been uploaded onto this blog from a Sony Ericsson K750i camera phone - and were a pretty impressive 2.0 mega pixel. The two pics below were taken from my new phone - Sony Ericsson K800i - the K750i's big brother I guess - with a massive 3.2 mega pixel camera and lots of other fancy functions. Tell me what you think, I just took some shots of a random car in the car park at work........ ** coughs**

^ Oooow Betty Oooow that's nice.... ^

^ I see you baby, shakin that ass, shakin that ass..... ^

Chick Sands

We went to Chick sands and I stacked it. Then, I continued to ride and Hays attacked me on the last corner of the dual slalom track - and we both crashed.

^ The aforementioned injury - bugger! ^

^ The kind lady at the NHS drop in

centre fixed me for free - it was touch and go ^

She thought I'd fallen off a motor bike.