A load of balls....

Well it was a day of deliveries really. I'd been working away in the front room as usual when the postman called with an instrument of torture. That's what it looked like anyway and it was called ominously 'The GripMaster!' You hold it in the palm of your hand with your fingers resting on the little pads and you just squeeze on the springs. The leaflet that came with it was quite hilarious and showed a load of muscle bound men engaged in various types of sports activities. According to the pictures, use of The GripMaster would turn you into a champion tennis player, badminton player, golfer, weightlifter and ...hired assassin! I'm serious! There was a picture of a man holding a handgun! Hmmmmm.....I suppose it's too much to hope that it would improve your aim too?

Anyway, a John Rocha jacket I ordered on Saturday for my birthday arrived today a little while after that. I am well pleased with it. It is navy with brown piping round the pockets and brown patches on the elbows. I know, it sounds a bit like something a hippy bearded geography teacher might wear. Memories flooded back of Mr Mander and his corduroy brown trousers from Sheldon Heath Comprehensive School with his inky biro stains on his top pocket - he was a train spotter at the weekend - as I looked at my new jacket hung on the back of my office front room door.

You'll laugh at this. He was really disappointed that I gave up geography and didn't take it as an O'Level subject. He tried to get me excited with tales of glittering careers had by map makers / cartographers. This of course, was before the days of Google Maps. That could have been me, the woman who can get lost in a lift or elevator (for Cara's benefit) creating maps for the world to follow!

My squeezy balls arrived a bit later and were actually squeezy eggs! Nice though and I have had lots of squeezes between raising purchase orders and driving the Procurement Team mad harassing them for urgent approvals so I could squash things onto tonight's paying run to get a discount for next year's benefits etc. system support. Same again tomorrow I think. Oh well.....

Shorter blip tonight as I'm really tired and am feeling a bit yuck...

Track? Here's some ELO today, played on the radio this morning - Livin' Thing