Head Rambles

Grandad September 24th, 2007

I was browsing through my statistics last night.

Yes. I can be a nerd at times.

I found a visitor to this site who had come from the Net Visionary Awards site. So, purely out of curiosity, I followed the link back.

The short-list is posted for the awards. Top of the list is the Blog Category. There are six nominees and bugger me, but there I am!

I haven’t the faintest idea how I got there. Honestly. I didn’t enter myself, and I don’t know who did. You see, my competitors all seem to be business blogs, or blogs with a technical bent [and God knows, my bent isn't very technical!].

Here is the list:

• Dave Northey ~ Microsoft
• denise cox ~ Newsweaver.ie
• Grandad ~ Head Rambles
• Keith Bohanna ~ Keith Bohanna Consulting
• Krishna De ~ One Ocean Group
• Robert Burke ~ RobBurke.net

See what I mean? I stick out like a sore thumb! And I’m up against Microsoft!

So here is your chance to vote for the small man [I'm not small, but you know what I mean]. Here is a chance to vote for justice, truth, honesty, anarchy and the voice of the man in the street.

Here is a chance to vote against Bush Tourists Harney Pat Kenny other people.

So get your ass over to the Net Visionary Awards and cast your vote. NOW!

I’m not telling you who to vote for [*cough*], but pass the word on. Get everyone voting.

I think I’ll chuck in a couple of votes for Michele Neylon too. He’s there under Internet Entrepeneur and Online Trader [greedy bastard]. And of course, Damien Mulley has to get a tick, for the Technology Journalist award.

I haven’t decided about the others yet, though my mind could be decided in the usual Fianna Fáil method [used notes only, please].

I wonder why S.H.I.T. isn’t there for Web Designer Excellence?

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Grandad September 24th, 2007

It was a lovely day on Saturday.

I decided to wander down to the village for a coffee and to get some petrol for the mower.

It was beautiful outside the coffee shop. Sandy lay at my feet and went to sleep in the sun. I got chatting to a couple of local blokes who are dog lovers. There were another couple of Tourists at the other table. They were both men and were holding hands. I decided to leave them alone because it was a nice day, and I don’t want to be accused of homophobia.

Now one of the Tourists stood up and tripped over Sandy. She didn’t mind. But he then turned around and kicked her in the ribs. Sandy minded that. Quick as lightning, she jumped to her feed and took his leg off, clean below the knee. She has very powerful jaws.

Tourist fell to the ground [he hadn't much option] and my two pals started lacing into him as we hate cruelty to animals. Tourist’s Boyfriend started having hysterics, and he started throwing things at me.

He threw a plate. It missed. It bounced off the windscreen of an SUV that was driving past. The driver was a Yummy Mummy who was yacking on her mobile phone at the time so whatever concentration she had left was gone, and she drove into the back of a tourist bus, and exploded in a ball of flame. Well, I’m not sure if it was herself or the SUV that exploded, but it was quite spectacular.

People started running around throwing jugs of water and milk on the SUV. I had my ten litres of petrol that I’d bought for the lawnmower, and someone grabbed it and threw that on the conflagration. That didn’t help.

In the meantime, Tourist’s Boyfriend was really beginning to annoy me, screeching at me and throwing bread rolls at me, so I kicked him in the nuts. That shut him up. The other bloke was pumping blood on the ground and managed to mutter something about suing me. I couldn’t resist it. I told him he hadn’t a leg to stand on.

We went home then. There was no point in staying because the peace and tranquillity of the moment was gone.

I let Sandy keep the leg as a souvenir.

Bloody tourists.

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