Mission Possible

Saw this book at work and sobbed a bit, because I am.

Mission One: As part of the money side of the split up, I had to close down a 30 day ISA today. For the record, today was the first day I could do it on account of them only having a branch in the city and me not being able to go to the city during the week on account of working somewhere else. And even today I nearly didn't make it.

A phone call at 11:30 established what I'd already begun to suspect - they close at 12. The nearest car park was shut and so I had to pretend to be picking something up from Argos, sprint like a maniac and force my foot in the door as the guy was trying to lock it. So, mission one accomplished.

Mission two was to restore myself to something approaching human, so I shifted the motor to Lee Circle (90p for every 20 minutes!!) and found that the sports shop underneath it is now an Everything's Crap a Pound type shop with it's own homemade cafe. They gave me a free coffee if I bought something in the store, so I did: Two tape measures (97p), a spirit level (97p), some candles (97p - see above) and more tat. I'm assuming a zero readership for this post, by the way, as "Items I bought for a pound" aint exactly Pulitzer Prize winning stuff is it?

Mission three was, ironically enough, to pick something up from Argos - a microwave, as it happens. This was a new mission or I would have done it earlier, obviously. I think I drove past a No Entry sign in my quest to find the Argos carpark, then went past it and nobody allowed me to reverse, so I had to go round the city thrice and ended up in their loading only bit, which lead to grief with a parking warden and a panicky shop in which I assumed I'd bought the wrong model and ended upp at home in a desperatly confused heap.

Mission Four: To assemble a shoe rack (28 screws) and set up the microwave on the asinine wall mountings in our poky kitchen. Then to stick the "Pierce potatoes or they'll blow up your house" sticky on the nearest arse, which kept me amused for ten minutes. And now to blog, perhaps to comment on Bogblog, to watch the Macedonia game, to plough through the marking.

Highlight of the day: I've wanted a Subaru Impreza since I first played Gran Turismo with my son (see "missing") so today I bought one. While waiting in the queue at Argos. For a fiver. Remote Control. Highly recommended. Now if I only I had someone to play with it with.