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Joined: Jan 16, 2002 Posts: 314 Location: Wellington
Posted: Thu 21/Mar/02 10:02am Post subject:
My day so far: By Nathan Robinson.
6:45am: Alarm goes off and I feel like sleeping in for 10 more minites
6:50am: Shave, tihs and shower with lots of soap
7:10am: stand in room in front of mirror for five minites checking out the view
7:20am: A cup of tea and toast with apricot jam and bannana, yummy
7:35am: Brush me fangs and out the door into another wet tihsty day in welly land.
7:50am: Arrive at work greet fellow employees and log on to the net. check emails and sort out the days events (bugger all)
8:10am - 9:00am: Walk around office with Papers and look busy ring a few clients to get them out of bed and then head for the staff room for a well earned coffee #*$@! no milk
9:10am: At shop getting milk, drove two hundred metres to get there :laugh:
9:20am: mmmmmmm coffee mmmmmmm :upsidedown:
9:25am: Log on to FOAM and start this silly reply
10:00am: Posting now
Joined: Jan 06, 2002 Posts: 13,496 Location: dreamland
Posted: Thu 21/Mar/02 10:34am Post subject:
Nate, is that it........ i bet you're glad your outta there in a few
My day So far, by Nathan Whitley
5.15am answer my cellphone, my sufing buddy is coming to pick me up.
5.16am out of bed put some clothes on, grab a towel, wetsuit and surfboard.
5.20am deane turns up, load up gear, head to the ocean.
5.25am at the beach, surf is awesome, get suited up, paddle out and pull into 3-4ft (overhead) surf, no one else out.
7.30am STARVING catch a wave in, get out of wetsuit into shorts, (go commando) drive to Golden crust Bakery.
7.40am Buy, 1 heated Pizza bun, 1 mince and cheese Pie, 1 chocolate fudge Slice and 1 Pinto. mmmmmmmm food haft mere mmmmmmmm.
7.50am deane drops me home, give my wife a kiss, shes still in bed. Brush me teeth, dress into tidy clothes, put smellies on. Leave for work on my scooter
8.10am arrive to work, amping from my surf this morning, ready to give 100% at work today.
8.15am greet fellow workers, address them all to the state of the surf today, so they all leave and i have the offices to myself while they go surfing.
8.30am finally decide to start work, but wishing i was surfing, so now im only willing to give 80%
8.35am log onto net, check e-mail, read the dail news on nzoom.com log into vorb.
8.40am check whats new, nosey around a bit, still wishing i was surfing again 60% now.
9.00am take a phone call from an irate customer (wasnt my fault) put the phone on the desk while she goes off of her face at me...... pick the phone up when shes done and say in a courteous voice, "ok, i'll see what i can do" and slam the phone down, hehe.
9.15am decide to start work, enjoy it for about 5 minutes, then remember the surf, 55%.
9.30am get to drive a brand new V8 clubsport, customer wants signs on it, take it for a 20 minute spin, use half a tank of gas.
9.50am, decide to do the signs, enjoying it cos i get to drive the car again afterward.
10.10am finish signs return car to owner.
10.15 walk across the street to get some smoko. cheese and onion toastie, bottle of coke and doughnut... mmmmmm doughnut :dontgetit:
10.20am return to computer dropping crumbs and icing sugar into, while typing this post.
10.30am my wife turns up here and brings me some lunch money God Bless her!!!
Joined: Jan 16, 2002 Posts: 314 Location: Wellington
Posted: Thu 21/Mar/02 10:49am Post subject:
Well it is ssiping down here and blowing as well all very nasty fo for my drive up the Kapiti Coast later today but I will drive slow..... tihs now we have lightning and thunder
Ahhh, a pleasant day.. No work to do.. My LBS is busy sorting my bike out.. some new manitou blacks going on.. some magura julies on the front, HS33 on the back.. Ohhhh, I canna wait for work to finish..
Joined: Dec 25, 2001 Posts: 34,401 Location: Poundland
Posted: Tue 7/May/02 7:47pm Post subject:
Spacemonkey wrote:
...work whataya mean work I thought they paid me to surf the web/vorb.
It's vitally important you constantly test the internet connection while at work. If it wasn't for your vigilent surfing/ e-mailing friends you wouldn't be able to tell the IT dept the instant something went wrong with the connection.
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but then come back at 9pm and do some real work 
with lots of soap 
ring a few clients to get them out of bed 
and then head for the staff room for a well earned coffee 
#*$@! no milk 
but I will drive slow..... tihs now we have lightning and thunder 
