Wednesday, June 01, 2005

A Renault Return

Quote of the moment:
"The Renault F1 Team has stretched its lead in the Constructors’ Championship, and now has 76 points, while Fernando Alonso sits atop the Drivers’ Championship with 59 points."



How badly must Williams regret losing their Renault connection?

Zulu has begun to display sheepdog tendencies. Yesterday he tried to herd two year old Sam, (my mum's cousin's son, which could be my 2nd cousin?) to make him keep up with the rest of the dog walkers after the big family gathering. Unfortunately Zulu knocked him flat, then licked his face when he tried to get up. Bless. Sam does a very entertaining "Amarillo" impression too, but can't get beyond the "la-la-la-la-la-la" bit. Very cute.

I got a telling-off when I got into work today. The automatic machine I normally look after wasn't working on Thursday so I used the manual one instead. Some of my cuts were less than perfect, but that should be expected from a n00b. The real problem was that I wasn't there the next day so the deputy foreman had to sort through and discard the bad ones himself. Diddums.

The wonderful machine played up today as well. Somehow the blade skipped, scraped down the side of the steel guiding block showering out sparks, then stalled and refused to restart. How handy! I ended up sitting on a stool putting cut tube into the tooled connector parts for the final 4 hours. Yawn.

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