B4000 fairy god mother

i can't believe it...

i'm really quite overwhelmed by this, but 1st my fairy godmother...

several years ago, i used to have a boss who was really mean - well, she wasn't really my boss, but certain things i had to hand in to her... i kept not bringing in some paperwork i was supposed to have done and in the end (and i did push it quite far) she got really shirty with me...

anyway, many years later, same time of year, same paperwork different woman who i have to hand it in to...

we were supposed to have a meeting about it 3 mondays ago, and hence have it all done by then, i procrastinated my arse off and hadn't done it and i phoned her on the day a little panicked and she said - "actually could we re-schedule for next week because i'm struggling with it?"... (she also had to do some paperwork of her own)

7 days to finish it...

so those 7 days pass and once again i haven't done it, i ring her and she says... "i'm really sorry but can we re-schedule again for 2 weeks this time because next monday is a bank holiday?"

14 days pass and now we're at last night, i'm madly getting it done - ineffectually - and i'm panicking once more, but finally i've started doing it, i ring her this afternoon and she says: "oh no it's not today it's tomorrow, do you remember we had to re-schedule, see you tomorrow @ 3" - which was true i'd just forgotten -

so for the last time i got extra time to do it - 24 hours this time... and i'm going to meet this last deadline tomorrow... i just can't believe how lucky i've been with this...

but nothing like as lucky as i also turned out to be today, because i've been in negotiations with a dutch company about buying a hammond organ (pretend)...

there is a german company (now extinct) who make it called "creamware" and they have two versions of their hammond organ (pretend) one called a klangbox with no dials or display on it (cheaper) and one with all kinds of dials on it - including the 9 drawbars which control the sound (more expensive)...

so for ages i've been sorting out buying the klangbox version from the dutch company who were the only people i could find who had one... it arrived this morning but i was in bed so i had to make a trip up to DHL in edmonton this afternoon to get it...

and i couldn't quite believe my eyes when i saw the box... once on the train back with it i couldn't contain myself and i opened the box to find... not the klangbox version, but the proper bells and whistles version...

i have no idea why... except that the box said demo on it... and in fact it is version 1.0 of this box, i can't decide if the dutch company are daft or not...

but it doesn't matter, i've got this absolutely heavenly sounding hammond organ (pretend) which i can't stop playing but which i'm going to have to stop playing in order to finish this paperwork by tomorrow...

i'm over the moon...

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