The End Specialist by Drew Magary is a book that I bought on a whim nearly two months ago but didn't get around to reading until the other week. Now, I don't usually feel the need to write a post about every book that I've read, but I do feel the need to rant about this one simply because it annoyed me so much ( Read more... )

When I came back from Austria, Graham had an annoying cold. He was coughing day in, day out, and I figured that it was only a matter of time until I would catch it too. And after about a week I did. To make things worse, it was also that time of the month, and a few days into the whole thing a huge chunk of one of my molars broke off, leaving a ( Read more... )

Today I got to participate in my first session of fourth edition Dungeon and Dragons. Unfortunately it was a total disaster from my point of view.
( Warning: Rant Ahead )

I only sort of watched the opening ceremony of the Olympics yesterday. I wasn't going to watch it at all, but Graham put the BBC livestream up on his PC and it was hard not to turn around every now and then in response to the gleeful cries of: "Oh my god, it's James Bond!" "Oh my god, it's the Queen!" "Oh my god, they are getting on a helicopter ( Read more... )

When we were teenagers, my friend Natascha and I came up with the theory that humans had a gene that disposed them towards either being nomads or settlers. We theorised that both were beneficial from an evolutionary point of view as long as they balanced each other out: the settler would establish settlements and assure continued growth of the ( Read more... )

The last two weeks have been a bit manic.

First the tooth extraction. It actually didn't feel too bad after the first twenty-four hours, but the stitches got annoying quickly. And while the gums have healed up nicely, chewing on my left side remains a bit awkward because there's a pretty deep indentation where the tooth used to be and the bone ( Read more... )

Things you don't want to happen on your first day of holiday ( Read more... )

There's a company called Photo-Me that has a bunch of printing booths set up around town (in the mall, at WHSmith's and so on) where you can instantly print out photos off digital storage. Over the course of the past year I've used them to print out photos for my Mum about five times... or rather, I've been trying to, because more often than not ( Read more... )

Man, I'm the slowest reader ever. If anyone wants a reminder, this is where I talked about the first four books. Yes, that really was ages ago.

( Book rantiness! )

I decided that I finally wanted to brave a hairdresser today. I haven't had my hair cut in over a year, partly because of the money issues but partly also because I've been feeling ridiculously nervous about the thought of going to a strange hairdresser for the first time. I think it's ridiculous because it's almost as bad as it felt to go see a ( Read more... )