Friday.      First full day home.  Eddie Izzard reaches comedy apotheosis by making me laugh out loud about velociraptors with executive smiles in cars.  "I know what speed I'm doing.  It's terribly important.  I'm very, very busy."  And then getting better.  Bruce Willis as Mr. Squirrel on Noah's Ark and how the Romans beat the Spartans by ( Read more... )

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Today is the launch of the ICT Pirate Cake Stand at work.

Yours truly is in garb piratical with sword at the ready.

I also have a selection of pirate cakes (strange hybrids of Rocky Road a la Nigella Lawson) and coco pop cakes.

I must be mad.

WTF? 6am and I'm awake and mentally raring to go. What is that all about...? This week has seen sublime & ridiculous in equal measure...

( workenspiele - for those who want a rueful laugh... )

I hate comedowns.  Following Miskin, the return to normalcy (or what passes around here) has been irksome.

Monday was the comedown.  Blog about event, begin to get house straightened and prepare what should be an ordinary week.

Tuesday - Ha ha!  Returned to chaos - is it me or has the gloom of the recession rendered UK business suddenly inept?  Are ( Read more... )

And this is why I'm working on escape.

Though not as fast as I like, obviously.

Oliver Postgate RIP.
Kathy Staff RIP.

QOTD for those who are tired of Xmas shopping.

"Life... is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's ( Read more... )

Monday was a good session.  Brazilian frog farms run by Nazi sycophants, macumba, African fae and necromancy.  If you ever wanted to know why I like Mage, it's because the world is so often stranger than anything you can come up with and a little research yields much stuff.

The rest of the week was gym, sofa, episodes of Stargate season 1 and ( Read more... )

This is ganked from padfoot_uk because of it's sublime brilliance.

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Back from Alton Towers where the decor was suitably Etheric.  Saw the biggest damn albino koi (I'm stood at a second story window and this thing was bigger than the worried looking mallard that left the shore at speed) in between corporate presentations, talking to people about data security, making a joke about confined spaces in a Mini and ( Read more... )