Yesterday I got my new passport through the mail. It's shiny, and 48 pages long. It also came rather quickly; the estimated time's 3 weeks and I only sent off the forms last Wednesday (ie 9 days ago). I'm somewhat impressed.

Of course it's not going to stay shiny and new for long ( Read more... )

Holiday in the Fall #2 - Day 9

The Stone Roses have reformed. And another part of my faith in human integrity has slipped away. A band one of whose members later became an artist and made this, having also said things like this. And then there's the small matter that Ian Brown, regardless of the fact he's had a 'vaguely notable' solo career, cannot sing. Even the journalists ( Read more... )

quite a productive day at work. if making an automated spreadsheet even more automated counts as productive. what used to take over a day now takes about 20 minutes, *and* provides more information ( Read more... )

So today was quite quiet at work due to people being in all-day meetings, or on holiday. Is always quite weird when a week ends on that kind of anti-climax ( Read more... )

7am ... I can barely remember my own *name* when I get up at 7am. But was indeed in work *and* had eaten breakfast there by 8.30am, from whence I spent much of the day in a pseudo-training session about our sweet new system for categorising what people actually *say ( Read more... )

Work was somewhat dull today. Maybe because no-one was there. And I found a ... 'problem', which is awkward. Meh ( Read more... )

In my job I get to do a lot of interesting and weird analysis. This week I have been mostly analysing, and in fact trying to identify, the concept of 'Working Families' - traditional 'family' units of parents and children living in the same house - for a project that my boss is working on ( Read more... )

I read my gas and electricity meters the other day ( Read more... )

Another quiet Friday at work, not too many people in. We raised our prices today but it barely even registered on the BBC Website. Guess that's what happens when everyone expects these things to happen ( Read more... )