Those of you who know me (at least in person) may recall I have a hematite ring I wear as a pendant. It was the last gift I received from my Mother and, as such, I was quite attached to the thing ( Read more... )

So I'm up all morning from eightish, waiting for the delivery guy to bring the restore CDs for my errant desktop. I wait, and wait, and nearly open the door for the locksmith who came to help the lady next door get into her car. I have to leave for work at half one, and do so. Managed to wolf down some Tesco sushi for lunch, which was nice ( Read more... )

It snowed today!* And I was in work and couldn't enjoy it. :-( Didn't stop Ryan, Sam, Jody and uncle Pete from having a snowball fight in the car park. And Ryan made a snow-angel, although he'll probably suggest it was a snow-dalek or something. Wasn't actually very cold, either. This meant I wasn't too narked when the taxi driver came to pick me ( Read more... )

Despite it being the depth of winter, the longest night tonight (or tomorrow night or something), I am a little bit chipper. Unsure why. Might be due to lots of small things.
Work was remarkably untrying. We have a new system about to go into ( Read more... )

The person I'm disappointed in today is mainly myself. Essentially, it has to do with getting in to work late this morning. for a sense of greater context, I got in a minute or two after 8am, when I should have ready and at my desk. This, I hasten to add, was not due to a lack of initiative on my part (well, discounting sleeping through my alarm), ( Read more... )

Suffice it to say, mister Gossy did not come out to play tonight - he was ill with man 'flu; working hard to get this promotion has knocked the stuffing out of him, it seems. We will have to reschedule. Nevertheless, I'm not as disappointed as before: at least I received a text message back from him this time. I decided to buy myself a kebab on the ( Read more... )

Kim sent me another nice link: [http://consc.net/misc/moser.html]. I yearn to be able to write these kinds of stories, but I'm concerned I don't have enough verbal nouse or literary initiative ( Read more... )