As well as a huge pile of paperwork, my step-father also left a huge collection of CDs, DVDs and PC games for us to sort through. Actually, the vast majority of it is CDs, there's easily got to be around 200. Most of it is stuff that the rest of us don't like - classical, jazz and blues music, war games and crime/thriller films - so I suggested ( Read more... )

I've had quite a busy week so far. Although I didn't leave the house on Monday and Tuesday, I was still very busy. I've made a start on giving my website a seriously overdue update but at the same time, I'm also overhauling a lot of it. The bulk of it involves tidying up the navigation so that it's organised better but I'm also changing the ( Read more... )

It's coming up to 9pm on Sunday night so I think it's safe to say that my birthday is officially over. It wasn't a bad one, I suppose, although I always find that it's a bit of a letdown because it's never as good as I hope it's going to be ( Read more... )

Everyone at work has been constantly mentioning Christmas like mad for the past week, ever since the tree went up by the front door. Directly in front of my desk, by the way. Of course, it doesn't help that there was the Christmas party last night so they were getting all geared up for that too. Now they've had the party, they still have another ( Read more... )

I wanted to have a nice relaxing day yesterday, not just because of it being my birthday but also because of it having been a rather tiring week. I think I managed it. I got up late and didn't do any work all day which was such a nice change. I didn't do a great deal during the day at all, but as my mother and my sister had other commitments, ( Read more... )

Michael has been here two weeks now. We managed to get out to various places despite the bad weather that landed on us.
( Museum #1 )

Although I'm Jewish, there are some members of my family who celebrate Christmas and so I've been doing family stuff with them these past two days. It's still been Chanuka as well, so lots of food and presents and candle-lighting all round. There was a rather noticeable lack of communication between various parties which resulted in some ( Read more... )

My Chanuka present from my sister tonight was this book entitled You Know You're A Writer When.... It's full of one-liners about what it means to be a writer. There's three examples on the back cover and the first one I noticed was the one that says: ... All your bedspreads have ink stains on them. I wonder if she is trying to tell me something.

My sister gave me a Rubik's Magic Cube last night for my first night of Chanuka present. It's very 80s and has pastel colours which include pink and purple, rather than the bold colours of the original. They kind of add to the 80s-ness of it somehow, probably because the green is really rather garish ( Read more... )

It's now officially Yom Kippur. Well, it was officially Yom Kippur several hours ago at 6.10pm but I was busy helping my sister with computery stuffs and wasn't able to post till now. For those of you who don't know, Yom Kippur is the Jewish Day of Atonement and is traditionally commemorated with a 25 hour fast. And also spending the whole day ( Read more... )