So, when here I often partake in the activity of pushing my parents' creaking old treadmill to its creaking old limits. Since nobody uses it apart from me, that's fine with them, though I would prefer to be able to continue using it so complete treadmill motor failure would be undesirable ( Read more... )

Parents, after more than half a decade of generally not getting me stuff (apart from my mum occasionally giving me clothes she got during the sales), randomly decided to give me a camera as an Easter present ( Read more... )

First thing I thought when I saw today's date this morning. Also, life is fairly complex, though at least it's not entirely imaginary (can feel like it at times though) or I'd need to take a 180-degree turn. Or one step backwards ( Read more... )

Ooh, pi time. Was when I logged in, in any case.

I wonder when they'll stop trying to defy gravity by pushing their car with its stubbornly broken engine up into the car park (it tends to, er, roll back down). Or start defying the evidently plentiful quantity of the good stuff in their systems and realise that it's socially dubious to make oneself ( Read more... )

Also, I met the loveliest cat at the playing venue on Saturday. Its fur was of a pretty amazing mix of colours which I hadn't seen before in a cat and it kept advancing at me whenever I tried to take a photo of it. Ooh, and it was really warm and soft ( Read more... )

... albeit a bit fuzzy at times during recovery, apparently ( Read more... )

So earlier on today I was telling one of my non-chess-playing friends the proper names of the chess pieces. When I told her about the Rook, she asked "How do you spell that?". I replied "R-zero-oh shit!" and realised that I'd just, in full seriousness, started spelling something out loud in 1337-speak. Need more caffeine. Or more sleep. And less ( Read more... )

So I needed to do the laundry. At half past midnight. It's 2 floors down and costs £2. There was space left in the washing machine and the top I was wearing was going to need a wash soon. You see where this is going. (The pyjama bottoms I was wearing needed a wash too, but I had some sense left in me. Why didn't I just wear clean clothes? Just ( Read more... )

So the plan was to catch the 2230 to London King's Cross (arrival 2331), take the tube to Waterloo and then see the fireworks erupt from the London Eye live on the river. Then catch the 0120 back to Cambridge and reach my flat shortly after 3 ( Read more... )

Because I have now shifted all my food from the work fridge back into my flat fridge and switched the latter on after a few weeks of having it off. There was no point in having it on as over the past few months I gradually approached the point where I was having all my meals at work (and have fully been at that point throughout the 12-day week I've ( Read more... )