My phone just rang, the screen said it was my boss. I answered thinking "What have I done? I'm pretty sure I haven't done anything. I know I'm not meant to be at work for another few hours ( Read more... )

Forgot about 'Today Is A Good Day' reason #4: Books.

I bought That Mitchell & Webb Book from the 99p store. It's one of those light-amusement Christmas stocking kind of books which I probably wouldn't have spent £16 on, but for 99p it's a bit of a bargain.

I also bought:

Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover and Enhance your Body's Natural ( Read more... )

Today has been a pretty good day so far, for three reasons. I bought some RAM off eBay, installed it today, and now my computer is running infinitely more smoothly. It's rather impressive just what quadrupling your memory (from 512MB to 2GB: the maximum this motherboard supports) can do ( Read more... )

The end of The Rational Optimist is a warning of the possibility of regression. There are agents working against the force of historical progress, and there's a chance that these agents could win.It is just possible that the predators and parasites will actually win altogether, or rather that ambitious ideological busybodies will succeed in ( Read more... )

Well, that was an interesting Saturday. The shift itself was pretty dull, as the pub was very quiet, but the post-shift drink was interesting, as I got chatting to Ad - the boss ( Read more... )

I heard about the book The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves when it came out last year, I forget where from (it's possible it was reviewed in New Scientist). It sounded incredibly interesting and I made a mental note to buy it sometime. The other week I found it in The Works for £2.99, bought a copy, and immediately began devouring it - ( Read more... )

I moved into the pub on Wednesday - Liz and her sister (who works as a gardener and hence has her own van) helped me out, and her sister very generously refused the money I tried to give her. The room is ridiculously large (it contains two single beds, a wardrobe, a sofa, two tables, two chairs, and still has enough space to swing a pony). It also ( Read more... )

I really want a cup of tea but my flatmates are in the lounge/kitchen. I'm far too old to be hiding away, but I feel like my very presence offends them these days, and it's their flat, and I'm not paying them anything to be here, so I just do my best to stay out of their way/sight. My tea consumption has dropped massively as a result ( Read more... )

I had another wee look at the flats in Campbeltown the other day, and one of them has gone down to £129 a month. That's insanely cheap. Even if bills come to £100 a month (which there's no way that they should) that's a lot cheaper than any London room ( Read more... )

The flatmate woke me up today with a list of rooms he'd found on Gumtree. He'd even phoned a few of them. "You can go and see this one today, and this one tomorrow ( Read more... )