Advice: Don't book with them.

Just dealing with their "Customer Serivice" department is enough to put you off flying with them. Ever.

All Australian concerts postponed :(. Have known since an hour after the announcement - my brother Neal, who was going to the Adelaide concert, texted me with the bad bad bad news.

Postponment is probably due to the illness of The Edge's (Dave Evans) daugher. She has leukaemia, and has since early last year ( Read more... )

Something to be happy about.

Ummm.

Uni is stressy.

Ummm.

Other things too.

Ummm.

Heard this on my iPod in the car last night (I had it on Shuffle):

U2 - Peace on Earth

Heaven on Earth, we need it now ( Read more... )

Sometimes I would very much like me to be rich enough to have a full-time maid.

In other events: Just about finished C.S. Lewis' The Last Battle. Will have it finished in a new minutes. Very happy and very sad to be finishing the Narnian books.

Will probably read Llloyd Alexander's The Book of Three next. Then back to some Pratchett.

smh - Yahoo, AOL announce email 'postage' fee

COMPANIES will soon have to buy the electronic equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to be certain their emails are delivered ( Read more... )

This made my eyes water I laughed so hard:

"...and the gods had a habit of going around to athiests' houses and smashing their windows."

Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot ( Read more... )

Had a really weird dream about being in Germany backpacking and trying to avoid being killed by psycho street beggars. I remember a scene where I was running down a steep hill in a residential area of what I guess was Munich because I thought they were going to run after me. Though I can't remember any steep hills when I was in Munich - it was more ( Read more... )

Was driving home at sunset today, and came up with this.

The sun is setting on the distant hills
The sky has a red and pink glow
The shadows from the trees are growing
Soon we will be surrounded by the darkness
Are we sure the dawn will come?Whenever I try poetry it comes out depressing. Really I am much more up-beat now that that sounds ( Read more... )

Number one resolution for the year: Develop better judgement...