Shamelessly cadged from aussiedave because he:-
a)said everything that I wanted to, and
b)writes better than wot I do.

DOING YOUR DUTY...and I seriously fucking mean it. This is your duty. Yes, you, reading this now. I'm not going to mince words or be diplomatic ( Read more... )

Various events of late have put me in mind of a Taoist story I once heard. I have found a paraphrased version which goes as follows...

A man named Sei Weng owned a beautiful mare which was praised far and wide. One day this beautiful horse disappeared. The people of his village offered sympathy to Sei Weng for his great misfortune. Sei Weng said ( Read more... )

Ok - I bookmooched 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand about a year ago (note - before it suddenly became trendy to read it due to the collapsing economy) and have recently started reading it. Amusing parallels with regards to socio/politico/economic collapse aside I have noticed an interesting side effect when I mention my reading choice to people ( Read more... )

And my bank have just phoned me to tell me that someone has got their hands on my credit card details and as a result have been busily spending my money. That'll teach me to buy Christmas presents for people.

Not having a good week. :(

Bloody Microsoft. I bought an Xbox 6 days ago in order to while away the winter evenings, and last night it fried itself. After 6 whole days. Apparently you shouldn't play them for more than about 2 hours at a time or they might break. That's what I call build quality ( Read more... )

Ahh, what a weekend. Drinking in Oxford on Friday (always good fun) and then catching up with Gus on the Saturday. We ended up meeting a bunch of old college mates and heading off to Reflex - one of a chain of nightclubs about which I had heard many things but which I had never dared visit before ( Read more... )

So, here I am recuperating at home so I thought I would give Pen's seduction style test thingy a go. And guess what I turned out as?




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So, this morning I went to the doctors to have a large, unsightly (and, rather worryingly, rapidly growing) mole removed from down near my nether parts ( Read more... )

Probably a bad idea to revisit LJ when I have a hangover but by god I feel minging this morning. Or is it afternoon. I can't really tell as the clock is blurry even with my glasses on. Note to self - drinking with the Kali guys is never 'just a curry and a couple of beers' it is a full on 7 hour epic leading to smoking cigarettes and waking up ( Read more... )

Right, its friday, im the better off for several pints over lunch and its definitely time i wrote something in this damn journal ( Read more... )