All change again on the party front. After a little time spent thinking down the gym, it suddenly struck me that this will be the first time I've been drinking in months so the hangover come morning could well be sizeable. Do I really want to be dealing with driving home feeling rough as hell after spending a night on a friend's sofa? Do I bollocks ( Read more... )

So I'm officially semi-unemployed again. It's one of those good news/bad news situations; didn't wake until 9 - good news; missing the interaction with the people at work - bad news. Oh, yeah, and getting paid was pretty nifty too ( Read more... )

All filing and no first validations makes Barry something something ( Read more... )

After much racking of the brain cells and scouring of the internet, Sara and Pete's birthday presents be officially decided upon and purchased. And I haven't even had to resort to a dental dam/condom for each year that they've been alive. Probably a good thing, since I really don't want to traumatise Sass and Pete would get through them in a week ( Read more... )

I'm hesitant to put this in writing, but the last week's been pretty damn good as they go ( Read more... )

Internets in the bedroom are back! After many failed attempts at getting AOL to send us the free wireless router we were apparently entitled to - but didn't really want all that desperately - one finally arrived in the post this week. Initially reluctant to try installing it, since all of their online guides seemed to suggest I'd have to install ( Read more... )

Out of a fortnight of shit comes a blazing light of geekdom at the end of the tunnel. Two, in fact. Maybe even three if you count the release of Christopher Paolini's new beast of a novel - 763 pages, craziness ( Read more... )

Claire is officially off sick until at least the end of September! Part of me knows I shouldn't be happy about this but the more dominant, schadenfreudian part of me can't be more chuffed. 30 hours a week guaranteed for the next couple of weeks will nicely boost the finances ( Read more... )

In what I hope will prove to be a cathartic move, I'm in the midsts of purging my room. Forget the entrepreneurial attempts of selling things on eBay. Screw trying to do 'the right thing' and sending things to the charity shop. The crap that's been cluttering up my life for the past few years is all going into bin bags and heading down the dump ( Read more... )

The eBay auctions have ended! And when all is said and done, the big pile o' graphic novels that's been acting as a second carpet for the last month has netted me close to £140, all of which is being channelled straight into the Get Barry Back To Newcastle Fund - better suggestions of name greatly welcomed, especially if they make for a funny ( Read more... )