I always have those XKCD holidays where I imagine describing all the exciting things I'm doing and then by the time I squeeze in a half hour on a computer and find my livejournal password typing has become difficult. Or that could just be the bloody QWERTY ( Read more... )

I stopped by Chiswick Honda this morning on the way into work, because I'd seen an '03 Honda Jazz on their website. Unfortunately, the website lied and the car in question was somewhere in Bedfordshire. I didn't come across as serious enough about the car for them to drive to London straight away, but can set up a drive for Monday. Still, I got ( Read more... )

I think I'm finally over what turned out to be the worst dose of illness I've had in a while. I missed a whole week of work, and while I've been back at work for a few days now, I've been doing little of anything else and generally feel like everything has been on hold forever ( Read more... )

I've been struck down by a nasty dose of something or other this week (temperature has remained normal, so if it is swine flu it's a mild dose (but then my body seems good at temperature control)). I was supposed to be going to Belfast for nice weekend with my family and I've just had to move the flights. I was really looking forward to it too ( Read more... )

I went along to Godot in London yesterday, with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. It was rather wonderful, I really liked this play when we studied it in school and I saw quite a few productions of it at the time. I was slightly mixed as to whether I still liked the play though, so I was pleasantly surprised by how bloody good it was. To read ( Read more... )

And so begins Project: Get a Car. I made the mistake of checking how much insurance would cost the other night. What the hell? That confirms what I've suspected all along, that in cities only a fool would bother with a car. Having determined that what I'm doing is idiotic, at least I'm saved from any need to be sensible. Getting a car is pure ( Read more... )

While trying to recover a paper airplane, catch the top of your monitor tipping it forward onto your keyboard, smashing the screen.

Turned up for my driving test today all psyched up and ready to go only to be told that they've cancelled the test and booked a replacement at some ungodly hour tomorrow morning. Some notice would be nice, the replacement time is ridiculous and they are talking rubbish about the 11th of August.

During the week I invested in one of these ( Read more... )

...and I made one of my worst mistakes today. I was pulling out from the side of the road at the start of the lesson and had to stop due to traffic. The car started to roll backwards, I tried to control with the clutch, made a mess of it, and the car lurched forward into the road. Luckily it stopped short of running into the side of a car, but I ( Read more... )