I wasn't in a great mood this evening. Do you ever get that? Where you just don't want to have anything to do with anybody else? Well, I seem to be feeling like that quite a lot recently and it's not really to my credit ( Read more... )

Apparently there were elections in the USA this week to elect their president. I know this because I saw media coverage absolutely everywhere despite the fact that I wasn't even anywhere near the USA at the time ( Read more... )

I received a bank statement through the post today. That's not particularly unusual. What was a bit puzzling though was the fact that the phrase 'Pat 14' was written on the back of the envelope in biro. Who would write such a thing? Especially since my name is not Pat. Nor am I 14 ( Read more... )

Today I did a bad thing. Or did I ( Read more... )

No, I don't want to grow a moustache during the month of November. I don't care if it is for a good cause, I'm not doing it! No, I'm not being a boring git either. Well, maybe I am a little bit but it's my upper lip on my face that's going to have to put up with this extra growth of hair. Not just for a short time either, but for an entire month! ( Read more... )

I'm having some problems with some Mexican students. Not huge problems that I'm losing sleep over, or that are making my life a miserable ball of stress and trauma or anything. Just that some of them don't seem to be learning that much ( Read more... )

I'm glad I'm not famous. Because, if I were famous I'd have to reply to all of those people who'd want to write fan mail to me, and the truth is I'm too lazy to do that. Especially since their questions would be boring and inane. "What's your favourite number?" they'd ask and I'd probably have to type that it's (1 + √5}/2 so often that it might ( Read more... )

Today was a day jam-packed full of board games as the gaming group I'm part of held an all-day session to celebrate one year of existing. It was great. We had meeple shaped biscuits! We also played loads and loads of games too. Here are the games that I managed to play.

Infinite City: A nice tile-placing game which isn't quite as infinite as the ( Read more... )

There's a technique that's used in the business world -- or, taught in Business Studies classes, at least -- called a SWOT analysis. You may have heard of it. The word SWOT is an acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, and the idea is that each business should identify its internal good and bad features (the strengths and the ( Read more... )

Posing for photographs. Does anybody actually enjoy doing this? I suppose they do. Some people -- I believe they call themselves 'models' -- actually do it for a living. But it just makes me feel a bit awkward and self-conscious ( Read more... )