Alongside a more all-encompassing preoccupation with ICT, I've been very concerned over the past few weeks about the imminent obsolescence of the keyboard. It started when I was rewatching Serenity, because there's a scene where Mal uses a keyboard that (from a distance) looks just like ours. I thought that that was improbable and that far more ( Read more... )

Now: a huge happy birthday to river_boat! Ro, I hope that you have an absolutely gorgeous day (although, I suppose you're at work...at the very least, I wish you lots of free cake). I suppose you may still be a little too young to achieve all of your dreams this year, so instead I hope that you have a terribly fun year, and that at the end of it you end up ( Read more... )

Filthy filthy weather outside: temperature will top 38 degrees, it hasn't rained in a couple of weeks, and the wind is gusting: to top it off, plenty of hungover/still drunk people around to do something stupid. Bless all of the firepersons, may their day be quiet ( Read more... )

I GIVE UP.

Nomore, no more, no more. I'm writing a conclusion, then I'm printing and leaving. No proofreading. No fixing up. I can't do this any more.

Oh, gosh, the nerves, the stress.

I'm drinking an assam and vanilla blend called "Tea for Sunday", and it really feels like it is a tea for Sunday...but only a grey Sunday afternoon.

Work is getting me down a lot. But it's allright.

I love it when customers buy something that turns out to be faulty, and I accept that and give them their refund/exchange and apologise, and they then tell me about how their son etc. opened it and was so excited and then it didn't work and they had to explain to him/her that it didn't work and they were so disappointed ( Read more... )

3am.

(Procrastinate-stress-panic-rinse-repeat)

Fortunately I found left-overs in the fridge, so I didn't have to make raw biscuit-dough for lunch. I have a feeling that biscuit-dough is better in thought than in reality, anyway.

I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; I thought that the first half was excellent, and had the perfect tone for the book. I think my largest qualm with the rest ( Read more... )

I am rather in the doldrums about the state of the world at the moment. And as I don't think anybody wants to hear my political polemics right now, I will be back - soonish - when I have been doing something other than study-work-study-sleep-study.