I don't know if he was trying to be clever or just is stupid, but the guy who won a G.I.Joe figure in one of my eBay auctions paid via PayPal before I had a chance to send an invoice and it used the 50p postage & packing I'd listed. Normally that'd be fine but this guy's in Arizona and the 50p was for Royal Mail 1st class, it said so in the ( Read more... )

So I suck. A lot. Letting myself be away from the internet longer than I should have been ( Read more... )

I AM going to make a proper post, I swear. I just attended/worked at the 2004 UK Comics Festival in Bristol and had a great time, so I've got plenty to say there, plus there's my general life, thoughts & feelings at the moment. With any luck I'll manage to spread it all out over a few posts and possibly even continue posting after that...! ( Read more... )

Why are there never any jobs advertised in the Guardian Media section that I could actually apply for? Most of them are sales and then the Editorial-type ones all want people coming from the same type of job who have 3+ years of experience. It's very annoying. And today there were editorial jobs offered located in Hong Kong and Dubai --WHERE'S ( Read more... )

Posting because I have to -- I want to write about everything that I've been up to over Christmas and the New Year but I can't keep waiting to post again until I have. Who knows, maybe now I've posted this, I'll get on and do it.

...yeah, okay, riiiight...

I just watched Buffy on BBC2 ( Read more... )

I had to get up early today but it proved to be worthwhile. Mum and I went to Frome for the big car boot sale at the cattle market, to try and clear out a little space and make a little money by selling our wares. Mum mostly had books, dishes, ornamental bits'n'bobs, flowery bathroom stuff, that kind of thing, while I had the kind of stall I'm ( Read more... )

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I just wanted to note the occasion; my Livejournal has made the transition to more than one page! I have a "previous 25 entries" link! Not that there's 25 entries there!

Yet!

So for the last few weeks, when I've had the chance, I've been playing the computer game Star Wars: Dark Forces II, Jedi Knight. I bought it a couple of years ago but never took the time to sit and play it. As a means of filling up the waking hours when I'm not working at Polestar Demographics ("Where Every Day Feels Like A Monday") I decided to ( Read more... )