I'm now free from work ties ( Read more... )

So, I've rejuvinated my LiveJournal, and I'm gonna give it a try again. Call this Vol 2.0, I guess ( Read more... )

The last couple of years, I've greeted the New Year with a sense of "meh", basically as I've felt that the preceeding twelve months had been pretty much wasted - but this year is different. I've actually achieved something in 2006 - and that's to get a new job. It's still theoretically "provisional", as certain checks and references need to be ( Read more... )

It’s been ages since I updated, but then up until this past week I haven’t had that much to really report. On Tuesday 28th of November, I did a flying visit to and from London to have my interview and aptitude test for a civilian job with the Met Police. I thought it all went quite well (and in fact I was told off the record that I aced the ( Read more... )

I read Eric Bischoff's book this week - Controversy Creates Cash. You know, even though he's an easy guy to hate (something he used to his advantage through his career), I've always had a soft spot for Uncle Eric... so I was looking forward to the book immensely. Having finished it, it's basically a book of two halves. The first half, featuring ( Read more... )

I'm stuffed. Just been out for a meal due to it being my cousin's birthday (yesterday) and now I'm home and I'm absolutely stuffed full. I want nothing more now than to just flop down in my chair and not move for the next four hours. Huzzah for carvery meals where you can fill your own plate ( Read more... )

I've managed to sort out the planned aptitude test thingy that I can't attend at the weekend. In fact, the woman I talked to was SUPER helpful and seemed like the nicest woman ever. It turns out that - due to the distance I have to travel - they'll reschedule my test for the same day as the full interview... so I end up killing two birds with one ( Read more... )

I realised today that this was the fourth anniversary of me starting work in my current job. Four years after that ambitious young man walked in, a significantly more depressed 29 year old sits and contemplates just *why* I'm still there. I don't like it - sans the handful of people I count as real friends - and I've been passed over for ( Read more... )

I've always liked Robbie Williams ( Read more... )

Some chap on Mastermind just got a specialist subject score of 1 (yes, one) with eight passes on "The Films Of Jim Carrey"

I don't care if it makes me a bad man for finding this humorous, but that's funnier than anything Jim Carrey has ever done.