Tonight I'm headed down to my parents' to have a look at a pair of cars.

An astonishingly cheap '03, 2 litre MG ZS which has barely ever been driven.

Or an apparently gorgeous, very much reduced, XJR that was apparently once owned by Jeff Banks and has had a very nice custom finish to it.

I'm looking forward to a bit of a spin around ...

Ok, so, having decided not to go with the flash, expensive car this year, I need to choose something to tide me over from giving back the company car to buying something nice in a year or two.

There's not a lot of criteria, but I'm looking for inspiration/stupid suggestions.

So, the criteria:

• should cost a couple of grand
• 4 (or 5) seats. Real seats ( Read more... )

Notice handed in this morning. Last day is the day before I take Viki to Kenya for her birthday present ( Read more... )

Finally got the official call from my agent this morning. Offers are in from UBS and Goldman Sachs. Helpfully they've offered roughly the same. UBS is more cash, GS has better benefits, but they're close enough that I can make the decision purely on which job I want to do more, rather than being influenced by the money ( Read more... )

Post ten of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive ( Read more... )

Wife and sprogs are away for the week (at her parents), so I've been making the most of it. Went out to the eXtreme Tuesday Club on Tuesday (after a couple of job interviews in the city). Met some cool people, had some good chats, including one chap who might we want to offer me a job. Must get round to sending him my CV ( Read more... )

For some bizarre reason, I appear to be writing software for odyssey. It's odd, really, cos I'm pretty sure I normally do that sort of thing during daylight hours, and get paid for it ...

After having an appallingly unproductive night last night, where everything looked like shit, so instead I wasted it pissing about on oxfordgirl's live journal, I had some ( Read more... )

I seem to have hurt myself playing cricket again. This time I dug my heel in hard trying not to crash into the umpire scoring the winning run off the last ball, so at least it was with good cause. Problem is my heel hurts a lot. Sufficiently enough that I've been considering whether or not I ought to pop into the hospital for an X ray. It doesn't ( Read more... )

Last night I couldn't sleep, my brain was fizzing with things I was considering writing here, so it seem somewhat inevitable that, having the time now to compose something, it appears to be mostly blank ( Read more... )

This evening I head of to Maelstrom. This should be a good thing ( Read more... )