I’m as obsessive about memes as Damon is, so when I saw this one I couldn’t not do it The rules are that you have to name seven things which make life bearable and which you couldn’t do without. You’re not supposed to list things like your house, because everyone needs a house and anyway that just makes you sound boring

Here goes… (more…)

I meant to write a blog post earlier in the week to say what a lovely time Babel and I had on Saturday. I have to admit that I was slightly apprehensive about the day, because we were scheduled to meet up with some old friends of mine from uni, who I hadn’t set eyes on since we all graduated together nearly four years ago. It was a bit of a strange situation, as last time I saw them I was obviously still with my ex who was also a good friend of theirs. Also because having not seem them for so long, I wasn’t sure I had a lot to say to them. But we went to our local Harvester which also happens to be their local Harvester, and managed to get through the two hours it took us to get served a main course and pudding without too many awkward silences. Thank you to Babel for coming with me (more…)

They don’t. Trust me.

I am officially being rubbish at blogging again This was supposed to be a quiet week in which I was going to have time to do things other than audit, but it turns out that it isn’t. The only thing which is worse than going to work is going to work when you feel ill, which is what I had to do yesterday, when I developed a really strange headache and felt constantly sick. Damon helpfully suggested that I might be pregnant (thanks Damon ), which leads me on to blogging about the Pope. The poor old Pope appears to have been getting quite a bit of stick in the media this week because of the fact that he won’t support condoms as a way of halting the spread of HIV in Africa. This vaguely annoys me, because the press seem to be missing one very salient point. He’s the *Pope* for goodness sake! He can’t advocate the use of condoms, it would be complete career suicide (more…)

When I woke up on Wednesday morning and realised I could no longer kid myself that I wasn’t catching Tim’s cold I was rather gutted because I knew I had an busy and exciting weekend ahead of me, which I wanted to be able to enjoy Happily, either good fortune or the cocktail of vitamin C and echinacea which I was swallowing meant that my cold was nowhere near as bad as Tim’s, and so it was that by Saturday afternoon I almost felt okay again.

Saturday actually got off to a pretty bad start when I woke up at 5.30 am. I’m currently in my third week of working on a property development company in Banbury, a job which necessitates leaving home at 6.30am every morning, and thus I’ve had to get used to early starts. I’m obviously subconsciously a bit stressed about oversleeping, because my body decided it wanted to get up at that time even on a weekend Perversely, I didn’t actually feel sleepy at that point at all, so sat awake for a few hours playing on my computer until the internet connection did the usual and died. It must have been about half past seven at this point, in other words it was still far too early to actually get out of bed, so I decided to lie down and have a little snooze… Next thing I knew it was 10am and having been beaten to the bathroom by my sister, I was well on my way to being late (more…)

A number of years ago I remember my friend Damon writing a series of posts in the JEB forum, in which he suggested that BT stands not for British Telecom but for Bloody Terrible. This is a sentiment with which I can now sympathise.

For the past twelve months or so, we have been fortunate enough to have wireless internet in our house. It was a highly exciting development when my mother agreed to have it installed, and it has been even more exciting since Babel bought me my own computer and I can actually use it I got my computer at Christmas, and for the first six weeks or so, everything seemed to be going swimmingly well. But when we hit February, problems started to develop. Quite often I’d be using my computer bt night when suddenly the internet connection would cut out. Initially I assumed this was just some sort of random network problem and the signal was temporarily too weak for me to connect to, but it seemed different to any kind of connectivity issue which I had experienced elsewhere before. My computer was still able to detect the network, was proclaiming it to have an excellent signal in fact, but whenever I tried to connect to it it would say it was unable to, and Windows was unable to diagnose and repair the problem. What’s more, I soon discovered that leaving my computer switched off for twenty four hours and hoping it would cure itself was not successful. The only way to get the internet connection back was seemingly to turn the wireless hub off at the power and switch it back on again. This admittedly worked every time, but doesn’t seem an ideal solution to the problem. (more…)