Shorter posts, links, or thoughts. No schedule, not heavily considered.
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Consequences
Consequences #7 – Gordon (Posted over at Vaughan’s) Take my record collection. Seriously, help yourself. It’s an affliction you see, I buy CDs. Lots of them, on whims, or fancies, or to keep up with a particular artist, or.. well.. because I happen to wander past a record shop. Old CDs, ‘classic’ albums, chart releases,…
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Monday Mission 2.33
Haven’t done this for an age… 1. Many children have blankets, or a favorite nubby stuffed animal that they like to keep near them for security. Do you recall what you had for your “security blanket” as a child? When did you finally give it up? What brought that about? Ehhh it was a security…
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But I want it
But I want it!I own DVD’s but not a DVD player. One criteria of me getting a PlayStation 2 (before we got, say, a new cooker) was that it would be used to play DVDs. Which it has. But… well it’s not enough really, is it. I can get hold of VCDs, SVCDs, MP3 discs,…
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AA Gill
Another day, another wonderful quote at hydragenic. This is the power of ‘blogs’. On the strength of Stuarts references I have ordered AA Gill’s book “AA Gill is Away”, and I have registered at The Times website (where AA Gill writes a column). The main point here is not a simple recommendation of a book,…
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A competition
OK not really, I’m just being a link whore I guess, but I’m guessing that everyone who has referrer logs looks at them more than once a week. Right? And you look at how many times a certain site has sent someone your way.. right?OK, so maybe it’s just me. Either way I thought it…
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US targets al-Qa'ida
I’ve not commented much on the ‘war on terror’ that is being waged at present. Recent announcements by the US government are concerning though. The Pentagon says: “We’re at war with al-Qa’ida. If we find an enemy combatant, we should be able to use military forces to take military action against them.” “…assassinations are part…
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Holiday Memories
Driving down listening to my sister’s exploits from her holidays. Entering St.Annes. The sand dunes, the pitch-n-putt, the miniature railway. Walking along Blackpool promenade, marvelling at just how awful it is. The Sea Life centre, the sun, The Big One (85mph!). Dinner at Lytham. Giggling at Louise trying to sit up in bed. Driving in…
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Did you know
OK, I’m cheating on this one, I’m supposed to email several people with this, but I’m too damn lazy. (One thing about my friend S who sent me this, we both like mashed potato, and I’d just bought The Cold Six Thousand a day before I got her email! Spooky coincidence) 1. LIVING ARRANGEMENT? With…
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Location, location
So I’ve been quiet over the past couple of days. I wish I had some real life things to report, but I don’t. I get up, go to work, go home, eat, go to bed. Essentially that’s been my life for the last few months, hence the long weekend I’m about to take. I won’t…
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Monday Morning Ramble
A whizz through the weekend, if you will. Saturday, shopping in the smir, haar, or whatever kind of rain it was (it was the misty kind that you don’t really notice until you are soaked through). Saturday night, a pleasant suprise, we were attending a 40th Birthday party of a friend, one of those “we’d…
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Weather or not
Every Friday I take a few moments of my day to contemplate what we will be doing over the weekend. As we live in Scotland I have to temper every possibility with a fallback. We could go and visit Chatelherault Country Park, or I could finish wiring up the under unit lights in the kitchen.…
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I know a man
Our car insurance is due and I’ve been checking out some online quotes. There are loads of sites that “will find you the cheapest quote” and I’ve tried most in the last couple of hours. Be it a one-stop site, or the majority of the better known insurers, they all share one thing (seemingly). Badly…
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Tattoo
I got my first tattoo when I was 17, the second when I was 18. I’ve yet to get a third. To this day I’m still not 100% sure why I got a tattoo, although I do know that I am happy with them and don’t regret the decision at all. Typically, if you ask…
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Typical
Just after I’ve said I can’t find anything worth talking about, I come across this: The Plot Thickeners. I kinda knew this, having read something about it a few months back in one of the Sunday Papers (the capital P means it was one of the broadsheets). What I find fascinating is the other writers,…
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Odd weekend
Friday night, a few beers after work, then onto dinner with family (my brother-in-law and his girlfriend, and my sister-in-law). Then onto the heady nightspots of Dumbarton, where, once again, I am reminded that it’s not WHERE you are, it’s WHO you are with. Night finished at 3:30 a.m. (allegedly) and as my legs were…
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Lunchtime reading
As predicted I’ve finished my ‘work’ already, so I can push on to other things, which is good as they are usually the things that get dropped first. However I’ve decided on an early lunch and a quick surf first, and I thought I would share the fruits of my labour with you: The art…
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Yawn
Working at home today. Which is good. However as usual I fell into my trap of deciding to do some work last night, so I could get a bit of a lie-in. Of course it doesn’t work that way, never has, I just keep forgetting. So, turned off the laptop at 00:34 last night, and…
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Miscellany
Minority Report. Further to my comments, Mr.Sippey has delved a bit further into some of the issues, and prompted an interesting discussion about all things in the ‘projected future’. Single-Use Credit Card Numbers. Mentioned in today’s Lockergnome newsletter, these sound very clever and I’m not sure why they aren’t publicised more, probably a lot more…
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BBL
A random comment made by someone in our office as they walked past my desk has just wasted 15 minutes of my lunch: … and then he picked out some lint from his belly button How does it get there? Why is it, almost always, blue? Some extensive research later and gleaned some interesting facts:…
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Miscellany
My Mum phoned from Austria, they are off to Neuschwanstein Castle tomorrow. Seem familiar? A flying car landed there once, driven by Dick van Dyke of all people. Poor Jennie’s check card number was stolen – ya still gotta be careful kids, only give it out to somewhere or someone you trust. OK that just…