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Thundering at the window. Rain slams into glass. A million impacts. A staccato beat of tiny sharp flat…

Ohhh bugger that, too tired to be creative…

It’s chucking it down, blowing a gale and keeping me awake. Rather than lie in bed and wonder if that new dripping noise is a drip or, um, something non-drip related… ohh it’s just stopped. Phew.

Dammit, a new one has just started.

My home is my castle and my mind keeps me awake lest I miss any damage reports from this whooshing groaning screaming building.

Now, I think I got a couple of hours sleep as the last time I saw on the clock, before I got back up, was 11.54pm. It’s now 3am.

At a push I can function(ish) on around 6 hours sleep. But, of course, tomorrow morning is THE ONE AND ONLY MORNING THIS WEEK when my alarm is set early. It goes off in 3 hours and 30 minutes.

But I’m sitting here. I’m not in bed. I’m not sleeping. With each passing sentence my sleep quota for the day decreases.

I can’t believe I’m blogging this.

Enough. To bed, perchance to dream.

Hang on! I know why I’m blogging this… because it’s likely to be all you get from me today. If you want more please scroll down, there’s plenty more nonsense if you seek it.

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To be sung to a classic four bar blues riff – think “Bad to the Bone” from Terminator 2, each line interspersed with a DA NAH NAH NAAH NA style, chugging guitar:

Woke at two thirty,
The house was hot,
Got up outta bed,
So see what’s what,

Was the heating busted?
Or was it still on?
Temperature reading
TWENTY ONE!

Bashed a few buttons,
To turn it back down,
Set it to thir-teen,
My job was done,

Then I woke up this morning,
To a cold cold house,
The wife she was angry,
I felt like a louse

…

And so on. I really should learn how to operate that new fangled control unit thing we got installed.

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Limping towards the finish line that will be the ‘members only’ launch of the Scottish Blogs website. Just need to get ONE DAMN FORM working, import some data and ‘stick a fork in me’ I’m done. I’ll let the current members play with it for a bit (which means I’ll be blocking it off temporarily with a password… maybe.. if I can be bothered) and allow them to edit their details and then the site goes live.

There are still quite a few features I want to add but I can add them later without a hit on the current users and I really need to get this off my ‘list’.

In other news (ohh hang on, can’t mention that) errr… ohh yes.

Redesign.

To be honest I’ve not really been happy with this site for a while, and I think the last re-design was just an effort to try and divert my attention from that fact. The next one is likely to be more radical. No timelines. No collaboration. It’ll just happen one day.

In real life: Ehhhh well… after the weekend I’m actually enjoying doing bugger all to be honest. Especially as my head is full of DTDs, EDDs, DITA, content audits, information maps and the like, it’s nice to kill a few braincells by surfing aimlessly for a while.

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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 my wonderful wife.
2. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? The City and The Stars – Arthur C Clarke, Harts War – John Katzenbach, Underworld – Don DeLillo.
3. WHAT’S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Don’t use one, the joys of an optical mouse.
4. WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE BOARD GAME? Trivial Pursuit I guess, only one we play.
5. WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE MAGAZINE? Q, Focus, FHM… depends on my mood.
6a. FAVOURITE SMELLS? freshly cut grass, concrete after a summer shower.
6b. NON FAVOURITE SMELLS? Aniseed.
7. FAVOURITE SOUND? A river or stream gurgling across rocks.
8. WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD? Feeling lost.
9. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THEMORNING? Do I HAVE to get up?
10. FAVOURITE COLOUR? Blue (any shade really)
11. HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE PHONE? 2 usually.
12. NAME OF FUTURE CHILD? Boy = Andrew, Girl = ?? (Rebecca?)
13. MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE? Louise.
14. FAVOURITE FOODS? Potato. Any form.
15. CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA? Chocolate.
16. DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE FAST? Yes.
17. DO YOU SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL. No.
18. STORMS? Yes, driving rain, huge heavy claps of thunder, startling flashes of lightning.
19. WHAT TYPE WAS YOUR FIRST CAR? Renault Clio (BUD).
20. IF YOU COULD MEET ONE PERSON DEAD OR ALIVE, WHO WOULD IT BE? Martin Luther King Jnr.
21. FAVOURITE DRINK? Southern Comfort.
22. WHAT IS YOUR ZODIAC SIGN? Libra.
23. DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OF BROCCOLI? Halfway down.
24. IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB YOU WANTED WHAT WOULD IT BE? Zoo Keeper.
25. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE? Yes, still am!
26. IS THE GLASS HALF FULL OR HALF EMPTY? Half empty.
27. FAVOURITE MOVIES? The Shawshank Redemption / Face Off / Groundhog Day / Godfather Trilogy.
28. DO YOU TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS ON THE RIGHT KEYS? Half and half.
29. WHAT’S UNDER YOUR BED? Dust.
30. FAVOURITE SONG? Too many to list…
31. FAVOURITE SPORT TO WATCH? Basketball (NBA)
32. YOUR FAVOURITE AGE IN LIFE SO FAR? Mid-twenties.
33. SAY ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS: Caring, loving, funny, smart, ohhh ONE thing… She’s FAB!
34. NAME A PERSON WHO YOU WILL SEND THIS TO AND IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND: I’m gonna guess… Jenny
35. NAME A PERSON WHO IS LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND: Stuart

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Driving along today, minding our own business and we come across a white van, abandoned in the middle of one lane of the road. No-one in sight, no other cars about, very Marie Celeste. Then the dilema of… do we phone the police? Do we presume someone else has? But what if everyone else is working on the same presumption and it turns out that NO-ONE else has… but that wouldn’t happen would it, I mean, someone would phone them… wouldn’t they?

Better phone though just in case… “If I take one more phone call about that white van….” Oh well, doesn’t hurt to make sure.

Decidedly odd though, don’t you think?