Category: old blogging

Tonight was the first night of college after Easter. Not terribly exciting (although it is always good to see everyone again), but made worse by the fact that Heather lost her keys somewhere between our class and the refectory, and couldn’t find them afterwards. Which is not good and she was understandably distressed. Hopefully, they will show up tomorrow.

Meg attempts to get yet more traffic at her site. And we all know she’ll succeed too. I’ll be there, as it’ll make a (not particularly good excuse) to stop working for at least a minute or two tomorrow.

I really can’t think of any way to use today’s word-of-the-day in a useful sentence, but I really have to publish it in some way: hobbledehoy: an awkward, gawky young fellow. What a brilliant word!
Are you a hobbledehoy? Do you know any?

TPL update: a not-very-impressive 17 points taking my total to 911. Only four weeks of the season left too; it would be great to reach 1000 points.

I know – it’s quiet here. Reasons:
– I’m very busy – lots to do at work, and just as much to do at home;
– I’m very tired – too many late nights, too many long days, not enough sleep;
– I’m working on too many projects – blog, homework, pub, redesigning work website, plant fairs, learning new software – the list is endless;
– I’m thinking about too much stuff – personal things, work issues, my finances, the impending 30ness, friends – another endless list.

I will endeavour to write stuff here – for my own purposes. Entertaining you is a secondary, but very important, part of why I keep this thing going. It’s just that I may not write as much as I usually do for a few days until I get on top of things again.
And no, Ian, I am not going to piss in my boots (some people!).

questions for today:
– why is it that a pair of boots that you’ve had for ages, truly broken in, and find very comfortable, can suddenly develop a squeak? well, more of a creak really. but a noise, nonetheless.
– why do passport photos always look so utterly dreadful? Needing a new one for my replacement driving licence, I decided not to have one taken in a booth, but in a non-booth environment. Looks no better than a booth photo.
– why do bumblebees keep coming into this office? Or maybe it is the same one?
answers?

please excuse the low blogging volume today – I’m really busy.
Whilst you wait for me to grab a moment to say something, go take a look at a few of the very good blogs that I link to – they’ll love you for it.

today’s blogging was brought to you by the letter M, this book sent to me by this person. Life is good – my birthday is stringing out over several weeks. The longer it lasts, the better. Oh, and it isn’t too late to show how much you love Graybo.

tonight should have been spent doing my college homework, and then having an early night. Instead, I got in from work and instantly collapsed into sleep on the sofa, then had IM chats with a couple of people, then browsed the net looking at old maps and stuff. Now I am doing my homework, washing up, cooking dinner and browsing the web at the same time.
Whilst browsing, I stumbled on this which succeeds in combining my love of good web design, good architecture and good blogging. May just get added to the navbar.

St George’s Day today. Surprisingly, I haven’t seen this fact mentioned on any English blogs that I read.
Is there a patron saint of Europe? if so, who? and when is their feast day? answers on a postcard please.