Category: old blogging

possibly a bad plan, but I’ve started snooping around other people’s Amazon wishlists (here’s mine, since I know how generous you are) in order to get some sort of insight into the minds of their owners. Here’s a random, but revealing, selection:
Monkey! (I can imagine Robyn running around the playground in her youth shouting “haaaar! munkeeeeeeh!”, much as I did with my mates)
Fat Harry White (Mo turns on the luuuuuurve in his Bedford Rascal)
You Are Being Lied To (makes me wonder if I should ever believe anything I read at Tom‘s site)
Bob the Builder (you begin to wonder how much of this is for Harvey, and how much is actually for Angie!)
Harry Potter (Richard clings stubbornly to his youth)

Not sure what, if anything, can be read into this, but an interesting exercise nonetheless.

oh, and in spite of the lack of exam results, I’m in a fairly good mood. not sure how good the mood should be at the moment, as I’m having doubts, but hey, enjoy it whilst it last.
[more cryptic that the Times crossword, eh?]

gah. exam results *haven’t* arrived here yet. humph. so I’ll have to wait until the morning to find out how well I did. or worse still, they won’t turn up until next week, if at all – which, knowing the CIM, wouldn’t surprise me one bit.

do good deeds with other people’s money:
visit Mo and give £1 of someone elses money to Comic Relief.
alternatively, visit Richard and give 50p of his money.
better still, give some of your own money by whatever means you feel to be appropriate.

Went for beer last night with Phil from college, Sarah, Paul F and Ian, and later met up with Paul S and his mate Mark. Admired the barmaid’s “attributes” in the Nags, but otherwise uneventful.

Waited and waited for the post to arrive this morning, but decided I could wait no more and had to get to work. So I should have my results waiting for me when I get home. Will post the outcome here.

Vaughan takes a break. Nice idea, but I don’t think I could ever trust anyone else with this site. And who would do it? Actually, I can think of a couple of people who might volunteer!

every home should have one of these (link poached from Marcia)

I’ve heard this morning that the CIM have sent out our exam results today by first class post. Which means they should arrive just before I leave for work in the morning. So expect my mood to be either bouyant or bad tomorrow.

On the subject of junk faxes, my friend David tells me: “Our company spends over $750,000 every year in fax broadcasting (junk faxes as you call them). They bring in over $2.2m in sales.”
But they are still a pain in the arse.