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Category: old blogging

  • Time for bed. My thoughts

    Time for bed. My thoughts are far away.

  • What did this girl do

    What did this girl do wrong? Go to her local when she was 18 years old and attractive? Like this girl and countless others? I dunno. I see so many girls like these two every time I go to the pub. Why would anyone want to violate and destroy their lives? It just seems all wrong.

  • Beer tonight with Aris (very

    Beer tonight with Aris (very long time since I last saw him), Paul F, Mich (even longer since I’ve seen her), Lucy, Alex and Nikki, with sightings of Anthony amd a few others, and a lift home from Julie T, who I haven’t seen since the last time I saw Aris. So good to catch up with people I haven’t seen in ages.

  • I plan to attend this,

    I plan to attend this, which I promise you will be a lot more interesting than it sounds. The fact that it is in California will help.

  • Busy busy busy here again

    Busy busy busy here again today, but good busy, which is nice.

  • The telephone man has just

    The telephone man has just been to carry out a site inspection. Thankfully, he didn’t call me "baby" and he didn’t tell me that he could put it in the kitchen or put it in the hall.
    Who did that song?

  • I’ve spent the evening looking

    I’ve spent the evening looking up the best prices and reviews for some of the office machines that I’ll be needing for PFE. As always, anything you guys can throw into the fire is welcome.

    My comments: the PSC2210 would be nicer, as it includes a memory card reader for quick printing of digital photos, but I can’t justify the extra expense. The LaserJet 1150 gets good reviews, and HP laser printers are fairly rugged in my experience (still using a 4Plus that is ten years old, reliably churning out reams of paper on a daily basis). The BT Synergy has all the features I’m looking for – remote access digital answering machine, plus digital cordless phone so I can sit outside with the laptop in the summer (there has to be some advantage to having a rural office location!). The UXP400H seems to be the pick of a (very large) bunch of similarly featured and priced machines.
    So this evening hasn’t been entirely productive – but four hours trawling the web has allowed me to gain good product knowledge and find solutions that will cost me £160 less than I had budgeted. Add that to the savings I’ve made this week on my budgets for telecommunications, insurance and the laptop, and PFE already needs to borrow less money that I had feared (and yes, I’ve already had to spend some of it on accountant’s fees, and some is allocated to legal expenses, but I’m still showing a gain).
    Now I’m looking at digital cameras, those in the 3MP class. I’m keen on the Kodak DX4330 as that is closest to the DX3900 that I use at the nursery. But the Fuji FinePix S304 looks good too. Have to admit that the price tag and 10x zoom (plants often need close-ups) on the Kodak do incline me towards that. Anyone got any knowledge/experience they can share?

  • Pooped. But shall try and

    Pooped. But shall try and do a little work for PFE. Or flop on the sofa. A difficult choice.
    Meanwhile, links du jour:

  • Busy busy busy here today.

    Busy busy busy here today. So expect more quiet.

  • Hmm. Dell said 7 to

    Hmm. Dell said 7 to 10 working days for delivery when I placed my order. Now the estimated delivery date is 2nd June. That’s quite a difference.