Category: General

Isn’t it funny….

….how life repeats itself. Or certain patterns do?

There I was wandering home with my battered old walkman, reading a book, listening to blues….10 years ago. Just like I did today, only replace battered walkman with battered CD-Walkman, and the blues; specifically; was The Blues Brothers as opposed to John Lee Hooker (which was commonly found in my walkman in 1994).

Although, today I actually made a bit of a step forwards in the whole “interacting as part of a group” thing; I did the whole speaking to the group and making suggestions and so on…. Which was good.

For some reason though, I’m feeling a bit mnyur today. Just feel kind of like curling up with some quiet music and a book. Ah well.

Keep on runnin’

So,

Today I’ve: rewashed some areas of the carpet which didn’t come up particularly well; by using the carpet shampoo at a ratio of 50:50 instead of 1:10 we found it to be quite effective, although the bottles run out a bit quickly; I’ve been to Bath to drop of Rebecca to have remedial work done on areas that got missed; driven back in a much earlier minor which has no frigging seatbelts!; written the speil for the auctions, hoovered upstairs and the stairs, made a bit of video for my forthcoming thing about moggies and uh been running.

So yeah, still doing it!

And apparently, Rebecca will be finished later today with a view to returning her to my grubby little paws tomorrow morning :-)

Simple solutions are always the best

So I went down to my parents this weekend (incidentally, I won a copy of Rez! All be happy for me now); this was for two reasons: firstly to collect some items I need to ship off, and secondly to fix their dishwasher and their coffee makes. Oh, and thirdly (yes, I know I said two reasons but you’ll just have to cope, okay?) to take the lamp I bought for them at Ikea up to them (where it’d be more useful than in a box here).
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Rez….

Well, my Rez Trance Vibrator arrived today. Now I just need a copy of Rez and a shiny new slim PS2. Of course, I’d not realised the bloody thing is top-opening, like the PSOne, which is really annoying. But on the other hand it’s small and cute.

What kind of thinker….

What kind of thinker are you quiz

You are a Spatial Thinker:

  • Tend to think in pictures, and can develop good mental models of the physical world.
  • Think well in three dimensions.
  • Have a flair for working with objects.

Like other spatial thinkers, Leonardo had a talent for designing buildings and machinery. He also invented a new style of map making.

Other Spatial Thinkers include
Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Careers which suit Spatial Thinkers include
Mechanic, Photographer, Artist, Architect, Engineer, Builder and Set designer.

You are an Intrapersonal thinker:

  • Spend a lot of time thinking about and trying to understand themselves.
  • Reflect on their thoughts and moods, and work to improve them.
  • You understand how your behaviour affects your relationships with others.

Like intrapersonal thinkers, Leonardo worked hard to improve all aspects of himself. Other Intrapersonal thinkers include:
Sigmund Freud, Gandhi and Grahame Greene.

Careers which suit Intrapersonal Thinkers include:
Psychologist, Teacher, Pilot, Child care worker, Explorer and Drama therapist.

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

Damn this book! It’s brilliant…..

Okay, I know my grammar’s hardly spectacular, and nor is my spelling for that matter, but I do have a bit of a closet grammar freak hidden (not well hidden, for those that know me) within my soul. And it’s particularly that ferral bloody apostrophe, that one that creeps into things…. But then, then I discover the sin which is the “,” instead of a “‘”. How can people do these things…?

Anyway, yesterday I saw this: “we,re” at Ikea.

On a big, big, pre-printed sign.

All over the country there are probably thousands of those signs with this whacking great typo in it. I actually yelped. I looked up, saw it, and went “urk” on seeing it. And then today, today on Living TV. The program is called “Worlds Apart” (I believe), but in the trailer for it: “word’s apart”.

Ye-what? What on earthis that meant to be? Nyargh. Make them all stop!

pure genius

So,

Ikea. Went yesterday, saw these frames which are called “RAM” or “Cheap ass student frames”, they’re plain, untreated wood and a plastic sheet instead of glass, with a cardboard back.

Lovely.

Well, actually they look quite nice and I thought they’d suit some of my posters really well. So I bought one for one of them….measured my other posters and went back today to get some more frames. Unfortunately, the largest poster, at a staggering…. 150 x 103cm was well beyond the maximum size of RAM frame. Indeed, the next size down, 70×50 is too small for 2 of my posters, which is really disappointing. And my picture of Errol, from the diskworld? That’s just a size that’d look stupid in all the available frame sizes (what with being bigger than the next size down by 2 cm in one direction).

The bulbs for the lamps I bought yesterday….they doubled the price of the lamps (although I did buy energy savers, so that’s partly my fault :-) )….

Overall, I’m just a bit miffed that I can’t get frames the right size for my pictures. That and the fact that I, genius that I am, wrote my lecture down as 3:30, not 13:30, so missed it by a staggering 2 hours!

Pooh!