Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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Another long day in mechanic mode
So today was hard going. Started at 9:30, finished at 17:30 with only a break for lunch and a couple of quick trips to (a)Halfords and (b)Proper MotorFactor. At one point I was so demoralised I stood staring at Vixy wondering both how she’d actually managed to stay running so well, wondering if the fault…
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The sun is shining, it’s a beautiful day
And I’m lying on the sofa. In a bit I’m going to take Vixy (the other DAF) out for a little jaunt to check out the new fuel mixture and brakes. They’re still pulling to the right (odd, since the left is the new cylinder). Hopefully it’ll settle down as the brakes bed in. The…
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Postal updating
So, nights were made more entertaining than normal, or scary, depending on whether I was hearing the stories about the doctor or telling the stories about the doctor. Just remember, nurses save your life. Not always, but sometimes. Let’s just say that that was one of the more scary things I’ve had happen. Not quite…
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I probably shouldn’t do this
But, y’know, I like to post when I’m on nights. I think rambling incessantly into the night makes me feel less lonely, because I miss Kathryn like crazy these weeks. I sit up here, late into the night on this first night, trying to make it to 3am when if I fall into bed I’m…
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Visitation
So, Lauren and Chrissy are coming down today, we’ve given the place a little bit of a once over (bathroom needs doing, and that’ll do us); bizzarely this has prompted me to finally (finally’s a bit extreme really, it’s only been a week or two); get around to replacing the light switch in the kitchen.…
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Just plain wrong
A while back a black teenager was killed in London in what turned out to be a ‘racially motivated attack’. The media in the UK were all over it, it was covered from every possible angle and the killers eventually found and prosecuted. The papers continued to discuss it for ages. Then there’s the young…
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Do I…?
Okay, now it’s long been noted, particularly by me, that I’m a harsh environment for technology. I’ve frizbee’d MP3 players, my phone’s spent more time falling to the floor from a height (usually a hard concrete floor) than I’m sure it’d care to recount; my paranoia has meant that the only reason my iPaq survived…
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We have good news
Kathryn can stay! We finally got the Visas back yesterday; well, visa. Kathryn’s now allowed to stay here until we leave, unless that takes more than 2 years. I was incredibly relieved, since we’re going on holiday in the not too distant future and need passports for that. So that’s good. Also good, I had…
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Ka Faen
Apparently that means “WTF! What kind of foolishness is this!” which seems pretty apt. I’ve spent the morning dinking with the iPaq (which when it boots proclaims it’s September 2001), and which, with VMWare and ActiveSync I’ve managed to get connecting, sort of, to the Mac. I’ve reinstalled TomTom 3, and remembered that I need…
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Post Spam: First post
First post from the Shiny, and y’know what, it’s Shiny in here. Need to dink with settings now…but one interesting thing, I finally got the pictures off my phone. Bluetooth does, apparently, work on it. And y’know what? The SonyEricsson T610 can be said to have an attrociously shonky camera. Or at least mine does.…