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It's two weeks since my last entry, and two weekends since Leela's birthday. Things have been busy! On the 26th I took Friday to Monday off, sent Leela to a spa on Friday, and over the rest of the weekend we traveled round the countryside visiting exciting places and doing exciting things, including trips to museums, galleries, theatres and a zoo. It was awesome, and there was cake. I have many photos, some of which will find their way onto this website at some point.
In other news, last week I moved my mail servers, so if you ...
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It's Leela's birthday tomorrow! I am attempting to organise a birthday extravaganza, the likes of which haven't been seen in the northern hemisphere since King Richard III took his girlfriend to the fair on her birthday, back in 1469. Although at that point he would have been a prince, which is entirely appropriate as I am also waiting for my time; I am sure that everyone in my path will abdicate, because they know what an awesome king I'll be. And I won't need no stinking horse neither, for I shall drive cars.
In other ...
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How do you spot a geek at a party in the pub?
He's the one who spotted the 'free wifi' sign and is currently posting to his website...
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Here are some things that I have learnt over the past few days:
- When selling a car, don't believe dealers who say there isn't a market for your car.
- When selling a car privately through AutoTrader, it is an absolutely excellent idea to get a PAYG SIM. You can turn it off when you're busy, and now that the car is sold, we can just change the answerphone message and won't have to answer 15 calls a day. Hoorah.
- If your internet connection drops when Outlook Express is halfway through checking a folder, it won't ...
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Everyone loves top ten lists, and I'm now up to four on my Top Ten Reasons To Not Live In A Ground Floor Flat:
- People walking past look in
- You get lots of spiders
- Susceptible to flooding
- You will have to give witness statements to police while your girlfriend attempts to resuscitate neighbours who jump off their balconies and land on your patio
Apparently, one of our neighbours was on her way to work at about 7am this morning, when another neighbour opened the balcony door of her flat upstairs. She called to the girl across the car park ...
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