A day or 2 early this, but whatever. 2007 has been a pretty rubbish year for me, for several reasons, and I can’t say I’m too unhappy to see it go. 2008 has early signs of some promise, and with some luck could be every bit as good as 2007 has been bad, and then some.
For anyone who still reads my somewhat erratic stuff, I hope you have a good 2008, no matter how your 2007 was. I’m going to try and be a bit more consistent, and do some more of the article grade stuff next year too. There’s still plenty to say, I promise you that…
Happy New Year, folks!
Well, my parents have finally joined the Interweb Superhighway and got broadband (mostly because Dad works for BT, and got a top package free), so I spent a fair chunk of Sunday assisting with various techy tasks.
First on the list was acquiring a new machine. Dad’s a Mac fan, but they decided that a PC was really necessary, because Mum wants to use apps that are Windoze only, and I can act as first-line support etc, etc. So, due to the relatively short notice, we headed off to PC World. It pains me to do so, but where else do you get a laptop on a Sunday afternoon? You can save a few quid buying online, but being able to actually SEE the thing before buying to check out the screen quality was also important.
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I am in the fortunate position of being a father to SmallTroll, a 2-and-a-bit year old boy. As such, I watch kids TV again.
What a load of crap. I know we all view our own childhood through a rose-tinted lens to some extent, but seriously… I had Mr Benn, Bagpuss, just about everything Cosgrove Hall ever did, especially Dangermouse and Count Duckula, Scooby Doo (pre Scrappy, obviously. Daphne, hmmmmm), Captain Caveman, Noggin the Nog… I could go on.
What does he get? Teletubbies, Bob the Builder, and my current pet hate, Me Too! I’d do time for Granny Murray, I swear (no offence to Jane McCarry - I’m sure she’s lovely, IRL). I despair for the future of out youth, I really do
I’ll be away for a few days at Center Parcs, Nottingham, so I definitely won’t be posting anything new until the weekend. It’ll be nice to have a few days without seeing the PC, frankly…
I’m going to be away for a chunk of time. We are all heading off to Leicester for the weekend to see Chantelle’s family, and then I have a day of on-site consultancy to do close to Leicester early next week, so we’ll be staying longer than normal.
Laters
I *would* have written something last night… but Chantelle got a chunk of glass in her foot. Somehow, yesterday afternoon, there was a washing-up slide, which resulted in the demise of one of our dwindling stock of wine glasses. We thought we’d got all the bits. Obviously not…
Later, whilst standing in the kitchen, eating M+Ms’ (as you do), she felt a pain in her left sole. She went to brush the offending crumb off on the top of her right foot, and screamed.
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