Jungle Warfare

Took a bush out today. I chopped it down, put it into six big bags and drove it down to the tip. And I didn't bring it back. I felt quite macho as I laid into the defenceless plant (apparently it will grow back next year and the bets are on it to outlast me over the long term) but then I had to spend quite a while picking up the pieces and getting them ready for the tip.

At the tip mine was the oldest car there (but that will change heh heh). In fact people kept rolling up in shiny Jags and brand new sports cars to drop off their garbage. Perhaps the council dump is now the new trendy meeting place to hang out and compare refuse sacks.

Thoaty Voice

I talked continuously for three hours today. Two tutorials and a lecture. I've got nice, husky, tones as a result at the moment. By the end of it I'm afraid that both me and the students (it was all the same group) were finding the art of drawing Collaboration Diagrams perhaps a bit less inspiring than it might be. Sorry folks, I'll be back to my wise cracking, enthusiastic, form on Tuesday (as if you can wait).

In the Money

I'm getting a new car. The neighbourhood where I live is changing to the point where if you don't have a slver car they might not let you in. I seem to have the only non-silver vehicle in the place. My car is red. I originally chose that colour because of course red cars go faster and also I heard somewhere that they also last longer because of all the lead in the paint which gives them that nice crimson hue.

I've since found out that this was true in 1950, but since a number of people got lead poisoning from sucking red cars they have now changed the formula.

Anyhoo, in order to get me past the local border controls my new car is silver. I've applied for loan on the internet to pay for the new motor (what do you mean "Don't you have savings?"). That was a very interesting, and scary, experience. Just fill in a few forms and press submit and thousands of pounds can be winging their way towards your account. Or not if you fail the credit checks. At the moment all is well, and if the nice people at Cahoot like the cut of my jib (or reason that they can always take my house off me if it all goes horribly wrong) then it should be all sytems go in a week or so.

Going to the Movies

Went to the movies tonight. Brian was there as well, and we set in the special row where you can stretch your legs right out. The film we saw, Serenity, was very good. It's nice when something you are really looking forward to turns out to be woth the wait.

Voice of Reason

Spent the evening recording my voice for some podcasts that I've been putting together for a while. I'm finding it surprisingly difficult to talk continuously for five minutes. I think that anyone who has met me might fnd this surprising too.