Happy Easter one and all.

I can’t stay long as I’m on holiday down in Cornwall, using a dial-up so it’s costing my parents money.

I’ve been doing walking and stuff, and I’m having a restful time.

More updates when I get home.

Find out which Discworld girl you are.

Just
now, on Bullet, we’ve been discussing how great it would be if instead of
weapons of mass destruction you could have weapons of mass construction.

Varieties could include:-

Thermonuclear power plant cruise missiles.

Hospital cluster bombs (thanks grim).. Though it could be dangerous if children
picked up unexploded ones as they could be crushed by the A&E unit. However,
they would be in the right place for treatment.

Pro-personnel mines would add legs and arms to people they explode around.

Biological weapons would cure diseases.

There are problems, however, you may have collateral construction which could really foul things up.

What do you think?

Well, the Raleigh rep turned up to the bike shop after all. He took a look at it and told the manager that he could get the part. It’s supposed to be here in a fortnight. Yeah, I’ll believe it when I see it.

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Well, it’s Wednesday afternoon.

My bike’s in the bike shop for a second week running so that the Raleigh
rep. can come and look at it and see that the part he keeps bringing is the
wrong part. Last week he didn’t turn up. Both myself and the bike shop manager
is hoping he will this week. Yes, I’m still trying to get the replacement
chain guard for my bike. It’s only been a little over 18 months since I first
ordered it!

As for other things, not a lot is happening other than the nice, cold, sunny
weahter has changed into not so nice, cold, cloudy weather.

Alec might be popping over tonight to see or pick up last week’s buffy on video. I’m not sure which of the two it will be.

That’s about it, really. Other than I’m feeling surprisingly cheerful especially
considering I’ve hardly had any real human contact since last Friday evening.

Tuesday morning comes.

It may be sunny but it’s a bit chilly.

I’ve just discovered two things:

Firstly, Friday the department will be officially closed. This doesn’t mean
a great deal to me. I’m going to be in here anyway saving one holiday day
for another time.

Secondly, the new drinks machine won’t be installed until Thursday now (it
was due yesterday) which means I have another couple of days of being without
the help of machine coffee in the morning. Admittedly, I only use this in
emergencies to get my brain jump started, but it’s an important stand-by.

Life around the department at the moment is totally dead. There’s hardly
anyone around at all and no-one I can really have a conversation with. It’s
getting to me a little but I’m fighting the feelings of isolation and this
mornign I’m not feeling too bad about it. Definitely better than I was feeling
yesterday afternoon.

Well, you’ll be pleased to know that someone killed that alarm last night before bedtime so I got a decent night’s sleep.

What I totally failed to do yesterday was get the grass cut or wash the car.
I also forgot to bring into work with me this morning my sterilisation tablets
for my water bottle, so I’m having to drink cans of expensive fizzy water
instead.

As I mentioned before, most of the people in the department are actually
away at the moment, so I’m a little bored. I’m therefore filling my time
with trying different ways of installing Mandrake 9.1 on a machine just to
see what differences it makes.

I have zero social plans for the rest of the week, unsuprisingly. At least
I do have some household chores to fill my time though, like doing the washing,
cutting the grass etc. Saturday I drive down to Cornwall for a 2 week break.
I do hope the weather stays nice.

Yesterday’s Brazilian Grand Prix was sort of interesting in places, as much
for the farce as for the actual racing. It was all very silly and a bit dangerous.

Anyway, I’ll stop my whittering on now.

My experiment with cooking lamb worked nicely this evening.

Lamb steaks were covered in a paste made from Colman’s Mint Sauce, vinegar and some salt and left for about 3 hours to soak in. They were then fried on a very hot cast iron griddle pan with no oil or fat as lamb’s quite fatty anyway. They were cooked for about 10-12 minutes, turning regularly.

They were then served with mini new potatos and peas.

It’s twenty to nine at night.

That flippin alarm’s been going ALL DAY.

Ok, for a while it sounded as though its battery had run down, but now it’s got its second wind and it constantly shrieking away.

I just hope someone manages to kill it before it’s time to go to bed otherwise I’m likely to have a rather sleepless night in store.