A momentary lapse of reason

So, about that blog I used to write…
So, almost five months, innit? Let’s see:
Quick recap of my life:

Only walked 40 miles of 54. Got silver medal. Cried myself softly to sleep.
Bought myself a guitar, found out that old age hasn’t granted me superhuman finger strength or lightning-fast speed. Cried myself softly to sleep.
Found out that […]

From the Scottish Highlands

Last year, I signed up for the Caledonian Challenge, and ended up staying at home due to a technicallity (namely, trying to register our team two weeks after the registration period had ended). This year, I worked the opposite way: I didn’t tell anybody I was coming until it was too late to do anything […]

Look Who Bought a Camera, 28-05-2007


Baby Geniuses

Working in an office with young, fertile people tends to have the unfortunate side effect of somebody, eventually, having a baby. In my particular office, the infrastructure department has a ratio of about 23 woman-4 men. This imbalance manifests itself through a number of things (PMS days, hot new male co-worker week, “I’m too fat […]

Miscellaneous Debris

So, another birthday. April 29th, 29 years old. This is the kind of thing that happens once in a lifetime. I guess I should be more excited, but you know, it’s a birthday. It was celebrated (in good company, I might add), and my life total has now +1′d. As my boss would say, “Happy […]

Look Who Bought a Camera, 19-04-2007

 
   

Why I travel alone, #2

“I’m not paying that much for a movie ticket! Let’s go and sit on the sidewalk instead…”

Why I travel alone, #1

“Hey, do you mind if I air-dry after my shower? Just, you know, look away… For 20 minutes or so.”

Links for 15-04-2007

Universal Studios Employee Video Directed by Matt Stone and Trey Parker
Why we haven’t met any aliens

Kurt Vonnegut, dead at 84.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC
Vonnegut’s Blues For America 07 January, 2006 Sunday Herald