Category: General Entries

  • MmmMmm today’s a good day. It’s a chilled out day at work, and my Christmas cards-writing morning was accompanied by a nice gingerbread skinny latte. (Updated: It was only a half-hour of card writing, and in exchange I didn’t take…

  • Started using FeedDemon 1.11, as I couldn’t keep up with all the blogs I want to read. I’d simply forget to check my bookmarks for a week, and feel like I’ve neglected blogs of interest. Fantastic tool to track what’s…

  • I don’t know why, but I’ll post this in English, even though those who would recognize the show I’m about to bring up will all be French speaking. I guess I just want to share with everyone… La Course Destination…

  • Tonight was my first browse into the Official Theory Driving Test Guide I borrowed from a friend. I’m so amused by the kind of questions in the book, and baffled by how many questions in the Alertness section are dedicated…

  • The beginning of a long Christmas season of family get-togethers! This was our pre-Christmas family get together with Andrew’s family, started with food, ended with food, oh and there was some food in the middle too… There was a bit…

  • As our work party is a few hours away, I’m amused by the (rather obvious) guidelines for Christmas parties. Making a fool of yourself in front of colleagues doesn’t usually lead to a promotion, and I can’t imagine photocopying your…

  • Remember my rant about SMS.ac? Since the day I posted that, I received three more invitations. One was from a complete stranger but two were from people who I thought were fully mentally capable and able to spot a scam…

  • Not a huge amount to say this week… I’ve booked driving lessons with a qualified instructor (not that Andrew’s bad, he’s just teaching me bad habits so I need an instructor to say “don’t do this on your test, wait…

  • My chocolate calendar to Christmas has just reminded me how fast this month is going by! With busy days, I don’t see the time go by… Work is madness, learning to drive is madness, and well, we all know Christmas…

  • Just got back from my first driving lesson with Andrew, and all is well! Start, stop, start, stop, start, woops stalled… Start again, bunny hops… Ah well, gotta start somewhere right? If we go often enough in the evening, I…