Wednesday, 10th November, 2004

Blogtastic

A funny thing happened on the way back home from work...

...actually, that's not true — what really happened was just a demonstration of much of a complete numpty I can be sometimes.

I have to park my car in the big car park opposite work when I'm there, and (to my dismay) it costs me £5.80 a day to park there. I'm usually very careful though to have the right change on me, or at least a £10 note, cos the pay-machines don't take twenties.

This evening though, I got to the machine and dug out a fiver from my wallet purse, only to remember that I'd used my last pound coin to buy coffee earlier Which meant I had to go back into the building and take some cash out from the machine ... which was only handing out twenties poo

I ended up having to buy another coffee so that I had change for the machine, but when I got back to the car park, and stuck my hand in my pocket to get my keys, I found a couple of quid

Bloody typical eh?

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Anyway, I had a pretty busy week these past couple of days (she said, ironically) I've secured myself as Queen of All The Web at work — and got some good ideas for what I'm going to do with the students' website.

See, I've really gotten into the idea of blogs at the moment. I know I've been writing this thing for nearly three years, and I should probably be more enthusiastic about blogs than I appeaer — but I'm thinking they're actually a serious form of expression, rather than just online witterings.

I've decided to give each of the students on the course their own blog — and let them comment on each others. I could be quite a nice little experiment in online communication (she said, regurgitating her research criteria)

Seriosuly — it could be good

[note to self: build a spell-checker into their blogs. Then implement it on your own ]

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Something I've been meaning to do for ages here, is write a satirical [translation: self-absorbed] rant about driving (yes again...) in a kind of "Siobhan Curran's Guide to How To Drive™", and I came close to doing it today (bloody numpties in front of me every step of the way these past two days) ... but I'm far too tired right now, so I'll just post some pictures I took tonight that will get me in trouble with Kath...

That bloody lorry right? (I know it's hard to make out, but even my L337 photographic skillz are good enough to cope with taking long exposures while driving) Twenty Five bloody miles an hour in a delimit area

Needless to say, me and the whole rest of the cars stuck behind him were not amused ... so, at the first possible chance, me and the two cars ahead of me passed him...

Now we go fast!

Well, no actually — because the car at the front was just as bloody slow as the lorry

I dunno Still these people seem to not realise that they need to drive properly on my roads...

Katie writes:

Needless to say — I am not amused. Katie's Guide to Driving: Lesson 1: When driving at night along unlit, delimited, country roads it is a good idea to keep both hands on the wheel and if not, available to grab the wheel at an instant's notice. (I've seen your new camera and I know that you wouldn't just fling it down if you ran over a bunny and lost control of the car) Lesson 2: In the aforementioned circumstances (particularly if accelerating to follow the overtaking cars) it is a good idea to look at the road through the windscreen and your mirrors rather than through a camera.