Wednesday , January 25, 2006 – 21:14
This morning, at around 04:30, I woke up. The room span, my eyes wouldn’t hold still and I couldn’t focus on anything. I felt nauseous. Every slight movement of my head caused me to vomit.
As you can probably imagine, this was pretty terrifying, as I’d never experienced anything like it (when sober). In a panic, [...]
Sunday , January 22, 2006 – 12:43
How does your cat wake you up? Assuming you have one, of course.
The Mogret has many tactics for awakening us; they vary in intensity and ignorability. Mostly she will start out with the typical greeting blorp, to let us know she has decided that it is Morning. If we fail to respond to this with [...]
Saturday , January 21, 2006 – 12:37
I realise that some clarification is needed here: I’ve already expressed sympathy for the individual telesales operator at the other end of the telephone, attempting to beguile me with their wares. I still maintain this position; it can’t be an easy job, and is one that is met mostly with resentment and intolerance.
I’m afraid that [...]
Thursday , January 19, 2006 – 15:59
Well, if you’ve been following the fortunes of the Braggs for the past two years or so, you will be aware that we are growing some lemon plants. I stuck some pips in a pot full of soil, and to my surprise five-sixths of them sprouted.
All are still alive, although I regret not to be [...]
Thursday , January 19, 2006 – 9:16
I wish. For almost a week now I have been unable to switch my brain off at night, and have found myself spending hour after hour designing the new database that is required at work. Don’t misunderstand me here, there is no-one jumping up and down for this new system, so there is no actual [...]
Monday , January 16, 2006 – 20:26
So, I come home from work to find that the philb has attempted kitchen-based conflagration. There was a distinct smell of smoke, and he was grinning like a loon. Apparently, fat from the burgers he was grilling ignited and there were interestingly-large flames bellowing forth from our oven-based grill facility.
Understandably, the cat was looking a [...]