Before breakfast I go out calling for him, then come in for a shower, and head out around the block, calling him. Back at the house I hear a meow and find Arthur sat on top of next doors fence calling out plaintively. He is sopping wet and utterly bedraggled. I scoop him up and bring him indoors to dry him off he is that wet.

• The Downloader
• The Knife and Scalpel
• Mouse & Cursor
• Control, Alt and Delete
• The Copy and Paste
• The Gantt
• The Critical Path
• Spam and Virus

The list is by no means correct, and should be added to. What pub names could stem from your profession?

2. Reason for bussing not biking it? An interview. Another one at Taylor & Francis for two Production Editor jobs. So how did it go, I hear you say? You’ve just asked the question that I really hate answering. I think it went well. I think I demonstrated the right kind of skills/experience, and yes, in answer to the question: what makes you think you can do this job? (or words to that effect), I used the words “because I’ve done it before” which I think was quite succinct of me. And I managed to talk around the slightly odd recent job history (with the short spell as PE) quite naturally, and they seemed to buy it (having heard already about the Singapore and Wiley business) so that’s good. They seemed interested in me as a person, and I seemed to be able to talk well with them, so *fingers crossed* I guess…

3. Spoke to my mum tonight. Apparently they’ve had a postcard delivered to them for me. They didn’t say who it was from and they’ve put it in the post again now, but apparently it said across the top that ‘HOPE THIS GETS TO YOU OKAY ITS THE ONLY ADDRESS I HAVE FOR YOU’ which does somewhat leave me wondering because I didn’t live at my mum’s current address for that long. Curiouser and curiouser I have to say.

4. Apropo of this and the fact that this years Summer Party is literary themed and set in Oxford’s Bodleian Library, does anyone know where I might be able to get adult-sized Ravenclaw robes and ties?

5. There should be five things on this list, and it has been very windy today. No rain, though…

You are Hermione. You’re a bookworm always in search of answers. When pressed, however, you can always be counted on to put away the books and help your friends. Find YOUR character @ BrainFall.com

It would start with an innocent tapping of a pencil on the desk. Then some ‘orchestrated’ typing, some finger clicking, and one person taking the lead. Then others would join in; a manager would pop his head out the office and then another; dancing round the water cooler. It would be fantastic. I guess that’s why I like this…

Via and http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog.

The journey starts off innocently enough…

1. Head east on S Lumber St toward S Halsted St (452 ft)
2. Turn left at S Halsted St (0.3 mi)

…and leads you on via toll road and the likes through the states of Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and finally New York. Even there it seems straight forward enough: merge onto Atlantic Avenue, and turn right at Central Street, and again at Long Wharf. So far, so good, you might think. But oh no, and please check this out for yourself, Step 20 of your road trip extraordinaire:

20. Swim across the Atlantic Ocean (3,462 mi; 29 days 0 hours)

Yes, that’s right swim 3,462 miles of open ocean 29 days 0 hours precisely, but it gets better, oh yes:

22. At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto E05/Pont Vauban

Arrive France. That’s right, it’s not even the right country! The directions take you up through Normandy and onto a ferry at Boulougne to Dover. Or at least I think its a ferry – unlike the very explicit directions of what to do upon reaching Long Wharf in New York City, the instuctions in Europe are altogether more vague:

36. At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit (0.4 mi; 1 min)
37. Slight right at Dover – Boulougne-sur-Mer (30.1 mi; 1 hour 50 mins )
38. Continue on Dover – Boulogne-sur-Mer 0.2 mi
39. Continue on Eastern Service Rd (0.3 mi; 2 mins)

Well, I know what I’ll be doing for my holiday (not)!

The best entertainment not on TV.

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Last night, Arthur expressed determined interest in the back door, left ajar to allow air through as I ate my dinner. He voiced his complaints at not being allowed out with little miaows. Today I went and bought collars and leads and rope to allow them out, and allow me to have the door very open, and what do you know. They like playing with the rope, and tieing each other in knots, but do they want to go out? Well what what do you think…?!!

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Cat-Assisted-Typing: the posting of last night’s episode was delayed a bit, as Arthur insisted on coming and helping. Strolling nonchanantly across the sofa he would get up on the keyboard and try and save my work. Oh, and Bella didn’t help by going for the mouse and knocking it on the floor whenever I left it scoop Arthur off the keyboard.

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The Cycle of Breakfast. Sitting at the table eating my cereal, Bella would climb up the far side to get onto the table, walk across to join me, and I would scoop her up and put her down. Arthur would climb up the far side and walk across the table, to be scooped back down by me. And Bella would be coming up the far side of the table already … and so it would continue. Great fun, for cats…

Deffry Vale High School

Would you send your child there?

http://web.syr.edu/~bwlee/fun_stuff/shii_song.swf

Using the various translation tools out there, we can see that the news story behind this site (exhibit A) is thus:

Euro-commission will punish Estonians for the love for the alcoholic the European Commission he wants to punish Estonia, also, for the superfluous warehouse reserves of alcohol. As it reports to Thursday DELFI with the reference to the Estonian publication Eesti Ekspress, according to the estimation of European experts, at the moment of the connection of Baltic republic to THE EUROPEAN UNION on the storages of Estonia there were 1350 tons of the surpluses of alcohol. Penalty for the alcoholic beverages can reach to 10-19 Euro- for every one hundred liters. It is thus far accurately unknown, how much what alcoholic beverages are included in list, but supposedly the sum of penalty can be from three to four million crowns. Estonian officials and producers of alcohol with this posing of the question are not agreeable. Executive director of one of the most important producers of alcohol in the republic of the enterprise “liviko” Of yanek Of kalvi is sincerely astonished by the possibility of penalty and considers conversations about the warehouse reserves of alcohol laughable, since, in comparison with the sugar, this is “pseudo-problem”. Let us recall that THE EUROPEAN UNION already put in Estonia the penalty in 700 million crowns for the surpluses of sugar. According to unconfirmed data, to this can be added new penalty in the size of 328 million crowns for several ten designations of food goods. References on the theme – Estonia will part with its own currency in yr – Lenta.ru, 01.09.2005 – SE was perturbed marginalizatsiyey of Russians in Estonia – Lenta.ru, 15.08.2005 – Estonia is not assembled to change constitution for the Euro- – Lenta.ru, 01.08.2005 – THE EUROPEAN UNION fine Estonia for the surpluses of mandarins and alcohol – Lenta.ru, 05.07.2005

Well, at least they’ve credited me correctly! It also explains where some of those Russian hits on my website comes from… *giggles*

This is the story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Somebody’s job.

Everybody thought Somebody could do it but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.

It ended that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done!

1. One that reflects me best. Explain why.
2. One that you think I should use more often. And why.
3. One that you don’t get/needs more explanation/you have no idea why the hell I have it.

Also, use your favourite/one of your faves when you reply and say why you like it so much.

Game over.
Congratulations.
Learn anything?
That’s right…
Matrix 2 really sucked.

Well, let me break it down for you:

You have a total of 50 friends
You requested to guess 50 entries.
10 were skipped due to invalid content (surprising?).
You made 40 guesses.
You got 32 correct.
Doing the math for you, that means you got 80% correct