Scents of Direction

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	Saturday, October 08, 2005 IMG_0016 Originally uploaded by Saturner. Saturday is laundry day, FiFi isn't really helping much by looking cute in the washing basket... - Steve, 12:22 PM, Amphibious homes - I do like elegant solutions to problems. Via Plasticbag.org - Steve, 10:03 AM, I had it all planned, but I got distracted. The plan was to wait until everyone else in this house had gone to bed, and then spend a little quality time having a 1 to 1 with our SQL server in Crewe, it was going to be such a productive night. What I actually did was play Burnout Revenge on the PS2 and then watch QI followed by more QI and then Road Wars on Sky One. So, now it's gone midnight and I'm just about to start some serious number crunching. Should I go for the pot of coffee and make a night of it, or the hot chocolate and make a start? - Steve, 12:10 AM, Friday, October 07, 2005 "The optician told me it would take six months for my brain to settle down again." And just look at what it did to her face... - Steve, 7:47 PM, Jim's post a couple of days back about cookery shows (well, podchef anyway) got me thinking about Lapdancing. See, I've never been a big fan of cookery shows, audio or video based, it makes no difference . The problem is that I can appreciate the art and science that goes in to the cooking process, but the fact that someone else gets to eat the dinner at the end of it just doesn't sit right with me. This is where the Lapdancing comes in. Now, I've never been to a Lapdancing establishment, and I really have no desire to do so, the principals are the same. I might really enjoy the show but I'm not going to bed the dancer at the end of the evening, in the same way as I don't get to eat Jamie's souffle, and that spoils the whole thing for me. If I get the munchies late at night, I won't be satisfied by just sniffing someone else's kebab, I'm gonna need my own! I know there are other establishments that might be able to sort me out, but that's a whole different subject. - Steve, 4:59 PM, Thursday, October 06, 2005 I like dark chocolate, I also like chillis... so I wonder if I'd like this. - Steve, 9:39 AM, Tuesday, October 04, 2005 There has been plenty of talk on the Daily Source Code recently about Biodiesel, I was surprised to find that there is a supplier in Oxford. I'm thinking about giving it a try, it's not much cheaper than regular diesel but this is because of supply and demand; if you sell a lot of something it's cheaper, so I can do my bit for the cause by becoming a biodiesel user now. There is half the amount of tax on biodiesel than regular diesel, so if the production costs come down because of increased demand we'll have cheaper fuel that is better for the environment than the alternative. In a related note, funds are running low at the moment so I'm trying to save fuel by working from home more often and traveling to the NW once a week where possible (as compared to 3-4 times!). I also tried hard to drive economically on the way home tonight and I averaged 71.6mpg over 122 miles, not bad for a big-ish car is it? - Steve, 9:41 PM, Sunday, October 02, 2005 There aren't many places round here that you can get kitten food after 10pm of a Sunday night, cat food maybe, but not kitten food. It's not a disaster, I won't have to go out in the cold and forage for a fresh Cod or anything, but it's one more thing to add to my list of stuff to do before work tomorrow morning. So far: Iron a shirt, possibly two shirts depending on what's in the wardrobe. Make lunch to take to work. Pack bag with enough stuff for an overnight stay. Get my OU course materials together. Have breakfast Make coffee to drink on the commute Buy diesel Buy kitten food Drive 2hrs North Get to work before 9am. Of course I could do some of those things now, but you haven't seen my list of stuff to get done before I go to bed. I've said it before, if I could get away with no sleep things would be easier. - Steve, 10:14 PM, Big fat bold blokes shouldn't dance and I, for one, stick to that rule quite religiously, but even I could be tempted to throw a few shapes to that Pendulum remix of the Prodigy track Voodoo People. It's ace!* *I know nothing about this music genre, so it might actually be rubbish, but I like it. Lots. - Steve, 5:50 PM, My Open University course started yesterday and so far it looks like I'm going to really enjoy it. It's completely online, so that makes it very flexible in terms of when you study, they expect you to put in around 8hrs per week which doesn't seem too bad. In practice though finding 8 hrs of free time per week isn't a problem, but finding 8 hrs per week when it's quiet enough to study might be a bit more of a challenge. I suppose I'm quite lucky because I work away from home for a night or two per week, so I'll take all my materials with me and do some studying at the hotel. I really wish I had done a course like this for MS Access (yeah, I know!) but I learnt that myself, I can do some pretty complicated things with Access but I can't help thinking that I haven't quite got the basics right. - Steve, 11:06 AM,


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