• 11:31 Just discovered @dhstatus… #

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WTblitheringF?

Can someone please explain this?

Is it for real?

• 10:39 Woot! Standby no more! #

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When you are forced to leave your car at home for the rest of the week owing to the howling coming from the offside rear wheel bearing, which means the car shouldn’t be used until your dad has taken it away and fixed it; and you have to take the bike to work (shame!) but you need to take all your kit with you because you’ve been on standby: remember that a touring bike with two panniers on the back has all the aerodynamic grace of a housebrick.

No, you will not be as fast as you usually are on your fixie, even though you’ve got more and bigger gears.

You can’t make it go as fast as you usually are on your fixie because there’s a headwind. Housebrick + Headwind = Speed Fail.

Relax. Enjoy the sunshine. Enjoy the superior comfort over potholes of the 700x28c tyres. Revel in those additional seconds spent in the warm embrace of the Edinburgh Bakery‘s biscuity hug. Content yourself in the knowledge that the extra time taken getting to work equates to a few extra calories that can be spent on cake. Don’t worry about losing hours on flexi. You can make them up later. Appreciate the opportunity to give Fingal some socialising opportunity and some fresh air.

Bless him.

Epic fail.

• 16:43 Just spent 30 minutes trying to pay the leccy bill but customer service number merely beeps incessantly and their website is broken. Gah! #
• 16:44 Today has not been a good day. Wild goose chases and the sort of idiocy that makes me think I’m in the wrong job. I’m not a people person. #
• 16:45 Now it’s too late to go to the gym because I’m still on standby. Gah! Gah! GAH! #
• 17:33 @splinister I’m on standby. I have to be in a fit state to respond to any incidents. Although it *is* dark now, and that becomes a H&S; issue #

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MarsPhoenix [From Phoenix mission ops: Phoenix is no longer communicating with Earth. We’ll continue to listen, but it’s likely its mission has ended.]

Bye bye, MarsPhoenix.

• 00:43 I am reduced to playing Little Big Planet. #
• 16:38 Just back from shop. OMFG it was *heaving*. No time to run now, got typing to do. Dammit. #

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• 13:29 Trying to keep busy to distract from Frood being away, but being distracted from keeping busy by Frood being away 🙁 #
• 21:03 Finally hunger has produced enough activation energy to drive me to make dinner. Sometimes it’s an arse not being able to eat junk food. #
• 21:07 There’s something a bit odd about gaining a follower I don’t know who isn’t just spam. What did I do to deserve it? Am I that interesting? #
• 21:14 Off to torture myself with the rubbish that is Silent Hill. I haven’t seen it. I hear it sucks chunky goat vomit through a twisty straw. #
• 22:28 @andygates The what? #
• 00:43 I am reduced to playing Little Big Planet. #

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Things I was supposed to do today, in order:

• Tidy flat.
• Go to gym.
• Go to pool.
• Have shower.
• Get shopping done for dinner.
• Put petrol in car.
• Type up all of the material completed so far for NaNoWriMo.
• Have dinner.

What I have actually done today, in order:

• Wasted time on teh intarnets.
• Read half of this month’s FT.
• Gone to pool.
• Wasted time on teh intarnets.
• Gone to shop and bought dinner.
• Wasted time on teh intarnets.
• Tidied flat (swept the floor and everything!)

And lo! Here I am on teh intarnets again.