• 18:12 I’ve discovered the grater attachment for the food processor, previously only used for smashing chickpeas. Tonight’s dinner will be easier. #

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• 12:22 Hello world! ♫ blip.fm/~ep2p #
• 12:25 !The video for this was fab. ♫ blip.fm/~ep33 #
• 12:26 !This takes me back… ♫ blip.fm/~ep37 #
• 20:34 That is where you’ll find me, underneath the water… tinyurl.com/4fgozo #

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Oh dear.

Frood has discovered episodes of Sealab 2021 online. I have to go and do the shopping, take the plush camping stove back to Tiso’s because the toaster doesn’t work, and then make dinner, so I can’t sit down and watch them too. But I suspect I know what he’s going to be doing for the rest of today.

When Calum was round the other day he asked me if I’d looked up the Spiderman/Wolverine video to which he’d sent me a link some time ago. Well, no, I hadn’t, because I’m crap. Frood isn’t well so he’s still in bed, my FT had arrived but the coffee hadn’t brewed yet, so I thought I’d take a moment of opportunity to see why Calum thought I’d be interested.

I couldn’t find any email containing anything like a link to something Marvel related, but google is my friend.

Oh. Oh my. It’s not one of the recent flurry of Marvel animated films (most of which are rubbish). It’s a game. It’s a game in which Spiderman and Wolverine go up against everyone else in the entire world, all of whom have been infected by the Venom symbiont. And they’ve got Steven Blum doing the voice of Wolverine again.

October 21st. Hopefully it won’t be subject to the same delays that WipeOut Fusion was and it won’t be the gut-crushing disappointment that was Marvel: Rise of the Imperfects. Or the last X-Men game, for that matter. Sad fan girl I may be, but I do have some standards.

• 15:09 Is it time to go home yet? #
• 17:47 Weather is norrid. It’s already getting dark! That’s just not on. #

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• 07:54 I’m doing seekrit stuff today so will only be on text or phone. #

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Correct me if I’m wrong, cycling peeps, but the Truvativ cranks that are supplied with old skool Il Pompinos are unlikely to fall off all by themselves, right? I mean, the bolt cap screws on with an 8mm hex key and then the crank bolt itself is screwed in pretty damn tight, again with an 8mm hex key.

So why was it that I just found myself pedalling along Lower Granton Road on one leg, while the other one flailed about in a surprised manner with the entire crank attached to my foot by the cleat?

It’s a good job some kindly soul at the bus stop spotted the crank bolt come loose and drop out just before I came to a stop and was able to point it out to me, or else I’d be walking home probably in need of a new transmission because I’ll bet you can’t get spare crank bolts. Also I had a multitool, which is odd in itself, because usually I don’t bother for the trip down to the gym and back on the basis that it’s not that far. Today something made me take my toolkit.

Explains why the bike felt a bit odd on the way down there. Thing is, the only time anyone could have had a chance to loosen that bolt was when it was parked outside Calum and Puzzle_‘s place weekend before last. So, Chronicles fans, the pointy things with the teeth left my computer and lights where Calum could find ’em for me but the bastards undid my nearside crank bolt.

I’ve got minions for this sort of thing, you know.

Can anyone tell me where to get a Truvativ Elita crank cap?

• 12:07 Still too rough to go out and do inspections. Now my head is itchy and I can’t touch it because it still hurts too much. #
• 12:07 This means I’m stuck in the office answering the phone. There’s a reason I’m so misanthropic. #
• 12:17 If I weren’t a hot chick with superpowers I might be forced to immolate myself just to escape the fuckheadedness of everything. #
• 12:18 No one thanks you for saving the world, you know. Especially not during the "Credit Crunch". #
• 13:31 @andygates Why sir, you are welcome, but it’s a different set of muggins saving the world down there in the humid south. #
• 13:43 "I don’t understand why a fluorescent tube becomes waste just cos it’s no workin’ any more." Well it doesn’t magically turn into a dildo! #
• 16:17 Person at work: "I don’t understand how these colds get around." Because the common cold is an infectious disease, perhaps? #

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• 13:25 Was hoping to be up to swimming today but apparently not. Bah. #

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• 13:57 Grateful the water has come back on but I do wish my head would stop hurting. Weird dreams last night. Even for me. #
• 19:17 Yay! CityCycling is out! tinyurl.com/479glx #

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