For The Sake Of Posting

Book of the Week: This is getting embarrassing... (see last post... AGAIN!)

I got my second front-page lead last Thursday. The interview with Paul Gudgin was very cool. Even better was beating the BBC to the story – their write-up only showed up on the website at 3pm the same afternoon. Apparently, the Scotsman and Herald had also been hankering after the story. So it was sweeeet.

Gareth made monkfish tails wrapped in prosciutto on Saturday. Went to see the Simpsons movie (finally!) and got caught in the stoooopid bridge tailbacks for about an hour and listened to the first half of the Scotland-Lithuania match on the car stereo. Total sports-mad weekend, with Euro qualifiers (all GB countries in action), Monza, rugby World Cup (with the USA this time, the cheek!).

Which reminds me – seems like it was just yesterday that Jonny Wilkinson drop-kicked the Aussies into rugby back of beyond. And six years to the day since Gareth called from work to tell me to turn the telly on. It’s quite odd – don’t know if it’s media overexposure or because so much has happened in my own life since then, but 2001 seems so much longer ago than, say, 1996. Maybe I’m just getting old. Getting to the stage when I can remember further back in time better than I can yesterday. (I had to think really hard what we did over the weekend.)

I really need to get a credit card. So many great deals on Ryanair! Could go to Krakow for £20 in December. Ditto Budapest. Barcelona for £30. Might go check it out on my days off this week. Have to grab all the opportunities I can in my two years here. Don’t want to go back to Malaysia and look at the Ryanair page and think, if only. The two saddest words in the English language.

Don’t know if it’s because I’m lazy or just plain fed up with working (it can be really depressing some mornings getting up to go where I do five days a week these days – Tuesdays are the worst) but I’m thinking of quitting. Yes. Chuck it all in to travel round the world. Would love to do that. Just that the logistics make my brain hurt. I love the timetables and schedules – but the money bit kills me.

I really need to win the lottery.

Factoids of the Week:
The world’s longest place-name is now the world’s longest domain name (though this is unverified). A right mouthful. http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.com/

Another stupid one... but calls itself the world’s longest alphabetical e-mail address. http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/