Calling all 80s fans (and hospital stuff)

I arrived in town with rather a lot of time to spare before my hospital appointment so I decided to have a bit of a browse in the new shopping centre while I waited. I hadn’t called in at HMV yet so I wandered in and what do you think was the first thing I [...]

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Babbly stuff

Yesterday I had to work and it was nasty. Today, thankfully, I have another day off. I am supposed to be going to the hospital this afternoon and I am currently looking out of the window and really wishing that I could just stay home. Blergh.
However, I have to go out because I need wrapping [...]

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Orbital: The Convention Report

So this is where I attempt to remember a terrific weekend, what happened and make some intelligent comments on it. Hmm.

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Live from Oribital

Well, I am currently in the unusual situation of having no panel or workshop for an hour and being at a con hotel that has an Internet lounge (albeit with a computer that has a bit of a space bar issue and this workwoman is definitely blaming her tools for her typos) so I am [...]

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Mostly ready for the convention, just need my driver!

Well, I am mostly ready for Orbital 2008. I’ve got most things in my bag apart from last minute things like slippers and it still looks very empty. Huh. I’m trying not to panic and imagine that this means I’ve forgotten half the stuff that I need! I have clothes, books for signing, food and [...]

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On being a geek

When I was a kid, I hated being called a geek. I was small, scrawny and wore horrible NHS specs with thick lenses. It was made fairly obvious to me by other kids that I wasn’t the fashionable or popular type of kid and, sadly, there were very few fellow geeks at my school to [...]

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What I have done this weekend, by ArcheryGirl

This weekend I have been remarkably productive:
- Put in a huge update for the Quakers website.
- Finished another two blanket patches, bringing my total tally up to 4 of 63.
- Wrote a big chunk of Sensible Man
- Walked into town and explored the new shopping centre.
- Replaced the work shirt that the washing machine ate [...]

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Is it time to go home yet?

Today is shaping up to be a bad day of monumental proportions. I arrived bright and early to get a head start on my work and hopefully leave early. Um, yeah, right. There was an email sitting in my inbox when I arrived to say that there were problems with the overnight processing so there [...]

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Loopy me

I have stopped.
It’s the oddest sensation. I’ve been busy and working all day, feeling perfectly fine, and then suddenly I felt like a house fell on me and I’m now staring at my work feeling very dazed and tired with no real clue about what I’m looking at. What was I doing? Why?
I was ill [...]

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Still ow and unravelling as well

My neck is still misbehaving. In fact, it’s as bad as it was yesterday. Usually it clears up after a day of pain and annoyance, but this time it seems to be settling in. Grr. I’ve promised that if it’s still a problem on Monday then I will be going to the doctor to make [...]

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