Piccies of me!

And one that I really really like *beam*

(Thanks to armie)

I am feeling a lot better today, which is good. I am still not in work though as I am still coughing a lot and it is very very cold out, so it would probably make me ill again and half the office with me, so it is very sensible to take today off sick as well. However, since I am no longer dying, it still feels like I'm pulling a sickie even though I'm not, which is making me feel guilty about doing anything. Which is odd.

(Though this may in fact simply be a load of self-justification for spending all day in front of the TV with hot ribena)

Remembered that I forgot to do an update recently as I was so busy being poorly that I forgot that I had an exciting weekend.

Jane's Addiction were wonderful and I had forgotten that there are times when people are supprised to see you wandering around in a bridesmaid's dress. I think I am probably going to have Perry Farrell's children (Dave Navarro is far better looking but Farrell is pure sex onstage) Of course, they're both still going to have to wait till I've finished with Johnny Depp's babies first, but I'm sure they won't mind waiting.

On the way back from Leicester, I got kidnapped by Nottingham. (The Jane's addiction gig was actually in Nottingham, but I was staying that night in Leicester with the ever wonderful armie and Ophie and also a strawpig who still hadn't made it back home after Whitby and spent most of the night in a state of high vibration, only just as the gig was beginning I remembered I have old housemates from Uni in Nottingham that I hadn't seen for about a year and a half, so I called them but my phone died so just I had to return to Nottingham the next night and pounce on them then instead... now aren't you glad I explained all that for you?)

Must return to the Pit and the Pendulum and drink the rest of the deadly sins some time soon, as it was wonderfully cheesy and I want one. Or possibly steal it and bring it to Leeds. Along with the old fashioned rock pubs that Leeds seems determined to purge itself of. But not the roaming gangs of kids who thought gansta style skarves knotted over their noses were the height of fashion.

Was tempted to drive through Dronfield on the way back and get some photos of where I grew up, but it was so grey and drizzly that I didn't bother. I've had this idea for the past 5 or 6 years and I keep having reasons not to. I don't know whether this is because I'm worried that it will be very strange and painful to see the world I lived in until I was 10 through adult eyes, or whether I'm more afraid that it won't affect me in the slightest and won't be anything special and just another small suburban town.

Or maybe I'm just lazy.

Bored?

I originally got this link off LJ (think it was stolen from mistressmalaise but I'd forgotten just how funny it was until discussion elsewhere reminded me of it.

i named my daughters differently,

(as opposed to naming them the same? "...and these are my daughters, Brandy.")

...the younger one is kryslyn (like chrislynn)

Death to all vowels! The Ministry of Truth says vowels are plus undoublethink. Vowels are a Eurasian plot! Big Brother, leading us proles to victory!

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My favorite name are:
Xev Chiana Louise
Nikita Gia Ravin
Gavin Charles Bailey
Tristan Michael Ares
I want kids to entire the world unique.
When they turn 18 can always change it. I hate name like Collette. She would get picked on. Kids are not always PG!

Yeah, well I like names not stupid. Names actual exist. Pronoun, verb like too. Names suggest cruel, unusual. Fourth Amendment Constitution ban 'Nikita' for all but French assassins, bald Russian men. Friend, good! Fire, BAD!

(Helpful reader and SciFi channel viewer Joan adds that Xev is a character from Lexx: "She's a virgin love slave, in love with an animate dead assasin." and Chiana is from Farscape: an "escaped convict, genetically altered by her home planets government to be a nymphomaniac" and spread an STD across the universe. What does this say about Mama's ambitions for wee baby Xev Chiana? Do we really want to know?)

Insert humerous bus-related comment here

I need a new phone. I've been due an upgrade for at least 10 months now and been too lazy to do anything about it

(Well, I've also been wary as right now I'm best sticking with my texts-heavy tariff as that's what I do most, but if I start using my mobile more for business I might not want to be tied to that for 12 months... but I've been using that as a dithering excuse for ages and it'd probably take 12 months for me to make up my mind to change it, so it's not that much of an issue)

Anyway, my phone is now two bleeps away from total demise and so I need to decide on a new one. I don't need any advice on networks (O2 has it's faults but in all I've been very happy with them and most of the people I talk to the most are with them so I'm not switching. Not that I'm going to tell them that when I see what I can blag, of course) But I would appreciate any views on handsets.

I know I want media messaging, as it seems silly not to as it's not exactly going to go away. And a camera, because I am a sheep and swayed by things that I am told are cool by advertisers. But I'd like to know if there's other phone related stuff that people have found useful\useless\bloody annoying\vital\not worth the bother. Or whether there's things that it's worth grabbing now as they're going to become vital before my next upgrade, or aren't worth bothering with now as they're about to become obsolete (it's now well over a year since I worked in the mobiles industry so all my knowlegde is probably pretty much useless)

Also any advice on manufacturers... I know I'm likely to end up sticking with Nokia just out of habbit, but any words of wisdom or warning would be much appreciated.

(By the way, Patrick, would deceased mobiles be an option for Deadtech? Or are they all whisked away far too efficiently these days?)

Oops!

I seem to have accidentally spent an entire day in front of the computer.

However, as most of it has involved fits of hysterical giggling I consider this to be a good thing.

Now, time for soup :-)