October
October is the tenth month of the year. So why is it called October? And December. Twelfth, but calling itself tenth. Barking. I feel some Wikipediaing coming on.
There seems to be an awful lot happening right now. Time for another list.
I have mostly been:
- Trying to buy a house, and failing miserably due to the fact that some people find it amusing to change their mind and not sell their house after all, even though we paid money for things. Not a survey yet, though, thankfully. But still.
- Doing presentations at work, trying to convince people that they should allow us to totally overhaul the part of the BBC’s site that I work on. It’s a long story, and one which I might find time to explain some time. (But let’s face it: probably not.) It’s all good though, the presentations seem to be doing the trick for now.
- Saving the lives of people who have massive fits in Tesco by swiftly putting them into the recovery position. Well, one person.
- Cycling around in my new red jacket in the freezing cold.
- Installing Mac OS X Leopard, and having fun with the new speech synthesis addition: ‘Alex’. It’s one of those hugely impressive things that comes around once in a while. One or two other bits of Leopard are a bit less impressive, but hey.
- And so on…
