Can someone please tell me why I have august 11th stuck in my head as an important date?
Jess' party is around then, as is nessie's birthday, but neither are the 11th.

I think I may have gotten confused with my brothers graduation ceremony, which is in september. Yeah, must be that.

Yay for bad memory. What was I talking about again?

If people suddenly find me offline for the whole day, its because I have a job.
Its basic monkey work at a clothes warehouse. I think I'll have picked up what I need to know by the weekend.

Speaking of which, theres a bigwig from the Heritage Rail Association coming down to chase on saturday. He's come to have a look at our signalboxes, neither of which are "finished" externally because of the weather and the general manager throwing a wobbly.
I've had some good news back from HMRI about the signalling, so we can hopefully go forward on that.

I managed to lock myself outta my house on sunday. Landlord agents weren't in to answer the phone, locksmith wouldn't be able to gain entry without the landlord's permission and the police aren't allowed to break in. So I had to do it. With a shovel. I dunno whether to be grateful or worried about that. (Don't panic ben, theres no damage)

Ern yeah, thats everything samwise. Have fun until the next instalment

lapwing.org is back up!!

Anyway, just finished watching SiCKO for the 3rd time (it takes a while for it all to sink in)

Theres just a few things I can't get my head round;
1; You got a child who's just had a seizure in your hospital; how on earth can you not render aid? (She died because of lack of treatment)
2; An elderly lady was dumped outside a hospice; doing that to anyone in need is callous, but what struck me was the half dozen people who walked past her without asking if she was OK (she was walking down the middle of the road into oncoming traffic)
3; One woman was working 3 jobs (three!!?!?) and the most she got was a pat on the back and a stupid joke from the president. I can't imagine a British prime minister doing anything other than trying to assist legislatively.
4; The reason that private health care gives you small waiting times is because there aren't as many people using the system as public health care. Why do the proponents of private health care never point the fact that people with pre-existing conditions can't (or rarely) get private health care?

It also makes me really grateful for the NHS. I thoroughly recommend watching SiCKO, even if you think Moore is just in it for his ego.

I've moved house. From the slug infested shed space to a large roomy house. Its a nice 2up-2down, 4 bedrooms but only 3 people (back room is an "office") and its closer to Uni. All things good

I'm also doing an MEng now, so adding another year at uni. Another year away from the Real World (TM) All good

Lapwing-Linux is coming along really nicely, although the website is down currently (I'm in the process of tracking down the admin ... he'll need some help when I do find him If you're of a programming persuasion, peruse http://projects.lapwing.org . I need applications

Right, off to code stuff ...