Bang Bang, you shot me down

Bang bang that awful sound! Well i don't think i shall be posting photos again for quite a while.
Anyway, to answer all questions, i am not a nudist, and i was wearing clothes, however i had just washed my hair and hadn't put a top on yet, because it was downstairs waiting to be ironed (by me). So... congratulations to all the grand national winners (namely the bookies) and to all those who are now carrying a slightly lighter burden of money in their wallet-you see there is always an upside.

I was trying to construct my own grand national. Having decided wombles and pigeons would be too hard i turned to ants. However bad weather meant i had to abandon my search for ants in the garden. Alas there was no mini grand national. Maybe next year.

Today i went on a biiiig trip into town with Katherine and didn't really buy much at all. Then i settled down all by my bill to watch tv tonight. Everyone else is away or out. I did get to see Just Married though. Admittedly there have been greater films, but for some light entertainment it's not bad-and it has got a nice girly happy ending-not sure whether that's good or bad!

So yes, all in all a very uneventful day. Ooh i watched a bit of scooby doo too, which im sure andy would be proud of, had he not disappeared off the face of the Earth for the last week. I fear he may actually be busy!! Right, advanced warning:i shall not be blogging 2moro, due to the fact that i shall be in Shefilled-with-excitement for the night. Wahooo out of the house for a while.
Signing off

Thought for the Day: You never see the bad times in photo albums, yet its those times that take you from one happy photo to the next. They're the times that really matter in life.

Another early blog

Despite it being apparent that it is only me who models my haircuts in such a way i opted for a short hair cut. Although at peoples protest, it is not that short. However this could mean i have to have it cut again!! Disaster!

Right well im off to Katherine's hence im posting early. She doesn't really like short hair on me, so lets hope it aint too short! Besides its my hair. I haven't got very much work done today. Possible because i spent a lot of the day watching my fantastic battricks cricket team win their first game under my management. Twas very exciting-so andy,if you reappear before sunday-BE WARNED (and very scared!)

Well thats all i will say today-leaving it short and sweet. Spot the difference-prize for the first correct answer sent to me on the back of a postcard.

Thought for the Day: A wiseman listens while the fool talks.

61-hooray a prime number

Maybe its just me that gets excited about prime numbers. I was extremely excited when i realised that todays post was prime. Well so was 59..but i think we have to wait until 67 for our next...

Anyway today i worked for about 3 or 4 hours non-stop. i didn't know i had it in me! So that under my belt-well not actually under my belt! I am planning another day of work tomorrow. The big event of tomorrow is...my haircut! i will post before/after photos for you. It will be too short, but it has to be slightly to short, so it reaches its optimum half way between this and the next haircut. Hencing having an average of perfect length! Apparently i am the only one who plans my haircuts in such ways! Oh well.

Look here is a graph of my haircuts. I have modelled it as an x^3 graph merely for the illustration with the added factor of 4, as my haircut is usually optimum 4 weeks after a hair cut.

You will observe that if i left my hair for ages, it would reach infinite awfulness. Oh and by the way, values below x=0 should be ignored. Ahh the joys of mathematical software!

Anyway, i appear to have nothing else to say, so i will leave you with a guest quote, from the lovely world of linguists! Guess who...

Thought for the Day: Does a tonne of feathers really weigh the same as a tonne of lead??

All abooaarrrd!

Alas, again this day has flown by, and now all that i can look forward to is a thursday. Oh look a whole sentence with no 'e'. Just goes to show kids...no-one needs drugs!

Today i got up late and hence as happens on all major UK lines, every arrival after that time was consequently late. Lunch came in at 4.00, and tea at 7.00, which according to the tannoy, was only 1hr late, so it must have made up some time somewhere between Leeds and Harrogate. After the hassle of such lateness, it is a relief to be settling down to the far more familiar routine of the night train, on its 3 hr trip to slumberland (not the shop), via MSN and the bathroom.

I went to see Alien autopsy tonight, which was actually quite good-though no pigeons which is always a letdown. I managed to cover the world in a big picture of a pigeon earlier using google earth. Now that was fun! Imagine a pigeon the size of the Earth!

Anyway, a week to my birthday and the anti excitement is setting in. Hurrah!

Thought for the Day: Today is a fatboy slim song, thats why they call it the 'Right here, right now'

A nice happy blog to reflect a nice happy person

Im feeling in a good mood today! Hurrah! ooh err that sounds a bit rah. I think sometimes we are a bit to eager to share our sorrow, or depression but not always happiness. Maybe it's because unhappy things make a better story. Take the news for example...not much happy stuff going on...anyways, so i gonna share the love a bit today-literally. I mean what kinda rubbish word is LOVE. Did you know that in Sanskrit there are 96 words for love, and 83 in ancient persian-for today however i am turning greek. So what have we got...

Eros-plain and simple. Sexual attraction and lust. (Hence erotic)
Storge- This is natural affection, like parent to child.
Philia-This is liking an object, or mild brotherly love.
Agape-This is the daddy of all loves. Meaning unconditional, compassionate, love (and very strong friendship)

You see...how much more descriptive are they. Now we can all talk about love without getting confused about sexual feelings towards chocolate, or our girlfriends being our mothers etc etc.
And it even gives guys a chance to talk about it without sounding unmanly! Now i shall leave you with an interesting thought about love, that i admittedly nicked from somewhere quite famous!

Thought for the Day: Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

Tell me why, i dont like mondays

I don't quite want to shoot the whole day down. In fact mondays aren't that bad-they're just nothing special.

I got up in the afternoon today, despite waking up at 9.00am. I was busy before i got up, doing various little things for people. Then i got up, had breakfast and worked most of the day! All in all a quite productive day. So what has been going through my mind today...

Well theres the issue of global warming i guess. The independent carries on its inspirational episode of about 7 weeks of non stop opinion on global warming. What strikes me most is peoples attitude. Everyone seems to think that just switching to millions and millions of windfarms and solar panels will do the trick. The fact is, we are not just looking at an energy switch, but an energy cutdown. If only people stopped leaving lights on, started walking, stopped being wasteful, started being thoughtful then we might end our period of massive energy consumption. Or for example....stop cheap flights! Im gonna stop there before i become very unpopular, but why oh why oh why are they effectively subsidised at the environments cost?

Thought for the Day: The world is a human pyramid,if the rich man becomes too heavy, the poor man collapses, and look who falls the furthest

We all know Durham would have thrashed Oxford

Let's face it. However much they may gloat-we all know that had durham been in the boat race, we would have thrashed them by miles. I guess that's why they never let us join their smelly little boat race.

In all honesty i didn't actually watch the boat race. I couldn't really be bothered. I found some drying paint instead. What i did do today is i guess what i should be talking about. Well formalitites aside, there was a short power cut this evening which was very exciting. It's crazy how much we take electricity for granted these days, and yet go back only 2 or 3 generations, and people would go to bed by candlelight. Its weird how fast things have changed in our lifetime. The fact that technologies such as computers, music playing devices have changed so much just in these last 18 years. Anyway, if i say anymore i shall risk sounding very old!

So 2 weeks into the holidays and it seems a long time since i have been in Durham. A long time since i have sat doing nothing in our common room for hours on end just chatting. I suppose its good to go without (as mentioned previously) cos then you really appreciate everything. Maybe that will turn out to be the point of today's blog...who knows.

Looking forward to this week, i have lots and lots of work planned, as i have alot of catching up to do. I think i will also try and get out somewhere, and see more of my friends now they are all home. I can't bear to spend too much longer cooped up in my room. Talking of birds...(kind of) take a look at this! http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html hehe

Thought for the Day: What do you most take for granted? Hmmm...interesting one

Surprisingly Short Saturday

Hello happy people. I do not have much time so i will keep it brief tonight. Today i went to Katherines for the afternoon/evening which was brrilliant with extra ice. We watched the others, which is actually quite a good film, though not my preffered genre.

Tomorrow i aim to get lots of hardcore work done. I have had a work free few days so tomorrow its time to turn up the heat so to speak (not actually change the thermostat)

Thought for the Day: In a world of equilibrium, it follows that one mans success is always another mans failure