Yeah, I forgot to post yesterday. But I do have a half decent excuse: I did my first shift yesterday (temp work at a day centre for adults with learning difficulties), and in the evening we were invited over to practically the only person we know here who isn’t university related. And we had a great time!
Today, I washed and waxed the car. It took me two hours. And that concludes this post.
I’ve approved the pending comments, answered most of them, and changed the setting to automatically approve all new comments. (the spam filter gets most of the spam comments anyway, so no point in people having to wait until I find the time to approve their comment…)
We went into town today and I discovered three things:
And we went past Ikea (which lies more or less in the middle of the city centre) and got some tunnbröd. Yummie! All in all, I’m starting to like this town a bit better. (just a bit)
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Once again, waiting to write something until it’s to late and time to go to bed. Also, I realised yesterday that I had several unanswered/not-yet-approved comments. I started approving them but then the internet died, and today I forgot (need to change the setting to auto approve, I think). Tomorrow, is my plan! We’ll see. Sorry about that.
Speaking of the internet. It dies several times per day, every day. Stupid ADSL. Really need to phone VirginMedia and complain about that… I wish this house was in a cable network.
Uhm, what else? I should have washed the car today but didn’t. Got info on a temp job I’d like but have to wait until Monday to see if the client wants me even though I don’t have all the neccessary experience. *sighs* Oh, and also found out that I got some non taxable expenses back! Granted, it’s money I’ve already spent, and not very much at all, but still. It’s money, which is nice when you’ve got none. Plus, I thought I had already got those expenses back, always nice with a pleasant surprise.
Eh. I’ll end this post with a statement: I like Hustle.
Just a very short post (no spoilers), because I’m tired, but trying to keep to the a post a day thing.
Now, I like Caprica. It’s really good, clever, so much better than Battlestar Galactica (although the two series really shouldn’t be compared, they’re so different). A bit more complicated than the average series, so perhaps less accessible to the general public.
Anyhow, I came upon this today. I can’t believe they’re cancelling it! Or, rather, I can’t believe they’re canelling it without actually giving it a chance. You see, when Caprica first aired, they showed only a handful of episodes (I can’t remember how many, 7? 8?) before giving it a break and saying that it would return next year, in January or February I think. Then, they suddenly changed their minds and started airing the episodes a few weeks ago. And, now they’re compaining about lack of audience. Of course people hasn’t been watching it, most people didn’t even know it was on! You can’t just announce something, then change your minds without announcing it properly, and expect people to read your minds. And to make it worse, they’ve now taken it off the air, out of the blue, and are apparently planning on broadcasting the last five episodes sometime in the first quarter of 2011.Yeah, very specific. Way to go, SyFy!
And rather annoyingly, the last episode in the first batch was amazingly good. I couldn’t wait to watch the next one! But time went on and I kinda forgot about it a bit.And then, wham, the series started again. But then they’d kinda lost the magic of the previous episode. And now we’re gonna have to wait an unspecified amount of time to even get to watch the rest of the episodes. Yeah, nice. Doesn’t work with a character centric show, it really doesn’t.
I haven’t seen all of the broadcast episodes yet, but now I’m thinking I should probably wait until it’s finished before watching any more, before I get invested in the series again. It’s so disappointing, knowing that a series could have been so good, only to have it sliced and diced and ruined by the channel, or whoever makes the decisions. *coughFireflycough*
I’ve decided (again) that I should write more often, so as a start, one entry per day, no matter how short.
Today’s entry is about the poor building standard of British houses, and how it can be improved. Install ventilation! Seriously, it is that easy. Jeeeez.
We’ve had mould in our bedroom ever since we moved to the new house. Not so fun. Landlady claims it must be due to the house having been empty for a month during summer. Condensation build up, you know. Seriously? Nah, not even the builder that came today to fix it believed it. But, mould is now gone and everything is sorted, and we’re really really happy they agreed to do something about it.
Now all we need is a fan driven dehumidifyer, and we might be able to get rid of the condensation on the windows every morning (despite double glazing) and the washing might actyally, you know, dry properly. (no, keeping the window open doesn’t seem to help. Maybe because it’s been raining so much…)
Ok, writing done. I had a lovely walk today exploring the local cemetary, in sunlight and warmth, everything just starting to go autumny. So, next up: old and new in the cemetary.