h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The ISP account turned out to be overdrawn on download memory. As a result, I've had to spend a hundred dollars that I didn't have, making the account work again, so I can clean up some of the junky Email that's accumulated since then!

I have completed the fitness instructor's Core Theory course, with a 95% pass in the registration exam, so now all I have to do is complete the aerobics instructors' course, a first aid course, and the practical assessment, and I'll be able to be an aerobics instructor. It's interesting, this...

I received a letter today from one of the best people I know. Christmas is a special time, and it's that much more special for knowing that people like her are still there, and still making contact, even if slightly less reputable people like me keep failing the standards which they set to measure me by! Her letter caused me to go through a lot of the stuff from my Beijing experience - which was where I met her - and I've been on a gross nostalgia trip since then.

We finished tidying up the database at the Folk Festival, today, and boy am I glad that's over. Now we move into programming the performance calendar, which will be an interesting experience, I suspect. Ticketing's coming up in January, and now's a good time to be able to take a breather.

The weather's lifted remarkably since early November. It's actually been sunny for the last couple of weeks, although I'd still lay odds that Christmas Day will be overcast and miserable. I get to spend Christmas at home with my parents, this year, licking my wounds and dreaming of ways to make things better. I hope it works...!

Well, judging from your latest entries, you seem to be a mass of confusion, excitement, disappointment, enthusiasm, optimism, sheer-pissed-offedness, spite, exuberance and jaded cynicism.

Business as usual, then

I missed having you around here. Welcome back

Yup. Business as #$%^ing usual...!

What's been happening in the real world, apart from a Presidential ballot which was almost as difficult to sort out as the one on h2g2, a world full of starving people that everyone's too cautious or overdrawn to care about, and nice weather?