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Cats
Posted Apr 10, 2003
My cat is all things to me. He's my best friend. My anchor of sanity. My downer-busting happiness machine. We've been together for twelve years and he's about fourteen years old. By cat aging terms, this makes him between 60-90 depending what method you work it on.
60-90!?! Nonsense. Utter crap. Duke is as lively, cheeky, crafty and daring as the day we brought him back from the home. He causes as much, if not more, mayhem than he ever did. Cat aging has bypassed my feline side-kick and he proves it everyday.
And yet, sometimes I wonder who the Side-kick is? I do a lot more stuff at his request than he does at mine. Who's the finely trained servant in this relationship?
I'd love to be able to play Chess with the Duke. I'm sure that, if I could just get his attention long enough to teach him the rules, he'd be able to hammer Deep Blue in six moves. It gives me a damn good idea for an article when I've got one or two other projects finnished...
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Signing On
Posted Apr 3, 2003
Signing on the the internet tonight was a task which, i presume, was in difficulty only equalled by an 'Ocean's Eleven' style robbery planning. It was hell. I'm no whizz on the things I admit, but it's usually a case of click on the button of the evil, faceless corporation (you can probably guess who it is...). hit sign on, wait for the funny noises to stop and then start 'surfing' (Why is it called 'surfing'? Is it some kind of metaphor I'm either not intelligent or not geeky enough to comprehend?) Tonight the sign on button wasn't met with the soothing clicks and whir's I normally get, it was met with evil sounding 'Bleeps!' and a fuzzy voice on my modem which after half an hour of getting angry, i worked out was saying, "This number has not been recognised. Please try again"
Said faceless organisation has been bugging me for while to get broadband. Broadband i ask! £30 p/month!!! For what? Faster Porn down-loading? Well, thanks very much but I'll stick to Razz if it's all the same to with you. BUT NOW, my normal (or 'narrowband' i'm reliably informed) connection isn't working properly. Suspicious non? Am I being bullied into a broadband account? Call me paranoid, call me stubborn and call my rant pointless, but I'm going to bed tonight with visions of evil men in black suits hiding outside my house and rooting through my bins after dark...
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