hmm I am noticing that my posts seem to be coinciding with LUG meetings, obviously I havn't had so much to talk about recently.

Ouch: Due to a skating accident last night I can currently only see 1 knuckle on my left hand. It has been swelling up since the accident and whilst the Ice I put on it helped it has not helped enough. I also seem to have developed a stiff kneck (probably from when my face hit the ground), bruised knees, bruised right hand wrist, sore back and cut lip. nevertheless I'll probably be back out sakting again by next Friday but it did make todays task difficult.

Car Buying: This week has mainly been spent reviewing finances and looking at cars, lets just say a week spent looking at cars . finance packages, bank statements etc is absolute Hell. What was worse however was trying to test drive a car today with aforementioned injuries. Driving a car is bad enough when you're not used to the controls, but when you have difficulty using the gear stick due to a swollen hand and have trouble turning your head it can be quite dangerous, luckily the test driving took place in a largely dissused Industrial Estate. I struggled through however and eventually ended up with a White Fiat Punto which is the exact same car as my Mum's but hers is red. Lets just say that I am not pleased with the colour but it was necessary to just get any car ASAP for...

New Job: I start work on Monday for NTL's Luserphone, it's not actually for NTL but as tech support for Tesco/Virgin etc who have contracted their ISP support out to NTL. Not ideal work but I need the money and they let me wear whatever I want to work and let me surf the net whilst working.