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T-Mobile are pish. Their network is pish, their customer service is pish and I have two months left of my contract before I go with someone else.

The rose bush in my garden has flowered today with two nice big roses. Never seen that in November before!

I shaved off my beard last night just to see what it looks like. I did it in the usual manner of full beard -> mutton chops -> goatee -> moustache -> hitler 'tache -> clean shaven. At the moustache bit, I upset my wife as apparently I look exactly like my dad. I'll be growing the beard back again... I've decided I like the face fur.

I was thinking the same when I heard Robbie's new song

I suppose the posties have to do something on their day off. Nice of some people to organise a Festival for them!

Small "m" mail, not the Daily Mail

I got my mail delivered today.

They played the new Susan Boyle song on Radio 1 this morning, it was actually quite good.

I've discovered that my word of the week has become "f***nut". Especially when aimed at nutjob racists.

Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 just now: "Do email me if you've never used a computer before"

You can now buy bacon jam

They don't... they take it as given that they can screw you because if you fight back you tend to be informally "blacklisted" among the very tight community in one of my core markets. Sue one and you get nothing in future from any of them.

I am looking forward to Stargate Universe tonight on Sky. Robert Carlyle starring.

My client just called and asked if I would consider halving my invoice for the pre-work I did for "goodwill" purposes, I countered by suggesting they double it for "goodwill" purposes considering that I'm now sitting at home as it's far too late to get any replacement client work until next week at the very earliest. They didn't quite get my point when I said that it was "goodwill" that I had no current intention of suing them for breach of contract or enforcing the contract termination clause in the contract.

A difficult to explain problem when you get home!

Yep, I will try to get someone to "buy" it first though, if it doesn't sell then I'll get about 10-20 copies done as a vanity job. Great stuff!

First day in many a month that I've needed lights on while working at home.

Rather than play computer games, I actually put some time into my book. 1500 words done today which is probably a new record For the record, a life goal of mine is to write a significantly sized fiction book. I couldn't care less if it sells or not as it's a personal rather than professional/lifestyle goal.

October may be a quiet month after all... A client I was supposed to be doing work for all month has called to say that all "discretionary" work has been postponed indefinitely due to critical budget concerns. Fan bloody tastic. The one and only good thing is that they caught me just as I was leaving to get the train into London. I'd have been a bit ###### if had I managed to get all the way to them in London before they told me. Edit: F*** it, I think I'll play computer games all day and call today a write-off for business purposes.. I'm not really in the right attitude to talk to potential clients and drum up new business.

He handled it perfectly, only needed one yellow and that was in the 70th minute for a late and fairly cynical tackle.

I was assessing a referee at a decent level game of RU yesterday and was listening into the pre-match brief from the ref to the captains. The home team captain told the ref while pointing at the opposing captain: "This c**t shagged my ex-wife while I was married to her. Just a friendly warning that this local derby will have more than it's share of biff." It was 1m20 into the game before the ref had to warn both sides to stop or cards would start. First punch thrown 30s into the game

I have absolutely no idea why but I find myself far more favourably inclined to Camilla than any of the other leeches called the Royal Family.

Already?

I got an app from Apple for my iPod that allows me to remote control my computerised output from my iPod anywhere in wireless network range. Gives me full control of iTunes on my PC from my iPod. That allows me to play my music on my stereo downstairs and control it anywhere from my iPod.

Tomorrow morning we'll have 09:09:09 09/09/09