You Rotter, why do you punish me so?

I shall have to pop out to Boots in a bit and stock up on paracetamol and codeine. I broke a tooth last night whilst scoffing dinner, and then the filling fell out of what was left. It is just about tolerable provided the temperature doesn’t vary by more than a degree or so. I think that might be a degree or so Fahrenheit rather than Celsius. As you can probably imagine, maintaining this delicate balance has made eating and drinking somewhat exciting, and seeing as I am a little short of money at the moment, wandering in to visit a random dentist is equally problematic.

I must confess that I am somewhat afeared of those madmen with their torture implements, and I think that I may have to keep going on the painkillers for some time while both backbone and bank balance grow to the point where I can drum up the courage to see the sadist.

And anyone who says dentists are not sadists should look at the piece of recycled Napoleonic cannon that passed as a filling before it dropped out last night

In other, and less painful news, tonight is the last game of the quiz season. Actually, it's the first of our defence of the cup we won last year, the quiz season proper finished a couple of weeks ago, with the Accies resoundingly last in the league. Normally as cup holders, we would not get a handicap in our favour, but the league have taken pity on us after another dismal season and given us a handicap of 12, which is about half of what it would have been had we not won the cup last season.

I am hopeful that a 12 point bonus will not be enough to extend the agony beyond this week, and that we can walk this season out into the backyard, fondly feed it a cube of sugar and put a bullet through its head.

Anyway. That's the pain talking. I'm off to buy painkillers. Further entries may or may not appear today, and if they do, they may or may not be intelligible.

No change there, then.

You Rotter, why do you punish me so?

I shall have to pop out to Boots in a bit and stock up on paracetamol and codeine. I broke a tooth last night whilst scoffing dinner, and then the filling fell out of what was left. It is just about tolerable provided the temperature doesn’t vary by more than a degree or so. I think that might be a degree or so Fahrenheit rather than Celsius. As you can probably imagine, maintaining this delicate balance has made eating and drinking somewhat exciting, and seeing as I am a little short of money at the moment, wandering in to visit a random dentist is equally problematic.

I must confess that I am somewhat afeared of those madmen with their torture implements, and I think that I may have to keep going on the painkillers for some time while both backbone and bank balance grow to the point where I can drum up the courage to see the sadist.

And anyone who says dentists are not sadists should look at the piece of recycled Napoleonic cannon that passed as a filling before it dropped out last night

In other, and less painful news, tonight is the last game of the quiz season. Actually, it's the first of our defence of the cup we won last year, the quiz season proper finished a couple of weeks ago, with the Accies resoundingly last in the league. Normally as cup holders, we would not get a handicap in our favour, but the league have taken pity on us after another dismal season and given us a handicap of 12, which is about half of what it would have been had we not won the cup last season.

I am hopeful that a 12 point bonus will not be enough to extend the agony beyond this week, and that we can walk this season out into the backyard, fondly feed it a cube of sugar and put a bullet through its head.

Anyway. That's the pain talking. I'm off to buy painkillers. Further entries may or may not appear today, and if they do, they may or may not be intelligible.

No change there, then.

The way of the web.

Ah, the ways of teh Intarweb.

I receive an email from a subscription service informing me of my new password. I hadn't asked for a new one, but it seems someone has been logging in pretending to be me, hence their email. This caused me some consternation since it being a utilities site I only access it from this machine - not even my laptop goes there because I can't be arsed to try out clever stuff on a machine with a tiny keyboard and no proper mouse. This all made me a little worried that there might be spy ware or malware or some such naughty on my machine. But how might this be? I have a fully paid up subscription to Norton, and it performs a scan once a week and gets rid of the odd bits and pieces that make it through the firewall.

Oh, innocent youth!

I downloaded and installed the latest Ad-Aware, something I've not bothered with for about a year since I installed Norton, and a couple of other hunter-killer utilities. Well, it seems that quite a lot gets past Captain Norton. Two-hundred and seventy high risk files and seven registry add-ins for a start. Well, Ad-Aware got rid of them for me (to the point that when I booted the machine up tonight it complained that it couldn't find nail.exe, a remnant of the Aurora spy ware I had to lock down as I couldn't get rid of it! Now I have to remind myself how top stop the PC from trying to load it.

Suggestions welcomed.

Adding to my bemusement, I find that having left a comment on sideshow.com's website, I have been awarded a prize for leaving the 7,000th entry. Well, it's a bit rubbish (a really tatty action figure), but I see on e-bay that they go for about £20, so I figure "why not, I can always flog it". Except that having discovered that I live in the UK, Sideshow want me to pay $33 shipping, VAT and import duties. Hmm. That works out about oh, £20. I don't think so; if it was something really cool, maybe. But it is an action figure that makes Barbie look cool.

"Free" doesn't mean the same in the US as it does here, apparently. I wonder if that's true in all contexts?

The way of the web.

Ah, the ways of teh Intarweb.

I receive an email from a subscription service informing me of my new password. I hadn't asked for a new one, but it seems someone has been logging in pretending to be me, hence their email. This caused me some consternation since it being a utilities site I only access it from this machine - not even my laptop goes there because I can't be arsed to try out clever stuff on a machine with a tiny keyboard and no proper mouse. This all made me a little worried that there might be spy ware or malware or some such naughty on my machine. But how might this be? I have a fully paid up subscription to Norton, and it performs a scan once a week and gets rid of the odd bits and pieces that make it through the firewall.

Oh, innocent youth!

I downloaded and installed the latest Ad-Aware, something I've not bothered with for about a year since I installed Norton, and a couple of other hunter-killer utilities. Well, it seems that quite a lot gets past Captain Norton. Two-hundred and seventy high risk files and seven registry add-ins for a start. Well, Ad-Aware got rid of them for me (to the point that when I booted the machine up tonight it complained that it couldn't find nail.exe, a remnant of the Aurora spy ware I had to lock down as I couldn't get rid of it! Now I have to remind myself how top stop the PC from trying to load it.

Suggestions welcomed.

Adding to my bemusement, I find that having left a comment on sideshow.com's website, I have been awarded a prize for leaving the 7,000th entry. Well, it's a bit rubbish (a really tatty action figure), but I see on e-bay that they go for about £20, so I figure "why not, I can always flog it". Except that having discovered that I live in the UK, Sideshow want me to pay $33 shipping, VAT and import duties. Hmm. That works out about oh, £20. I don't think so; if it was something really cool, maybe. But it is an action figure that makes Barbie look cool.

"Free" doesn't mean the same in the US as it does here, apparently. I wonder if that's true in all contexts?