Crivens!

It’s been a busy day; this is the first chance I’ve had to break my silence, not that I have a lot to say.

I have been assailed by ludicrous deadlines brought about by our Legal Adviser deciding that the middle of the annual Subsidy Determination process is the ideal time for a fortnight’s leave. That plus the fact that our attempts to make an interim subsidy payment to a particular local authority seem to be dogged by misfortune, the latest being the inability of one computerised system to play nicely with another. The authority is being uncommonly civil about it; I doubt I would be in the circumstances. Still, it now looks as though they will get their money tomorrow, only two (additional) days late.

I am reading Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men despite it being allegedly for kids (or at least pitched a little younger than most of his Discworld novels). I’m only 68 pages in, but it’s already a great deal of fun. In anticipation I have acquired the further stories featuring trainee witch, Tiffany Aching: A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith. The “Wee Free Men” have barely made an appearance as yet, but it looks as the Nac Mac Feegle are going to be a great deal of fun.

Why the kids absorb Harry Potter when this stuff is available is beyond me.

Crivens!

I have been talked into opening a MySpace account. I have no idea what I shall do with it. I daresay it will lie fallow like my blogspot and the other blog thing, the name of which escapes me for now. MySpace seems inherently counter intuitive to use and extremely cluttered by the standards of good old LJ.

We shall see.

Crivens!

It’s been a busy day; this is the first chance I’ve had to break my silence, not that I have a lot to say.

I have been assailed by ludicrous deadlines brought about by our Legal Adviser deciding that the middle of the annual Subsidy Determination process is the ideal time for a fortnight’s leave. That plus the fact that our attempts to make an interim subsidy payment to a particular local authority seem to be dogged by misfortune, the latest being the inability of one computerised system to play nicely with another. The authority is being uncommonly civil about it; I doubt I would be in the circumstances. Still, it now looks as though they will get their money tomorrow, only two (additional) days late.

I am reading Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men despite it being allegedly for kids (or at least pitched a little younger than most of his Discworld novels). I’m only 68 pages in, but it’s already a great deal of fun. In anticipation I have acquired the further stories featuring trainee witch, Tiffany Aching: A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith. The “Wee Free Men” have barely made an appearance as yet, but it looks as the Nac Mac Feegle are going to be a great deal of fun.

Why the kids absorb Harry Potter when this stuff is available is beyond me.

Crivens!

I have been talked into opening a MySpace account. I have no idea what I shall do with it. I daresay it will lie fallow like my blogspot and the other blog thing, the name of which escapes me for now. MySpace seems inherently counter intuitive to use and extremely cluttered by the standards of good old LJ.

We shall see.