Great A'tuin
Havelock Vetinari
Lady Margoletta
Esme Weatherwax
Gytha Ogg
Magrat Garlick
Agnes Nitt
Miss Tick
Tiffany Aching
Susan Sto Helit
Time
Death of Rats
The Amazing Maurice
(His Educated Rodents)
(And Keith, the stupid-looking kid)
Gaspode the Wonder Dog
Lu Tze
Sam Vimes
Fred Colon
Nobby Nobbs
Carrot Ironfoundersson
Angua
Those babies they...

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I'mma gonna be an admin apprentice with the NHS! Been searching for a long-term job for about 2 and a half years in which time I've been employed for about two months, so this is awesome! An apprenticeship is exciting 'cus no one will give you a proper job if you don't have experience.

So yes, I'm very pleased. I start on the 12th of August.
Gonna miss all my free time though. Still gotta squeeze planning D&D sessions into my weeks.

5. Good for aiding with temperature regulation in your house. Open 'em when it's hot. Close 'em when it's cold. Works well in tandem with windows (and you're less likely to forget to close them when you go out).

4. Provide privacy when you don't want casual passers-by to see you... working.

3. A good door-slam is a nice way to add punctuation to an argument. Much better than a beaded curtain.

2. Good for slowing the spread of fires through buildings....

While I was having this dream, it was very cold in my room, which kept me hovering near the edge of consciousness - which is probably why i remember this so clearly.



I was in a maze with someone; I think it was my youngest sister, only she's older than me and I got the impression this person with me was a child, so maybe in the dream I was a child, too; she's only a year and a half older than me so we grew up playing together, sharing a room until she reached about...

So last month the 3-year cover on my laptop expired; I was getting letters asking if I'd like to cover it for another year but as the price was over £70 I decided not to.

So naturally my laptop now won't recognise any CDs placed inside of it, be they music, DVDs or games. Tried Microsoft's online solution which didn't fix (or even register) the problem. Leaves me at a loss.

On a lighter note, I think this has more to do with me being unlucky than with dodgy insurance;...

November 1963 was one of the most important months in (fairly) recent history. On Friday the 22nd of November, John F Kennedy, President of America was assassinated while travelling though Dallas, Texas.
But overshadowing that completely was the fact that the following day, the first ever episode of Doctor Who was released, which of course completely changed the world; Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction series in history, putting anything those yanks have produced to shame....

Ladies, gentlemen, thugs and hooligans, it is now (frighteningly) ten years to the day since I joined this esteemed forum! That’s right; ten years!
Ten years of fun, and joy, and laughter, and rage, and humiliation, and angst. I’ve made friends! I’ve made enemies! I’ve made mild acquaintances! I even got stalked for a short while by Wil! (And you thought I didn't notice!)

So thank you one and all for making these 4427 posts, these 3653 days, and this 2012 rep (ya stingy...

Suddenly, internet speed!

Yes, after many years of Old Modem, now there's New Modem! Our internet has got increasingly worse for a while now so recently Mum rang up our provider and complained; their response was to inform us that we're due a new modem, which they're required to provide but only if we ask in the right place (the right place was reached through their automated phone service, but suspiciously was not titled 'If you're due the new modem we promised but aren't keen to...

I always say that Christmas begins the first day I see an advert for it.

Today it was a trailer for a Christmas-related film that I saw in the cinema and didn't absorb the name of.

Also, I saw Brave! It's exactly my kind of film; I loved it! <3 fairy tales.

So anyway, Merry Christmas, all. (Sorry it's late - last year Christmas started in May.)