Automated Attack Monkeys, Scalpel Mines, & Acid

Yesterday our normally-very-dry cellar flooded. Mostly we are ok, but among the things damaged beyond repair were 2 full boxes of my comic collection (bye bye several years' worth of 2000AD) and lots of books. My dad is coming down later to help me take lots of Precious Things to the tip.

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Truly the path of my life is strewn with cowpats from the devil's own satanic herd.

Listen to him here.

There are those within the party who believe that Clegg was never with the rest of us on tuition fees. He mollified them somewhat before the election with the signing of the pledge he intends to break and various speeches. They are now screaming WE TOLD YOU SO!!!!.

Vince.... Vince I can understand. Vince has to be a spokesman for his government department, he has to stick to the government line, and you can tell he isn't happy about it. Clegg, though... Clegg has a get-out. It's there, in black and white, in the coalition agreement. He can say I know we all signed this pledge, but the best we can do is abstain, so that's what we will have to do. I do not understand why he is supporting this illiberal, unfair and regressive policy. I do not understand why he is trying to get the party to go along with him when he knows our feelings on it.

I can only see this resulting in more and more people feeling the way Spidey does, and I don't understand why Clegg thinks it's a good idea.

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Yesterday evening, I was on cloud nine. I passed my belt assessment at karate Monday night, and got elected to the exec of the karate club to boot; I did really well at climbing Tuesday afternoon, beating my dad up the big 6a overhang AND the 15 foot ropeless "bouldering" wall - although I did have to sit down and have a good shake when I got to the top of the bouldering wall LOL - and did a lot of good work in the garden too. I had set up and set going They Really Do Exist, and was feeling pretty damn good about myself.

I woke up this morning and got hit by the double whammy of my laptop deciding not to work and my twitter account being hacked by some unknown twat. We then had a funeral party at work which was booked for 40, and so we catered for 40. 70 of them turned up and they complained when we ran out of plates. One of the other barnmaids has got a new job, but it doesn't clash with her hours at the pub... This is great for her, but if any of us want time off now it will be even MORE difficult than it already is now, because she is the one who does most of the cover. AND the time of the moth is upon me.

All in all, then, I'm a bit shellshocked by today.

Still, Liberal Drinks tomorrow. That'll be fun. I hope.

You guys are all coming, right? 7.30 in the Ship as usual... *puppy dog eyes*

((I am typing this on Mat's laptop, which he is kindly letting me pinch for a bit. I only have access to the internet myself through my phone, and twitter is not letting me log in from my phone, although it will from Mat's laptop. So if you really need to contact me I CAN pick up email, but texting or phoning is the only really reliable way. Twitter is right out for the moment. Just so you know))

You know, even thought I know that this was the shire county elections, and even in '97 they were solid Tory, doesn't make it feel any better seeing a map of my country looking like this:



(image by shishmish)

Still, let's see what Sunday brings in the form of the Euro results, before we go getting TOO depressed, eh?

In more personal news, and probably inspired by strangefrontier, I have chopped my hair this morning. It's now about the same length and shape as Missundaztood-era P!nk. Mat had to tidy up the back quite a bit LOL. It wasn't really long enough for the chopped bits to be any use for Locks of Love or similar, so does anyone have any ideas what to do with it? Will it be good for mulch?

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It seems like hard drive failure. Which is a bit of a bummer. I can take her to the shop and get her checked over, I guess, except that would cost money and I haven't got any. Do they charge you just to look? I don't know, I've never had to do it before.

Anyway, the supreme irony is that I didn't go to the pub quiz tonight because I had lots of stuff to do on the computer. I didn't even get to look at a computer till half past midnight, and the one I am looking at now is the one remaining one in the house which "works", which was rubbish when it was bought five years ago. I am completely overwhelmed with stuff, and the piles are only getting bigger, and I am only going to have sporadic computer access, and that will be on a shite computer.

Just so you all know.