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I’m not sure who submitted this article to the lovely people at the Inquirer. But it sums the whole thing up quite nicely.

Might stop people blowing up their flasks, at least.

Well, it’s taken it’s sweet time coming, but ……. finally week 4’s resolution task is complete. This week we undertook a science experiment, as heard on Radio 1 last week, and

the results can be seen in this cracking little movie
(NB if you’re using Firefox, you might want to right click, save target as - well, unless you can view video as loads of letters and numbers)

- apologies to all for it being a wmv file, but I’m not arsing around recoding it at this time of night ;o)

On to week 5 ……

Alas, this morning’s video shoot didn’t go as well as expected (booooooo)!, so there’ll be a reshoot tomorrow morning, and hopefully I can put the video up for it over the weekend for all to see what stupid antics I’m up to for this week’s resolution ‘first’ ……

Well, Fun with Dick and Jane was actually quite amusing. Being that I hadn’t seen a trailer and had no clue what it was about, I enjoyed it.

Memoirs of a Geisha on the other hand was poo. Two and a half long hours of the stuff. Basically, women dress themselves up and sell themselves off the the highest bidder……seems like an ‘interesting’ culture to some, seems bloody silly to me. Quote of the evening, by far though, has to be the guy in the movie talking to someone after WW2 and explaining how nice hospitable the Japanese people are…………..maybe the history books are different over there?

… camper vans? I enjoyed a lovely drive home from work tonight with Mr Andrew and Mr Martin, and, shock horror, we were engaged in yet another intense round of the emergency services game. After many dubious calls of ‘yellow car’ from Martin (I still don’t believe you saw a yellow mini at the roundabout Martin :oP), Andrew very nearly incorrectly shouted ‘ambulance’ as we passed a camper van.

So that led us to the discussion …….. why are they called camper vans? Is it as simple as the fact that they are used for camping holidays? Or is it something to do with the way it looks or acts around other vans? Is it a personality thing? And if all this is so, which van is the basis for camp-ness comparison?

It’s a puzzler :oS

Well, this week’s first was very cool. Our frisbee team, huc.it just designed a disc for ourselves, and they got delivered late last week. This week was the first practice with our new discs, and we played many games with my disc …. hence my new thing for this week being the playing of a game of ultimate with my own disc ….. look at the shiny toy :o)

In other news, today I found out that I’ve been co-opped onto the Hursley Clubhouse committee \o/ I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to be doing yet, but I can’t wait to get involved :o)

Four Jobs You’ve Had
1. Paper round (early mornings really aren’t fun)
2. In local shop/off licence - in the kitchen making rolls etc and out front on the tills.
3. Sales ‘advisor’ in Comet.
4. Burger flipper, and Britney Spears impersonator extraordinaire at Burger King.

Four Movies You Could Watch Over and Over

1. The Naked Gun trilogy.
2. Dirty Dancing.
3. Any of the Jay and Silent Bob movies.
4. When Harry Met Sally

Four Places You’ve Lived

1. With my parents in sunny, sunny Margate. (from the year dot til after uni)
2. Apartment in Union City, CA. (placement year)
3. 2 bedroom flat in Romsey, Hants. (when I moved down to IBM)
4. My lovely lovely new house in Southampton :o)

Four TV Shows You Love To Watch

1. Match of the Day - well, anything sport really, but mainly football. Oh, and cricket. And I like the snooker. And Rugby. Best just leave it as ’sport’ and be done with it.
2. Dinnerladies.
3. The Royle Family.
4. Brainiac.

Four of Your Favorite Books

1. To Kill A Mockingbird.
2. Winnie the Pooh’s little words of wisdom book.
3. Currently, anything John Grisham.
4. The O’Reilly book on EJBs …… how sad is that?

Four Places You’ve Been On Vacation

1. Holland, when I was a kid. Complete with all the family, Gungung, Ling-a-long, and our mountain ;o)
2. Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon - man, that place is hot! Absolutely great fun tho.
3. San Francisco and Los Angeles when Hazel, Peter and the boys came out to visit me. Disneyland and Universal Studios are superb!
4. New York and Washington DC - trip with Matt on our way back from our placement year - managed to tick off a load of places that I really wanted to see and had a great time.

Four Websites You Visit Daily

1. Google - well, you have to, don’t you :o)
2. BBC news - again, another necessary site.
3. huc.it - home of our ultimate team.
4. Lots of work websites that I’m not allowed to list, and are really rather dull anyway.

Four of Your Favorite Foods

1. Haribo.
2. One of Mum’s roasts.
3. Chocolate.
4. Lots and lots of junk.

Four Places You Would Rather Be Right Now

1. In bed.
2. Off travelling and exploring where I’ve not been before.
3. Running about outside with a disc or a football.
4. Sat on the sofa, watching a movie and munching..

Four Bloggers You Are Tagging

1. Mum
2. Joe
3. Adam
4. Atuin(cos he’s already been tagged once and he should pull his finger out and do it ;o) )

Well, this one wasn’t quite as interesting as last week’s. Due to being really busy at work at the moment(for a variety of reasons that really aren’t all that interesting), this week my new thing was to work a Saturday in the office. Not all that exciting, I know, but it’s something I’ve never done before, so it counts :oP

There were two backup options for week 2, one of these will be used this week, and *fingers crossed* the other one will be the week after. Lucky you lot, this coming week’s one will have a sexy picture with it ;o)

… is now complete. Went off to get my hair done this morning - have ended up with blonde and black streaks(which, for some reason, make the purple ones from before stand out more). But, this is not the ‘new thing’ for week one. Oh no.

Tonight I went with Hazel to a place in Ramsgate to have Hopi Ear Candle therapy. Basically, they stick a hollow candle type thingummybobby in your ear, and burn it - the resulting vacuum up the middle of the candle cleans out your ears. A friend of ours suggested it as something to try at the Brownie leader’s christmas meal, and so Hazel and I offed to get it done. It doesn’t hurt at all, and if anything makes you want to nod off. As the candle burns, you get a whooshing sound in your ear. Oh, and of course, that means you can’t hear what else is going on in the room. Which is nice, when you’ve got a belly that was rumbling quite as badly as mine was :oS

On to week two …..

Well, the obligatory post on the 1st Jan …. Happy Birthday to Dad - we’ve got all the family coming round today, so it’s likely to be another mad one!

Suppose I should formally announce the resolution where people can see it ….. in 2006 I intend to try doing/eating/seeing/etc something new every week. I’ll probably keep the blog up to date with what I’ve been up to, but feel free to email me some suggestions…I’ll probably need some more ideas by February ;o)

And, unlike my mother, I intend to keep my resolution. She broke hers within 10 minutes of midnight……. I’ll let you guess what it was ;o)