It's not that big, actually. It's just that today is my last day proper at work this year - tomorrow is our Christmas meal, and then I won't be in the office for the rest of the year.
We're all in various states of recovery from the nasty stinking colds that hit the populous every Winterval. Here's a tired, poorly baba to illustrate:
The result of this illness is that we're completely unprepared for Christmas. Tomorrow is the last posting day and we've not got everything sorted, we've not got decorations up... the only thing we've done is get most of the presents sorted. I still have some to do for Jayney... and then it's her birthday a week later, so I need to be ready with gifts for then as well.
The other thing I'm having to deal with is our internet connection - our ADSL has gone all flaky, and most of the time we can't connect to anything outside the house. Great timing...
So, to cheer myself up, I've done the unthinkable once again, and 'bought' downloads to get into the Christmas charts. Lucky Soul's Lips Are Unhappy is gorgeous, and can be bought for 40p from their website; not only that, the luscious indie popsters are doing it all for charity. Hurrah! I'd have left it at 40p off my PayPal account until I heard Malcolm Middleton's awesome indie anti-Christmas romp, We're All Going To Die. Odds of being Christmas Number 1 have been slashed from 1000/1 to 12/1 over the past month - it still won't reach number one whilst fools buy X Factor twattery, but by jingo it feels good to bop to.
Link-me-dos:
Other things? There are a few other things. I wanted to get an Asus Eee PC, but I appear to not have the cash, so that's not going to happen any time soon. Our DVD recorder is playing up - again. By hassling Admiral I've managed to save £160 on car insurance next year. Nibbling a hole in the top of a Mr Kipling mince pie and squirting Courvoisier-laced Anchor squirty cream into the void is amazingly awesome. The BBC's cross-platform, Flash-based iPlayer is better after a couple of months of development than the foetid turd that they spent millions of pounds on.
That is all.
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