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December 21st, 2005

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December 12th, 2005

06:57 pm - Updating in reverse order. Cash Card. Today. I have a new cash card. I live again. I buy things, music and an army surplus gortex jacket. Sunday. Slept. Amatis. Saturday. Went to Amatis. Danced and had an interesting time. Farmers market. Saturday. This is whare I found a Weapon of War. OU. Saturday Tutorial. The reason for all the braindead parts of the course is down to the Dearing Report and its findings. Almost every day you find a new reason to hate the government. OU Thursday. Submitted CMA. IO Wednesday. Saw Weeble's woman and Weeble's woman's Weeble. They seem good together. Every one went home early, what is it with young people today, give 'em a pub and they just wander off. Cash Card. Monday. Phoned the bank about my lost or stolen cash card. It was canceled as soon as I found it was missing. I ordered a new one and checked the last transaction. Everything's fine and a new one will arrive. I'll spend a week divorced from twenty first century living. Tal's funeral. last Sunday I came back from Tal's funeral. I wasn't till I was on the platform in Chesterfield station that I realized that I would never see him again. It was about half two and the sun was starting to head down towards the horizon. Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: The Leather Nun: Force of Habit. Tags: stuff

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06:55 pm - A Weapon of War.

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December 2nd, 2005

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December 1st, 2005

03:16 am - A Little Restoration. My old tall boy, and another piece of furniture, has been retrieved from my Mum's house. The tall boy is a piece of utilitarian furniture from the late forties or early fifties and I'm fond of it. It has suffered quite badly over the years. The top was marked pot plants and the varnish on the boors destroyed; my sister hung damp towels on them. It had many other scratches and marks. Over the last couple of days I have sanded it down and revarnished it. I think it has come up fairly well. Now it sits in the living room, the TV on top of it, filled with board games. The other piece of furniture is sixties sideboard. Its a bit on the ugly side, but we need storage space in the end room (for drink anyway other things can still sit in heaps on the floor). Donald. Current Mood: satisfied Current Music: On random play:Kraftwerk - Technopop (Demo Edit 1983) Tags: furniture diy

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November 26th, 2005

08:53 pm - Grrrr &^$£&*%^!!! course. The first interesting bit of my OU course. They sent us to look at a paper on the digital divide caused by differing skill levels within the computer users within a community. The first interesting thing (in this section ) and they tell us to have a cursory look over it. We shouldn't take more than ten minutes over this. It might be a bit hard. I've ploughed through hours of tedious dullness to get to this point and they say take ten minutes. ARRRR! I have to do this course, it being part of the requirements for any degree that I want to do. I didn't really want to do it so left it till last. Its a new course, so incorporates all the new business led government requirements for new first year university courses: numerously; literacy; conferencing and group skills. This is stuff we should have all covered in the early years of high school. Donald Current Mood: RANTING Current Music: Black Flag - My War

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November 20th, 2005

11:28 pm Procrastination: for three days I should have been studying; Building a webpage instead. I always figured HTML was a bit like statistics, I'll learn it when I need it. Frames and css, about half way through HTML & XHTML: the complete reference. I'll figure out how to get rid of those dirty old tables. (just for reference I did know some basic HTML beforehand) Content: the mythical beast that evades me. Last night I wandered around in the cold looking for sachachacha, party, failed miserably went home and got a lift up there instead, arrived late, had fun. Soup of the day: bacon and butterbean. Donald. Current Mood: full Current Music: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Paint Your Wagon Tags: food party procrastination

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November 13th, 2005

05:07 am - Today has been about buying tasty food. On Friday I went to see my grandad again he seems to be a bit better. The stroke patients have been moved to another part of the ward: quieter. The doctors are thinking of sending him home some time next week. Today (yesterday now) the bi-monthly farmers market at Mansfield Park in Partick was on. I picked up my rucksack, hopped on the underground and spent about an hour wandering around buying tasty foods: sausages, beef olives, chutneys, cheeses,duck eggs, kippers, smoked mussels, venison, wine and root vegetables. Tomorrow (today) I cook. Webble ( clockworksaint ) was round today. Its good to catch up as he's now in Dundee. Just did another braindead OU web-exercise thing. Make a pointless webpage and show it to your fellow students for comment. This current course T175 seems to be going very slowly. After this one I'll be moving on to second year courses. Four months of sleepwalking to go. I want to do something a bit more demanding. Donald. Current Mood: Its 5 am Current Music: Shriekback - Care Tags: farmers market, food, ou

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November 8th, 2005

09:51 pm - stuff This is my first livejournal entry. I had fun at Whitby. I've been back for almost a week which has given me time to catch up with my OU courses and get most other things back in order. My Grandad was taken into hospital while I was in whitby. He is in the ward above whare I was treated for leukeamia. Today I went to visit him. A ward like that is a shit place to be if your lucid. Its to warm and to humid, there's nothing to do and there's stroke patients. Stroke patients are about the worst thing about long stays in hospitals. My Grandad will probably be in there for about two weeks. I felt uncomfortable going back there. The smell of the place clings to me. I've changed my clothes and washed but can still faintly smell it. The album of the week is "The Repulsion Box" by Sons and Daughters. Its a fantastic folk/punk sort of thing, and I'm wondering how I've missed finding it for so long. Anyway, off to the pub (13th Note), Donald. Current Mood: sad

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