In a general state of "huh"-ness at the moment because someone I knew a long time ago has left a message on one of my websites. At first they were being really sneaky in an 'i'm not telling you who i am' way but i think i have it figured out on the basis of their IP address and between the lines esque clues (although their main 'guess who' clue, i have no idea about, something about King Arthur ... urunhuh). The trouble is I want to know for sure who it is but at the same time I have a lot of people from back then I don't really want to hear from again because they screwed me up pretty bad for a while. Big trouble is I think this Ms Mysterio is one of the people who screwed me up the worst. Don't know if anything will come of this messageboard guessing game we are playing with at the moment but I don't know if I would want it to anyway. At the same time, it is over 5 years, I'm a very different person so she might be too so should I let bygones by bygones for the sake of having someone else to help out on my webpage...

The most arsing thing about this is the fact I live less than 2 miles from work.

As I said, two F*CKING hours.

In honour of my most-bored-author crown, and an episode of the Simpsons I saw over the weekend, Lord Armitage - I slap you with my virtual duelling glove. We do battle* at dawn** !

* Battle in what I do not know but the loser is forced to eat....weetabix
** actually dawn is a bit early (I was in work before 8 today and that is plenty early enough), shall we say noon-ish with a bit of tea and some cucumber sandwiches on the lawn?

I just wanted everyone to know that.

Weird-azz.

Got big inspection thing next week - a dry run for the HUGE inspection thing happening in November (which is the whole goal of my job) - so trés busy at the moment. Might even have to work over the weekend which will suu-uuck. Still, will get lots of time off in leiu so have a feeling it is going to be a pretty slack April, May, June and hell, July if I can stretch it. Wooh-hoo!

Just read the Geek-ware FAQ for the first time (if it isn't new, then I am obviously just unobservent) and learnt that some of us authors are 'work for upcoming IT companies, others are trainee school teachers, university students, and Russian spies'. As I am not one of the first three categories, I am obviously a Russian spy. Will have to change my name to Sporkikov.

I told its mum to put it in a cat suit next time and I might be able to respond to it.

Do all geeks have this insatiable fear of spawn or is it just me?

Went out for lunch with a guy i used to work with today to bitch about Much Loathed Colleague - apparently she is as insane as ever and my replacement "is nice but has no personality" (three people have told me this now) so is being used as a bit of a MLC doormat.

Am having some trouble with some statistics at the moment - went to a seminar on Friday about statistics programs but when discussing the pros and cons of each package, the guy failed to mention that all the data manipulation software is worth squat if the original statistics are so incomprehensible that you can't even write them up into the tables. Grrrr.