Just because PowerDVD and WordPress make it easy - a picspam of The Bill from Sept-Oct 1988 (Volume Two DVD). Read more...

Work's been really busy for about three weeks now, I think. It was really quiet leading up to that, so I thought it was coming, just not quite this badly. On top of being ill already and annoyingly not sleeping, it all completely knocked me out. Or nearly - I did work from home the past two days and I didn't work much on Thursday. But I'm really looking forward to Easter and doing nothing for four days. And hopefully sleep later than 7am because I'm clearly not getting enough sleep.

But I have watched my Ashes to Ashes series 1 DVD, so now I am all excited about the new series. And the serious amount of telly on over the Easter weekend! I went to set the video for it today, wondered why it was telling me I wasn't taping QI and Ashes to Ashes was on at 8pm, then realised the times were in GMT. And I can never remember what my PVR does when we change the clocks, so I'll leave it until tomorrow.

I signed up for remix. I'm going to be writing either Doctor Who (new), Doctor Who (all), Stargate, Atlantis or SJA. I have managed to do some writing this month - I have stuff awaiting the first beta go through at the moment. And maybe at some point I'll get my life back again...

I've spent the weekend watching The Bill from 1988 and look who pops up - it's Robert Glenister. And I can do screencaps now I have PowerDVD! Read more...

Today was the sort of day when everything went wrong. It started quite well when I woke up about 10 minutes before my alarm went off - for the past week and a half I've been giving up on going back to sleep half an hour before it went off. So I got up, felt a bit less tired - and then remembered I was going to the doctors and had to be there ten minutes before I usually left the house.

So I rushed around, which made me nice and dizzy and had five minutes to spare, so I had a lie down, which wasn't really long enough. Once I got outside I discovered the windscreen was more icy than it looked and did need a bit of scraping - only on the drivers side, the passenger side was fine.

Last night when I got back I'd been to Tescos and bought 12 litres of orange juice, among other things and my car felt too heavy to back into my space as I usually did. So because I left early this morning all the cars were still parked and it took me a while to get out.

So then I was running late, but would have been fine if I hadn't had that lie down. But never mind, I knew the roads would be fairly empty and I merrily went along at 2mph above the speed limit because I was in a rush. Until I came across blue flashing lights and the main road closed, that is...

So after taking the back way there I decided I was only going to be a few minute late, if that. So I parked at work and walked quickly - and arrived five minutes late. The computer refused to admit that I had an appointment, so I had a slight panic and stood in a queue for five minutes to talk to a receptionist.

For some reason the surgery have decided that an asthma review requires a twenty minute appointment. It took five minutes, not unsurprisingly, given that my asthma hasn't changed at all.

I made it into work five minutes early and thought that maybe my luck would change. No, turns out I cocked up the launch of a project the previous day in a rush.

It did improve from then on, but I am no less tired. I want to sleep for 100 days. Or 12 hours, I'm not fussed.

What I've done on this:

• Wash my hair - Although the depressing thing about having put this on here is that I need to do it again on Tuesday
• Tidy
• Clean the flat
• Deal with things I've uncovered while tidying - might just be pay credit card bill, do finances and call Toyota to fix my car (which isn't broken) - I mostly did this, but the Toyota service department weren't in at the weekend, so they wouldn't book my car in. Helpful.
• Make muffins, biscuits and flapjacks
• Read/reply to/do something with all the RSS feeds I have marked as unread in RSS Bandit I did do this, but now I have more
• Do some writing. I have about three things to write before the end of the month, so I should get on with it, really I wrote quite a bit last night and this morning
• Sort out what I'm going to say at our Rotaract talk on 18th - I have two minutes on the club non-fundraising stuff and one minute on me
• Only watch stuff on my PVR taped while I watched nothing but Olympics and also lovefilm DVD I finished the DVD and am down to just three episodes of Being Human out of all the stuff I taped while watching Olympics
• Do a load of washing today and another tomorrow
• Do monthly backup
• Get LibraryThing book list up to date

I would have managed all of it, except that I went for a walk in the afternoon. I felt great while I was doing it and for about five minutes after I got back, but despite lying down for two hours afterwards I just feel increasingly more terrible the longer I spend not lying down. So the rest will have to wait and I'll get started on the Being Human instead.

Things I should do this weekend:

• Wash my hair (I know that's something I'm hardly likely to forget, but at least this way I'll get to cross something off)
• Tidy
• Clean the flat
• Deal with things I've uncovered while tidying - might just be pay credit card bill, do finances and call Toyota to fix my car (which isn't broken)
• Make muffins, biscuits and flapjacks
• Read/reply to/do something with all the RSS feeds I have marked as unread in RSS Bandit
• Do some writing. I have about three things to write before the end of the month, so I should get on with it, really
• Sort out what I'm going to say at our Rotaract talk on 18th - I have two minutes on the club non-fundraising stuff and one minute on me
• Only watch stuff on my PVR taped while I watched nothing but Olympics and also lovefilm DVD
• Do a load of washing today and another tomorrow
• Do monthly backup
• Get LibraryThing book list up to date

I think that's probably everything...

I started in January 2008, so it's taken two years (I've been too distracted by curling to post this for the past couple of weeks).

50.22 / 50kg (100%)

There is no more curling and I am sad. I watched about six games at the weekend and we lost most of them which was depressing. Especially as we didn't get to the semis, despite the men being the top team in the world and two of them being full time curlers. Rubbish. There'll be no more curling for four years now - I can't imagine the BBC will show the wheelchair curling at the Paralympics. If there's some International curling in Scotland at some point in the future I make go on holiday and watch some curling while I'm there, though.

On the plus side, I now have time to do things other than watch curling and ice skating. I just have two weeks worth of TV to watch instead. Which actually won't take me a week - there's not really much on at the moment.

Saturday night I helped run the bar at the annual Welsh evening (it being St David's Day today). It consisted of quite a bit of singing in Welsh... We had a whole load of beer left over that we couldn't take back to Tescos, so I took it into work because I know people there would go mad for free beer. And, I brought it all home again. The reason: they'd have to get it out of my boot. Despite my car being parked a whole two minutes walk away, it was a sunny day and I was parked in the same place everyone else parks. I knew people at work were apathetic, but not being able to get off your arse for free beer is something else. So I'll be throwing that away now.