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For some utterly unknown reason, today my work computer decided it didn't have a thingy installed, and so therefore it wasn't going to attach to the work LAN. Internet access was fine. But I couldn't see a single other computer. Which meant that all the bits of information stored on other people's computers was impossible to access. Which meant that I couldn't do a single piece of work that involved a computer until the bits got fixed. Which didn't happen until other people finished THEIR morning's work. And so on...

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I have a lovely red rose in a vase on my desk. I picked it as I walked out the door this morning (Shock, horror! I walked not ran!) It is slowly opening - so far today it has made it from bud to semi-open.

There is also an electrician here, trying to fix things. Good luck to him, I say.

I am still folding bits of paper to send out the end-of-month accounts. About half way through. There are a lot of them.

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Mmmmm. Chocolate....

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My father once gave me a book. He gave it to me because he opened it in the shop and saw:

'A mosquito was heard to complain
 That a chemist had poisoned his brain;
    The cause of his sorrow
    Was Para-dichloro-
 Diphenyltrichlorothane'
   -Anon

and thought that they would all be like that, and that therefore I would enjoy it thoroughly, at the ripe old age of 9 or 10 or thereabouts. Had he opened it 8 pages earlier in the book, he would have read:

'A student from Pembroke once said:
 'I'll take my mathematics to bed.
   My girl isn't willing,
   But I still want thrilling,
 I'll integrate, quietly, instead.' '
     -Andrew Stoker

or 7 pages later, where he would have seen:

'A crusader's wife slipped from the garrison
 And had an affair with a Saracen;
   She was not over-sexed,
   Or jealous, or vexed,
 She just wanted to make a comparison.'
     -Ogden Nash

The fact that these are some of the cleaner collections of rhyming words in the book leads me to suppose that receiving it probably had an effect of some kind on the way I turned out... Even if I am no longer quite so good at the rhyming conversation game.

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Borrowed from reynardo and waitingman,
Choose a band & answer the following only with song titles from that band: Like Reynardo, I choose Queen. Why? Because their 'Greatest Hits 2' was the first CD I bought for myself, not a gift. It was second-hand when I got it (yay for Uni-Records!), and I played it until I could remember all the words, when no-one else was home to turn it off or change the CD because it was not their style of music. I shan't rant on this now, because I have a meme to finish.

Are you male or female? - I Want It All
Describe yourself - A Kind Of Magic
How do some people feel about you - Innuendo
How do you feel about yourself - The Invisible Man
Describe your ex-girlfriend/partner - I Want To Break Free
Describe your current girlfriend/partner - I'm Going Slightly Mad
Where do you want to be - Hot Space
What do you want to be - The Miracle
Describe how you live - The Show Must Go On
Describe how you love - Headlong
Share some words of wisdom - Friends Will Be Friends

Observant people will not that all these songs (except for Hot Space, which I've never heard of, but my CD liftout material tells me it's the name of an album of Queen's, so I assume it is also the name of a song of theirs') are on the collection mentioned above.