- Drinking coffee before going to bed GOOD PLAN.
07:28 PM January 26, 2007 - Totally not eating Nutella straight from the jar.
11:29 AM February 23, 2007 - Mmm, egg chips and beans. More of a second dinner than a midnight snack, really. Wasn’t my idea; I blame the other half.
11:47 PM March 04, 2007 - My problem is absentminded eating. I’ll open the fridge to get the milk out for a coffee, and seconds later I’m halfway through a yoghurt.
12:01 PM March 06, 2007 - Hoping to god that we have a potato masher.
02:43 PM March 07, 2007 - WHAT CAN I EAT THAT WILL CURB THIS HUNGER?!!1
08:29 AM March 21, 2007 - Eating scrambled eggs.
10:15 AM March 21, 2007 - Stir-frying stuff. I desperately need a big fresh vegetable injection.
07:44 PM March 21, 2007 - Regretting the fact that all of the chilli I added seemed to arrange itself into that one final mouthful. Yikes.
08:46 PM March 21, 2007 - Debating whether to use remaining calories for today on a dessert, or a bottle of beer. Dessert or beer. Dessert or beer.
05:45 PM March 22, 2007 - Cooking some kind of atrocious breakfast.
12:01 PM March 24, 2007 - omg hula hoops
03:29 PM March 31, 2007 - omg i think that’s an ice cream van
02:43 PM April 01, 2007 - Strange sudden craving for sponge cake.
09:12 AM April 04, 2007 - In an interesting development, I seem to have eaten a tin of rice pudding for breakfast.
10:08 AM April 04, 2007 - Not only have I burnt my steak, I’ve also dropped it on the floor.
06:45 PM May 21, 2007 - Beer keeps making me beer beer.
06:32 PM May 26, 2007 - Eating rhubarb and custard sweets for lunch.
12:39 PM June 04, 2007 - My goodness, perry is delicious.
04:24 PM July 07, 2007 - Whose fool idea was it to put chocolates by the bed? I think I actually ate some in my sleep.
10:09 AM September 10, 2007 - You’d think a litre of banana-flavoured milk would be enough for one man. But you’d be wrong.
04:40 PM September 29, 2007 - Also, cheese sandwich for breakfast = win. I AM GROWN UP NOW, I CAN DO WHAT I WANT.
12:24 PM October 19, 2007 - I have just created something inspiring via the media of bacon, cheese and FIRE.
01:55 PM October 25, 2007 - Ah, Ritter Sport. Qualität im Quadrat. Where have you been for so long?
12:35 PM November 13, 2007 - Smiling. Bacony.
11:03 AM November 18, 2007 - First day of new, sensible eating! Honest.
06:26 AM December 27, 2007
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…but it is very difficult when the Clinique UK website tells me to use my Scruffing Lotion (3.5, for normal to oily skin) before shaving, while the Clinique USA website tells me to use it after shaving.
What is a boy to do?
Update: I have ‘email[ed] an expert’ at Clinique. I will let you all know what they say.
- Didn’t notice existence of teapot, so didn’t boil enough water to fill teapot.
- Poured water into teapot, forgot about it for an hour, brewed very strong tea.
- Poured very strong tea into cup, forgot about it for half an hour, tea got cold.
- Impressed by insulating qualities of teapot, poured second cup of still-just-about-warm tea into cup, forgot teapot has no built-in strainer, poured too violently, got half a mug of tea leaves.
- Emptying cup into sink, forgot that the very purpose of this emptying was to remove tea leaves from cup, covered sink with tea leaves.
- First successful cup of tea, missed mouth, poured on self.
In case you haven’t heard of it already, one of the government’s proposals for cutting congestion is the idea of road charging. Currently, we have a tax on petrol (which effectively taxes you per distance driven, and is more expensive if your car is less efficient), and an annual flat fee on your car. Simple, and easy to understand, even if it is bloody expensive.
Road charging involves tracking your car’s movements, and taxing you based on the distance travelled. The twist is that you would be charged more for travelling on bigger, busier roads, and charged more if you travelled at certain busy times of the day and days of the week. The idea is that this will encourage motorists to travel at less congested times, and use alternative routes, and — holy of holies — use more public transport (and we all know my feelings on that one).
Most people are up in arms about this, based on the sophisticated “Fuck you, I don’t want to pay more money” argument. However, the real reason that road charging is daft is this: for a tax to be an effective deterrent, you need to be able to easily predict how your actions are going to affect what you get charged.
The London congestion charge is a good example of this. The rules are simple: if you drive within this area between 7am and 6:30pm, Monday to Friday, you have to pay a fixed fee for that day. The entry points to the charge zone are clearly marked with signs and road markings. It is very easy to understand how to avoid being taxed, and if you are taxed it is very easy to know how much it will cost you.
The road charging scheme, on the other hand, is likely to be incredibly complex. It won’t be possible to classify roads simply, since an A-road in Britain can be anything from a two-lane country road to an eight-lane behemoth coursing through the capital city. And since different roads (and directions) get busy at different times, it’s likely that they’ll have different charging schedules for each different road.
In other words, it’ll be very difficult to predict what charges you’ve incurred; you’ll just have to trust the bill that your black box generates at the end of each month. Not the most effective recipe for a deterrent tax. (And a hellishly expensive one to implement, too, but that’s a subject for another post.)
After several rounds of experiments, I can confirm that sock number is not conserved under laundry transformations.
I saw a terrifying plush reindeer doll in Sainsbury’s last night. It was shaped like a egg. Why was it shaped like a egg? I do not know why it was shaped like a egg.
Here’s a page from the Sainsbury’s website that shows all their Christmassy characters in ‘print out and colour in’ form, including my friend, Eggdeer. They managed to get the Eskimo and the polar bear pretty normal, and although Father Christmas is slightly egg shaped too, at least he’s recognisable as Father Christmas. But the egg-shaped reindeer is just weirding me out big time.