Thursday 7 January 2010

2010!



Happy new year! Okay, I'm late with the greetings, but that doesn't make them any less heartfelt.

Have been busy lately, but am trying to impose some order on my days. Time management, a tidy desk, that sort of thing. I need to draw up a timetable, but I think I'd end up like Red Dwarf's Arnie Rimmer when he was revising for the engineering exam.

Rimmer
Lister, where's my revision timetable?

Chen
Sir, it's Saturday night!

Lister
Come on, no one works Saturday night.

Rimmer
You don't work any night. You don't work any day.

Lister
'Skive hard, play hard'. That's our motto!

Rimmer
Look, I've got my engineering re-sit on Monday. I don't know anything. Where's my revision timetable?

Lister
Wait, is this the thing in all different colours, with all the subjects divided into study periods and rest periods and self-testing times?

Rimmer
It took me seven weeks to make it. I've got to cram my whole revision into one night.

Lister
Hang on, this the thing with a note on it, in red, said, "Vital, valuable, urgent! Do not touch on pain of death!"?

Rimmer
Yes!

Lister
I threw it away.

Will get back to proper blogging soon. In the meantime, here's a pic of Crinkle Cut's joey, which recently left the pouch. The young 'un is very lively. Crinkle Cut parks it in the scrub while she feeds on the lawn, but sometimes the joey can't resist checking out mum's dinner. No name yet.