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Net: Words to Auld Lang Syne

December 31, 2002
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In time for the New Years Celebrations, here’s the complete words of Auld Lang Syne as written by Robert Burns:

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days of auld lang syne?

We twa hae run aboot the braes
And pu’d the gowans fine.
We’ve wandered mony a weary foot,
Sin’ auld lang syne.
Sin’ auld lang syne, my dear,
Sin’ auld lang syne,
We’ve wandered mony a weary foot,
Sin’ auld ang syne.

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Joke: Realistic New Years Resolutions

December 31, 2002
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[New Years]Keep breaking your New Years resolutions? Well, why don’t you make resolutions that you can keep and accomplish? Here’s a few to start you off:

  1. Gain weight. At least 30 pounds.
  2. Stop exercising, it’s a waste of time: you are going to die at somepoint anyway, so why not enjoy yourself?
  3. Read less. It makes you think.
  4. Watch more TV – haven’t you missed some good stuff on the goggle-box recently?
  5. Procrastinate more. Starting tomorrow. (Procrastinate means delay or postpone things I think – but I’ll check that next week)
  6. Not date any of the Baywatch/James Bond cast.
  7. Spend more time at work, surfing with the big internet connection.
  8. Take a holiday to someplace important: like, to see the largest ball of twine (it’s in Minnesota by the way).
  9. Not jump off a cliff just because everyone else did.
  10. Stop making packed-lunches at home to eat at work – you should eat out more.
  11. Not have eight children at once.
  12. Get in a whole NEW rut!
  13. Start being superstitious.
  14. Personal goal: bring back disco.
  15. Don’t dance with Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira at the same time
  16. Speak in a monotone voice and only use monosyllabicwords.
  17. Only wear jeans that are 2 sizes too small and use a chain or rope for a belt.

Game: SpamWars

December 31, 2002
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[Spamwars]This game reminds me so much of real life. In SpamWars you control a gun and have got to stop the spam from reaching the keyboard by shooting at it. You’ve also got to try and aim at Sid the Spammer to try and kill him and stop him sending the stuff – as the levels progress he starts sending you viruii/viruses as well: not fun.

On seconds thoughts, it is a fun game – I scored 3,860 on my first go and 10,430 on my second. Once you get a machine gun or flame-thrower (yep, you can get “gun upgrades”) you can easily kill Sid straight away before he sends you any spam and get bonus points.

Personal: Monday Night

December 31, 2002
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[Smash Critter][Originally posted at 04:07am, Revised at 05.30pm]
When I originally wrote this entry, I was slightly drunk, tired and just wanted to have a ramble – so read it if you want 🙂

Anyways, I’ve just been downstairs eating dinner: 800g (1.76lbs in “proper weights”) of Turkey breast joint, veggies (canned carrots, sweetcorn and peas), mashed potato (Smash instant mash to be exact) and gravy. Quite filling – even after I spilt a little over the sofa (trying to get the meat off the bone) oops!

It was the first “proper” meal I’ve had for nearly a week: I’ve been mainly “snacking” – I think the pizza I had on Sunday night was the largest meal since Crimbo day. But I suppose once all the chocolates have run out (already munched through a 400g/0.88lb box of Mars Maltesers, nearly finished a tub of 461g/1.02lb Cadbury’s Heroes and some Elizabeth Shaw chocolate mints).

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Snippet: Why so few posts yesterday

December 31, 2002
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*snippet* Before you start wondering, no after Sunday’s “blogging marathon” I didn’t run out of posts for Monday – just the opposite. I’ve still got somethings to post about: but one of the issues is/was political and I’m not sure whether or not I want that sort of stuff in my blog or not AND it had the potential to offend just about everyone – and since I’m such a nice well-brought up lad (yeah, right 🙂 ), I decided to really think about it before putting fingers to keyboard. And I’m still thinking about it – hence the lack of posts.