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My various lists for things to do/get by this weekend are getting longer not shorter. Most of them can't be done until payday.
Payday is Thursday.
Manicure and Pedicure scheduled for Friday.
Rental car is confirmed for Saturday.

Magic Malc may have fixed gramie_dee's old computer but he's putting it through its paces. Malc said Graham told him i called him Miracle Malc. I said, well no, we don't want it to go to your head. But considering all that he's had to do to the old beast, it might be a worthy name after all. :) Meanwhile, gramie_dee is using a typewriter hooked up to a cornflakes box. It took 20 minutes for MSN to start up.

I thought there was something else i was going to write but it's gone now in a little puff of menopausal smoke. I shall spam you later if i think of it.

4 sleeps!

Word of the Day

Should be applicable to everyone!
"Ephemerist" which was recorded in Edward Lloyd's Encyclopedia Dictionary in 1895 and defined as one who keeps a journal or diary.

Something and someone i had not known/of was John Evelyn who kept a journal most of his life. He lived in and around London from 1620 to 1706 and his papers were given to a librarian after he died though they weren't published for about a hundred years after his death. That in turn inspired the publication of Pepys but that's the one everyone has heard of. Now i must add Evelyn to my list of books to read someday. I've got about half way through Pepys but keep putting it down for other things.


Oh, and if anyone in Canada is using Primus for long distance phone, they have a new plan out called Truly International with 2 cents a minute to many international destinations. I was with Five Anytime and they've just put their monthly fees up another dollar. With the fees and connection charge of 3.95 it's up to almost $6 a month which makes that 5 cents a minute go up a bit depending on how much you call. The TI monthly fee is currently $1.00 (hm... per registered number, i have two, land and mobile). Still, at .02 a minute to the UK where i'd be mainly calling off-continent will still be cheaper. So .02 a minute internationally, but .06 minutes to Canada (and the US) which is only one cent more than my old plan and adding together the UK calls i make plus the Canadian ones, it may or may not work out a lot cheaper but i expect it will a little at least. You can switch over online which i've done yesterday so i won't see a difference until at least next month's bill.