To Be Frank …

I’m having serious thoughts about upgrading the nice 00 Citroen Xsara I drive … Don’t get me wrong – I love the car … it’s just that it’s due an NCT soon, tax and insurance are falling due, and it’s also due one of those expensive services where half the bits of the engine will need to be renewed.

I’m loooking at either a new(er) Xsara or a C5 … not sure which I’d go for yet. Money-no-object I’d go for a C5 anyday, but unfortunately, money is a big object at the moment …

We’ll see, going to have a chat with a few dealers in the morning, and see what sort of deals they’d do …. hmm ….

Went shopping last night for some of the things that the baby’s going to need, cot, baby-bath etc.
Anyway, suddenly felt really old, noticing an endorsement on one of the products from a publication called “I’m Pregnant!”

What worried me most is that as soon as I saw it I thought “That’s a .com magazine if I ever saw one !” – okay … it’s a .co.uk … but who’s counting ?

Courtesy of da little bro.

Dilbert today is just funny … I’ll only link to it though out of fairness to them !

Many years ago, when the big oil companies were drilling for oil in the Middle East, Esso came upon a huge oil well in a remote desert area near the sea.

In no time there were numerous pipelines, a large jetty and roads and accommodation buildings had been constructed. Esso informed the local Sheikh of developments. He got on his camel one day and came down with his retinue to inspect the new city. When the Esso boss had finished showing him around, he asked him what name he wished to give this new city.

The Sheikh thought for a moment, and then he spotted a large boat coming in with new workers from various European countries. He said “I will name the new city after the first person to step off that boat”. They all went down to the quay to greet the boat and the first person to come down the gang plank was a Corkman.

The Sheikh was standing there before him and said “Stranger, I have decided to name this great new city after you”. And the Corkman replied…

“Do, boy”.

Seems there’s some interesting debate on whether one of the “big ‘uns” is in fact a sin at all …. this BBC article has more !

Looks like I’m #1 at something – top search phrases used that linked to blogs.linux.ie … not entirely sure it’s an honour though!

Thanks to Donncha for that info !

Got my Sixxs tunnell working today – thanks to Paul on irc.linux.ie/#linux … now all I need to do is figure out what I’m going to do with it …

Time will tell I s’pose

A year gone by, another one started … lots happened to make this year memorable, lots more to happen in the coming one … I’m a gonna be busy !