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[05:11] Just Stuff
Date: 7/15/05 at 1:11PM
My week isn't getting any better, I swear if I have to mess with just one more Excel spreadsheet I am going to write a Macro that runs every five minutes and secretly adds 1 to random numerical fields, maybe change the odd text value to #REF or something too.
I'm just writing this because I've had enough Excel and I've got a couple of things I've been meaning to post but been too busy:
Item 1 - The Two Minutes Silence
Yesterdays thinking time was quite eerie. I filed out with everyone else and stood around the still cordoned off Liverpool Street entrance. The silence was amazing. Standing next to one of the bigger Tube/Train stations in the city on the intersection of 5 roads and NOTHING was moving. It was like in the movies when aliens come and kidnap everyone, you could hear crows cawing and sod all else.
Item 2 - Conspiracy Theories
I'm partial to the odd conspiracy theory, they seem to come true a lot of the time (see Operation Northwoods). I haven't commented on the political side of the whole London Bombing thing because I don't think I've anything authorative to say. I will however bring one thing to your attention. On the day the bombs went off there was an exercise underway by a non-government company in association with the London Underground (?) and others that tested the capabilites of those involved to respond to an emergency situation. The simulated situation was....wait for it.....three bombs going off in the EXACT same stations that the bombs did go off in. I've heard this reported ONCE on the day of the bombings and it disappeared after that so I hereby point you here and here. I would like to point out that I don't condone the bombings but I am rather confused as to why they happened and find the scale of the exercise somewhat odd. The official explanation doesn't really make sense to me. I don't suggest that you put any more faith in the alternate (aka conspiracy theory) news sources than you would in government produced news. I suggest that you apply the same source checking and cross-verification for both; just 'cause you saw it on TV doesn't mean it actually happened that way. For more news you never saw check out rense.com.
Item 3 - Reunification
Shona is winging her way to merry England as I type. She's visiting her bro in Thailand first and gets here on Wednesday. Yay!
Item 4 - Bathing
I don't like it.
No, but seriously, it appears that bathing (as opposed to showering) is the norm over here. I find it a little odd as bathing uses a LOT more water than a shower (well, obviously not if you spend all day in the shower) and are generally more of a pain in the heinie 'cause you have to run them and then sit in a pool of your own stinking filth and sweat for a while, nice! I rather foolishly rented a flat with a hand-held shower thingy because I was already familiar with that being the done thing - I neglected to take note of the fact that there was no shower curtain present. I'm currently in negotiations with the landlord about this.