Happenstance is also a 12 letter word

Hi there.  Remember me?  I bet you’ve been oddly restless these past
few weeks, not sure what your life is missing huh?  No matter, I’m back
again - you can all stop fretting now (I had this urge to pun something
about guitars and callouses, but I’ll spare you the pain).

So… I bet you’re expecting something glorious after the notable
literary absence… uh, but unfortunately, none is to be had.  There’s
a load of gossip of course - but I can’t fill you in on that, because
it kinda borders on ’secret’, and other people are perfectly able to
air their own laundry.

Which leaves me with. *drumroll*

Food.

Yup. 4 weeks or so of nothing (did I mention that I can’t count either?), and I bring you everyday food-like items.

Behold the magnificence of the japanese box of chocolates which I
received on Valentines day … but not as a valentine’s present. I love
japanese packaging, it’s so cute compared to our boring wrapping.

I love the inside as well! They’re so dinky… Just right for a
mouthful of green-tea chocolate.  Mmmm. So much classier than a box of
Quality Street!

Did you know, that on the 13th/14th? (can’t even remember exactly when
[St. ] Valentine’s day is … did he kill a dragon?) in Japan, girls
give the guys they like chocolates (giri-choco), and a month later
(March 14th?) the guys give the girls … um, was it white chocolates?
Be very careful with your elocution however - pronouncing it
‘kiri-choco’ probably slants it towards Death chocolate somehow.  Most certainly not one of the impressions that imply correctness.

Is that the only gem of wisdom I have for you? 

Why no.  While bored, I also bought a box of animal biscuits.  Crackers
I know, but you’ve sometimes gotta stretch the boundaries of
inventiveness when the situation demands it.

Behold my mighty collage of 3 pictures that should explain my actions in no less than 3000 words:

No doubt you’ll want to rearrange the captions in whatever order you’d like - but I personally would creatively entitle the pictures:
front of box, back of box, and "After I’d eaten most of the biscuits, I decided to take photo of them in some haphazard fashion" - but maybe not in that order.

And lastly - my final bit of wisdom is that before attempting to cook for yourself, you should look at the ingredients issue logistically. How much IS too much for one person to eat in one meal?

That, and what the heck possessed someone to fluoresce a radish?  And why does it smell the way it does when it comes out of the packet when it’s that colour?

… and why didn’t anyone tell me that it gets softer the longer you leave it in the fridge?

Freaky. The similarities are … not at all evident.

I’m half-way through my hiberation.  No clubs or going out to birthdays for me!  If it’s your birthday in February and March, you’re lucky.  I’m not coming :p

Soooo, what’ve I been doing?  You don’t care, but you might as well act mildly interested now that you’ve taken the effort to read this far surely…

Well, I’ve found lots of cool stuff on the internet! Well, technically I didn’t ‘find’ them, but you get the picture.  In no particular order, this month I have:

1) Engaged a whole load of indians to work for me
2) Been playing with Ajax (um, think Flickr.  Kinda).  And it’s cool.
3) Been using an online to-do list tada.com (so I can track it wherever I am) written in Ajax
4) Been investigating commerce/cart techology and designs
5) Read up about technology that allows you to ‘film’ at arbitrary locations _within_ games
6) Coded till my eyes bled.  Or are they supposed to bleed salt water?  Hmmm
7) Bought a load of books on ebay
Bought counterfeit razor blades from China … which are now making their way back to China
9) Been eating nuts, fruit and everything too-healthy for me.  Ick.
10)Paused at the massively heavy, 3-volume Calvin and Hobbes collection at least 5 times at Foyles
11)Discovered last.fm - which plays all of my fav. music, and everything similar.  Just because it can… and I had this streaming music to my kitchen… so geeky :p

That’s it so far … if anyone wants to paint my room for 20 quid, please come round :p  I’ll feed you biscuits too.

Wow. I’ve mostly been playing with technology this past week, so I can’t tell you about it - but if you need a site developed.  Come pay me money.

I digress.  Girls, if I got 1p for each second of your time that I’m about to waste… I’d make a lot of money right here.  Can I say this with any certainty? 

Yes I can. You’re soooooooooo predictable… Well, actually - I lie.  If you can type fast, and you can guess things well - then you might like the next game…

What’s the link?  Type / delete / repeat…

If you’re a geek.  Omg.  Using Flickr.  Wow - that’s too good.