This has to be the most amusing thing I've read over the last few days - Stoke on Trent has its own musical anthem.  No, really.

Then I actually listened to it.  And laughed, a lot.  It's so embarrassingly cheesy and 80s synthy rubbish.  I was too busy giggling to pay much attention to the lyrics, but I think it's probably safe to assume that they're not so great either.

Poor old Stoke.  Although they could always try and enter it in Eurovision or something... 

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Well, it's six months since the last one, so today was time for another Kubuntu upgrade!  Didn't take quite as long as the last one - two hours (!) to download it all, but only half an hour or so to configure and install everything.

Not that there's much difference.  New kernel, which is always nice as now my card reader and webcam 'just work'   Also new is the Dolphin file manager, which I haven't really poked about at yet but it looks decent enough.h

I did have to fight with my wireless though.  Again.  It was fine in Feisty, but for some reason decided to be quite impressively broken after the reboot.  One tiny change to a config file fixed it though, yay.

Despite that, I'm still so much happier using linux than windows.  I've been doing some work this week, which means using Vista.  I've still not really heard anything good about vista yet.  I dunno, it doesn't bother me that much.  Yeah, it annoys me, but no more than any other Windows does.  The seemingly random switching of colour schemes is a bit annoying (Dreamweaver is fine with aero, but Fireworks kicks it back to 'basic' mode).  It also seems to get very crap with the wireless connection after a while, which is annoying.  Saying that, I'm not convinced our broadband is that great anyway - especially as at one point last week it was just about crawling along at the very high speed of 23kbps!  For a 2mbit connection that's really quite poor...

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Here is a bit of a clue as to how I spent my Wednesday afternoon this week:

Unfortunately I'm no longer 8 years old, and also having spent a horrible month working in the Lucky Bags factory a few summers ago slightly spoiled my appreciation of Cadbury World.  But it was good, and they let us in the staff shop to buy very cheap chocolate

Pretty much everything I've done this week seems to have somehow involved boats.  Apart from lectures, which have involved learning more things I already know.  Maybe this week I can find time for some climbing.  Or to do some actual work!

We paddled back to uni along the canal from Cadbury World.  It's not really far but I'm very unfit so was a bit tired after that...  but it doesn't stop there, oh no.  Rushed home, quickly ate lunch and then went back down to the swimming pool for some canoe polo, which is really really hard work.  But actually quite fun.

Yesterday we went to Symonds Yat, which is annoyingly close to home, hehe.  I've got so many bruises and miscellaneous cuts/scratches all over me now.  Most importantly I didn't capsize, hooray.  And yes, I do realise that the rapids there are quite small and pathetic, but I'll freely admit that I'm a big wuss about it all.

Then last night we went for curry and a night out in the guild.  In fancy dress...  Was a really good night out actually.  Much drunken dancing   Not that I can dance at all, haha.  I can't remember the last time I went out (which is quite bad in itself) and so it probably did me good, even though my brain feels like it's full of cotton wool today.  urgh. 

I took a few photos which I should get round to putting up later on today.  but not that many, and only in the pub.  I've been feeling a bit guilty because I've not been doing my usual trick of taking thousands of photos constantly, but at the same time I don't really want to go into full on paparazzi mode with people I barely know! 

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