It's cold.  very cold.  Thermometer says it's about 8 degrees in my room - which is the 'new' extensiony bit of the house, so doesn't have massive thick stone walls or whatever like the rest of it. 

We've got the fire on though, which does a good job of warming the rest of the house up (or it would if Alex would ever keep the lounge doors open anyway). 

I want some snow!  Apparently it was snowing in Stoke the other night, and in Birmingham. But not here.  bah.  London (centre of the entire universe don't you know) has snow, so the whole world must know about it and the news is full of photos of pathetically small snowmen and icy cars.

I assume there's some other news somewhere, like, ooh, scavenging from sinking ships, and religious twats trying to get away with being homophobic idiots and trying to be exempt from the law because "they don't agree with it".  Honestly, how ridiculous!  I could go off on a huge rant about that actually, but I have other things to do this evening so I won't.  My usual "religion is for idiots" attitude still applies though.  urgh.
"we won't let you adopt a baby because you're a gay couple" is no different to "we won't let you adopt a baby because you're black/jewish/ginger/fat".  No-one would be able to get away with that, and no-one in their right mind would really try to either.  But oh look, catholics.  It's ok to discriminate against gays - the bible says so!  Bet they'd go and jump off cliffs if the bible told them to (actually, does it mention that anywhere?  or anything about shutting the hell up?)

no, really must not go off on huge rant...

On a slightly related note, I found a BNP flyer stuck under my windscreen wiper today.  It was quite an amusing read.  fools.

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I have a confession to make.  It's a geeky one, so nothing exciting, but still.

I really don't like Mozilla Thunderbird.  I've been using that and Firefox for years now, and I really do think Firefox is an excellent browser.  The problem I have with Thunderbird is that the second I try and do anything with it that isn't just simple sending and receiving of email it fails miserably. Have a list:

• Searching.  I can never find the search option.  Then when I do, it opens pop up windows and gives me far too many options.  Quick search, that would be nice.  There probably is one that I haven't found yet.
• Filtering messages - fairly often I want to view only unread messages.  Once again, this involves getting lost in the menus.  Far too much hassle!
• Address Book.  It's rubbish.  And funnily enough, I can never find it.  Even more rubbish is you can't export the address book in any kind of useful format!  Like .csv.  I'd quite like a csv list of my contacts please.. [edit - oh right, it does, but the option is very well hidden on the rubbish file save dialog..]

If they tidied the menus up so things are in sensible place I'd probably be a lot happier with it.  After two years of use you'd think I'd have got the hang of where stuff is, but no.  I could probably find extensions that do some of the stuff I want, but meh. Of course, there are other email clients out there, but I've never felt bothered to use them.  Used to use outlook express very briefly, then mozilla mail.  Apart from that, it's always been webmail of some variety.  I use Outlook at work though, and am rather ashamed to admit that I actually quite like it

So as an interesting expiriment I've moved my email for this domain onto gmail.  Partly because I don't like it when I can't get my email because the server's down, and partly because then I don't have to be constantly using thunderbird. heh.  So stop sending mail to my BT account, because I'll probably forget to check it (mum, that means you )

Big problem here is that I'm not overly keen on the gmail interface (for starters, it's ugly as hell).  But I never really gave it a chance, because when I got my gmail account it was mostly just for novelty value.  We'll see.  I can always go back if I really don't like it.

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Everyone knows that the only way to 'tap and unwrap' a chocolate orange is to bash the living shit out of it, yes? They even have it on the adverts now.

But apparently this is not so true anymore! I'm quite disappointed actually. Me and John had two each in our xmas stockings (yes, I know..), and I've only just got round to eating the second one.
My first one was a tangy one (absolutely the best type), and I barely had to touch that to get it open. In fact, I think all I did was bash it on the arm of the sofa, which given my amazing strength probably equates to not a lot of actual force.
Yesterday I found my minty one, thought "ooh, quarry tiles, they're rather solid" and promptly dropped/threw it at the floor. Slight mistake, as it kind of shattered slightly... oh well.
Also worth remembering that mint chocolate oranges are nowhere near as nice as they should be. ick. I think possibly because it's milk chocolate and not dark. oh well.

Speaking of food, I had a particularly bizarre sandwich yesterday.
One of my half-arsed new years resolutions was to stop buying sandwiches and go back to making my own lunch again. So far this isn't going too well - Vaughan's have five sarnie fillings that I really like, and there are five days in the working week. Yes. At least I've started having cucumber on them now...
But yesterday I went for something different - sausage, leek and mustard mayo. Nevermind that I really don't like leeks or huge amounts of mustard. It wasn't too bad actually, once I'd fished masses of stringy leeky bits out. But I won't be doing it again.

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