Friday, went shopping after the job interview and picked up some GZG starship minis for half price from the Orcs Nest bargain bin (there were some more left - FSE, NAC and some NSL, I got the ESU - mostly capital ships). So far, so good; but then I weakened and bought some Rebel Storm boosters. More on those in a bit
Running total is now £257.77.
With luck the stuff I’m selling on eBay (look - Daleks, Princess Leia wearing next to nothing, Gloranthan stuff!) will offset the total a little…
One of the ideas we have for the wedding (I’ll leave it to you to decide which half of ‘we’ actually came up with this idea) is to name all the tables at the reception after famous spaceships from TV and film. Here’s a partial list:
Some of these are great names but not really suitable for a wedding, some of these are really terrible names. We won’t know how many we’ll need until we work out the seating plan. Anyone got any other suggestions? I’m sure I’ve missed loads.
It would be fun to come up with wedding themed names along the lines of those used by ships from Iain Banks’ Culture.
It’s all go this week. Not content with the trio of jobs on offer last week those lovable recruitment consultants have now parachuted me into an interview tomorrow for a nice long contract and have also shoved my details forward for a permament agency based Senior Devloper role.
If this carries on I might actually have to choose between jobs. Blimey. 
Guildford on Tuesday was okay. The interview went better than I was expecting and the job is something I could do. I’m just not sure it’s something I could do brilliantly and, being a bit of a perfectionist, that could be a problem. There would also be the commuting problem, finding somewhere suitable for both Guildford and Millbank for pink weasel, and of course affordable, would be a challenge.
Pub lunch with gleet was nice and would be something that could be done more often if I worked in Guildford. 
The Post, the free local paper that gets shoved through my letter box every week, contains an article about a rail users group who want the local train services to run with tube-like frequency. They seem to have overlooked the fact that most tube lines have very few branches and junctions whilst many different rail lines join together and use the same tracks in South London. The train operators showed admirable restraint when they said “it is difficult to say whether their demands are reasonable or unreasonable until we sit down and look at the timetable.”
Elsewhere in the article there was a survey of “almost 200 commuters” which found that:
- ninety-five per cent of them used the service four or five days a week
They’re commuters, of course they use the service four or five days a week!
- sixty-four per cent were dissatisfied with the service
- 98 per cent thought it was unreliable
In the spirit of Josh from The West Wing, taken literally that means that 34% think that the service is unreliable but are still satisfied with it.
I’ve started selling things on eBay. I’ve been meaning to clear out some junk for ages and finally got round to starting it this week. And I’ve discovered a new addiction - if you thought that watching an auction as a potential buyer was bad just think how addictve it is to watch it as the seller…
We had too much wine last night. Pink Weasel had her usual problems with gravity and was very grumpy this morning. I would just like to say that it is of course all my fault.
Resubscribe to Wargames Illustrated magazine - £40
Copy of Miniatures Wargames magazine - £3.50
Rebel Storm booster - £8.99 from Croydon Forbidden Planet. The rare was Princess Leia in her slave girl costume, which is (a) Very Rare and (b) one I’ve already got. So should be able to recoup the cost of the whole packet via eBay.
Running total is now £214.78.
This post is the one hundredth very true thing.
Yes, I know the permalink says that it’s number 106 but I’m not counting a bunch of test posts that got deleted within minutes of being posted? Okay?
… is a film called The Addiction. There are many reasons why you may be watching it - for Pink Weasel there are vampires; for Miss Newham there’s Lili Taylor; for everyone else there’s half the cast of The Sopranos. But the number one reason has to be the presence in the cast of one Fredro Starr. Does he know? Does he know that everyone in Britain sees his name and thinks of Freddie Starr?
… recruitment consultants. Clueless bunch aren’t they? This week I’ve had a fair few of the calling me up and offering me, well, all sorts of odd things.
The first seeemed to have a very suitable contract job but it all fell through when she discovered that I was a sole trader and not a limited company. I’ve done dozens of contracts for dozens of companies and this was the first time this had been an issue. Odd. 
The second tried to interest me in a helpdesk supervisor position. How they got to that from my CV I have no idea. 
And finally, the third has me going to Guildford on Tuesday for an interview for a project manager/web services coordinator position. I doubt I’ll get it but it should be fun to find out how close I get.
The interview is late morning, so pub lunch in Guildford and some shopping. And maybe Gleet will be around for a pint.
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