Things I have learnt while on holiday

• Beach holidays are not always boring, and can be improved by practicing ch'i kung.
• It is possible to use face cream, eye cream, foot cream, body lotion and a variety of hair-care and after-sun products without suffering personality loss. At least for short periods.
• A shalvar is the most comfortable thing to wear on your lower body, except when you're climbing stairs, in which case you risk serious injury.
• Strange though it may seem, peach blossom is a good addition to beer.
• Coupling was heavily influenced by Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.
• Nelly Furtado seems to have lost her virginity and her musical taste.
• Smoking ages the body by ten years. Since I turned 45 this week, this makes my biological age 55, but since most people think I'm about 35, I should definitely not give up smoking, as then I'd look 25 and no one at work would take me seriously.

Library Thing claims another victim

Today I talked to maggie_lucy (with whom I'm staying at the moment) about her need for software to catalogue her humungous library. We had a quick look at JabRef, since I'm using it in writing my course book, but settled on Library Thing. Now she too will find her life-force sucked into cataloging, tagging, and browsing other people's books! Bwahahahaa!