I got my prize money for the caption competition, came to 142ukp after Paypal and exchange, I got the AnyDVD-HD upgrade too before they switch from Dollars to Euros and effectively double the price. I noticed that the bloody Euro exchange seems to have dropped to 1.38 now – that’s a whole ten points down from normal, or twenty Euros off of every 300ukp.

Just watched Scoop, about a student journalist investigating a serial killer. It was OK, but dragged a bit, then suddenly everything happened in the last two minutes!

It’s three weeks until Christmas and I still don’t really feel Xmassy. I’m sure the TV and shops etc. are usually more into Xmas by now. I’m listening to “Now Thats What I Call Christmas” in a bid to cheer myself up! Not helped by the fact that I’ve been ill most of the weekend which I think was due to a funny onion/garlic dip.

I’m getting demob-happy as is usual near the end of a contract (although I’m back mid-Jan!) as I’m getting really fed-up with being here, although work’s getting better (despite the fact that I’m the only person who is always in the office) these weekends are pissing me off. Next weekend I think I’ll do some Xmas shopping – might go to Morrisons, Asda, Thorntons etc; gotta get some wrapping paper.

Not feeling too bad today, I’ve done my washing, taken out the trash, hoovered and sorted out the gifts etc; to go back to France.

I watched Waitress last nigth, well partially this morning too – in fact it was so slow/boring I had to split it into three sessions!

I also watched The Last Sentinel the other day, that was really bad too – another “we build some robots and they turned on us humans” film.

I feel like death today – well not that bad, but pretty ill. I’ve got a cold, just been to Tesco’s for Beechams, Lemsip etc; just had some baked beans with lots of garlic thrown all over too! I think it’s going to be a mainly sleeping weekend interrupted with watching the occasional movie!

I got my cool 150w power inverter for the car. Its looks like a Coke can and has English/French/US plug sockets on the end as well as USB (for charging MP3 players and phones, GPS’s etc; that come with USB chargers). It’ll be handy for emergencies and for things like my bluetooth headset which only has a mains charger – Hell you can even plug a battery charger into it, so handy for digicams too. Also got a couple of little pressies for Mum & Dad 😉

I got my batteries and charger from Argos on Saturday, had lunch at the pub then went to Tesco’s, which was a huge mistake. I thought I’d go at lunch so it wouldn’t be too busy. How wrong can a person be?! There were literally two spaces left in the car park. I kind of did a smash’n’grab – got my newspaper, some drink and stuff for a curry then legged it (without half the stuff I went for) before I lost the will to live.