Right now, I'm wearing a simply fabulous pink hat, as part of Wear It Pink in support of the Breast Cancer Campaign. If you all make donations, then just possibly you might be rewarded with photographic evidence ;-)

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The last few days in brief:

Thursday: Saw Return of the King. It was good.
Friday: Made t00by faces at hermorrine via webcam when she wasn't looking. Well, except that she was...
Saturday: Went Xmas shopping in London - traffic very light, Oxford St. not really any busier than a normal Saturday. Found many presents, then had lunch with my aunt in the National Portrait Gallery - a very-nice rooftop-level restaurant with excellent views across the London skyline. Did more shopping, then came home and collapsed.
Sunday: Did the last of my shopping in Oxford, including sever tons of Lush stuff. Saw RotK again with kay_taylor and justamephit. Still good.
Monday: Had birthday. Felt older (OK, not really).

kazzik: Today I saw a girl who had a couple hundred saftey pins attatched to her bag straps..
kazzik: Not pinned on, just around the little thing sting-type straps.
kazzik: Now my question is...
kazzik: why?
kazzik: Has there been a huge saftery pin shortage forecast that I'm blissfully unaware of?
zorac: If there has been, then I've certainly missed the memo. Not that I actually have any use for safety pins these days.
kazzik: My other theory is that she's a member of the st johns ambulance people
kazzik: and needs them in case of an emergency where she has to secure dozens of little slings
zorac: Hmmm. That's certainly a possibility, altough even then it would seem to be a case of being just a little bit overly prepared.
kazzik: Perhaps she is merely lopsided and needs large amounts of metal attatched to the other side of her to keep her balanced?
zorac: Or maybe she has a large magnet at home which she hangs her bag from and the safety bins are there so it has something to attract.
kazzik: I'd like to think someone mistook her for a voodoo doll at some point in her life, except as I said they're not actually IN the bag as such, just neatly stacked on one of the straps.
zorac: Well maybe there's a voodoo doll *in* the bag, and she's just got all those pins on the strap ready to plunge into it.
kazzik: She could be a secret alchemist and determined to change them all to gold.
kazzik: Although what one would do with several dozen solid gold saftey pins escapes me
zorac: Maybe she has the Philosopher's stone right ther in the bag!
kazzik: I suspect she'd leave them attatched to her bag
kazzik: I wouldn't be suprised >:0 the safteypins are clearly a sign of evil
zorac: Indeed! You just have to change a couple of letters and they becom Satanypins!
zorac: (wow. am much with the typos tonight...)
kazzik: Sod spelling. it's eluding me also.
kazzik: I fear these Satanypins
kazzik: and yet at the same time feel there's a market which could be capitalised on
zorac: I feel an icon coming on...
kazzik: Mujah :D

A long time ago in an office far, far away . . . . P O S T E R W A R S It is a time of change in the technical department. The YODA POSTER which was thought lost many years ago when we were denied it by some other EVIL DEPARTMENT has be found. We have rescued it from down the back of a partition and restored it to a PLACE OF GLORY on our wall. The great Jedi Master in his neatly-framed A0 glory now casts his BENEVOLANT GAZE over our office.