Choose life.
Choose a job.
Choose a career.
Choose a family.
Choose a fucking big television,
Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers.
Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance.
Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments.
Choose a starter home.
Choose your friends.
Choose leisure wear and matching luggage.
Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics.
Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning.
Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth.
Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself.
Choose your future.
Choose life . . .

But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?

58/250

Apple have today announced the iPad which will come as a surprise to absolutely nobody at all. It seems to me to be nothing more than an iPod Touch on Viagra. Admittedly it’s got a nice big 9.7″ screen, and the option of an external keyboard and 3G if you spend another £100 or so, but there’s no camera, no multi-tasking, and you’re limited to apps in the App Store. It doesn’t act like a phone, it’s too big for a pocket so you’ll need to put it in a bag, and it’s more expensive than a netbook. If I’m going to be carrying a computery type thing around in a bag, it’ll be a proper one like my 13″ Macbook Pro, or my 9″ eeePC. If I want something portable for web/email checking or a quick game, then I’ll use my iPhone.

I can see the iPad having one use though, a computer for use while having a shit. Not sure I’d spend £400+ for that one job though, even if they called it the iJobbie.

I was watching an episode of Chuck last night, and at one point Chuck walks into a room full of racks Dell servers with flashing orange lights on the front. My first thought was "they really ought to sort those servers out, they’ve probably only plugged one PSU in".

I really must get out more.

For some unknown reason, I’ve decided to see if I can watch an average of one film per day this year. It’s proving quite easy whilst the weather is bad and there’s nothing on telly, but will no doubt get a lot more difficult once the sun comes out.

I’m not doing badly so far, 22 films in 18 days, although I might have forgotten a couple from the beginning of the year before I started to keep count.

The biggest problem is going to be finding 365 films I actually want to watch over the course of the year, although my James Bond box set is helping at the moment.

Haven’t we seen this before?

57/250

Smurftastic

The fourth film of the day, and my twelfth of the year. I wonder if I can average a film per day over the course of the year?

I’ve seen Children of Men before, not long after it came out on DVD, and felt slightly indifferent towards it, maybe it’ll improve on a second viewing?

56/250

I think Quidco need someone to translate their emails into English before sending them out.

It’s time to start the year the last 10 months but not afresh, and pay the lowest bought since Nov 09 possible price…

Thanks to the passage of cars during the day my road is now solid ice end to end. Riding up it on the 69er was an interesting experience with the Small Block 8 clad rear wheel spinning at every opportunity.

Once home I finally managed to break into the car, and unable to find my tube of silicon grease gave the seal on the bottom of the drivers door a healthy coating of GT-85 in an attempt to stop it freezing solid again overnight. I still can’t open the passenger door though. According to the climate control gubbins in the car, it was -2.5^oC at 16:30, although I suspect that the thick layer of snow over the car may be insulating it from the worst of the cold.