Blast from the Past - 19th February

2008: I answered a writer's block question: List three things you'd buy with your last $20. One practical, one frivolous and one of your choosing.

I see two ways to answer this question:

First, the three items I'd buy that cost £10 together:

Practical: £5 petrol to get me to work so I can make more money
Frivolous: £3 DVD from Tesco
Other: £2 Mother's Day card

Second, the three items I'd buy that cost £10 separately:

Practical: £10 Food
Frivolous: £10 DVD
Other: £10 Mother's Day gift and card

I'm fairly hopeful that I'd never be down to my last tenner, but you never know what the future holds. (So, will spend more than £10 on a Mother's Day gift! :D)

Ah the good old days when $20 was worth around £10, it's now up to £16 *cries*

2009: More complaining about work - my team had come up with a new way to do part of our job and then had to wait days for the managers to come back and approve, we actually decided to start doing it the new way before they approved though because we didn't want to keep up with an inefficient work method!

I watched Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky movie and these were my thoughts:

It had a Pythonesque quality to it, with the lead character accidentally getting involved in famous events, see: Life of Brian, and lots of peasants and mud, see: Holy Grail, but it was severely lacking the humour that makes those two films the classics that you can watch again and again. Some parts were really drawn out just for a quick one liner which wasn't even funny, but the monster eye view sequences and stripped corpses were pretty effective.