Maybe 16 years old here and boy I wish I could still fit into those shorts....hmm, maybe I could find out what happened to them...that would really make my day!
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Another pic
Me and my brother here...I was about 19...going through my nothing but jeans and lumber jack shirts and a don't mess with me attitude. Unless I was hanging upside down of course!
Memories of my youth
Hello all!
I've been sorting through some old photoes of when I was younger...I honestly don't think i've changed that much. But i'm glad i've found them! It's nice to look back and realise that contrary to what I thought I was a good looking girl. Now when I reach a ripe old age I know I can look back and see the me of yesteryear!
Below, I have added a couple so you can see what I mean...you'll have to let me know if I've changed a huge amount!
February's news
Well it's nearly half way through Febuary and a variety of things have happened. I've left the airport...which my friends at the airport know...to some extent. But there are a few that are slow on the uptake that are still asking my brother where I am. Well that's what you get people if you don't get things done straight away...you dawdle and then wonder where I've gone!
So I have been given a position in the London Offices of Rosetta Stone...Woo Hoo (that's my happy sound) which is like having about three promotions in one as far as i'm concerned. I'm just hoping that I do as well as I can and make them proud of me....yes I know that sounds really sappy but at the moment i'm stuck between feeling really peppy and scared stiff.
For this month I have alternated between the two states....started a new class at the gym to work of the excess energy that being off work for three weeks has given me. I'm doing what amounts to martial arts to music....it's called body combat but I think now that i'd never be able to throw a punch unless I happen to have really loud music in the background to time myself to. I can just imagine trying to fight and hum at the same time to keep the pace going!
I've been doing a lot of shopping for what you could term office wear....tailored skirts, blouses, court shoes and trousers. I'm trying to keep to a sort of 1940's, 50's feel. Pinched in waists, pencil skirts and a couple of thigh high slits to show a bit of leg. I'm thinking Mad Men era. It suits me and I don't have to look to much like I work in a bank or something, so i'm happy with it!!
So my days lately have been sorting things out at home and getting new things bought and done and clearing out different cupboards and drawers and boy does my life sound boring!! I've really got to get away and Just Do Something!!!
So I have been given a position in the London Offices of Rosetta Stone...Woo Hoo (that's my happy sound) which is like having about three promotions in one as far as i'm concerned. I'm just hoping that I do as well as I can and make them proud of me....yes I know that sounds really sappy but at the moment i'm stuck between feeling really peppy and scared stiff.
For this month I have alternated between the two states....started a new class at the gym to work of the excess energy that being off work for three weeks has given me. I'm doing what amounts to martial arts to music....it's called body combat but I think now that i'd never be able to throw a punch unless I happen to have really loud music in the background to time myself to. I can just imagine trying to fight and hum at the same time to keep the pace going!
I've been doing a lot of shopping for what you could term office wear....tailored skirts, blouses, court shoes and trousers. I'm trying to keep to a sort of 1940's, 50's feel. Pinched in waists, pencil skirts and a couple of thigh high slits to show a bit of leg. I'm thinking Mad Men era. It suits me and I don't have to look to much like I work in a bank or something, so i'm happy with it!!
So my days lately have been sorting things out at home and getting new things bought and done and clearing out different cupboards and drawers and boy does my life sound boring!! I've really got to get away and Just Do Something!!!
Friday, 21 January 2011
Pains of the head
Hey people
Well the last couple of days have been a right pain....literally!
I've had what I can only assume is a migraine of epic proportions for the last two days, and even today I get the odd shooting pain going around my forehead, temples, around the back and down my neck. Now that is not normal for me. I've been popping co-drydamol and paracetamols and neither have made much of an impact.
I'm just waiting for it to fade away now because I have no intention of living through the benefits of chemical intervention....it's not my way.
I'll be back on later in the week when I can stand to gaze at the computer screen a bit longer. See you all then.
Well the last couple of days have been a right pain....literally!
I've had what I can only assume is a migraine of epic proportions for the last two days, and even today I get the odd shooting pain going around my forehead, temples, around the back and down my neck. Now that is not normal for me. I've been popping co-drydamol and paracetamols and neither have made much of an impact.
I'm just waiting for it to fade away now because I have no intention of living through the benefits of chemical intervention....it's not my way.
I'll be back on later in the week when I can stand to gaze at the computer screen a bit longer. See you all then.
Friday, 14 January 2011
A very odd day.....
Hey all,
Today has been quite strange. Actually it's strange that for the past couple of weeks my days have been strange....What's with that??
So scrolling through the news has been enlightening: A fox in Belarus shoots hunter!
Yes you did all read that right. Apparently said fox resisted violently (well wouldn't you?!) and his paw slipped into the trigger area and actually set off the gun. The hunter is apparently in hospital due to his injuries. What happened to the fox isn't mentioned but really, that's Karma for you. I love it!!
Hmm, what else? Oh a man in Italy accidentally got shot in the head. Went through his temple, behind his eye socked and got lodged in his nasal cavity. He lived, got taken into hospital where upon two hours later he SNEEZED it out. When asked how he felt by the doctors he said baring a strong headache he felt fine and was sent home. I should think he did have a strong headache. Lucky begger.
Oh and the rest? Floods, floods and more floods....the odd earthquake, threat of tsunami by the doom Sayers and a multitude of deaths. Obama in America is poetically talking about "puddles of rain in heaven" about that poor nine year old girl that was killed. He'd be better off if he stopped eulogising and did something about gun control and teens with mental issues. I mean the army rejected him twice!! If he's screwed up enough that they don't want him carrying a gun into a war zone then he really shouldn't be allowed to buy one in his home town!
They've really got to consider sterilisation as an option.
Oh and the royal family (primarily Charles) is sympathizing with the Australians. Because that's all right then, "My house is gone, my family might be swept away and dead and everything I own is covered in tonnes of mud and water, but as long as Charles sends me his best wishes....all's well with the world!
So as you can see I'm hovering between ambivalence and Hysteria. And I'm not sure I care which wins.
Signing off for the day.
Today has been quite strange. Actually it's strange that for the past couple of weeks my days have been strange....What's with that??
So scrolling through the news has been enlightening: A fox in Belarus shoots hunter!
Yes you did all read that right. Apparently said fox resisted violently (well wouldn't you?!) and his paw slipped into the trigger area and actually set off the gun. The hunter is apparently in hospital due to his injuries. What happened to the fox isn't mentioned but really, that's Karma for you. I love it!!
Hmm, what else? Oh a man in Italy accidentally got shot in the head. Went through his temple, behind his eye socked and got lodged in his nasal cavity. He lived, got taken into hospital where upon two hours later he SNEEZED it out. When asked how he felt by the doctors he said baring a strong headache he felt fine and was sent home. I should think he did have a strong headache. Lucky begger.
Oh and the rest? Floods, floods and more floods....the odd earthquake, threat of tsunami by the doom Sayers and a multitude of deaths. Obama in America is poetically talking about "puddles of rain in heaven" about that poor nine year old girl that was killed. He'd be better off if he stopped eulogising and did something about gun control and teens with mental issues. I mean the army rejected him twice!! If he's screwed up enough that they don't want him carrying a gun into a war zone then he really shouldn't be allowed to buy one in his home town!
They've really got to consider sterilisation as an option.
Oh and the royal family (primarily Charles) is sympathizing with the Australians. Because that's all right then, "My house is gone, my family might be swept away and dead and everything I own is covered in tonnes of mud and water, but as long as Charles sends me his best wishes....all's well with the world!
So as you can see I'm hovering between ambivalence and Hysteria. And I'm not sure I care which wins.
Signing off for the day.
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Bucket List
In the event that I live long enough there are things I would like to do before I die. Everyone should have a bucket list and at least attempt to achieve some of the things they want to do.
"Every man dies - not every man really lives"
"The only people who fear death are those with regrets"
by William Ross.
Now I don't know about you lot but I don't want to die with regrets.
So here they are, my slightly long bucket list.....and that might not be all. I reserve the right to add to it when I want to. (Oh and in no particular order)
* Attend one major sporting event - like the Olympics
* Joint skydive
* Skinny dipping at midnight (somewhere exotic)
* Make love on a forest floor (minus the pine needles)
* Own a room with a view (not the film, already have that)
* Buy an around the world ticket and a rucksack and run away
* Send a message in a bottle
* Fall helplessly in love
* Tell someone that I love them and mean it
* Shower in a waterfall
* Sleep under the stars
* Extreme camping (somewhere inhospitable but lovely)
* Rio for carnival
* Buy my own house
* Dive the barrier reefs
* Attend one big rock concert
* Look into my child's eyes and smile
* Climb Mt McKinley
* Ride on the Orient Express
* Make love on a train (see above. i'm not talking the daily commute)
* Visit the northern lights
* A drive in movie
* Get a tattoo
* Learn to ride a horse
* Visit Las Vegas
* Read the Iliad (and remember it this time)
* Visit death valley
* Go on Safari (without shooting anything)
* Hike in a rain forest
* A canopy tour- see above
* Be arrested and ride in the back of a police car
* Be kissed in the rain.
Like I said these might get crossed of or adapted as and when...................
"Every man dies - not every man really lives"
"The only people who fear death are those with regrets"
by William Ross.
Now I don't know about you lot but I don't want to die with regrets.
So here they are, my slightly long bucket list.....and that might not be all. I reserve the right to add to it when I want to. (Oh and in no particular order)
* Attend one major sporting event - like the Olympics
* Joint skydive
* Skinny dipping at midnight (somewhere exotic)
* Make love on a forest floor (minus the pine needles)
* Own a room with a view (not the film, already have that)
* Buy an around the world ticket and a rucksack and run away
* Send a message in a bottle
* Fall helplessly in love
* Tell someone that I love them and mean it
* Shower in a waterfall
* Sleep under the stars
* Extreme camping (somewhere inhospitable but lovely)
* Rio for carnival
* Buy my own house
* Dive the barrier reefs
* Attend one big rock concert
* Look into my child's eyes and smile
* Climb Mt McKinley
* Ride on the Orient Express
* Make love on a train (see above. i'm not talking the daily commute)
* Visit the northern lights
* A drive in movie
* Get a tattoo
* Learn to ride a horse
* Visit Las Vegas
* Read the Iliad (and remember it this time)
* Visit death valley
* Go on Safari (without shooting anything)
* Hike in a rain forest
* A canopy tour- see above
* Be arrested and ride in the back of a police car
* Be kissed in the rain.
Like I said these might get crossed of or adapted as and when...................
URGENT: SOME THINGS DO CHANGE.
I'm feeling philosophical today.
Sometimes things change....and not through lack of effort. But people fade and drift apart...or just can't be bothered. So actually I suppose that is a lack of effort. Either way it might be deliberate or it might just be because these things happen and it's nobody's fault.
My problem is the owning up to it....do you want to rock the status quo (a mixed metaphor I know) or hope that in time things get fixed.
I'm not really talking about anything in particular. Even if I was anyone that had let things slide probably wouldn't have noticed, or it wouldn't have slid in the first place.
Does that make sense??
I think what i'm really trying to say is that if something is really important to someone then some effort has to be put in to keep it on the right track. If it's not then it should be recognised and admitted to. Don't you think?
Not to lower the tone or anything, but I heard on the t.v a quote that might be applicable in general terms.
"Sex is like icing a cake, you have to bloody well concentrate"
Now i'm not talking about sex in this little message of mine, but apart from the specifics the principle remains the same in my opinion.
In life you have to concentrate...especially with the important stuff. If you value it, pay attention. Or as with icing a cake you can end up with areas not covered or even a big drippy mess!
If this had struck a chord with anyone reading this, even in a general way, for the sake of those close to you, please: Take a breath, think on what you should be doing, saying or feeling....and react!!!
Because if you don't, if things are left to just slide away...well, what you're left with, is not much.
Sometimes things change....and not through lack of effort. But people fade and drift apart...or just can't be bothered. So actually I suppose that is a lack of effort. Either way it might be deliberate or it might just be because these things happen and it's nobody's fault.
My problem is the owning up to it....do you want to rock the status quo (a mixed metaphor I know) or hope that in time things get fixed.
I'm not really talking about anything in particular. Even if I was anyone that had let things slide probably wouldn't have noticed, or it wouldn't have slid in the first place.
Does that make sense??
I think what i'm really trying to say is that if something is really important to someone then some effort has to be put in to keep it on the right track. If it's not then it should be recognised and admitted to. Don't you think?
Not to lower the tone or anything, but I heard on the t.v a quote that might be applicable in general terms.
"Sex is like icing a cake, you have to bloody well concentrate"
Now i'm not talking about sex in this little message of mine, but apart from the specifics the principle remains the same in my opinion.
In life you have to concentrate...especially with the important stuff. If you value it, pay attention. Or as with icing a cake you can end up with areas not covered or even a big drippy mess!
If this had struck a chord with anyone reading this, even in a general way, for the sake of those close to you, please: Take a breath, think on what you should be doing, saying or feeling....and react!!!
Because if you don't, if things are left to just slide away...well, what you're left with, is not much.
I may have left it too long to book
Yes such is the universal law of not grabbing a deal when it's available. I should know better! But I can't seem to find anything that is decently priced that gives me the best of both worlds. Date and price. I can find great deals.....but at the wrong time. Oh and I can find the right time.....but at exorbant prices. Or I find them the other way.....I can find the right time and flight but with no hotel that i'd want to stay in. Or I find a fabulous hotel but the flight and time is wrong.
What I need to somewhere to stay in every country and then i'd be fine...
Where's my friendly local millionaire when I need him.....
sigh...
What I need to somewhere to stay in every country and then i'd be fine...
Where's my friendly local millionaire when I need him.....
sigh...
Idiocy revisited: the bullet idea.
I came into work this morning, went (as usual) through security and saw what to me was a truly astonishing sight: A bandallero of bullets.
Now I know that this sounds like something Mexican bandits used to wear, and I do mean something along those lines. These though were being handled by a pair of Policemen as they had been found coming into the country in somebodies hold luggage and they weren't your usual type. I don't think.
If you now have the same image in your head that I would have of some greasy Mexican, grubby hat, unwashed chaps and denims and this brassy looking string of bullets criss crossing his chest you couldn't be more wrong.
These bullets were in the same configuration as those of bygone days but with differences. They were brand new, shiny silver (oh well steel or whatever) and really long! They must have been around three inches in length and with sharp points. I heard the officers speaking and they confirmed that they were live (I'm assuming they meant real and fire-able as apposed to anything else).
But when I speak of Idiocy I mean that someone actually thought that they would get them into the country in their hold luggage (I mean in the hold of the plane....not luggage that is held......very different) Because really...like it was going to make it through the x-rays on this end with no one noticing!!
But where-ever he/she came in from (the one that packed the bag i mean) that airport didn't catch it from their end...and I'm not sure if it was because they don't care as long as it leaves their country (a very lackadaisical attitude) or if they are just very badly trained.
Believe me security training in this country is rather strict...I would know having done it....and for one thing if I had missed something that big (massive in terms of what you can put in a small suitcase) well, I'd soon be out of a job!
And yes I know that some of you guys are going to say the required "It's not the size that counts it's what you do with it!" but really boys I thinks when it comes to bullets then size really does count!! You would not be walking away from these things in a hurry.
Now I know that this sounds like something Mexican bandits used to wear, and I do mean something along those lines. These though were being handled by a pair of Policemen as they had been found coming into the country in somebodies hold luggage and they weren't your usual type. I don't think.
If you now have the same image in your head that I would have of some greasy Mexican, grubby hat, unwashed chaps and denims and this brassy looking string of bullets criss crossing his chest you couldn't be more wrong.
These bullets were in the same configuration as those of bygone days but with differences. They were brand new, shiny silver (oh well steel or whatever) and really long! They must have been around three inches in length and with sharp points. I heard the officers speaking and they confirmed that they were live (I'm assuming they meant real and fire-able as apposed to anything else).
But when I speak of Idiocy I mean that someone actually thought that they would get them into the country in their hold luggage (I mean in the hold of the plane....not luggage that is held......very different) Because really...like it was going to make it through the x-rays on this end with no one noticing!!
But where-ever he/she came in from (the one that packed the bag i mean) that airport didn't catch it from their end...and I'm not sure if it was because they don't care as long as it leaves their country (a very lackadaisical attitude) or if they are just very badly trained.
Believe me security training in this country is rather strict...I would know having done it....and for one thing if I had missed something that big (massive in terms of what you can put in a small suitcase) well, I'd soon be out of a job!
And yes I know that some of you guys are going to say the required "It's not the size that counts it's what you do with it!" but really boys I thinks when it comes to bullets then size really does count!! You would not be walking away from these things in a hurry.
Hello all you avid readers.
Well I've had a really nice compliment today. Craig if you are reading this then thank you for your very nice words about my writing skills. I'm glad that you find this blog easy to read and I'll be keeping up the good work. Not just for you of course but you'll definitely be benefiting from it. And to make sure you read those books I recommended I'm mentioning that here too. So everyone that reads this can encourage you too, and you will be named if you don't follow through.
consider yourself WARNED!
I also have heard from my wonderful cousin Natalie today when I went online to check my e-mails. I went to Poland last in 2009 and have left a series on here from that time if anyone's interested. This is a great way to keep the family informed as to what is going on in my life and we can all have discussions about things like current events and the rest of the world in general.
For those of you here at the airport there is bad news I'm afraid. I'll be leaving Stansted from the 19th of the month as the shop isn't doing so good and they're not renewing the contract with BAA. That means that after only being back for three months I'm now going to be off again, way too soon.
I've said goodbye to those that I've seen in the last couple of weeks but for any of you that didn't know the latest news, consider yourself given notice too. Hopefully i'll still be with the company but if not then you might see me around with other jobs as and when they come up. We'll see.
If I am with the company still then it'll be good news for me (obviously) as i'll get a better job. Also it'll be good news for the family because i'll be able to do a bit more traveling around Europe.
So everyone: watch this space.....
consider yourself WARNED!
I also have heard from my wonderful cousin Natalie today when I went online to check my e-mails. I went to Poland last in 2009 and have left a series on here from that time if anyone's interested. This is a great way to keep the family informed as to what is going on in my life and we can all have discussions about things like current events and the rest of the world in general.
For those of you here at the airport there is bad news I'm afraid. I'll be leaving Stansted from the 19th of the month as the shop isn't doing so good and they're not renewing the contract with BAA. That means that after only being back for three months I'm now going to be off again, way too soon.
I've said goodbye to those that I've seen in the last couple of weeks but for any of you that didn't know the latest news, consider yourself given notice too. Hopefully i'll still be with the company but if not then you might see me around with other jobs as and when they come up. We'll see.
If I am with the company still then it'll be good news for me (obviously) as i'll get a better job. Also it'll be good news for the family because i'll be able to do a bit more traveling around Europe.
So everyone: watch this space.....
Monday, 10 January 2011
The life and times of ancient Bob
I want to see this tree again....
Thoughts of summer are stiring today. I'm sitting here writing this blog, and giving considerable thought to my lack of reading material in house, and wishing for the sun to come back. I can realistically understand why ancient man thought the world was dying once a year and prayed for the return of the sun. It's logical really and now that I think about it, what kind of idiot with a death wish first proposed the idea to stop. Can you imagine the discussion by the caves while the fur clad, mastadon gnawing neanderthal man brought up the topic.
" Ugg Ugg Hey guys, you know that every year the sun goes away and we pray and chant to appease the gods for four months non stop Ugg Ugg"
"Ugg, yeah (lets call him Bob) Bog, and it works because after we do that through the (invention of the word) winter the gods forgive us and send back the sun"
"Well I have this really amazing idea""
""What Bob Ugg Ugg"
"How about if we don't pray for the whole of the winter, and see if we still end up dying like we thought.....or if the sun comes back anyway!! What do you think boys??"
Call me cynical, but I don't think that the possibly named Bob lasted very long. It must have been a very optimistic bunch of people that lived through a British winter and thought to themselves "never mind, the sun'll come back eventually!" Because ringht now I feel like i've been cold for a life time.
I want to see this tree again.
Hey all! This was me in the Bahamas. It was taken by the absolutely amazing photographer Michael Lawrence. You can't copy it....because it would come out postage stamp sized for one thing and for another you can see all of his work on his website and pay for it like non mooching people that I know you all are. (Wishfull thinking for the majority of the world but I would hope the very trustworthy people that are my friends would be above that kind of thing...hint hint)
Oh to be back again, into the blue.
If I do manage to get to Egypt this year I'm either going to request some photos be taken or order a video (fine CD/ROM) of it to show you all.
So watch this space.
I'm going all Dr Zivago on you!!
Well here I am in my new and favorite winter coat. The hood is a boon so nobody laugh. Actually if I could have had it all the way to the ground and really played the part of a Russian princess then I would have been really happy. Still i've got the snow, the hood and at that stage I couldn't get into work the day before so I have a long weekend too. Life is all good.
A picture tells a..........
Hi all!!
Some photographical updates to see here. This was the view from my old room towards the middle to end of December. We have had some amazing amounts of snow here. Actually it was probably the most snow and continuously cold weather I can rememeber outside during december. Usually we have to wait till the end of January to get just a little bit. Especially in Essex.
And no, that mound of braken in the left of the photo is neither an abruptly growing bush....or a viking funeral pyre. That is the result of my father thinking that pruning the cherry tree to within an inch of its life was a good thing to do just before winter. It now looks bare and forlorn and come the spring i'm not going to get my usual pink candy floss shower of petals. And I don't really like the colour pink so you know that if i'm lamenting its loss that I really liked that tree.
This winter wonderland is over a nearby field that I regularly cross to get to town. At the start of the snowy spell, when I took this picture it was only about 12 hours into it. The river here is almost forzen over with only a few free flowing bit left. By the end of the first night the river was solid and even after the snow stopped it took at least 2/3 weeks for all of the ice to thaw and for the river to start flowing again.
The raods were hazardous but it had nothing on the pathways. Literaly I can't count the amonut of times that I braved the traffic and just walked on the road instead. But better tha nbreaking my neck anyway.
For those of you that are far away...
Hello all:
If you have read any of the messages (ok essay length reports) that i've done up until now then you know why I'm doing this. And yes you can comment under the blogs if you want to. In fact I insist because i'd like to know what you all want to hear about to. So by all means start of a discussion. Hmm, but for future reference you might want to stay away from a couple of topics, like those intirely too creepy "Todlers in Tiara's" about the pageant kids (drives me up the wall) or things like bad grammer. If you know me then you know what these topics will instigate. Unless that's what you want to do....in which case be ready for the diatribes and rants.
But remember all that if you comment on here then chances are someone else might read them...so not entirely private. Any personal message should still be delivered by either phone or e-mail.
Just an FYI.
If you have read any of the messages (ok essay length reports) that i've done up until now then you know why I'm doing this. And yes you can comment under the blogs if you want to. In fact I insist because i'd like to know what you all want to hear about to. So by all means start of a discussion. Hmm, but for future reference you might want to stay away from a couple of topics, like those intirely too creepy "Todlers in Tiara's" about the pageant kids (drives me up the wall) or things like bad grammer. If you know me then you know what these topics will instigate. Unless that's what you want to do....in which case be ready for the diatribes and rants.
But remember all that if you comment on here then chances are someone else might read them...so not entirely private. Any personal message should still be delivered by either phone or e-mail.
Just an FYI.
Sunday, 9 January 2011
The language puzzle
Google is an amazing thing. You can learn a lot from the world wide web. There is a bit of a problem though and even stating the problem I have to also add that there is an up side to the problem.
I know, a confusing statement.
As I see it there are, due to historically logical reasons, a handful of main languages that are spoken world wide. According to statistics of the ones in the know, Population wise the most commonly spoken language is Mandarin...(Vindication at last!!) with about 1052 million Tibetans and 1151 million Sinitic people speaking it. Actually the list is quite surprising when it comes to what we have been taught in school. I went through my whole lot of school days believing that most of the world spoke french. While not exactly a lie, this is a tad misleading. Admittedly french will get you by in quite a lot of countries around the world. As will Spanish and English of course.
Napoleon went to Africa so that covers one continent. Where the French didn't get to the Germans did. (But we won't go there right now) The Spanish conquered the new world and the British Empire took care of the rest. (And don't say that we no longer have am Empire. Where Marmite has failed to spread, you have cricket and although they won't admit it Baseball is just rounders with more fans)
But this way of thinking, where language is concerned is changing people!!! Here's the list:
Mandarin comes first (not surprising, there are a lot of Chinese)
2.) Spanish (most of the Americas contribute to this) 500million speakers
3.)English, 508million as of 2009
4.) Hindi/Urdu, 487 million
5.) Arabic, 246million
6.) Bengali, 211 million
7.) Portuguese, 240 million (something like 30 million of which as a second language)
8.) Russian, 177 million
9.) Japanese, 132 million
Other surprising statistics are as follows:
Germany comes in at number 10 with 101 million speakers world wide - there was 2 years wasted at school.
French at number 16 with 128 million so the short man syndrome of Napoleon didn't spread as far as he thought. Unfortunately the school system continues to inflict us with it, meaning there are up to 200 million of us slaughtering our Oui! Oui's! as I type this.
Polish comes in at number 28 with 44million worldwide which given the current border agency issues is quite surprising.
Greek is spoken by 12 million as a native language and 10 million as a second language putting it in at number 64.
Take that Michael Caine!!! There are 9.6 million people speaking Zulu, minimum!!! putting it at the 70th most widely spoken language.
Catalan is at number 95 with only 6.5 million people actually speaking it, even if it more widely known by many people.
Strangely enough the Language of the Tartar's is at 107th place with 5.7 million mustached heathens on horse back making Yule Brenner proud.
And it beats Norway as there are only 5 million native speakers putting Norwegian in at 118th place.
Shame on all you blue faced Scotts!! A man gets hung, drawn and quartered and stuck on a pike for your FREEDOM!!! and there are only 1.5 million of you bothering to learns your own language. You're down at 217th place.
The Welsh aren't even really rated as there are only around 1 million of them speaking their native Welsh tongue. But they're a pretty small country so I'm forgiving them....this time.
Less than 10,000 people in Alaska or the planet speak Alaskan.
And thanks to all those meddling Pilgrims and later cowboys and the french only roughly 200 people speak original Comanche. Flipping Americans, even the British empire hasn't ever NEARLY whipped out an entire language.
Now for the other little tidbit. And this is almost the end I promise. There are three small bits of information for you all to mull over.
Esperanto, the made up international language is spoken world wide by over 2 million people as of 2009 (sorry for the old data everyone) but it could be more. So we know that some things can be maintained if we only try.
To back this up the Natives of the Pitcairn Islands- for those of you that don't read, these are the islands that the mutineers from the Infamous 'Bounty' settled on with their kidnapped wives. They speak a sort of Creole mishmash derived from Norfolk (English one not American) where they mostly came from. It's called NORFUK and is spoken by all 616 people still populating the Island/s. That's 100% of the population!!!
And the sad news only 1 person (again as of 2009) still speaks the Language YAGHAN on Chile and came in on the bottom of the list. Now if he never taught anyone and has since died....well that is now an extinct language.
It can happen people!! Preserve your language people! Speak it properly and then use your brains and learn a new one.
And so ends my rant for the day.
I know, a confusing statement.
As I see it there are, due to historically logical reasons, a handful of main languages that are spoken world wide. According to statistics of the ones in the know, Population wise the most commonly spoken language is Mandarin...(Vindication at last!!) with about 1052 million Tibetans and 1151 million Sinitic people speaking it. Actually the list is quite surprising when it comes to what we have been taught in school. I went through my whole lot of school days believing that most of the world spoke french. While not exactly a lie, this is a tad misleading. Admittedly french will get you by in quite a lot of countries around the world. As will Spanish and English of course.
Napoleon went to Africa so that covers one continent. Where the French didn't get to the Germans did. (But we won't go there right now) The Spanish conquered the new world and the British Empire took care of the rest. (And don't say that we no longer have am Empire. Where Marmite has failed to spread, you have cricket and although they won't admit it Baseball is just rounders with more fans)
But this way of thinking, where language is concerned is changing people!!! Here's the list:
Mandarin comes first (not surprising, there are a lot of Chinese)
2.) Spanish (most of the Americas contribute to this) 500million speakers
3.)English, 508million as of 2009
4.) Hindi/Urdu, 487 million
5.) Arabic, 246million
6.) Bengali, 211 million
7.) Portuguese, 240 million (something like 30 million of which as a second language)
8.) Russian, 177 million
9.) Japanese, 132 million
Other surprising statistics are as follows:
Germany comes in at number 10 with 101 million speakers world wide - there was 2 years wasted at school.
French at number 16 with 128 million so the short man syndrome of Napoleon didn't spread as far as he thought. Unfortunately the school system continues to inflict us with it, meaning there are up to 200 million of us slaughtering our Oui! Oui's! as I type this.
Polish comes in at number 28 with 44million worldwide which given the current border agency issues is quite surprising.
Greek is spoken by 12 million as a native language and 10 million as a second language putting it in at number 64.
Take that Michael Caine!!! There are 9.6 million people speaking Zulu, minimum!!! putting it at the 70th most widely spoken language.
Catalan is at number 95 with only 6.5 million people actually speaking it, even if it more widely known by many people.
Strangely enough the Language of the Tartar's is at 107th place with 5.7 million mustached heathens on horse back making Yule Brenner proud.
And it beats Norway as there are only 5 million native speakers putting Norwegian in at 118th place.
Shame on all you blue faced Scotts!! A man gets hung, drawn and quartered and stuck on a pike for your FREEDOM!!! and there are only 1.5 million of you bothering to learns your own language. You're down at 217th place.
The Welsh aren't even really rated as there are only around 1 million of them speaking their native Welsh tongue. But they're a pretty small country so I'm forgiving them....this time.
Less than 10,000 people in Alaska or the planet speak Alaskan.
And thanks to all those meddling Pilgrims and later cowboys and the french only roughly 200 people speak original Comanche. Flipping Americans, even the British empire hasn't ever NEARLY whipped out an entire language.
Now for the other little tidbit. And this is almost the end I promise. There are three small bits of information for you all to mull over.
Esperanto, the made up international language is spoken world wide by over 2 million people as of 2009 (sorry for the old data everyone) but it could be more. So we know that some things can be maintained if we only try.
To back this up the Natives of the Pitcairn Islands- for those of you that don't read, these are the islands that the mutineers from the Infamous 'Bounty' settled on with their kidnapped wives. They speak a sort of Creole mishmash derived from Norfolk (English one not American) where they mostly came from. It's called NORFUK and is spoken by all 616 people still populating the Island/s. That's 100% of the population!!!
And the sad news only 1 person (again as of 2009) still speaks the Language YAGHAN on Chile and came in on the bottom of the list. Now if he never taught anyone and has since died....well that is now an extinct language.
It can happen people!! Preserve your language people! Speak it properly and then use your brains and learn a new one.
And so ends my rant for the day.
Saturday, 8 January 2011
The Idiocy of the bad guys
We can only hope that the general run of the mill bad guy/ yob never actually gets a few more brain cells. They might actually become dangerous!
The 8th of December last year saw the world...or at least my little part of it giggling away and the bungling machinations of a pair of would be arsonists.
Two men in London took it into their heads to try to burn down a pub in the middle of the night. Man number one holding the Molotov cocktail type incendiary device and the other a couple of bricks.
From what I gather the plan was for one of them, we'll call him Ali to break the class with a few hefty throws and for the other to lob in the fire bottle/whatever. Well the bricks got thrown alright but when it came to the flaming brand, well things went strangely awry.
The CCTV footage is available to watch on 'The Metro' website and shows Ali's friend pitching with a less than accurate throwing arm and old Ali getting hit in the face by this flaming brand and being momentarily set on fire!
To make matters worse he then does an abrupt about face (can you blame him?) tries to run away and takes a header into a lamp post.
To cap it all the twit then takes himself of to the hospital where the doctors report his suspicious contusions and burns (apparently he's not a good liar either) to the police.
He's been jailed on counts of Arson for 8 years.
If all of our bad guys were like this the world would be a very safe place....it's Darwinian, they won't live long enough to reproduce!!!
The 8th of December last year saw the world...or at least my little part of it giggling away and the bungling machinations of a pair of would be arsonists.
Two men in London took it into their heads to try to burn down a pub in the middle of the night. Man number one holding the Molotov cocktail type incendiary device and the other a couple of bricks.
From what I gather the plan was for one of them, we'll call him Ali to break the class with a few hefty throws and for the other to lob in the fire bottle/whatever. Well the bricks got thrown alright but when it came to the flaming brand, well things went strangely awry.
The CCTV footage is available to watch on 'The Metro' website and shows Ali's friend pitching with a less than accurate throwing arm and old Ali getting hit in the face by this flaming brand and being momentarily set on fire!
To make matters worse he then does an abrupt about face (can you blame him?) tries to run away and takes a header into a lamp post.
To cap it all the twit then takes himself of to the hospital where the doctors report his suspicious contusions and burns (apparently he's not a good liar either) to the police.
He's been jailed on counts of Arson for 8 years.
If all of our bad guys were like this the world would be a very safe place....it's Darwinian, they won't live long enough to reproduce!!!
Police at the airport!
Ohh I have had a close encounter with the men in black....that is to say the police men in black...with big guns and a purposeful and strident gait.
It's really quite reassuring to know they're about...not that I anticipate being robbed for my stock or anything because lets be honest most people coming through this airport are less than educationally inclined.
But still I like seeing them about
It's really quite reassuring to know they're about...not that I anticipate being robbed for my stock or anything because lets be honest most people coming through this airport are less than educationally inclined.
But still I like seeing them about
Belize is the Dream....
What can I say about Belize? The Sun, the white sandy beaches, the great food? None of those because I haven't been there yet.
What I do know about my dream destination is that it's the home of the 3rd largest barrier reef in the world, but is perhaps the 1st in terms of being relatively undiscovered. I'll explain my thought processes here because given the amount of people the visit per year you may well be confused by this statement. Only 10% of this reef has been researched and regularly dived by Scientists and recreational divers. The main touristy hot spots.
This 10% is home to:
70 varieties of Hard Corals
36 of soft corals
and 500 fish species
the other 90% has yet to be researched in depth and will probably contain much much more.
The reef system belonging to Belize is 186 miles of underwater glory but is only part of the total 560 miles of the total Meso-American reef system.
The amazing dive destinations that we know about for certain contain among them the world famous 'Blue Hole' a true pilgrimage for the diving enthusiast.
Charles Darwin knew all about it when in 1842 he called it "the most remarkable reef in the west indies"
And who am I to contradict Darwin??
What I do know about my dream destination is that it's the home of the 3rd largest barrier reef in the world, but is perhaps the 1st in terms of being relatively undiscovered. I'll explain my thought processes here because given the amount of people the visit per year you may well be confused by this statement. Only 10% of this reef has been researched and regularly dived by Scientists and recreational divers. The main touristy hot spots.
This 10% is home to:
70 varieties of Hard Corals
36 of soft corals
and 500 fish species
the other 90% has yet to be researched in depth and will probably contain much much more.
The reef system belonging to Belize is 186 miles of underwater glory but is only part of the total 560 miles of the total Meso-American reef system.
The amazing dive destinations that we know about for certain contain among them the world famous 'Blue Hole' a true pilgrimage for the diving enthusiast.
Charles Darwin knew all about it when in 1842 he called it "the most remarkable reef in the west indies"
And who am I to contradict Darwin??
Friday, 7 January 2011
Diving done and to do.
So if you know me, then you know I like my underwater adventures. And really in the great scheme of things, if it makes me happy then why not do it?
When it comes to diving though I'm just a tad picky in the quality of water that I'm in. This apparently means to some other divers that I'm not hard core.....who cares? I've got nothing to prove to anyone but myself, that's what I think.
For example, I've dived in Cuba of the Varadero peninsular coastline. I call it a peninsular but it's totally man made for the tourists and the land part of the experience was nothing to write home about. Others might have had a different experience but I don't consider it 'getting away from it all' to be swamped by drunken tourists, shouting and making fools of themselves. Still, I digress. The underwater side of Cuba (again I stress, where I was) was a bit of a let down. Admittedly it was a few years ago now, and things may have recovered somewhat, but the main image that gets stuck in my head was the great drifts of dead corals and bleached white areas of crumbling and dieing sponges. Quite frankly apart from the mangrove forests with the fish nurseries, there wasn't much in the way of dynamic life. A classic case of environmental ignorance and a lack of tourist management.
I've been to Cyprus and dived the most famous of Mediterranean harbor wrecks the Zenobia (named after the famous and infamous Queen of the Palmyra dynasty) with it's spookily conserved cargo it looks like it sank only days or weeks ago. You get flash backs to the scene in The Abyss (film, aliens, underwater, diving etc) where the dead sailors swing out tangled in wires and sea spiders. It's shivers ahoy swimming through the central corridors of that wreck. But you come out amazed and completely hyped up on adrenalin. Best feeling in the world.
The Bahamas is a contrast in Diving styles. For the great majority of my three and a bit months I was truly unimpressed with the shallow reefs with juvenile fish and sea turtles. After 50 odd dives of mostly the same stuff I was left wanting. Then along came my underwater savior in the form of Neal Watson instructor extraordinaire who for a too limited amount of time took me to see some of the most amazing sights. We dived of the tongue of the ocean, took a bounce into the abyss and saw sharks and turtles and amazing coral. I'll be forever great-full for him making it a trip to remember. Going one better I then went out to Eleuthera, an Island in the Bahamas of amazing natural beauty did more great stuff and got photographed by professional photographer Michael Lawrence swimming by the great fish cage. Which should be checked out by all of you A.S.A.P if not to marvel at me (humble aren't I?) then because the man has some serious talent in all things photographical!!
So for the Bahamas those are my too hints: Eleuthera and diving with Neal and looking up the great and fabulous Michael Lawrence at www.lawrenceimages.com
Michael if you're reading this I appologise, you're about to get inundated with sales requests!!
And now we come to my favorite....EGYPT!!
Amazing water, cheaper dive lessons- where do you think I learned?- and really nice people. If you can get over the predisposition of both the entire population of Russia and Germany to go there every main holiday then this is the place for you. In fact the sheer amount of sea life has now quite ruined me for most other oceans. Even SriLanka couldn't compare favorably let alone Cuba. So disregarding the predictable attack of the pharaoh's revenge, regular as clockwork, in more ways than one. This is the place to go for those in Europe. In a matter of hours, and only a few time zones you have the perfect sand, sea and only a Slightly dodgy stomach!
When it comes to diving though I'm just a tad picky in the quality of water that I'm in. This apparently means to some other divers that I'm not hard core.....who cares? I've got nothing to prove to anyone but myself, that's what I think.
For example, I've dived in Cuba of the Varadero peninsular coastline. I call it a peninsular but it's totally man made for the tourists and the land part of the experience was nothing to write home about. Others might have had a different experience but I don't consider it 'getting away from it all' to be swamped by drunken tourists, shouting and making fools of themselves. Still, I digress. The underwater side of Cuba (again I stress, where I was) was a bit of a let down. Admittedly it was a few years ago now, and things may have recovered somewhat, but the main image that gets stuck in my head was the great drifts of dead corals and bleached white areas of crumbling and dieing sponges. Quite frankly apart from the mangrove forests with the fish nurseries, there wasn't much in the way of dynamic life. A classic case of environmental ignorance and a lack of tourist management.
I've been to Cyprus and dived the most famous of Mediterranean harbor wrecks the Zenobia (named after the famous and infamous Queen of the Palmyra dynasty) with it's spookily conserved cargo it looks like it sank only days or weeks ago. You get flash backs to the scene in The Abyss (film, aliens, underwater, diving etc) where the dead sailors swing out tangled in wires and sea spiders. It's shivers ahoy swimming through the central corridors of that wreck. But you come out amazed and completely hyped up on adrenalin. Best feeling in the world.
The Bahamas is a contrast in Diving styles. For the great majority of my three and a bit months I was truly unimpressed with the shallow reefs with juvenile fish and sea turtles. After 50 odd dives of mostly the same stuff I was left wanting. Then along came my underwater savior in the form of Neal Watson instructor extraordinaire who for a too limited amount of time took me to see some of the most amazing sights. We dived of the tongue of the ocean, took a bounce into the abyss and saw sharks and turtles and amazing coral. I'll be forever great-full for him making it a trip to remember. Going one better I then went out to Eleuthera, an Island in the Bahamas of amazing natural beauty did more great stuff and got photographed by professional photographer Michael Lawrence swimming by the great fish cage. Which should be checked out by all of you A.S.A.P if not to marvel at me (humble aren't I?) then because the man has some serious talent in all things photographical!!
So for the Bahamas those are my too hints: Eleuthera and diving with Neal and looking up the great and fabulous Michael Lawrence at www.lawrenceimages.com
Michael if you're reading this I appologise, you're about to get inundated with sales requests!!
And now we come to my favorite....EGYPT!!
Amazing water, cheaper dive lessons- where do you think I learned?- and really nice people. If you can get over the predisposition of both the entire population of Russia and Germany to go there every main holiday then this is the place for you. In fact the sheer amount of sea life has now quite ruined me for most other oceans. Even SriLanka couldn't compare favorably let alone Cuba. So disregarding the predictable attack of the pharaoh's revenge, regular as clockwork, in more ways than one. This is the place to go for those in Europe. In a matter of hours, and only a few time zones you have the perfect sand, sea and only a Slightly dodgy stomach!
Diving the Red Sea: Coming soon at a blog near you!
Hey Hey fellow diving buddies!
I'm in love with the Red sea...water, life and the heat of the Egyptian Sun. Now if I could only have the perfect mix of modern diving apparatus and old world colonial charm (that wasn't wasn't faded, peeling and degenerate) then I'd be a very happy girl. More on my views on post colonialism later, and trust me a lecture is pending!!
So I have a list as long as my arm for things to do before I die, and topping the list is to get more regular diving in as it has been more than too long....coming up on a year now. And my fin-less feet are getting itchy for the feel of the deep blue sea.
And coming onto that point, later on tonight I will be searching the web for all I can find about what I can accomplish during a week in Egypt if I put my mind to it..weighing up the pro's and con's and then inflicting my thought processes on anyone caring to read on.
Be warned, and ready for an in depth report on what, where, why and how much as soon as I can get it together. I don't do this for the fun of it as you may think. This will have direct bearing on the duration and content of future informative updates!
So I would say that if you don't want to read about the glorious would of SCUBA, sea creatures and a distinctly scientifically toned lecture from me, then I appologise..... But quite frankly...I'm not sorry. If you know me then you know what I'm like and you can like it or lump it...I'm smiling when I say this because chances are I know what you're all like too.
I'm in love with the Red sea...water, life and the heat of the Egyptian Sun. Now if I could only have the perfect mix of modern diving apparatus and old world colonial charm (that wasn't wasn't faded, peeling and degenerate) then I'd be a very happy girl. More on my views on post colonialism later, and trust me a lecture is pending!!
So I have a list as long as my arm for things to do before I die, and topping the list is to get more regular diving in as it has been more than too long....coming up on a year now. And my fin-less feet are getting itchy for the feel of the deep blue sea.
And coming onto that point, later on tonight I will be searching the web for all I can find about what I can accomplish during a week in Egypt if I put my mind to it..weighing up the pro's and con's and then inflicting my thought processes on anyone caring to read on.
Be warned, and ready for an in depth report on what, where, why and how much as soon as I can get it together. I don't do this for the fun of it as you may think. This will have direct bearing on the duration and content of future informative updates!
So I would say that if you don't want to read about the glorious would of SCUBA, sea creatures and a distinctly scientifically toned lecture from me, then I appologise..... But quite frankly...I'm not sorry. If you know me then you know what I'm like and you can like it or lump it...I'm smiling when I say this because chances are I know what you're all like too.
Learning Mandarin
Well as you might have read just before this I am back in learning mode with Mandarin being the language of choice. This was a two fold decision: one being that I like the idea, so why the heck not??! The other is a more mercenary notion of mine. It's a very simple piece of logic...there are a lot of Chinese in the world, they have a growing economy and a booming real estate sector at the moment. As one of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia,India and China) it is ripe for investment. And that my friends is why I have started in on the Chinese language. Oh and looks really cool on the old c.v. At the moment I'm about half way to two thirds of the way through the first level. I'm taking it slow and steady to absorb as much as possible and I'm am finding it surprisingly enjoyable. Which might have something to do with the method, I don't know. Actually I might even be confident enough to use it if I ever get over there.....how COOL is that??
This years weather and a diatribe to city councils everywhere.
Ok, I'm not the first and obviously will not be the last to have commented on this, but does anyone else believe that a pack of hyenas could run the country better than the current powers that be?? No? Well you were apparently not the ones stuck in various airports, roads, country pubs, houses, pathways, ditches and other sundry places where you wouldn't want to be stuck in the snow. We had a month or more of winter warnings and where were the gritters? Well they hadn't been sent out....because they hadn't been told to. So we can't really blame the men that drive the machines.
It's a vicious circle I know: The upper management are tucked away in nice cosey houses and don't give out proper instructions. The drivers have no say because if they were to use some initiative and someone gets hurt then they will have been blamed and so nothing gets done. They get it in the ear the nation comes to a standstill and we're again the laughing stock of Europe (big surprise there) all because of health and safety (very likely)
So there's my little winter rant. I have pictures that I've been taking over the last month, I'll put them up as soon as possible. So get ready for visions of a Gothic winter wonderland, icicles and myself one step away from Cryostatic suspension (that's a human lollipop to those of a non scientific persuasion)
Back soon
It's a vicious circle I know: The upper management are tucked away in nice cosey houses and don't give out proper instructions. The drivers have no say because if they were to use some initiative and someone gets hurt then they will have been blamed and so nothing gets done. They get it in the ear the nation comes to a standstill and we're again the laughing stock of Europe (big surprise there) all because of health and safety (very likely)
So there's my little winter rant. I have pictures that I've been taking over the last month, I'll put them up as soon as possible. So get ready for visions of a Gothic winter wonderland, icicles and myself one step away from Cryostatic suspension (that's a human lollipop to those of a non scientific persuasion)
Back soon
Back in Blog world....Everyone say Woohoo!!
Hello all....
If you are one of the ones in the know then I will have told you all that I am back on the blogsphere and regaling you all with my comings and goings for the new year.
I realise that it's been a while and given that my last post was a notice of intent to quit the world wide web for the duration you are all forgiven for not bothering for a while....once you've read a blog a couple of times and nothing changes then you're expected to get bored....a Poet Laureate I am not!
I generally keep these up to date when I'm planning on some extra travels, something of scientific interest catches my eye or I'm coming up to some turning point in my life. The time has come for me to experience a bit of all three. What can I say? I'm the epitome of the multi tasking renaissance woman. I jest....I'm not that curved.
So to catch you all up, since I last left you I have stopped traveling, started traveling (but without the time or internet connection to make blogging worthwhile and then stopped again. I have also been in the same boat as the majority of the population and been on the desperate job hunt of a lifetime...found one...finished one, and then found another.
Yes my life is complicated.
So i'm now working, hopefully for a while to come yet and should all go to plan I'll be jetting off again in March or so to Egypt (the best laid plans of mice and men) and will be keeping the family and all my friends up to date with amazing pictures of the Red Sea, sights of historical significance and the odd camel.
I'm still doing the never ending studying that the last few years have taken up. The difference being now that I'm doing a course that I love and that interests me (a good job that!) and I'm also studying for fun. The benefit of which is that I'm back into the old language shtick and have decided to dip my toe into Chinese (that's Mandarin for those in the know) and Farsi (That's Persian/Iranian) with Rosetta Stone. If anyone wants me to wax lyrical on either the languages or the software just let me know because I could bore you all for hours on the topic!!
So come March i'll be off doing my Scuba Diving, Money and time permitting. Oh and weather permitting too....not to mention Volcanoes, Earth Quakes and other natural disasters. Bot it's been a busy two years!!
See you all in a bit on my next update.
If you are one of the ones in the know then I will have told you all that I am back on the blogsphere and regaling you all with my comings and goings for the new year.
I realise that it's been a while and given that my last post was a notice of intent to quit the world wide web for the duration you are all forgiven for not bothering for a while....once you've read a blog a couple of times and nothing changes then you're expected to get bored....a Poet Laureate I am not!
I generally keep these up to date when I'm planning on some extra travels, something of scientific interest catches my eye or I'm coming up to some turning point in my life. The time has come for me to experience a bit of all three. What can I say? I'm the epitome of the multi tasking renaissance woman. I jest....I'm not that curved.
So to catch you all up, since I last left you I have stopped traveling, started traveling (but without the time or internet connection to make blogging worthwhile and then stopped again. I have also been in the same boat as the majority of the population and been on the desperate job hunt of a lifetime...found one...finished one, and then found another.
Yes my life is complicated.
So i'm now working, hopefully for a while to come yet and should all go to plan I'll be jetting off again in March or so to Egypt (the best laid plans of mice and men) and will be keeping the family and all my friends up to date with amazing pictures of the Red Sea, sights of historical significance and the odd camel.
I'm still doing the never ending studying that the last few years have taken up. The difference being now that I'm doing a course that I love and that interests me (a good job that!) and I'm also studying for fun. The benefit of which is that I'm back into the old language shtick and have decided to dip my toe into Chinese (that's Mandarin for those in the know) and Farsi (That's Persian/Iranian) with Rosetta Stone. If anyone wants me to wax lyrical on either the languages or the software just let me know because I could bore you all for hours on the topic!!
So come March i'll be off doing my Scuba Diving, Money and time permitting. Oh and weather permitting too....not to mention Volcanoes, Earth Quakes and other natural disasters. Bot it's been a busy two years!!
See you all in a bit on my next update.
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