My So Called Twin

...didn't bear even a passing resemblance to me. Shame really, there could have been a lot of fun to be had. He was only similar in his incompetence at playing the guitar, breaking two of them during consecutive "songs". Guess that's one of the risks you take when you bang strings constantly for 15 mins. <sigh> I'm clueless as to how I'm going to cope with the loneliness of my individuality.

As you may have noticed, I'm trying to link to some of the amusing posters found at despair.com, which are much better than those cheesy "motivational" ones. I went on a factory visit last week and they had loads of these patronising posters on the walls about "", "Achievement", "Challenge" and "Teamwork"... I personally think that a much better way to motivate the staff would have been to divide up amongst them the shed load of money spent on the bits of junk...

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If anyone fancies coming to my twin brother's concert in Kentish Town tomorrow night, come along by all means! (Well, a couple of people think he's my twin brother... I'll find out soon enough.)

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Was it in "Finding Forrester" that the budding young author is told to write as much as he could so that he'd find out what was actually good writing? I'm pretty sure that J.K. Rowling also said something similar about her lead up to creating the Harry Potter books. So, for the aspiring writers among you, here's something to try out, "NaNoWriMo."

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Still haven't done any sort of training for the London Marathon... I need to have (to quote a Friends line) "The Fear." Besides, my application will probably get rejected and well, some people take training just far too seriously!

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Run In With The Barber

I've been considering the option of getting my eyes lasered recently. 999 per eye is of course expensive but when I consider the cost of contact lenses and glasses over time it does even out. I've heard that it affects one's night vision post treatment so more enquiries need to be made... Anyway, the reason I mention this is because I just got my hair cut and look like a Shaolin monk. This wasn't the plan. Had been too lazy to put my contacts in today and so took off my glasses whilst the deaf barber of marylebone got the shears out. Only realised the outline of my head was looking a little too small and too round too late. Off now to buy a baseball cap.

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The M25 and the M1 are chatting in the pub.

"Yes Bob, you're rock hard," agreed the M25.
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Shooting My Colleagues

Went paintballing with the firm yesterday, supposedly as a bonding exercise but who am I kidding - we were shooting each other. The Mayhem paintball complex was like an Al-Quaeda training camp. There were about 200 people including our party of 20, all in camouflage with masks. The mask is needed to prevent paintballs (travelling at a little over 200mph) from blinding you but I found that it also helped preserve some anonymity when I shot my own teammates. Come on, I bet you couldn't overcome the temptation if no enemies were around and you had a clear shot in front! You know, when there's no one else about you get a bit bored... The whole day was madness, people were coming out with, "I just want my gun", "Agincourt!", "Shoot 'em in the head!" Anyway, me? 8 confirmed, 5 probable. I'm happy with that. I may not get promoted for a while though... The photos are here.

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