Relaxing in traffic jams

Having been a Good Girl^TM last week and changed to using relative instead of absolute font sizes in my stylesheet, I discovered that while the text looked fine in IE5, IE6 and Opera 6, the font was absolutely tiny in Opera7 and Mozilla. Hopefully I've fixed it now, although I can't tell because I'm at school at the moment and only have IE5 accessible.

So, apologies if it all looks peculiar in other browsers - I'll check when I get home.

Two things:

• Why isn't washable blue ink washable? My fountain pen's been leaking and I just spent more than five minutes with hot water and Carex and still there are stains on my fingers. Grr.

• Why, on my drive to/from school, are there so many 30mph speed limit zones where I am the only person driving at 30mph? It really annoys me when all I see in front of me are cars zooming off into the distance (some of them having just overtaken me) and all I see behind me is a car about 2 feet away from my bumper, doing the driving equivalent of glowering at me. I swear my speedometer must be wrong, or the council has changed the speed limit without changing the signs, or... grr. (What a useful word that is.) It's always on the same stretches of road; the wide ones (unsurprisingly) of which at least one definitely used to be a 40mph zone. Last week I was overtaken on three different mornings by the same car, which overtook me again this morning, on pretty much the same stretch of road. You know who you are, Mister P### PGO, in the, uh, silver car. (I'm a girl, alright?) Actually, it's a Rover [picture]. But all last week I thought it was a Peugeot 206 [picture]. Oh, stop laughing, they don't look that different!

This morning, I was stuck in a large traffic jam trying to get over Hampton Bridge. It didn't affect me that much really - 20 minutes added to my journey, and good exercise for my left knee with the clutch pedal - except I had to change cassettes from frenetic, thumpy music to calm Silverman music which left me in a strange serene cocoon-like state whereby I didn't mind the traffic jam at all, thanks to one particular song which I had on repeat. [Note: having songs on repeat is more difficult with cassettes than with CDs. I want a car with a CD player.]

I've just checked Silverman's website and unfortunately the song in question isn't one of the ones you can download. However, for future reference (should you ever buy their album, if they become more well-known) the track is called Nothing I Do, Nothing I Say. Caaaalm. There's a beautiful harmony to sing with the chorus as well (you can hear it in the instrumentation).

I was feeling particularly de-stressed when I finally arrived at school - almost makes me wish there were traffic jams more often :)