Your weekly update

Yeah, yeah, holiday photos. They're coming. Soon. Well, soon-ish. Well...

Okay, sometime in the not-too-distant future, you'll get to see some of them. Depending on your definition of "distant", that is.

Kevin reminded me the other day that there's ten weeks left before I head up to the Midlands for university. Ten weeks. Before now I hadn't even truly thought of it as a real event that was going to actually happen - it was just this thing at a vague indeterminate point in the future. Now it has a number, and the number's going down all the time (see, it's 9½ weeks already). And now I feel like it's hurtling towards me (or the other way around), and I'm panicking a little at the thought of being badly struck down by Kevin-separation-anxiety (which hits me, to some extent, every week) and wondering whether I can pause the countdown somehow.

Anyway, other things:

• I have Gmail (but no invites, yet). I eventually managed to import all my old email from Eudora, but only by redirecting it there, which means that all my emails have the wrong timestamp on them now. I'll probably redo it if Google ever implement an appropriate import function, but for now it means I can super-speedily Google-search for useful things like my Newzcrawler registration key and so on. Which is nice.

• I won another Discworld competition, in addition to the three? four? that I've previously won. The prize (okay, it was a runner-up prize) was Truckers on audio book, unabridged. (Yeah, I know that's not a Discworld book. It was a Discworld Monthly competition though, so it counts.) This means I'm going to have to update my 100 things too. (I should probably rewrite my About page as well, which is almost 18 months old and horrendously out of date).

  I think this brings me up to ten Discworld audio books in total, none of which I've paid full price for. There were the three that I bought as MP3 files on CDs (during a briefly-lived ISIS experiment). There was The Light Fantastic, which I saw in WHSmiths for 50p. There was the one that was free in MP3 (or WMA, or something) on the front cover DVD of a DVD magazine. There was the one that I think I got second-hand from someone, and there's the four, to date, that I've won. (Oh, there were those other 26 that I won, but they were all the unabridged 2-cassette Corgi editions, which really irritate me when I listen to them because my mind has to keep filling in the gaps they leave.) ISIS really aren't doing too well off me, are they?

  This is getting a little ridiculous. Once I've grabbed Truckers from cassette to MP3, would anyone like it?

• You may remember that I work in Farnborough. In fact, I work very near Farnborough's airfield. Where the Farnborough Air Show is held. Is being held, in fact, this week. With big fighter jets and commerical planes flying overhead impressively.

  It's very very noisy at work right now. In fact, while I was waiting for the bus to the station this afternoon, a jet that flew over was so loud, several car alarms went off due to the vibration.