Well I am back in Leicester, have my own little studio flat and Star Trek TOS on my laptop with no annoying neighbours (so far) therefore life is good.

I just hope it stays that way.

I could just get struck down by a massive cold after coming back from Scotland and not have the energy to do anything for about a week or so.

As I’m going back to Leicesyer on Tuesday I’ll just sort stuff out that week.

I know I have said this before but this time it will happen.
What do you ask?

I’m finally going to get around to changing my blog theme after years of being lazy and I may even have a little surprise in store for all of you perverts who come here looking for porn and other filth.

This won’t happen until I am back from Scotland so probably not until the middle of next week.

I’m being slightly post happy this morning.

As mentioned earlier I am working in the building of a large Taiwanese shipping company this week and they are still using anti bacterial hand gel here unlike a lot of other places I have used.

One thing I have noticed is even though the bottle we have here is meant to contain an attractive clear isopropyl based spirigel type product, this is no longer the case.

Instead we have a milky white viscous liquid (not a gel however) which judging from smell alone contains none or very little isopropyl alcohol.

Rather strange isn’t it?
I suspect that the building manager in an effort to cut corners/costs has had the
cleaning staff water it down and then add some kind of industrial solvent/alcohol in order to get a high alcohol content into it.
Personally I would no longer use this although probably still effective at what it is meant to be doing it will be a lot worse for your skin than what was originally in the bottle since there is no way of knowing what they have added and what additives may have been contained in the substance.

Dear Royal Mail and applicable unions

As a customer who has been subjected to years of substandard service which has included paying import tax on items which were brought over the tax threshold by their postal cost (surely this should not affect it as it is a service which does not contribute to the value of the item(s)) as well as suffering from lazy postmen which often do not deliver parcels and on occasion have felt it unnecessary to leave a card, the recent bout of strikes comes as no surprise.
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This week will be my last week of work and then I will finally be free, or at least until the time Uni starts again.

The office I’m working at this week is interesting as everyone here still uses disinfectant hand gel, and staff/me are required to make visitors use it as well.
It may have something to do with the fact that the building is owned by a Taiwanese company and they’re more worried as they had experiences with Swine flu and Avian flu now.

Media hype seems to have died down completely now and I will be going to Edinburgh on Friday morning so I’ll be able to see what they make of it up there when I am not clogging my arteries with deep fried and battered cheeseburgers.