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I am off in London, tomorrow and the next day. Learning about six sigma of all things.
Apparantly to 'avoid traffic problems' the day will be 09:00 to 16:30. In the middle of the London Docklands. I'm not quite sure how that works, but ... don't mind overly, because i'll be travelling by train. The 0700 out of Coventry. Woot. At least I might be able to snooze on the way.
I'm also off to see Bill Bailey on Friday. Well, not directly, but ... at a show, or something. Looking forward to that.
The thing I'm not looking forward to so much though, is upcoming Christmas shopping. Do you have any idea how difficult it is, being someone who's 'media exposure' is radio 4 some mornings, to figure out what it's IMPORTANT TO WANT? It depresses me somewhat, that I get asked by family about what I'd like for christmas, and I honestly don't really know - If I've decided I actually need something, then usually I have done a bit of product research, and acquired it already.
It's even worse when trying to figure out what other people are supposed to want. Add to this my utter loathing of bimbling around shops, heaving with people frantically warming up for their personal festival of capitalism, greed, and consumer debt ... well, yeah. Christmas is fine, Christmas shopping is an ordeal.
Maybe I should send people 10kg sacks of rice, and pasta and stuff. Or maybe go check out one of those 'charity gift' sites. (But those also for some reason, jar a bit of 'oh yeah, I gave stuff to someone else')
Ah well. Time for bed I think. 0700 train tomorrow (yay!)
I am off in London, tomorrow and the next day. Learning about six sigma of all things.
Apparantly to 'avoid traffic problems' the day will be 09:00 to 16:30. In the middle of the London Docklands. I'm not quite sure how that works, but ... don't mind overly, because i'll be travelling by train. The 0700 out of Coventry. Woot. At least I might be able to snooze on the way.
I'm also off to see Bill Bailey on Friday. Well, not directly, but ... at a show, or something. Looking forward to that.
The thing I'm not looking forward to so much though, is upcoming Christmas shopping. Do you have any idea how difficult it is, being someone who's 'media exposure' is radio 4 some mornings, to figure out what it's IMPORTANT TO WANT? It depresses me somewhat, that I get asked by family about what I'd like for christmas, and I honestly don't really know - If I've decided I actually need something, then usually I have done a bit of product research, and acquired it already.
It's even worse when trying to figure out what other people are supposed to want. Add to this my utter loathing of bimbling around shops, heaving with people frantically warming up for their personal festival of capitalism, greed, and consumer debt ... well, yeah. Christmas is fine, Christmas shopping is an ordeal.
Maybe I should send people 10kg sacks of rice, and pasta and stuff. Or maybe go check out one of those 'charity gift' sites. (But those also for some reason, jar a bit of 'oh yeah, I gave stuff to someone else')
Ah well. Time for bed I think. 0700 train tomorrow (yay!)
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Date: 2007-11-21 02:23 am (UTC)I dislike buying people things they don't want or need. My fallback plans are:
-Plants - they make oxygen, they are pretty, if they don't like them they can compost them and make better plants
-Chocolate
-Charity presents-for-other-people, if I have talked to them and made sure they don't mind my getting somebody a toilet on their behalf for Christmas.