Vista

Good news! The free computer room in building 25, which has been closed since the beginning of Easter break, is not only back open, but it's stone-age slow-as-molasses computers have been replaced with brand-new uber-speedy computers installed with Windows Vista. So today not only did I get to print out a bunch of old exams for free, but I got to play with Vista, which, mind you, is really funky. Although Office was really complex and it took a long time to figure out how to print.

I realized this evening that with my weekend in Spain I am definitly on course to break my record of countries visited in a calendar year. The record, which currently stands at 3 (including the US), shall be met by this trip (UK, Netherlands, Spain) which guarantees that I will be able to hit four at least when I return to the US. Although hopefully I'll be able to go to Paris at some point so the US would then be number 5. Plus I will get to fill in another bubble on my world map, which I always enjoy in a sort of sad way.

I have also taken heed of the fact that many of the night venues in Southampton have random one word names. Like, we have mono, junk, tusk, ikon, um, other places I haven't been, and so on. Perhaps they are overcompensating for the often longer silly pub names like The Moldy Faucet (which I have just made up to illustrate a point).

There is a new album up on picasa from my road trips to Alton Towers and to Croydon. I didn't take my camera into Alton Towers because I didn't want to risk breaking it, but I totally took it into the tram headquarters building. Mainly there are just a lot of pictures of random people most of you don't know making weird faces and/or sleeping. It's a good time, really.