I just quit my Teacher Training course. Gutted! Had my bag packed for the morning and everything, but then I got to thinking how it has been one long battle against the clock, how I really haven't got the £44 they need off me to enrol properly, how I am never ever going to arrive on time and how I really need to be at home to deal with all the other stuff I'm trying to get working.

For example, I still haven't put all my stuff on Ebay, and the list is mounting. I now have about five dozen "wednesday matinee" type VHS's to get sold, plus some ROTS merchandise, some very heavy Warfare books and half a dozen pairs of brand new thank you, let's not get skanky boxer shorts to flog. There are two reasons I haven't bothered yet. One is that a handful of the videos need their photos taken and I know they'll be the ones at the very bottom of the bag, the other is that it means spending an evening doing stultifyingly dull data entry into Turbo Lister - my auction management software of choice which refuses point blank to work on Linux.

I have an appointment to discuss my Business Plan with the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce on the 22nd. That's a minor coup. I've only got an appointment this side of christmas because my Gout is classed as a disability in the eyes of the Jobcentre. Bit of a blag, just a bit. But as they said, there are days when I actually can't walk. I still feel like a bit of a fraud though.

The Church website is not coming on very fast, so I need to concentrate on it at some point soon. It'll be a big string to my bow if I can approach a potential employer as a Webmaster of a public site, as opposed to a blogger with a knack for getting XHTML pages to work.

And I've signed up for Flickr, the photoblogging site, so pretty soon - as soon as I can afford some Duracell for the old digicam - I may start snapping some of my oh so interesting surroundings to share with y'all, like I've wanted to for a while, but couldn't because a) I'm running out of space on my ISP's little chunk of interweb and b) the wonderful little picture posting program Hello also refuses to work properly on Linux (and the Windows emulator is mysteriously fucked, so I can't even run the bloody windows calculator right now, let alone anything more complicated).

Oh yeah, and if I go silent for a couple of months, you know the phone bill didn't get paid, OK? Yeah, I know that'll serious fuck up my Webmasterage.

The sky's getting brighter and sleep still seems just as far away as it did at eight o'clock this morning. I may put Big Brother on. Nothing like watching other people sleep to get the ZZZzzz's going.