Ah, Sat Nav is great. I have a small Garmin sat nav thing that you plug into the cigarette lighter/power point in the car and sucker her monitor (little face) to the windscreen. Yes, she is a she (which will probably explain the following) and is brilliant. She often chimes the words 'you have arrived' with some ceremony when I pull into the magically available parking space outside my destination. I swear she is suppressing a smug laugh. I have named her Simone.

However, today, she was not so pleased with me. Me and a colleague had to go to Perth, and we rented a Renault Clio. Anyone familiar with that sporty little town car knows that it has a ridiculously sloping windscreen, totally unsuitable to sucker Simone's face to. After some protests, she was able to swivel her head reluctantly in my direction on the side window. Postcodes were entered, she started calibrating. However, my initial expectation of the journey did not go as planned. This isn't the usual way to the Forth Road Bridge - where is she taking me. I assured my colleague, however, that my faith in Simone was absolute and I would go wherever she told me. And she did not fail me. Somehow (with no trafficmaster installed) she took us the way that avoids most of the roadworks. God bless you, Simone. I could almost hear a triumphant snort when I said ' oh how silly to doubt you, Simone.'

But then I had to pay the toll. And I wound the window down quickly without thinking. Simone went flying and hung over the steering wheel in a rather depressive state. It not being the form to hang around at toll booths and over large bridges, I had to leave her there for a while. Her anger was clearly expressed soon afterward, however, when she said 'satellite coverage has been lost'. She may as well have said 'you're on your own now, you evil face killer'. I did manage to ressurect her back onto my side window after a while though and she calmed down and started to 'recalibrate.' Phew. Got to all destinations without incident. Simone, you're a star, However, I am just being wierd now, so I'll talk about...

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Torchwood! Watched a double bill last night and it was really good. The character I liked the least, though, was Jack Harkness! I'm sure he'll develop, but I can't put my finger on it just yet. It may have been hindered from me seeing his character before on Doctor Who, but I'm sure he'll develop. I did like Gwen though, she was excellent. The show is a bit like Angel, but with less sophisticated (ie, expensive) - what's the word? Cinematography for TV - production techniques and camera work. I will be wathcing on Sunday night. There's a promise of a cyberwoman to come in later episoides.

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 Lost this post about five times switching between html and back to normal text but mostly because of randon parser errors (whatever they are) so spontaneous comedy has all gone I'm afraid. Probably for the best.

So I'll leave you with a pic, for the hubster if he's listening:

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Gil xx