Hooray for me!

Because I've handed in my notice from the job that has been somewhat driving me to distraction for the last few months, and I'm going to be an unemployed vagabond again for a little while, paid for by my memory championship winnings.

This sabbatical is going to be shorter than the last couple of times I did this exact same thing (why people keep employing me is a mystery, but past history has taught me that they inevitably do), I'm only going to leave it two months, three at most, before I start looking for another job. But I do really need the break and change of scene. I've spent too many evenings lately just calming down from a stressful day at the office, and that's really not healthy for a delicate would-be hippy like me.

Also, have you seen that advert for some anti-aging cream or suchlike, that says "Don't take drastic measures - use our anti-aging cream!" And then at the bottom of the screen there's small print saying "Not equal to the effect of taking drastic measures." I didn't know that 'drastic measures' was a quantifiable scientific thing, but I think I'm going to have to take them. I found a white hair in my moustache! I'm resigned to being increasingly white of beard these days, but my upper lip has remained resolutely a luxuriant dark brown up to now...