I'm the world's greatest hero

 In the supermarket, I went to a just-vacated self-checkout and found it was still saying 'Please take your change' and spewing out a five pound note and two pound coins. So I called "ooh, hey, excuse me!" to the woman who was leaving, not attracting her attention at all but making everyone else in the vicinity notice me. And a Sainsbury's worker grabbed her and returned the money, saying "It was that gentleman there!" in tones of awestruck admiration of my selflessness, and an old man said to me "It was really good of you to do that!" in the same kind of astonished wonder at having witnessed such a good deed.

Honestly, is that such an unexpected thing to see, even in these troubled economic times? I feel a bit of a fool for not thinking that I could keep the £7 myself until after I'd automatically tried to return it. I'll never make a master criminal.

September Song

 Do you remember September Song? It was an ITV "bittersweet comedy-drama" starring Russ Abbot, of all people, in a serious role. I didn't watch it, but for some reason it came back to me when I was trying to think of a September-themed reference to use as the title of a blog post.

You see, I've been thinking lately that I need to update this blog more often. I've got a lot of "interesting" things I feel like writing about, and with it being the start of a new month, I've resolved to post something here every single day, just like I used to do in olden times!

See, when I start my podcast (because one of the interesting things I intend to write about is that I have vague ideas of starting a podcast) I'll be able to point people to my blog, explaining that podcasts are stupid and people should read blogs, and this way I'll have at least a month of daily updated blogging to point them to!

And funnily enough, having idly picked up the first volume of Order of the Stick from my bookshelves, I find that it started in September 2003, and so is celebrating its twentieth birthday this month! It used to update two or three times a week and now we get one a month if we're lucky, but it's still completely awesome, so I don't mind one bit!

See, wasn't that interesting? And that's just the first of a month of thrilling updates!