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So, day two of diet. Well, eating healthier. I hopped onto the scales this morning and they broke and found that I am 2lbs lighter than last week. I wonder what I did differently last week?

We went shopping last night and filled the trolley with lots of veggies. fruit and healthy things. Alas, no ice-cream came home with us. I somehow managed to sail past that aisle. I did buy a big bag of very pink rhubarb which I'm going to do something inventive with--I might even do the rhubarb sorbet that I've been threatening for years. Dinner tonight will be a low-fat version of Crispy Duck and pancakes (with plenty of cucumber, spring onion and herbs). Just without the crispiness :P The recipe looks sane, so I'll give it a go--it's duck, how horrible can it turn out? Also being cooked today are a chocolate cheesecake and an apple tea-loaf. Both very virtuous.

I don't think I'll be doing any writing today, I'm developing a nasty headache and I feel about as sexy as a skunk (someone is now bound to tell me that skunks are highly sexual animals), so not ideal for writing smut :P Maybe tomorrow?

Telco ramblings

I really should keep abreast of what's going on in telecommunications. I spent part of the morning wondering if my hosting company had gone bust, but it turns out that Redbus has had a lovely power outage and is refusing to give an ETA or any decent level of detail. I could have saved myself some gnashing of teeth and whining by just checking El Reg. Still, it's sods law that this happens when I was all set to actually post on my blog. At the rate things are going, I don't expect to be able to make a post until midday tomorrow. Gone are the days when I could ring up people and scream until things got fixed. *sniff sniff*

In other news, Bernie Ebbers is doing a fantastic job of trying to portray himself as a village idiot who went to bed one night owning a few motels, and woke up decades later as the CEO of one of the largest telecom companies ever (UUNET/WorldCom/MCI call it whichever you prefer). According to him, he has a poor grasp of accounting and technology. Yeah, right. Still, this is shaping up to be much more interesting than the Michael Jackson trial....

I look forward to seeing Scott (Sullivan, ex CFO) paint him as the devil incarnate--will they go so far as to shave him and look for the devil's number on his body?--and for Bernie to retaliate by pretending to be the stupidest person on the planet. Now that's entertainment.