Oh my days. Who knew not drinking tea could make you feel so bad? All day at work I've felt rough. Headache, dry mouth, tiredness. It was rubbish. Can a simple cup of tea in the morning stop all this? Or am I coming down with something? I don't know, I just don't like it. Still, only 6 days to go.

This morning was weird. I nearly put the kettle on, but then I remember what I was doing.
I am cold and I need a cup of tea. I knew this was a bad idea.

Update Number One.

I could really go for a cup of tea right now.

An experiment.

I don't know if you know, but I bloody love a cup of tea. In fact, I've just finished one. It was delicious. But here's the thing, that was my last cup of tea. FOR ONE WHOLE WEEK. Yeah, I know.

I don't know why I'm doing it, I just thought it might be interesting. I can't remember the last day I didn't have a cuppa, so am I too reliant on them? We shall see!

I'll keep you updated with how I'm getting on, because I know you care. So this is it, no more lovely hot steaming cups of tea for a week. Lets hope it goes OK. And whatever you do, don't try to make me a tea!

Alfie

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Going it alone.

Hello.

So, since my last post (which was forever ago!) I have moved into a flat all on my own. It is brilliant. Well, in part it is brilliant. Its clean, for a start. That was my biggest gripe with the old place. What a state. And I can do whatever I want, watch what I want, cook when I want! I've spent a lot of time sitting around in my pants. Brilliant.
The less brilliant bits come from being bored. Like, really bored. But I don't think thats entirely down to the fact that I'm on my own. I've got a new job, but I haven't started yet so I've spent the last three weeks just sat around. I'd like to do more things but until I get paid I can't afford to!
I think being on my own will help be grow up a bit too. Not in a being more mature way, but just in a getting stuff sorted way. I got a man to come give me a new electric metre. I arranged for my TV, internet and phone to be installed by Virgin. And then I sorted out getting it fixed when it broke. Twice. I got a washing machine. Which doesn't work. So I've rang a repair man to come take a look at it. All very grown up stuff, I think you'll agree.


So that is that. I think I'll give you a bit of a run down of what I've been doing since my last update now..
I got a temp job. I did the temp job. I finished the temp job. I moved. I went to Y-Not Festival. It was ace. I went to three interveiws. I got one of the jobs. I haven't started yet. I thought Alfie died. He didn't. I'm hoping to sort out a final temp job later today. I stopped using Google Chrome.

BT Goes Chrome

Me, not British Telecom.

Since reading about how Google are going to be offering their very own operating system from next year, I've been getting a bit excited about all things Google. I already have Gmail, GoogleTalk, Google as my default search engine, Blogger (owned by Google, of course), and regularly use Google Maps so I thought I'd expand at little further by downloading Google's Internet browser, Chrome.

It looks a bit like this, with my Google home page...

...looks alright, eh? I won't go massivly into it all, as I'm no expert. But

I think I like it! It's got what now seems to be standard with all browsers, bookmarking, tabbed browsing etc. However, the tabs have an interesting "dynamic" feature which allows you to drag them so they open in a new window. Another good feature happens when you open a new tab, instead of getting a blank page you get a list of your most visited page, with recent bookmarks and a search option which all looks a bit like this...

So all in all, it's pretty good. If only I could find a flipping add-on to block the adverts like FireFox!