Happy New Year!

Julie has a kidney infection, so didn't join me at Hugh's party - so I spent a few hours there, playing a board game, and then eating Meredith's food (she makes the best Sweetcorn Chowder in the world) before coming back to see how she was.

Thankfully she felt up to staggering round the corner to Morag and Erin's, so we headed there at 11:00 and she survived until about a minute past midnight (although the final fifteen minutes she was pale as a sheet), huzzahed in the New Decade, and then I hugged my goodbyes around the room and we collapsed back home.

A cornucopia of drugs seems to have rendered her able to slump on the sofa without whining too loudly, and some Matzos helped with the nausea, so we finally got around to watching the first episode of Xena (I bought her the complete box set for Christmas).

And now bed. For our first sleep in 2010.

I hope your new decade is most excellent.

Would someone care to explain to me how Dolphins do this?

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Delicious LiveJournal Links for 1-1-2010

• When does the decade end?
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• How Israel deals with terrorism in airports: High security, little bother
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• Why Norway has the lowest levels of MRSA in the world
  It's because they avoid using antibiotics unless they _really_ have to.
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• Why Obama has had a great first year
  (tags: obama politics usa)

Preemptive Strike: Dr Who - The End Of Time

If you expected something that makes more sense than that did then you clearly hadn't been paying attention.

Dr Who: The Russel T Davies Years

Year 1:
RTD: Dr Who should be exciting and emotional.
Audience: Yes. Although it would also be nice if more of it made sense.

Year 2:
RTD: Dr Who should EXCITING and EMOTIONAL.
Audience: Yes. And some more sense please.

Year 3:
RTD: Dr Who should be EXCITING and EMOTIONAL
Audience: Actually, I'm feeling a bit excited out. And now none of it makes sense.

Year 4:
RTD: Dr Who should be EXCITING and EMOTIONAL
Audience: Stop shouting! Please stop shouting! I don't even care if it makes sense any more!

Year 5:
RTD: Dr Who should be EXCITING and EMOTIONAL
Audience: He's going soon, right? Has he gone yet? Is it safe to come out?

Some actual thoughts

On the Dr Who Finale
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Two steps to a happier New Year

1) Go to Google.com.
2) Click on "I Feel Lucky" without typing in a search string.
(cheers to henriksdal for that one)

I didn't get to see this on TV

As, inexplicably, it was only shown in certain TV regions, not including Scotland.