How strange. How weird that if you do a search on ask.co.uk for 'Central Heating Chat Room' and select for 'UK web results', then you get my page listed about half way down on the second page of results. Okay, maybe not that weird, seeing as how somewhere I will have mentioned 'central' and 'heating' perhaps in the same context. And, yes, in the right-hand side pane over there it does say 'Chat room'. But . . . erm . . . a central heating chat room? Does such a thing exist? Hmmm . . . thinks, rubbing hands together maniacally. I know of all this because, reading through my web-server's log file (hey, I've nearly finished it now, but every time I think I'm near the end, more stuff appears . . . a story that never ends), I noticed that someone had recently entered my web-site (actually at 09:31 this morning . . . I think that's GMT) with the HTTP_REFERER set to, erm . . . you know, the results page from the search on ask.co.uk. How exciting, I must be thinking.

So, erm . . . perhaps if someone does a search for 'foetal handglide chat room', they just might end up here . . .

Or, perhaps leaving the whole chat room theme, how about 'Lollypop coffin seagull'. Not many pages with those words together.

But, no, that's not why I'm here. Very busy right now trying to organise myself around these two Open University courses that I've enrolled on and that have now begun (or very nearly). First assignments due in on 25th February for both courses, MST121 ('Using Mathematics') and M262 ('Building Blocks of Software'). I've already missed the cut-off date (mid-January) for two preparatory exercises for MST121 (fortunately non-compulsory) so now I'm . . . not quite panicking, but there's a sense of, erm . . . well, I've been highlighting and scribbling on my calendar, hopefully in a way that I'll still be finding meaningful in the months to come. So, erm . . . getting organised, looking at what the first assignments entail, installing software, all that kinda stuff . . . perhaps I should carry on with this . . . erm . . .