oldbloke's mutterings

1. Monday, on leaving the Uni carpark, was in queue behind somebody who swiped their card, nothing happened, as they went to swipe it again I could see he/she had the mag stripe in the wrong side. Then they looked at the card, and then swiped it again - the wrong way round despite having just looked at it. At this point I changed lanes...

2. Tuesday. Decided to do my occasional run through the satellite channels to see what's new, what's gone, what's moved, what I can now get/not get on FreeSat that I coun't/could before, etc. When I got to 840, there was one of those mad phone in comps. And it looked easy but was worth 2500quid. So I got sucked in, but not to the point of phoning. Watched it for a bit, though, with people calling in with totally mad answers. The annoyance is that it was still unguessed when Shameless started, so I never found out what the answer was supposed to be. I reckon it was 201. Or 21. Or 366...  It's possible to enter over t'web. If that avoids the quid call charge I might try a few sometime.