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Just in case you're somebody who tunes into this site at all frequently, I apologise for the lack of posts recently. It's not that I've had nothing to talk about. Since my last post, I have (in chronological order):

• Travelled again to Jamaica and had a rather nice time. That's the subject of a reasonably detailed post that I'll do soon. I'm now growing to like Jamaica as much as I've always liked the people I work with there.
  
• Been selected for "secondary" immigration questionning at Fort Lauderdale airport (I was the only white person in a waiting room of 45 others, which I still find troubling).
• Had a rather pleasant couple of days in Fort Lauderdale.
• Met some lovely and interesting people in Fort Lauderdale at a very tasteful gay only hotel.
  
• Made a recorded complaint about the sarcastic attitude of a security guy in the flight connections centre at Heathrow (sorry, but there's no excuse even though I appreciate they often deal with knobheads). I consider tackling petty officiousness to be nothing less than a citizen's duty. I shudder to think that there are tens of thousands of foreigners who change planes at Heathrow, for whom the flight connections centre is the only taste they get of this country.
  
• Begun to panic about how a fairly small job I'm doing for BPP and how it's taking forever.
• Been offered a fairly interesting sounding job outside the UK, but I can't tell you about that because I don't know who might be reading this.

but above all....

I discovered "Facebook". I hated it at first, because most of the posts you'll see (between users you don't know because they're friends of friends of friends of friends) are just teenage witter in text-talk. Ahem, "LOL". I think it can be too habit forming and I'm right on the edge. It can be interesting and useful though if used carefully. I've got back in contact with a few people who I'd lost contact with. I recommend it, but set yourself some limits such as NEVER using it during work hours and limiting how much time you spend on it each day. It's a bit like thinking you can handle crack cocaine though; be warned.