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Nigerian Valley Wreck

My new email address has only been active for less than a month, and already I'm receiving spam from Nigeria. The most likely explanation is that the shadowy lords of spam ran their evil scanners over my site and found my address there, although it's always possible that one of my friends is selling addresses to cover their gambling debts.

I'm missing the shopping options of the city a little, but working in the Valley is generally good. Oshin do fantastic salmon and rice balls with crispy fresh nori (seaweed), so I regularly spend my lunch munching a couple of them and watching the freakies stagger about in the mall. Today's nuts were two grey-haired old ladies who sang hymns in the sunshine, causing nearby shops and cafes to retaliate by cranking up their funk / jazz / alternate music mixes. The grannies resorted to shouting out vaguely scary religious messages in their creaky, cracked voices, and soon enough a security guard arrived to make sure there weren't any punches thrown. What entertainment.

Those of you who have known me for a reasonable amount of time will be amused to hear that I'm back driving my old red 1985 Corolla hatch from years ago, returned to me after an extended stint with my sister. It's still reasonably neat and tidy, although like before, it drives like a shopping trolley and has all the power of a wet sock.

My flatmate and I were also quite chuffed to discover that our IInet ADSL peak quota has gone up from 6GB/month to 10GB/month. This is quite an improvement, and will seriously boost our nature video download schedule.