The layout of this blog's a little on the sucky-dull side. I might see if I can do something about that later.

I took my first trip into Cambridge centre this morning, to buy a new pack of guitar strings. I managed to break the g-string while I was tuning, and didn't have any spares. For some reason, it's always my g-strings that go first! :) Fortunately, it was on the electric one, when the acoustic one goes it's potentially fatal to any man or beast in the immediate area.

I found a nice little music shop in the centre of town, in the older part. I got my new strings, but they do have a lovely range of guitars in there, and mine *is* getting on a bit now. I think I might have to bring my dad down here and remind him who dragged us all up here in the first place, and how gifts make such a good substitue for fatherly love.

Anyhow, I spent a few hours in town, looking round, bought some clothes blah, blah, blah... and then got the bus home.

Now perhaps I've been spoilt living in London, but how do I end up waiting over half-an-hour for a bus that comes every 20 minutes?!? I could have walked home quicker.

I used to use public transport a lot in London, so this isn't Snotty-Kid's-First-Day-Out-on-Public-Transport-Syndrome, but this trip? Unpleasant. This guy got on at the next stop and sat a couple of seats behind me. And then spent the rest of the journey coughing away with his mouth open and snorting up large blobs of phlegm. When I asked him if, perhaps, he'd consider covering his mouth so before the rest of us got quarantined too, he just stared at me. Dude did not look well, which is fine, but it would be nice if he'd keep his germs to himself. So, Mr. Bus-Snot-Snorter; if you're reading this - I hope you're feeling better but get some tissues!!!

On a completely unrelated note, I found this article on Wikipedia called 10 things you may not know about Wikipedia. I thought it was quite amusing that it was tagged with 'the factual accuracy of this article is disputed', so it seems that it's ten things about Wikipedia that not even they know.

When you read the comments page, though (as I did because I have no life) some of them actually get quite nasty. I had no idea that people took their encyclopaedia that seriously. One poster is accusing Wikipedia of dumming down the English language. He moans about the fact that Wikipedia has replaced Webster's Dictionary as the “single common source for definitions of the English language”, and where Webster’s defined words with eloquence and integrity, "today, our methods of conveying information are limited to the lexicographical understanding of a former porn site owner and those who kiss his ass".

Eloquently put. Webster would be proud.

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A Cambridge Bus, transporting plague victims to a stop near you since 1985.

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