A man that's on the run is a dirty son of a gun

So worn out, so tired. Went to a book launch at Morgan's in Swansea tonight, it was ok. Diane was great, Pete was there too, can't get over how amazingly beautiful Lisa is, she gets better each time I see her. Talking of fit women, Imogen was there too. Such a nice girl, she's so friendly, down to earth and 'real'.

Clever girl too. I don't care what you lot think about her, I speak as someone who actually knows the girl. We all went out on to Wind Street and clubbed our arses off. Really good night, I had to go early because I'm picking Alyssa up in the morning, before I left I took this picture of Im http://uk.geocities.com/russ.burt73@btinternet.com/31-03-07_2116.jpg

She's coming on the show on monday so it'll be cool to see her sober... ;)

I won't beg I'm no good at that

Was watching MTV this afternoon and the video for 'Naughty Girl' by Holly Valance came on. Not many people remember that song but it holds so many memories for me, all from autumn 2002. The Left Behind books, my flat in Talbot Road, coming home in the evenings, my candle-making kit (hey, it was a phase), NTL, and also my planned visit to New York - parts of that video are filmed in Time Square and it brings the memories back, as well as the clip where Holly is wearing a baseball cap - looking just like KT who also used to wear one.

Enjoying my days off, and it loks like my car will be back on the road soon. Nice :)

When the morning cries and you dont know why

I hate traffic wardens. Nah, not the ones who put tickets on your car, but beaurocrats, red tape experts, officials who like to make things tough for you just because they can.

At the end of January I had a letter from the Inland Revenue saying my working tax credits were due to run out because I hadn't completed some 60 page form in triplicate. I had to resubmit my application (which of course they lost) so I filled out another one and sent it back 2 weeks ago. Anyway I phoned them this morning to get an update of the claim and they wouldn't speak to me.

Apparently the details I gave them about myself (name, address, DoB etc) didn't match with the details they had and they would not give me anything to go on as to the reason. I called them 4 times and each time it was the same. Completely unhelpful.

I had to go to the Swansea Tax Office to sort it out. Spend 4 hours sorting it out and found out the problem - for some reason the date of birth they had was 14/6/61. Nice one guys, but do I look 45?

Anyway it looks like I'm finally getting somewhere now. I should get a decision by the end of the week.

Work is going well - I passed my probation and now I'm a permanent employee for.......who?

Suddenly every part of me needs to know every part of you

Iona's back! Heard from her today for the first time in ages, she's the singer in a band called Psypha, I've played some of their stuff on my radio show. Known her for about 6 years now....has it really been that long? Such a dodgy bird.

Found this on youtube earlier - so bad it's good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1sHAX2F4PE, you can't beat a good chav!

So this is the week of reckoning. Got to make sure I'm on the ball for the next 3 days.

Feel the rain upon your skin, no-one else can feel it for you

Pressure. How do I handle it? In different ways, depends on what else is going on. Counter-worries are a good thing because they help me juggle different things at once.

Found out the my cousin Rob has recently got engaged and the party will be at the Seabank on the 16th March so that'll be good, I love getting together with my family :)

Cath is looking forward to coming as well - M+D won't be there and they'll be away on another cruise but I doubt they'd have gone anyway. Got to get cards for them all today.

That reminds me, had a second phoneline today. T-mobile gave me a Vario 2 which is a PDA and I'm quietly pleased with myself for getting it. Still takes a while to get used to but it'll help with my awesomely (is that a word? if not it bloody well should be) bad memory. Already made a list of things to do today (thought of another one while typing this) so that'll be good. Need a good memory card for it though.

BT Homehub. Good bit of kit, frankly crap tech support. Yep it's in India.