Another one of those uncanny coincidences!

I was chatting as I do in #uk about rubbish, playing with my name cos I'm bored of being name+animal (Sly + Cat). Thought just 'Sly' was too short so I tried lengthening it to 'MisterSly'. Didn't work cos it sounded crap so I ended up changing it to 'Sly'. While as Sly, a guy called Crabman says hello and asks if I want to visit #CougarDen. I politely decline and then think why he asked me to come in. I asked "Is Sly used by someone else by any chance?" and he said a friend of his often uses it...

I change my name back and we start chatting. Turns out he is going to Pennsylvania Uni and went to AC while I was there! (Well I suppose that part isn't completely uncanny but wait for the next bit) Not only that, I mention that I live in England and he says that he's visiting London in a week's time and is planning to visit the next LondonFur meet! He's visiting to see his online mate, DarkFox (AKA Pete, friend of ShyeFox).

More proof that it's a small world after all :P

Those things I want but don't necessarily need

Nokia 3510 - £20 (In Spetember from upgrade) - Because my phone is too quiet and the vibrate isn't powerful enough. Also it's nice to have a new phone to play around with the new features until they get boring after a few days. (Plus this phone has DDR!)

Fuji FinePix 2800 - £270(ish) - To replace my now defunct camera (Which is just over 2 years old now). I realised it's true limitations at AC when I couldn't zoom into the stage. This particular camera is the cheapest with a 6x optical zoom and has enough other features to keep me happy.

GeForce 4 of some kind - £200(ish) - Not sure which of these to go for but I really need to replace my Taiwanese, unbranded, cheap, clone of an ATI Radeon 8500. It has all the features but does them all badly and it crashes my PC on a regular basis.

Blee! It's hard to save money when things like these are around to tempt you... At least I'm getting £180 for my DV camcorder tomorrow. Had to let it go for much less than I wanted to cos you can get it brand new for around £300 now... :-/ Oh well, is the price of new technology...