Drinking alone.

In a yates wine bar. At 5.38 in the morning. Go me.

Boredom

Birmingham Airport eh? Lovely place to spend 5 hours of your life, unable to sleep. Still, at least they have the interweb so I can bore you with sleep-deprived drivel for 10p a minute. I've run out of people to text, and unsurprisingly, no one's answering. I suppose it is 25 to four on a Thursday morning.

Still, I can think of worse places to be stranded waiting for a festive flight home. Like ...

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Birmingham international airport, 1.44am

Only 5 hrs til my flight leaves. I love christmas travel

The phenomenon taking the world by storm

After "Mo-vember" in New Zealand, my friend Helen has attracted my attention to this:

http://www.bearduarybelfast.com/

The world's gone facial hair crazy....

The London Paper

never got back to me to even acknowledge that they had printed my column or that I had received positive feedback. There have been mutterings from my friends that the text vote is merely a cunning ruse with which to fleece people of their hard earned pennies. I must say it does seem that way.

Mind you, with all this "paper 2.0" style of journalism happening at the moment (the London Paper has ...

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Bloggers, eh?

"Ninety per cent of the people who read your blog live within six miles of your computer. The other 10% read it on your computer."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1971858,00.html

Tiredness

another busy weekend almost over, but not quite, as I sit here awaiting chucking out time in the Prince Albert and the appearance of my young lovely.... Started off on Frtiday with Christmas drinks in Browns in Covent Garden with my team (couldn't afford the meal), continued through attempting to watch Goodbye Lenin on dvd, a bit of Christmas shopping, a great afternoon/night in the White Horse ...

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100% More!!!!!

Get in there! Ok, so it was quite obviously just my mates who voted for me in the newspaper, but as my mate Rich pointed out tonight, no one said I was boring.

I'm not sure who he/she is, but I need to find "Flo" and buy him/her a pint... There, nestled in the letters page, was the snazzily titled "Tony Edgar is the best columnist I've read".

You can see the full letter (plus text result at the bottom of today's columnist) here

If my ego swells any more, I may get stuck in the door.

Drink destroys lives

It also makes for an amusing friday night

what can I get from my mum for Christmas?

I'm stuck.

I'm kind of famous! Again!

Obviously the London Paper doesn't get many contributors to its "columnist" section, as they've printed my submission!!

I'm officially a published journalist now! I can think of at least three real ones I know who might disagree with that comment, but it'll do for me.

Check it out:

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I might get an anonymous blog

Those of you who know me well know I am rarely bashful when it comes to disclosing what goes on in my personal life. However, some of it is not the kind of thing I could honestly say to you sober, and certainly not the kind of thing I'd want my mum to read*.

So I think I might start an anonymous blog to disclose the slightly more embarrassing things I experience. Only problem is, who would even know it was there?

*Don't worry mum, I've probably accidentally told you it all when I've been pissed anyway

I'm drinking Tyskie

In an attempt to immerse myself in all things Polish, I bought some lager from the shop this evening. It's 5.6%. And really rather nice.

Lee - a.k.a. Wattie187

Remember how i promised to thank everyone who sponsored me? No, neither did I....

Lee (left, mohican, with my mate Fliss) is next up on the list, who I saw just over a week ago when he and his dear fiancee invited me round for dinner. Yes, he is the one-and-the-same man who is making an honest woman of my friend Helen.

We had a lovely time when I was back in Norn Irn, getting a bit pissed, ...

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I've been thinking of changing the blog

to a new stylee.... although I've become quite attached to this format over the last few months.

What do you reckon? Maybe it's time for a change - I'm 29 now, maybe I should go for a more mature image. Perhaps I'll cycle through the available options to an untrained html-er (i.e. all the default settings) over the next little while and hold a kind of "blog idol" with you, the voting public, deciding on the outcome. Or maybe, like so much else in my life, I'll not bother and then forget about it eventually.

My "beard". Pathetic

and no more, after a somewhat less than emphatic reception from the girlfriend.

Possibly because I look like a smug prick in every photo I attempted to take of it.

Woot!

I've just got a big ole cheque via internal mail from our "corporate conscience" department - an additional £500 for my sponsorship! This brings the grand final total to a whopping £1075.01!!!!

Thanks again everyone, any last minute guilty consciences can still pop over to http://www.justgiving.com/tonyedgar before 22 December to pledge some cash.

I sit opposite our communications manager, who is hatching a fiendish plan to embarrass me in the staff magazine. Aw shucks, I would hate that!

I'm kind of famous

Not really. But my friend Murray, the enfant terrible of the digital marketing world, used my blog as an example in a presentation at work the other day. Apparently the fact I post stuff from my mobile is quite cool - the garlic bread of the technological world in fact.

I'm pretty sure he didn't mention the £80 phone bills I'm stuck with though.

Reasons not to bathe drunk with a pumice stone

Laid Back

With my mind on my money (or lack of) and my (lack of) money on my mind.

Am very drunk on Tanqueray Gin, but also have just had a lovely bath and ripped my fragile skin apart with a pumice stone, trying to get the nicotine patch stickiness offa me. I now have no stickiness, just four bright red raw areas, which even the "magic cream" (aka my mum's Sudacreme) has failed to help. In fact it made ...

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