a note for first-timers

If it's your first time here and you're new to blogs, the first post you'll see is the most recent so that's where you should be ending, rather than starting. Otherwise, carry on...

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joblessnesslessness

"Where on Earth is Dr Otter?", you've probably all been asking yourself for the last few weeks. The most straightforward answer would be something like "London" and, at any stage during the course of writing this post, I may well just stop and leave you no better informed. So there.

I started a new job a couple of weeks ago and, considering there's every chance that at least a few of the people I'm now working with will read this at some point, everyone I've thus far encountered at work is reeeeeeeally cool. Especially you if you're one of them and reading this right now. Honest. Yes, you. Congratulations. *ahem*

I went climbing for the first time yesterday evening and discovered I'm a natural. At talking rubbish, I mean - certainly not at climbing. Christ, I was knackered after the first climb. I was under the mistaken impression that I could basically do chin-ups the whole way up the wall. This, I discovered, is inadvisable and tougher to do than you might imagine.

Still, I shall be returning to the scene of my Cliffhanging exploits (assuming I get invited again) for another tilt at becoming the first Mountain Otter in existence. The rest of my species, unsurprisingly, tend to stay at sea/river level. Cowards.

And, before you say it; yes, I'm well aware that the title of this post is a rip-off of my "treelessnesslessness" post from December '04. But it was my invention in the first place so I'm allowed to recycle it.