creamed-coconut.org

Thanks to everyone who has voted in the poll to help decide the name of my new website domain. At the time of writing, summer-bliss is in the lead, with 3 votes out of a total of 12. The other popular names are winter-dreams, raw-element and vanilla-dreams. However, in the last few days I have been a bit unsure about using the names with seasons in them – I’m planning to launch the new site in January and I just hope it won’t seem strange having a name with the word “summer” in it. Then again, the winter names would probably sound just as weird when it’s in the middle of summer-time. I do really like the name summer-bliss though. If I don’t pick that, I may end up going for raw-element, as that’s not specific to any particular time of the year. I’ll think about it some more over the next few days, and in the meantime I will start writing the content for the new site.

Last Sunday I went to PC World to buy some more ink cartridges for my printer, and while I was there I bought a Nintendo DS Lite hand-held games console. My friend Naomi got one of those for her birthday earlier this year and she has often been talking about how good it is (especially the brain-training games) so that’s why I decided to buy one myself. I bought the “More Brain Training” and “Maths Training” games to go with it. Unfortunately the store didn’t have the original Brain Training game, so that’s why I had to get the sequel instead, but it doesn’t matter what order you play them in anyway. I have been playing it every day so far (as recommended) and it definitely seems to be working, as my scores have been improving most days.

I decided to get the Maths Training game as I sometimes find it difficult to do mental arithmetic quickly (although I am fine at “written” maths, where you work everything out on paper). About 2 and a half years ago I applied for an internal job vacancy, and as part of the selection process I had to do a verbal reasoning test (English test) and a numerical reasoning test (mental arithmetic test) as well as attending an interview. I did well on the verbal reasoning test but my score on the numerical reasoning test was quite low because I couldn’t work out the answers quickly enough, and I think that’s one of the main reasons why I wasn’t offered that particular job. Thankfully I didn’t have to do a mental arithmetic test in order to get my current job. However, I wouldn’t want to miss out on any internal job opportunities/promotions in the future just because my maths is too slow, so that’s one of the reasons why I decided to get the Maths Training game to help me improve. Being able to do calculations more quickly will also help me in my current job.

On Friday night I went clubbing with my friend Kay again. It is good that we are getting back into the routine of going out more often, just like we did 3 or 4 years ago. Like last month, we met in the Glasshouse pub, although this time we went dancing at Mercy nightclub. We also met some people from our old high school. It was really good and overall I preferred it to the time we went out last month.