http://www.diasdesantiago.com crazy days, exciting nights Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:14:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Older fuels are not as cost efficient as fuel today. There are so many excellent ways to heat the home today. Enigin mentions this here. Today we don’t have to pollute the envornment with coal with all that terrible black smoke that is let into the atmosphere. We don’t need ... http://www.diasdesantiago.com/2010/07/28/cost-efficient-newer-fuels/ The Taliban have proved yet again that they have the coordination and cold military tactics that are lacking in the standard Afghan defense forces. This has become clear after they launched an onslaught over the meeting place where President Hamid Karzai was officiating in his endeavor to reconcile the militia ... http://www.diasdesantiago.com/2010/06/11/taliban-fighters-frown-on-peace-offer/ I forget the number of times that I have woken in the middle of the night and been scared out of my wits. And I do mean out of my wits, as in witless, unable to move, terrified, rigermortis stiff. It’s the stuff in my room, of course, and I’m ... http://www.diasdesantiago.com/2010/05/27/scared-witless/ Have you ever wondered where some of our sayings come from? We come out with all kinds of strange things but few of us ever think about their actual origin.... For example, what does it mean ‘to give it the whole nine yards’? Well, this ... http://www.diasdesantiago.com/2010/05/06/more-fun-than-a-barrel-full-of-monkeys/ Call-centre days–This might sound strange but they were good times. The place I worked at had something to do with calling people up and questioning them about professional skin care treatments. To this day nobody ever explained that fully. My first day at the ... http://www.diasdesantiago.com/2010/04/15/missing-michael/ I remember my first kiss vividly. It was not a kiss, it was mutual assault, and for some reason the taste I was left with was something akin to diesel (not that I have ever tasted diesel, but still). I shall not reveal the name ... http://www.diasdesantiago.com/2010/04/09/the-assaulted/ Before we get in to this I am going to ask you to leave your sensible self at the door. Forget about normal stuff like pet insurance, family and friends. Forget about what’s right and what’s normal, just think about what feels good...And now ask ... http://www.diasdesantiago.com/2010/03/29/sensible-at-the-door/ I don’t like to share. Who actually does? And not sharing used to be fine before the age of everyone should share; it used to be normal. Certain companies are responsible, of course, for making the don’t-want-to-share thing a problem in our modern society. It is they who have made ... http://www.diasdesantiago.com/2010/03/25/no-share-no/ I’m sick of people moaning and debating things they don’t understand. In any other country other than England I could hack it—aided by the fact that I can’t understand the foreign tongue of most, of course—but we English are experts in this most frustrating past-time. Yes, we love nothing more ... http://www.diasdesantiago.com/2010/03/22/the-debate/ I was a real problem child. Not because I refused to wear anything but a hoody, but because I refused to eat anything other than a certain kind of margarine (which I am not allowed to name). For mum, this presented a very many problems. But mum was undeterred. She ... http://www.diasdesantiago.com/2010/03/17/an-epic-problem/