By Blogger's reckoning this will be my 333rd post. I hope you think they've been (at least semi-) worthwhile.

Arrived this morning at work at 8:10 and decided NOT to turn my PC on. I would make a start on the terrible heap (or more strictly speaking 'heaps') accumulating on my desk. See how long I could go before I just had to turn the computer on to deal with something.

By putting aside things for scanning and saving up some bib checking (library jargon for 'bibliographic checking' or looking up the publication details of a book) to do later, I managed to get through to about 10:05. But really so much of my job requires access to PC/internet/library resources that it would be difficult to go much longer. Not to mention all the email rapidly piling up in my absence.

Still, I made a good start the desk now looks under control if not tidy!