The Longest Journey Begins With The First Step.........

Tuesday the 2nd of Jan 2007 and it was back to the normal routine for most of us. For me this meant back to my local learning college, a somewhat tautological title for the place where I go to study the witchcraft that is Microsoft windows. My aim this year is to attain City & Guilds level two certificates in spreadsheets, IT principles and Word having reached level one last year. I somewhat foolishly labelled level one Janet & John do windows only to find that level two is more like Janet & John the Sanskrit version. Because of its slightly other worldliness and my somewhat insular childhood I refer to the learning centre as the Star Ship City & Guilds. The room where we study is the bridge and the tutors are all officers, the students being ensigns and naturally I don't drive or walk to college I simply beam aboard. Thus it was that I beamed aboard the SS City & Guilds on the first Tuesday of 2007 to resume my ensign's course in Astral Navigation with the help of Bill Gates's star charts and the ships officers. In order to accommodate those ensigns unable or unwilling to beam aboard, the register for signing in is now situated in the airlock below decks, which is where I met the revered captain of the star ship who was looking fit and raring to go after the ships winter dry dock.

My human contacts today included the dedicated officers of the  Star ship City & Guilds as they re-grouped to continue their battle against that age old oxymoron, Microsoft Works. My thoughts were on how I might conquer my ignorance of the aforementioned demon and my deed was to attend college (learning college that is)