Lots of things I could say, 'cos I probably should have updated yesterday. But this week should be slow. I'm not at work. Whether that'll make my blog entries more or less exciting, who can say?

First thing, I took part in the biggest ever National IQ Test yesterday. 95,000 people took the BBC Test the Nation IQ Test online. And I was one of them. Apparently I have an IQ of 124, which is nice.

Secondly, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone came out on VHS and DVD yesterday, so no more trying to get people to preorder the stupid thing! Nothing against it, it was a fairly good film, but on Friday we were supposed to ask every single customer if they wanted it. Aaaargh! And for the last two days I'd been wearing a lovely T-Shirt to advertise it as well. I did offer, mind you. Maybe I can sell it on eBay. Heh.

We actually managed to get 1,000 people to preorder the film. When you preordered you got a mug, poster and a balloon. So there were benefits. The mug was pretty cool. There were things full of the Harry Potter preorders all wrapped up in carrier bags. I wonder how busy it was Saturday? They set up a special Harry Potter till and everything. Madness. Woolworths were actually opening at midnight. Were people really that bothered? I almost went just to see how many people turned up. If it was the next book then I'd understand, but... *sigh*

Thirdly, today was the Austrian Grand Prix. Lots of incidents and an extremely controversial ending! Olivier Panis's BAR locked up completely and left him stranded in the middle of the race track. Safety car came out (a far rarer occurrence than in American racing!). The race had just restarted when Nick Heidfeld's car lurched uncontrollably off the race track, narrowly missing Montoya and collecting Sato's car on the way. The side impact was terrible. Sato seemed to be unhurt.

Rubens Barrichello drove a great race, leading all the way. But a couple of hundred metres from the line he dropped back and let Michael Schumacher through! Chaos! The crowd were booing and whistling. Team orders like that seem completely unnecessary when Michael Schumacher's running off with the championship as it is. In fact, Rubens needs the points more if they want a drivers one/two at the end of the year. Michael let Rubens have the top step of the podium and the trophy, but what an ending... Schuey reckoned that he wasn't happy with it, but surely he could have just not gone past Rubens. It's not like Ferrari would have fired him. Not the mighty Schuey. And Ross Brawn said they were never racing anyway. Ooooh, Ferrari make me so mad sometimes...! >:-/

Oh. It was Schuey, Rubens, Montoya, Ralf Schumacher, Fisichella, Coulthard. (Sad days for McLaren, methinks...) A race that'll be remembered for all the wrong reasons... *sigh*

posted by Fiery Fred @ 10:41 PM