Quite. There has recently been an election in Rhodesia, also a disputed one in Kenya leading to a war, not stuff important in Canada I suppose but interesting to me and, I think, worth the price of the Sirius/World Service subscription.

turn on puter, make coffee, sit down msn opens automatically so will tell me if friends/family are on also how many emails in my hotmail.

Check emails answer if necessary or forward on the shedful of jokes.

Check expats answer pm's or reply to those i need then check any new threads that I want to stick my nose in

check facebook especially if any new photo's are added of my nearest and dearest

do housework very little to do as I'm on my own most of the month, take dog for a walk, more coffee, check emails etc.

Collect mail you know the real stuf that gets delivered to my mail box, sit at the laptop with dog on lap for afternoon nap.

Speak to nice people on BE and MSN

I need a job, please my government man let me have a work permit pleeeaaassseee

God - I'm glad it's not just me then Yay to all my cyber OCD friends ....

Yep, we've got your back

Phew normal me too!

6.30am - get up boot up pc wander into kitchen make coffee and have ciggy, chrck emails, weather network and currency exchange rate in that order then BBC news.

7.30am go to work - boot up pc make coffee and have ciggy, check emails and BE, various financial websites, leave all running in the background and actually do work all day (mostly!)

5.15pm come home boot up pc - make coffee have ciggy (do we see a pattern emerging!) run through list A as per morning coupled with MLS and other random stuff - probably watch something on YouTube that involves cars!!!!

At the weekend as soon as we log on family in England are on MSN so we get tied up on there answering questions about Canada - being the different planet that it is!!!!!!

I am now going to get a life

Email check always before the www.

Weather network usually comes first for me, especially in Winter. Then it's the Guardian...although due to the time difference it's often unchanged from when I went to bed. That's the downside of being able to see tomorrow's news tonight.

The local forum, BE, various footie forums, Brit Movie Forum. I do have the BBC site but I rarely look.

In the afternoon it's these things plus Bristol Evening Post.

Amazons, IMDB, youtube (can get carried away on there)....

Oh God - can I just say - I AM SO GLAD ITS NOT JUST ME!!

and now I am going - because I am no adDICTED - NO i AM NOT no not at all,

can leave at any time ......

some one please unplug this blooody machine!!!!!!!

Ooh, Rhodesia - was it that nice Mr Smith? He'll get into trouble, you know, going all unilateral like that.

Seriously, though, I wonder what channels some of you are watching to get such poor international news. The CTV nightly news at 11 is reasonable; CBC Newsworld has some good international news content. Most of my news consumption comes through the radio in the mornings and early evenings - CBC's Metro Morning show in Toronto has a world news report for about 12 minutes every hour, and As It Happens every evening is a proper old-fashioned current affairs show with lots of international content.

For example, Friday's running order for As It Happens:

• Bisphenol A - 2 interviews, with Tony Clement (health minister) and Steve Hentges, exec director of the polycarbonate group of the American Chemistry Council
• Zimbabwe - report on Mugabe's anniversary speech and interview with Gabriel Shumba, Zim expat spokesman in Pretoria
• Gaza - interview with Reuters bureau chief about the flechette bomb attack that killed Fadel Shana, a Reuters cameraman, last Wednesday
• Eurovision Song Contest - short piece on a Canadian fan and the 3 piss-taking entries in this year's contest
• weird interview with a farmer in Massachusetts who lassoed two runaway emus
• Obit of Danny Federici, keyboardist with Springsteen's E Street Band

and so on...

Me neither Carrie can take it or leave it any time i want, i just don't want to

I check Emails and BE first thing after i have made a cup of T when i get up to see what has been happening during the night, because of the time difference sometimes you peeps in CA have been very busy little bees and i have lots to read,

Then school run, walk dogs, do some bits in between checking my emails and here in the eve OH tends to be at the other comp or watching something on sky that will put me off getting on a plane ever again so i am back on here, Think maybe we need a health warning like cigarettes, how do you find a good therapist ?

Don't bother - just get a stalker!

hello stalker

Well helloooooo....

shouldn't you be stalking Tashy ?

All my surfing is done at work as they have nothing else for me to do most of the time and at least I look busy
So my routine during the week is:
Boot up PC, open the "work stuff", then log into messenger and open a new window to log into X92.9 so I can get my music going. Check hotmail, then on to Facebook (which is open ALL DAY!) change my facebook status, check for friend updates etc. Now radio is working, open up BE and leave that running all day too checking in regularily.
Always hope some peeps from the UK log on messenger so I can have a chat with them, and usually end up in some bizzar conversation on Facebook with one of my Canadian friends (he was being a kitten last week )
Once bored of all that, find some games to play, might look at the BBC website to see the latest wrong doing's in my old town and pray for someone else to log on messenger Shouldn't moan they pay me to do this
On the weekends I only log on to the PC to pay bills online.

I'm not proud - I'll stalk you both!