Want to know what sort of a day I've had so far?

Well, it's 4.30pm, I had a doughnut for breakfast, and I've not stopped for lunch yet. I'm sat at my desk, dealing with a potentially major crisis, and I'm drinking a beer.

In fact, neither of us left in the office, have had lunch, and we're both dealing with this crisis and drinking beer. You see, the fridge was out of Mountain Dew, so it was either mineral water, or beer. I don't think I need to explain the rationale behind our choice.

I won't go into the crisis, because you never know who reads this nonsense I publish. Suffice it to say that it has nothing to do with the massive power outages across eastern America honest guv. I was nowhere near Niagra Falls at the time, and in any case, I have several witnesses that can testify to the fact that if you let me play with a power station, the only thing that would black out, would be me.

As I write, we've just resolved the technical crisis, that might just have annoyed the client - a financial institution we won't name.

Mind you, after the day we've had, I came up with a new company tagline. Out goes the dynamic and edgy-sounding, "creative. technical. strategic." slogan, and in with mine, "no crisis too small".

And so as the last of the beer drains from the bottle, I'm off to KUVO to do a three-hour radio show.

Alright, so since the last paragraph, I've done the show. It was hard work. As much as I'm used to doing three hours of live radio at a time, when you've already put in a full day at the day job, it can be tough getting through the third hour.

At one point, I announced on-air, "The theme for tonight's show is 'CDs That Skip'". This was what could technically be called a lie, as in fact none of the CDs had actually skipped, so much as been sabotaged by operator clumsiness. Clearly, fatigue was setting in.

I played a new CD by saxophonist Charles Davis, and dedicated it to, "All you Windows users out there, hit by the latest worm virus." - the track was called Blues For Yahoo. I resisted the temptation to follow it with jazz organist Jimmy McGriff's The Worm