Mad about Popular Penguins

I was going to put up a post about Melbourne last night, and then you know what happened? I had an email from Penguin Books about how you could enter a competition to win the 75 new Popular Penguins, so I thought I'd quickly enter, since I have had a run of Penguin Competition wins, and if I believed in luck it would seem to be where mine is (but I don't, just so you know).

Then, over an hour later I was still playing the silly game you had to play to enter the competition! (You have to go through all 75 books, and you can skip some and come back later.) I couldn't believe it when I looked at the clock. I hadn't been in any great hurry, but after that I was. Then I was so annoyed that I had wasted so much time playing a game that only gave me the option of entering and a chance of winning a competition. Because you know what else? – I don't even particularly want all 75 of those books, even if I do win them. (I'd like some of them, but not necessarily all of them, and a person has to be selective about accumulating 75 books!) And then even when I got to the end I had to go through that "in 25 words or less" thing and write something about Popular Penguin Books. It was never ending. My advice is don't do it – unless you truly, madly, deeply want all 75 of those books, or you have absolutely nothing else to do.

So then I was cross about being on the computer that long and I didn't put up the other post. But maybe sometime over the weekend I will.