My 23rd birthday was on January 8th (just a heads up for next year), and I haven’t yet had a birthday present. This is nothing new, I think for my 19th I didn’t really get anything at all.

It’s not, however, the product of some awful parentage, it’s simply my diabolic ability to decide on things.

This year, I decided that I wanted a new stereo for my car. The one I have is stock, and whilst it plays a CD just fine, being able to play MP3 CDs and thus not have to scrabble around changing CDs at 85MPH+ would be good, and that’s before talking about the habit my current stereo has of randomly re-tuning itself, occasionally to a radio station that doesn’t actually exist.

I took a trip to Halfords, and couldn’t decide on one I liked. I took a trip to another shop in Newport, and saw one that might’ve been quite good.

Since then (it has now been 4 months, a whole quarter of a year) I’ve not made any further decisions. I know that I want one, I know that it only needs to do fairly simple things and look anything other than a shade of gaudy boy-racer shite.

So why can’t I just decide, get it bought and fitted, and get it over with?

I can’t decide whether or not to go to Reading Festival this year.

Last year was my first festival experience (and first camping experience too) with Leeds Festival, and it was really good. For some reason people keep asking if I really did enjoy it, which is odd because I thought I communicated my happiness perfectly well at the time … but oh well.

I wouldn’t go to Leeds again, because it’s just too far away, it took Han and I something ridiculous like 7 or 8 hours to get there last year, and that was purely down to festival traffic on the roads around the campsites. And getting back out again took us nearly as long!

So it would have to be Reading. But I can’t really make my mind up.

Biffy Clyro, Bloc Party, Editors, Tenacious D, Feeder Manic Street Preachers and Pendulum would all be worth seeing (especially Tenacious D ) but worth ~£150 and having to potentially take time out of work? (Which at my current rate of pay would cost me almost a further ~£300 if I took Friday and Monday off!!)

I think if I really wanted to see 70 or 80% of the bands that would be playing, it’d be worth it. But currently I’m at 7 out of 34, and that’s with a whole load not yet announced.