Month: July 2002

So tonight turned into about 2 hours down the pub, a trip to McDonalds for a rather unhealthy dinner followed by a some evening shopping in the local supermarket. I needed various bits and pieces and figured: seen as it was on my way home it would save me a trip out of my way tomorrow.

I picked up Rock Steady by No Doubt aswell so that is my listening pleasure at the moment. Thinking about my last post reminds me that at times I really love my job.

Now I am going to go and look for Top Ten Volume One and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman Volume One in hardcovers on the hopefully not fickle interwebnet.

So we just had team meeting cause we couldn’t be bothered to actually do anything and went to the park to have ice-cream.

The line “ah no burn it with your cigarette first” referring to an ant caused no end of amusement.

Tonight I believe a very quick one after work and then I am going to go home and watch West Wing and read and not actually do anything. I just want to be somewhere away from this heat and stress free.

Nothing about my flatmate, but she is gone away until Tuesday and this is a good thing I am so looking forward to having the place to myself to sort some stuff out (and clean at my own pace).

A couple of days ago it was at the end of the day and I was talking to Dave, my boss. We were talking about some updates during the day about a project and it was a case of I really didn’t care at that stage it just wasn’t something I cared about right then and there. I was explaining something I had done to the code that was going to do something and my sentence literally descended into “blah blah blah”. He looked at me and we both just started laughing and seen as it was six, we both went home.

Yesterday, he said to me. You remember last night when you said “blah blah blah”, I knew exactly what you were saying and yeah it works.

Its funny and as normal these days blah blah blah has become a meme and is getting a good bit of use.

Its been one of those weeks.

Load up on guns and bring your friends
It’s fun to lose and to pretend
She’s over bored and self assured
Oh no, I know a dirty word

Hello, hello, hello, how low? (x3)
Hello, hello, hello!

With the lights out, it’s less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My libido
Yay! (x3)

I’m worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end

Hello, hello, hello, how low? (x3)
Hello, hello, hello!

With the lights out, it’s less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My Libido
Yay! (x3)

And I forget just why I taste
Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard, it was hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind

Hello, hello, hello, how low? (x3)
Hello, hello, hello!

With the lights out, it’s less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My libido

A denial !! (x9)

Salon | Smells Like Teen Spirit

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone –– Losing your job, quitting school, going broke and moving back home with your mother after living abroad for years would be tough on anyone.
It’s even tougher when you’re a former military dictator who once had the power to execute opponents at will. Valentine Strasser became the world’s youngest head of state when he seized power in 1992 at the age of 25. But the limelight didn’t last – four years later, he was ousted in another coup. “I’m basically living off my mother now. She’s been very supportive,” the 35-year-old said at a neighborhood bar on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital. “It’s been tough. I’m unemployed, but I’m coping.”

Ex-Dictator Broke, Living With Mom

1:15 my phone rings. I answer. It’s Dave it went something like this:
-hello
-latamyers
-now?
-sure

So lunch down there with a few people was fun, but cricket is just fucked up beyond words.

Its a lovely day here, really hot and it is suppose to stay in the late 20’s for the weekend. I might revaluated all my plans (go shopping…I need some shoes) to simply getting some more comics and sitting in the park reading them. Also my local cinema appears to have MIB 2 opening today instead of next week so I intend to see that over the weekend with some people.

I guess I am a very materialistic person, this week hasn’t been a good week and I’ve not been in the best of moods for the past 10 days or so. Getting paid and being able to go out and get DVDs that I really enjoy and have been looking forward and being able to go out and get a months work of comics and a couple of special things really helps change my mood. Maybe its just not having to worry about cash for a bit, I overspent on my holiday and I felt the pinch. That of course will not have helped my mood. The weekend is looking good, good weather, good reading and hopefully a good movie.

This is a Very Bad Thing by the way: News.com | Could Hollywood hack your PC?

And what a brillent headine from Salon via Blogdex today.
Man dies in vat of chocolate .. Don’t laugh. It’s not funny.

I love internet banking. I am quite fond of my bank in general at the moment.

My ankle hurts. I wonder if I twisted it at some stage. I’ve noticed it for a couple of days now. hmm

West Wing viewing is going well. I’m really enjoying this 🙂

Today was of course pay-day and that nice increase I got a week ago was backdated by a month so it was paid in this pay packet. So I have quite a bit extra money today. I picked up my comics, the normal monthly £100 on stuff I like, and a couple of extra bits and pieces. As per my thoughts before on hardbacks and liking them for stuff I really like and being able to afford them, I picked up Murder Mysteries by Gaiman and the lovely new oversized Alias by Bendis. At £22:50 for an oversized hardback containing nine issues and extras it was a great price. That was my treat for myself out of the extra money.

So this evening three of the lads and myself headed into the Porterhouse for a few drinks (yay more coke…) and it was all fun. I hadn’t been out with a couple of them in a while and it was good to catch up. Afterwards I grabbed a quick pizza and went to catch my bus. I just missed one and there was a twenty minute wait till the next one. So thinking that I wanted some books I wandered into Waterstones to have a look for that something to grab me. I happened to pass a look at the graphic novel section and about two seconds after I noticed Sandman: The Wake by Gaiman (and my personal favourite of the Sandman series) in hardcover, it was in my hands on the way to the till. It was Sandman I originally decided to break over hardcover’s about and this seemed just so perfect.

and in a not quite complete but close enough change of plan going to town to the pub for a night out.