Month: August 2002

So my away for the weekend flatmate has just walked in. I have comics all over the front room and other bits and pieces. I’ve not done the washing up today and my stuff from ASDA is not what one could call neatly put away. *sigh* She is off again now, just dropping some stuff off.

So, I hit the bank and then my local comic shop. An afternoons reading on my couch is working well. Picked up a few nice bits and pieces in my usual monthly stuff and figured that the Ultimate X-Men hardcover belonged on my shelf. Went into ASDA to pick up some food and left with Springsteens new album and a collection of classical music used in ads.

David Fincher and Michael Mann are in contention to direct the next Superman movie…that could so rock. Check out the report: Superman 5

A surgeon at a leading hospital has said he had to stop halfway through an operation because foreign nurses could not follow his instructions. As a result, he said he has been threatened with disciplinary action for racism.
Surgeon halts operation over foreign nurses’ poor English
Thats just stupid. If they can’t speak the language, they can’t do the job.

Work is getting me down at the moment. There is some bad stuff going on and it just feels worse as it gets closer to actually happening. I had a problem like this before about a year ago and it never felt like this. Liking someone and knowing this shouldn’t be happening changes that view I guess. I was talking to a friend about this a few nights ago and this was pretty much the summing up of the conversation:
Dave:…it just doesn’t feel good
Mary: Sheesh. Dave, it’s not SUPPOSED to feel good

Thanks Mary 🙂 ,but I’m not gonna talk about this anymore, hopefully it can all just go away and be done with.

In other news, one of the girls from our sister team left yesterday to go to another (and better) job. So yesterday was a nice long lunch outside in the sunshine and last night was some drinks…ok, a lot of drinks. Both were fun, learnt some interesting things about some people I work worth.

On that note, I have something to say, a lack of interest and self absorption are not the same thing 😉

Today was damn hot, hottest day of the year so far. Got a call from Pat earlier saying he was in town and did I fancy meeting up. Picked up a couple of comics too, a new Lucifer trade and Jamie Rich’s Cut my Hair which I am looking forward to a lot. I picked up the next Lone Wolf and Cub aswell, on that note a friend from work lent me Shogun Assasin the long time banned in the UK, movie adaptation of LW&C. I’m looking forward to watching it a lot.

We then went to see The Sum of All Fears. I had read and enjoyed the book, I’m a long time Clancy fan. To be honest I wasn’t expecting all that much from the movie and I was really impressed with it. Ben Affleck, I’ve never thought of him as a good actor, he just seems to be able to play Ben Affleck was passable and did ok as Jack Ryan. The rest of the cast was superb. A real all star cast with Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Bruce McGill, Philip Baker Hall, and Ron Rifkin all giving excellent as you would expect. Also a real standout from Liev Schreiber as John Clark. I’m hoping that if they continue with John Clark in movies that we will see him in the role again.

CSI tonight was excellent, William Petersen is fantastic as Gil and supported by a top-notch cast.

This ActiveBuddy’s Patent Win Riles IM Bot Developers is a very bad patent…and I know at least one person that developed this long before ActiveBuddy.

If you write for a blog, you should go and read this :A List Apart: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web, if you write for anything on the web, you should go and read it.

A few really great paragraphs stand out:
If your writing is a personal journal, and if it is honest, you will have to write about things that you find embarrassing to describe, feelings you might not want to share, events that you wouldn’t mention to strangers (or, perhaps, to anyone). Decide now what you will do, before it happens.

To be honest with the world, you may need to be honest with your mother; if you cannot face your mother, perhaps you are not ready to write for the world.

Don’t worry too much about correctness: Find a voice and use it. Most readers will overlook, and nearly all will forgive, errors in punctuation and spelling.

go read it.

I’m looking forward to getting to play with OS X 10.2 soon and this Mac World review sounds pretty good. Lots of fun to come!

It is still too hate. I am watching and enjoying CSI right now. I’ve just seen The Sum of All Fears and it is surprisingly excellent. More to come later tonight.

I am so very hungover right now.

It is 33 degrees at the moment

It is too hot.

I’m watching this again and it makes me feel good. That is all.

On Monday night I watched Sex: The Annabel Chong Story. I’m not quite sure why I did and I’m not quite sure what I thought of it. The women in question is either seriously fucked up or the worlds best actress ever. There were couple of unforgettable scenes in particular the scene where Grace tells her mother what she does. I don’t know that I would recommend it to anyone, I don’t think I’d watch it again, and I can’t say I’m glad I watched it but it was strangely compelling.

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I’m really really tired. I’ve been catching up on sleep for the past couple of nights but I’m still really tired. Tomorrow is the end of the week and it could be the end of a couple of other things aswell. I would love for this project to be over, we keep seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and then the tunnel gets that little longer. On other fronts I am glad to know I’m not the only one with problems although you know I wish I was. I’m just tired of it all.

I will not log in to see how my armies are doing. I will wait till morning so I can have my extra turns.

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The weather has made my bus journeys too and from work far more interesting the past few days. It’s back to heat wave for London and people are wearing less and you know that’s just a good thing. Iain has this great concept (well it is a little more than a concept in some cases) of “couple splitting”. It happens that he likes the boyfriend of a girl that I like so we figured we could just have one each and everyone would be happy. It is a shame that the real world does not work this way.
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I want broadband, I hate dial up. It is really starting to get to me. I’m pretty annoyed that I don’t get a deal from work about it, it would be full price for it all and it is just not worth it until I upgrade my computer.

I’ve just noticed this has not published correctly over the past 4 days. Fuck.

And to add to a post I made last week (here), its all just happening now and it still doesn’t feel any better. Roll on the weekend.