Month: September 2002

The Friday Five…on Sunday I know.

1. What was/is your favourite subject in school? Why?
History. It was fascinating about 95% of the time which is probably why I found it really easy.

2. Who was your favourite teacher? Why?
I had quite a few,
Sandra Gannon. Irish and History.
She was a damn good teacher. I wish I had realised it more at the time
John Cook. Irish
Fuck did we give him a lot of grief but he was a really decent guy who I did like. I feel bad about some of the grief, we did go overboard. I ever run into him, I owe him a pint.
Alan McManus. Commerce
Good guy, very funny with a good sarcastic streak at times.
Mary O’ Connell. Geography.
She was just dead sound and a good teacher

They were all good teachers, I liked them all.

3. What is your favourite memory of school?
One of the girls I went to school with.

4. What was your favourite recess game?
See above; talking with a girl. I wasn’t all that big on games

5. What did you hate most about school
fuck I have a list, but I’ll just pass on that.

Today has been a strange day for memories. I got a bus into town earlier from outside my local comic shop. I’d not got that bus before and it took me into town along the embankment. It was a part of town I hadn’t been in for a long time. In fact the last time I had been there, I had walked to some sci-fi event in Pages with my friend Matt a few weeks before he passed away last year. I have some good memories of the time I spent with him at those nights out and indeed many other times. Going along the same way we had walked on a number of occasions brought back some of them. I miss Matt. He was a good friend and always on for a laugh.

I knew him before I moved to London, we had some mutual friends. He was pretty much the only person outside of work who I knew. I’m always going to be grateful that I knew him.

On another memory, I just found some photos from a night out in Canada about two and a half years ago. Myself and a group of friends went to Toronto (and do enjoy this laugh) for a sci-fi convention. Well, that was really the excuse it got about 30 friends to Toronto at the same time from all over the world. Some had never met, it was a big internet crowd. Some were friends who I knew from Dublin, some from London, some from Germany, one from Russia and the rest from all over the US and Canada.

Fuck did we have a good time. It was a great couple of weeks and I really loved Toronto. Someday I’m gonna go back there. I was just talking a few moments ago to a friend on im. I’ve known her oh must be four year now and I like her a lot. She is a really cool person. We met for the one and only time in Toronto that time. We missed each other in London a couple of years ago because I was away on work. That wasn’t good. I shouldn’t have agreed to those dates but I did.

I’m glad we met, I’m so glad at the number of people I did meet over those couple of weeks. I’m not in touch with as many of them as I use to be. I’m glad I knew them though.

The One: a couple of nice action scenes but nothing else really to say in its favour. It was nice to see James Morrision of Space: Above and Beyond. He is a good actor.

Robotic Indiana Jones to penetrate pyramid
The wonders of the ancient world don’t give up their secrets easily. But the most advanced modern technology is being put to use in Egypt to answer questions about the most advanced ancient engineering — Egypt’s Great Pyramid.

how cool is this 🙂

Powers rocks. So I picked up and am still enjoying my comics, I rented a couple of movies (Jet Li’s The One and another cult Japanese extreme Violent Cop. Thats the general plan for the night.

Headed into town after going locally for a couple of comics, primarily to do a quick rush between the 4 shops to see if I could get those two issues of Lucifer I’m missing. I manged to get one which I’m happy with so just one more to go now. More later.

Ya know the coolest possible thing that could happen this weekend…well ok maybe not the coolest but close…would be Contact

The sky is still the same unbelievable blue. I wish that could change.

I’m gonna go out now. Have a nice day.

I love this book, I really do. I’ve just finished Magician and it was a really good read…again. I’m gonna start the next one and work through the entire series over the coming weeks.

I’m still pretty pissed off and somewhat upset with a number of things BUT I am going to enjoy my weekend and not worry about any of it.

The day started pretty well, got some good news from Iain. He went in to have his eyes lasered up this morning so he does not have to wear glasses again and while yes he got a lot of teasing about lasers and eyes its a fucking scary thought and I can’t ever see myself going through something like that voluntarily especially given the fact that your awake and only slightly drugged when they run a laser into your goddamn eye. But anyway the good news is that it all went fine and he can see properly already and I’m somewhat relieved 🙂

I have some plans for the weekend. They are very simple plans but I like the idea a lot. It will be quite similar to last weekend. I’m going to go and collect some comics and I’m going to go to blockbuster and pick a couple of popcorn movies and stay at home and enjoy them. I’m thinking about going to that pizza place nearby that I found a while ago and love and having a nice dinner. I might hit town aswell and have a look in the comic shops for anything of interest.

Scrap all the above. I have just noticed that Signs is out in the cinema and I’ll have to see that at some stage over the weekend.

Lets see some other random stuff:

There is a thread going on over at the WEF about Bond and there is a concept in there which I really like. James Bond, just like 007 is a code name for an agent. Throughout the years there have been many Bonds, when one retires the name is passed along. It would work really well, it would also explain why the name James Bond is so well known and strikes fear into the heart of evil doers or something along those lines….

This site isn’t for the easily offended and will probably make more sense to those in the UK but Think of the Children is rather funny in a wrong kinda way.

I’m pretty pissed off. Mainly with myself to be quite honest. That is not to say I’m not annoyed with a number of people but its mainly with myself. I so could have and should have handled this afternoon better. That does not mean I don’t stand behind what I said but I could have said it better and dealt with it better.

I don’t know how I’ll feel about this in a few days when I’ve actually had some time to think about it, but I’m not proud of or happy with this project. I don’t think anyone should ever get to see it. Fuck it 🙁

On whole other notes, tonight was my team-mates birthday so we hit the pub. There was a few of us and a good night was had by all. A couple of pints was consumed but an early night for me anyway. I’m just so tired all I want to do is stay in bed for the weekend and let the world pass me by.

Its all just a fucking load of bollocks. I wish I was qualified to actually go out and get another job.

Iain’s contributions to the days humour.

Q: Why is air a lot like sex?
A: Because it’s no big deal unless you’re not getting any.

Q: What’s the difference between sin and shame?
A: It’s a sin to put it in, but it’s a shame to pull it out.