Month: September 2003

It’s a short week coming up and I’m very glad for that. Thursday I have a half day and I’m going to Dublin early in the evening. I’m looking forward to it a lot. I land early enough to get home and drop my stuff off and have some time left to do stuff which is good.

I’m bored on the interwebnet this morning. I feel like going off and doing something but I don’t know what. I don’t want to go into town and come out and then go back in and I don’t want to hang around in town spending money that I’m trying to save. I think I’ll head in there around 3ish to get Endless Nights and then head up to The Ship to meet up with the others before hitting the cinema. I’m looking forward to tonight a lot actually. It promises to be fun.

Oh and the really funny thing about last night? We were not out for a nights drinking. The plan was a couple of beers and then a train home to watch a movie early ish. We thought seen as the competition thing was one we would hang around until 9 and then get the 9:16 train home when none of use won…well that didn’t work out now did it 😉

Right a movie I think.

How could today have gotten better I hear you ask…well let me tell you!

Lunch today was really good. The team headed out to the local pub where a pint and a sausage sandwich with chip was a fiver. This was good food and good value and we chatted away for an hour. The girls behind the bar (one of them is really cute…) made us fill in cards with our mobile numbers on them and told us to be there at 9pm.

We had planned some beers, but had not decided where so off we went back there. Played some pool, some fruit machine and were having a good time. Around comes 9pm and the idea of the mobile numbers was that one would be drawn at random and the mobile they rang got £25 on a tab for the night.

So they pick a card and ring it, no answer. Try the next card, no answer. We are sitting close to the bar and the third number I hear being called out to the fella on the phone 079 517…followed by me going “that’s my number” and lo and behold my phone rings. So the next few rounds are on me as we work through some double JD’s and have a good time in general. It paid for two rounds of doubles, this is a damn good thing.

It was a good end to an overall good day.

Tomorrow night a few of us are going to see Underworld and I’m looking forward to it a lot. Couple of beers beforehand and then a fun movie. It should be good. Tomorrow morning I get to sleep through 🙂

I really want to get Endless Nights tomorrow but I don’t want to walk in and get all the other shite in my order. I don’t want to buy it elsewhere but I might just do so and pass on one to a friend. (god I’m really shit at things like that).

Thank fuck for the weekend. I’m so glad to not have to get up tomorrow, it’s going to be nice to just fuck around and not have to worry about stuff. I have three new episodes of West Wing from Hugh and I’m thinking that Sunday afternoon will have some viewing there.

Post editing is a good thing, it lets you go back and take the venom down a level 😉

I fixed things today and I got to look into something fun for a change.

Shall I tell you why today has so far been the best day of the week?

Right then, I will anyway.

– It’s Friday.
– The clothes which were not try yesterday are dry this morning.
– I slept well last night.
– I made the 9:08 train this morning.
– I’m sitting at my desk actually fixing things.
– I’m listening to some classic Bob Dylan.
– The cheque cleared, I have money for the weekend

Any two of those things would have made every day this week so much better.

All in all, a damn good start and with a bit of luck it will last for the day and leave me in a good mood for the weekend.

Right lets see.

Last Friday I inherited a project. The person looking after it was going away for three weeks. So with pretty much no notice and a 30 minute handover meeting I got the project. It was supposedly all done and it was just bug fixing to get it to the final deadline which was pretty close. All this was well and good…as much as it could be.

So anyway this week comes around and I actually get a look at the thing. It’s about this stage I start raising my hand and pointing out that the deadlines were in risk and the scope of the project was much greater than I first thought.

Anyway it rolls around to today and I’ve had more meetings and calls about this than anything else I’ve worked on in a long time and I have one major bug which is a show stopper. It’s coming up to 5pm and I have a call with lots of people to talk about. I’ve spent most of the afternoon on calls or listening to some Aerosmith and trying to get the fucker to work.

I’m suffice it to say pretty stressed and been in a foul mood for most of the week. It really got to a head today when I realised that if someone wasn’t able to answer any questions I emailed, my emails were ignored. That was an on the spot escalation.

Anyway it’s 4.57 and it all clicks. That lovely lovely moment where you become one with the code and it flowed. I could feel the stress leaving as I looked up and smiled at my boss. I said something like “that xxxx bug is fixed” and went on the call. It was a good end to a shit day. I’ll implement the fix in the morning and then all will be good.

I have to say I like the product and I’m using it myself right this moment at home.

So anyway tomorrow is Friday, if a cheque has managed to reach my bank account it should be a good day. Lunch somewhere with the team and then some beers after work before settling into a quiet weekend.

Slept well last night, well not all that well but better than lately and for much longer so I felt a hell of a lot better this morning.

Acoustic rock is a great thing, I shall be listening to this on a fairly regular basis I think.

AIM, I’d really love to see something which showed me who has me on their buddy list. I’ve been blocking those except on my list for a few days and I’m wondering

Impressive photo.

– Metallica sold out, added an extra date and sold that out. Fuck 🙁
– I really don’t need this shit.

Goodbye AOL, hello TWX

Bed before 11.

woot, watang roxxr and all that.

Star Trek: Nemesis is a bad movie. There is about 12 minutes of deleted scenes and when they introduce them they mention that there was over 45 minutes cut from the movie, so where is the rest you fuckers?

I hate laptops and I hate fucking shit broadband drivers. Twice in 10 minutes this has crashed and I’ve lost what little of a post I have.

I feel like watching a drama of some sort but not sure what. I don’t want to actually watch something as I won’t get to bed in anyway early. I think I shall watch Teachers and then get to bed.

It’s in fucking German you fucking useless shower of fucking ….

I’m really not in the mood to be fucked around with any more today.

Fucking German!!!

And not, this has no relation to the previous post which just amused me. As did being really cruel to poor Trev, but his reaction was so very worth it.